Lois Griffin

GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN SHASHI DESHPANDE’S THE DARK HOLDS NO TERRORS Sarikhada Pradip Ph.D. English Scholar Rai University, Ahmedabad :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Shashi Deshpande’s novels are strong voice for the women’s cause. In her novels, Women are seen under the patriarchal clutches but her women try to liberate themselves from that suffocating male-dominated environment. This paper explores the themes of…

Divergent by Veronica Roth, The Host by Stephenie Meyer and many more. The topic-book of this essay is also a utopian novel that is by the award winning author, Lois Lowry. Lois has written many novels including Number The Stars, Gathering Blue, Son, Anastasia Krupnik, and A Summer To Die. This quarter our class read The Giver by Lois Lowry and studied it’s concepts. This essay is analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of living with the law of “sameness”, or having the government control…

Hero Journey: The Giver Many of Joseph Campell’s principles from The Hero With a Thousand Faces are present in the novel, The Giver, *Fits loosely with the phase or element from Campell’s theory. Separation Call To Adventure: Jonas is chosen as the Receiver, who collects all memories of the past world. Crossing the First Threshold: Jonas has a “stirring,” which is the first feeling of attraction and sexuality that one feels when going through puberty. It is one of the few things that, at…

Imagine a world where Technology does not exist, in both worlds we need technology in the giver and the real world. Lois Lowry the author of the giver is trying to show us the point of technology in the novel. In the novel Jonas is the protagonist their world is under control and their jobs are assigned to them. Their community is being watched and there are cameras everywhere in the novel technology is also used. Technology is an important part of our everyday life's, people are always using…

Not too long ago, I reread the most fascinating novel for the second time, but this time with my class. The Giver by Lois Lowry is an absolutely spectacular novel, revolving around a young boy, Jonas, who just turned twelve. Actually, he wasn’t the only one who turned twelve… it was all the Elevens in his community. Meanwhile, at the Twelve Ceremony, Jonas receives the most interesting Assignment of all; The Receiver of Memory. After the ceremony, nothing was ever the same again… for Jonas, at…

Imagine living in a community where there is no pain, feeling, hunger, or differences. Lois Lowry, the author of The Giver, writes about a utopian society where everything and everyone is the same, except for The Giver and Jonas. Jonas is a twelve year old boy, who was selected the most honorable job in the community, Reciever of Memory. As excited as he is, Jonas learns that he will become lonely. He was told that the job will give him wisdom, but he will experience pain. Jonas learns about the…

Imagine a life of sameness where nobody feels emotions, sees colors, or has memories of the past. In the book The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the main character, Jonas, becomes the Receiver, after a fail with the previous one, and begins to have memories transported into his mind. The community has no memories and only the Giver and Receiver share this heavy responsibility. The job of Receiver is a major role in the community because this person advises the Committee of Elders using memories from the…

The Giver: Describe an important idea you identified from a written text. Explain why this idea is important An important concept I became aware of in the text was a perfect society, Utopia. A utopian society is an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. In the book, The Giver, the writer wrote about a perfect society in which there world is made up of equality, sameness and uniformity. They tried to make their society perfect by taking away colour, pain, love In…

What an exciting beginning to my sophomore year at Georgetown! All my classes are extremely interesting, but one class in particular stands out: Intro to Ethics with Professor Earl. In this class, we’ve begun to grapple with some ethical dilemmas from Ursula Le Guin’s short story, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”. The story opens with Le Guin giving a vibrant description of the Omelas’ Festival of Summer. Throughout the city, various processions “wound towards the north side of the city”…

In Lois Lowry’s engaging novel The Giver, we meet a young boy named Jonas who lives in a restricted community where everything is planned out perfectly, when Jonas turns twelve his world is turned upside down when he receives the job, the Receiver Of Memory. As entitled Jonas receives memories and this changes his life forever, he receives memories of joy and pain, this drastic change shows Jonas what him and the community had missed out on for so long. “ Life is meaningless without memories”…