Lois Lowry

‘The Giver’ by Lois Lowry is a utopian novel. It follows the story of Jonas, who receives the community’s most honourable job of Receiver of Memory. The Receiver of Memory gets access to memories of how the world was prior to the Sameness regime which now governs the community. After seeing how the world was previously, Jonas starts to second guess and abandon the totalitarian-like rules of Sameness. In the end Jonas leaves the community with a baby called Gabe, with whom he has a special…

The Giver, written by Lowis Lowry, is a book about a boy named Jonas, whose community chooses him to take the position of the Receiver. The Receiver is the most important person in the community since the job of the Receiver is to ultimately learn to be the Giver and become a judge for the community. Indeed the Giver must eventually make important decisions for the future of the community like parental planning. The Receiver must obtain some important memories from the current Giver about the…

A Desirable Place “It’s the choosing that’s important, isn’t it” (Lowry). In The Giver by Lois Lowry, the community is designed to be a utopia, where other people decide fate, and keep the citizens from discovering the truth. In this community, the previous memories are taken away, leaving every citizen the same, no love, color, music, or freedom. The article “Haiti in Crisis” by Bryan Brown and Patricia Smith, is about a country that lives with endless disaster, sarvation, and it has a weak…

What is being an individual about? Lois Lowry knows being an individual is causing you to see differently. The novel The Giver by Lois Lowry tells about a boy who is selected to be the new “Receiver of Memory”. By being selected Jonas must receive the memories from The Giver the previous “Receiver of Memories”, but he soon realizes that his community is not what he thought it was. Jonas’ experiences develop a theme over the course of The Giver by teaching the reader that being an individual…

we can never all be the same even if we try it. the utopian world we’re searching for can change into a dystopian world. The Giver and Harrison Bergeron are stories of a society trying to be perfect but changed into a cruel world. The Giver by Lois Lowry is a book about a “perfect world”. The world where there is no war, no famine, no racism, no criminals, no colors, nothing. Harrison Bergeron, by Kurt Vonnegut, is a science-fiction short story. Both of these stories are very similar in terms of…

“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…

I’m arguing that in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, the community in which the main character lives in is utopia. Firstly, it’s a utopia because of the pre-organised lives that everyone lives and enjoys. In the book it says; “he was certain that his Assignment, whatever it was to be, would be the right one for them (Lowry, 52-53).” This shows the faith and trust that Jonas and the people around him, have in the elders to choose their jobs correctly. They also trust that they will choose their…

In The Giver by Lois Lowry, the transfer of memories are significantly diverse to the way we are accustomed to. The process of how memories are transmitted between The Giver and The Receiver of Memory, Jonas, proves this polarity greatly. Some of which is evidently portrayed in the novel through a combination of genetic, spiritual, technological, and magical processes. For example, Jonas’s genetical composition plays a significant role in the transfer of memories since this can be comprehended…

place where no one has blood related family members, everyone is assured a long, safe, and peaceful life, and everyone’s futures were decided by council members. In other words, that is “the community” in which the story of The Giver written by Lois Lowry takes place. In this novel, lessons and morals concerning the real world are expressed along with the three main themes of the story -- compromise, the power of knowledge, and perspective -- through a story about a boy, in a very unrealistic…

The Giver is a dystopian novel written by lois lowry. I also got the chance to see the movie part in school. I think that the movie adaptation was weak . Think that the producers did a great job. Overall i think that the adaptation to The Giver was weak. The producers of the movie added some characters. I think that some of these characters were not needed. Some characters were that fiona was not a nurturer in the book. I think that this was a good change because it made more sense that Jonas…