Lois Lowry

The Giver Essay In The Giver by Lois Lowry, an important job called the receiver of memory must be assigned to an appropriate candidate. This is because society has chosen security over freedom, they have no danger, no pain, no real emotions. So they must select someone to hold all the memories of suffering, sorrow, and elation so citizens don 't have to experience the risk of choosing wrong or getting hurt. There were many pieces of evidence that assigning a new receiver of memory was a rare opportunity. For example, when Jonas was anxiously waiting for his position in the community, the chief of elders explained to the citizens that Jonas would become the new receiver. The chief of elders then commented that choosing someone for such an…

The Giver was written by Lois Lowry in the year 1993. The Giver was a huge sensation to young adults. Lois Lowry has received many awards for her book. The greatest achievement for The Giver was The John Newbery Medal in 1994. Other medal awarded to Lois Lowry was the Regina Medal, William Allen White Award, and the American Library Association Award. The Giver has a presumptous plot. The story takes place sometime in the future in an utopian community. In the Utopian community,…

by the people. Many believe that ¨ The Giver¨ by Lois Lowry should not be read by twelve and thirteen year olds, because apparently they can't handle the truth. Just because adults want to protect their children, from the evil bad world, we can´t read a book. Nevertheless, choice is a major decisions of what people do, their actions. Jonas has changed significantly throughout ¨The Giver¨, because of the choices he has made. In the beginning of ¨The Giver¨ by Lois Lowry, Jonas makes a choice, a…

In the book The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the point of view is in one of the main protagonist named Jonas. Jonas lives in a “perfect world”. He is soon selected to become one of the most important jobs in the community which is The New Receiver of Memory. He is not to tell anyone about this job and the training that goes apart with it. He soon faces trouble between wanting to share these new things he learns or keeping it a secret like he is suppose to. He also sees all the flaws this “perfect…

(1) The first thought that I remember was how in 1975 on a regular morning while Lois Lowry husband was away at work and her kids were at school. Lois Lowry had gone outside to scrape the leftovers to her dog and then she smelled something in the air that trigger one of her childhood memories when she was 8 or 9 years old in 1945.After she had a flashback on one of her childhood memories she went back into her house and went to her typewriter and sat down and began writing about that day. Her…

Confused World The dystopian society described in the book, The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, makes their world different and unique from others.The similarities in their world does not help them see the difference, and changes in things. The color gray is the only color that the society sees due to color blindness. The people are blinded from many things not only physically, but mentally as well. This characteristic makes the world different from Earth. Jonas is always wondering about what…

In the dystopian novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry, the theme of oppression leading to freedom is illustrated in Lowry’s use of the literary elements of allusion, foreshadowing, and characterization. The society that Lowry creates is a perfect world without crime, war, or poverty. Every person has a specific role and they are not allowed to make any choices on their own. One person, The Giver, is responsible for holding all the memories of all the pain and pressures of life. Now Jonas has been…

The Giver is about a young boy named Jonas. He is selected as the new Receiver of Memory one December when he turned Twelve. Being the Receiver is a big honor, it requires intelligence, integrity, and courage, he had it. Jonas arrived at the House Of The Old and greets all of those there, including Fiona, the attendants, and the elders. He treats them with care, and gently helps them get in the tub for a bath. Set in a community with no climate, emotions, choices, or memories Lois Lowry tells…

Novel Paper In the novel “the Giver” by Lois Lowry tells of an unusual way of life. The community is unaware that there is more to life then what is currently taking place. Therefore, an example of their way of life, the parents are not really their birth parents. “The Giver is set in a perfect world of the future. This Utopian community is free of disease, prejudice, and crime, but it is also missing diversity, memories, and love.” (Franklin)The parents are more in what we would consider a…

The community in the Giver represents a Dystopia. The Society in the Giver by lois Lowry does represent a Dystopia. The lack of the quality of uniqueness in each individual means everyone is the same and equal to each other resulting in no poor and many more. No one has experiences or feelings of pain, love, hate, jealousy of others ,etc because all of these experiences and feelings both positive and negative all go to the Giver. However the Elders attempt to Depict the society as Utopian…