Lois Lane

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…

feelings. Your thoughts. Your emotions. All this is gone for the so-called “greater good”. In both The Giver and “Examination Day,” the main characters differ from other citizens within their societies. However, being different is not always a good thing. Lois Lowry and Henry Slesar signify how a world of complete equality is a world without emotions because a world without emotions is a world without humans. Emotions are the main…

The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a science fiction story about a young boy named Jonas who learns about the world that has been hidden from his whole community. He is given an assignment to have the memories of the last world to be transferred to him from an old man called the Giver. When Jonas gets the memories he is horrified by what he sees. But, he more terrified by what he learns about his community. He wants to change the people and show them what they do is wrong. Lowry vividly illustrates…

In the book “The Giver”, by Lois Lowry, the main character Jonas lives in a perfect world. Few people in the community have the authority to make large choices. Although the villagers have the ability to chose some things, to us it would seem like they had no freedom. The Village Elders make decisions for the villagers. Without choices, people cannot make erroneous decisions, leading to a safer and much more efficient community. In December, all the villagers gather at a ceremony when they are…

Laura Ingalls Wilder, an author renowned for her stories of pioneer life, wrote about her childhood memories of traveling aboard wagons in what would come to be known as The Little House on the Prairie series. Millions of people have read Laura’s books and they still hold relevance to this day. However, perhaps one of the most overlooked factors of her books was the significance of the wagon used by the Ingalls’ family during their travels. For the Ingalls and many others, the wagon represented…

Rose Wilder lane, Laura’s daughter, who was a reporter for the San Francisco Bulletin, encouraged her mom to start writing her first book, which was an autobiography, called Pioneer Girl, but it wasn 't published because the publishers would not accept it. In 1932…