Lois Griffin

The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a novel published in 1993 that explores the idea that through the attempt to create a utopia, it is the impossibility of this mission that often times leads to a dystopia. The story takes place in a “community”, where emotions are controlled through discipline and drugs, and “sameness” takes the place of individuality. While on the surface this community looks appealing, the reader quickly learns all that has to be sacrificed in order to make this “utopia” a…

Parents of kids in the school system are attempting to ban certain books from the whole school and/or school system. One of the books that has been band is The Giver by Lois Lowry. The words on the pages in the book scare parents. The words that the author wrote are so powerful that parents are attempting to ban them, because they posses the power to make teenagers think about things bigger than themselves. The Giver has previously been banned for a multiple reasons, including sexual awakening,…

jonas got the assignment of receiver of memory he was allowed to lie which i feel like brought more pain to jonas because he could not tell his feeling at night or any dreams in the morning. In a quote by the author telling us about morning rituals Lois Lowry said “Usually, at the morning ritual when the family members told their dreams” (Lowry 34). This quote demonstrates dream telling in the morning why in a utopia do you have to tell your dreams in the morning? Jonas stopped taking his…

Essay #2: Censorship and Banned Book Have you ever read a book that offended you? Some people try to challenge and ban books because they feel offended. Even children’s books have been banned in some places around the world. Someone who challenges a book is trying to remove a book from a class or library to restrict other people from reading it, but when they are successful the book gets banned. Banning a book means that the book is restricted from everyone who wants to read it in that area.…

The setting of The Giver is extremely dull. In the story there is no true happiness or pain. Everything is controlled and rules are demanded to be followed. The people see their world in black and white. There is no vibrancy in the objects, which is symbolic to the way the characters felt. The townspeople were neutral inside, never possessing feelings of extreme happiness or sadness. The literary techniques and devices are descriptive in how they help the reader understand how Jonas feels about…

A book I read for the classic category was The Giver by Lois Lowry. Jonah lives in a organized world, children are assigned families, jobs, etc. Right before the Ceremony of Twelve where he will be assigned a job was, his family took in a third child (which was against the rules) but it was only temporary and approved by the Elders (the people in charge) this child was named Gabriel. At the Ceremony of Twelves Jonas is "selected" for a special job called the receiver of memory. His training was…

The novel The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a book about a rather unusual community somewhere in the world. It consists of: a utopia, a perfect, strict, very precise community, Sameness, our main character Jonas, and a Giver of memories. This community is constantly being watched by other people in the community to analyze each person's day so that no one breaks the rules, and no one makes a mistake. And because of the so-called Sameness that the council’s community used to create the community,…

One of the biggest fears today, is not being able to fit in. People of all ages have this in common. Many people believe that they have to fit in to be popular, but that’s not necessarily true. If you can’t be accepted by the most popular group, then go make your own group of friends. Having that option is something in the book The Giver doesn’t have, they don’t get to make their own decisions, everything is chosen for them so they all already just fit in. Everyone and everything is the same and…

behind why memory exists and how feelings and choice play a role in a human’s life are explained through the remarkable novel entitled The Giver. The main character Jonas discovers the importance and roles of free choice, memories, and feelings. In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, the learning of memories leads Jonas to create new found feelings of love and isolation with the freedom to choose right and wrong, indifference to the straightforward,…

be about. When analyzing young adult novels, the covers of the books appear to be targeted to a certain age group. More often than not books issue new covers after a movie based off that novel is released. An example of that is the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, which is taught in schools across America. Comparing the original book cover A with the new cover B illustrates the…