Lois Griffin

A World Can Never be Perfect Would a society that requires it citizens to be “burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot” (Vonnegut 1) be a Utopian society? The Giver, a novel written by Lois Lowry, introduces Jonas, a Twelve, who lives in an idyllic community where everything is planned out. Jonas, as the Receiver of Memory, experiences the memories the Giver transmits to him. He discovers how wrong his community has been. The community failed when Jonas found out what the community had…

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared,” Lois Lowry wrote in the book The Giver (154). The characters in this book live in a futuristic community that has eliminated everything causing pain. For example, there are strict rules governing rudeness, so the community does not allow community members to ask any question that will make anyone feel different. The characters do not feel emotions, or love, so they never feel hurt or…

Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, is about a boy named Jonas in a Utopian society of sameness. In this community, there is no pain struggle, or diversity. Choices for all are made by a group of elder citizens. There is no color, no weather, and no change. The absence of difference leads Jonas to question whether the lack of pain is worth inability to feel anything at all. Through her characters, Lowry warns readers that to conform is to lose choices, individuality, and ultimately, free will. This…

In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry Jonas the main character lives in “perfect world”. He learn the memories but is not aloud to tell anybody but wants to tell people. The themes are things are not as perfect as you think and there is more in the world than you are open to. The first theme is shown by the government controlling the town and the town cannot make their own decisions. The second theme is shown because there are more towns that that the people do not know about. The first theme is…

nothing was ever unexpected, or inconvenient. or unusual; the life without color, pain, or past”. In The Giver, Jonas, an Eleven, is living in a community with no comprehension of love and is eager to find what is behind the scenes of his inhumane life. Lois Lowry brings to her readers a character with an intense curiosity for truth and a sharp mind to help himself lead his way into reality. Jonas is a male in his youth who’s mind seeks to understand the unknown. Moments after The Giver gives…

Would you like to live in a society where you had no freedom or even feelings? In 1992, Lois Lowry had shown a picture of her sister to her father, but her father did not remember her or how she died. Lois comes up with an idea of what it would feel if everyone had what her father had and didn't remember anything bad from the past. Is the Giver a perfect society or a disaster? In the following paragraphs I will be talking about how Jonas’s community is a dystopia.These are the reasons why the…

The Giver was a very compulsive and noteworthy novel written by Lois Lowry, which had won a John Newbery Medal in 1994. It is the first book of a quartet, but each novel isn’t a continuation of the previous stories. The various genres for The Giver include young adult fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction and the infamous, science fiction. It’s setting takes places in an imaginary world in an unspecified year or time where pain, physical and emotional, doesn’t exist. Almost every person has no…

The Giver is a story written by Lois Lowry on the subject of utopia. In this story we follow our protagonist Jonas, who was a normal boy living in a happy but perfect community. However, there was no freedom in this world. Jonas is chosen as the Receiver of Memory who is allowed freedom with the price of having to bear the burden of knowledge. There is a message in The Giver which is how memories give you wisdom and allows you to be dealt with situations the next time. The first example of how…

In the book ‘The Giver’ we are first introduced to how life is in their society. They live in a very strict and rule tight society where everyone is the same and are expected to live up to specific standards in their life . They get assigned jobs that are most suited for them . They also have no emotions and live a very colorless and bland life . The main character Jonas is very different and gets chosen for a special assignment that not just any pupil can have he is given the assignment to be…

"The idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to death." Shelby Foote. I feel the exact same. Utopias may be a option in the future but I am definitely not going to live in the perfect world. It isn't worth giving up your choices to live in a perfect world. I would rather live in our world today because sameness, family units, and Birthdays. First and foremost, Family units or family is where you share moments with your actual blood relatives. In the givers community, family units are…