Lois Lowry

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…

please!’” “‘Do you enjoy me?’” (Lowry 127). This displays the lack of love or even the ability to love in Jonas’s…

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…

Have you ever imagined a perfect community with Sameness? In the science fiction novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas lives in a community where everyone is the same, they use Sameness. It is a controlled community where everyone has fewer choices to make and the community chooses for them. Having Sameness is more of a disadvantage than because no one would have the freedom of choice and life is going to be dull for them. When everything is the same within the community, Sameness is more of a…

by Lois Lowry, the lifestyle of the Community is affected by the restrictions set upon them but more importantly how the effects of using precise language, the various rituals, and the many grips of control on the people of the Community that determine their lifestyle. “Precision of Language” is a common term…

In The Giver, Lois Lowry utilizes imagery, shift, and tone to depict the giver’s self-destruction, sacrifice, and suffering to reveal his values. Early on we learn that the elders continuously dismiss the giver’s advice as a feeble grab for power because they lack the experience they need to recognize the bleak future they will face without changing their actions as he repeatedly tries to establish. The pretentiousness, they show when he confronts them with this dismal truth only furthers the…

Memories and Individuality Jonas lives in a community whose inhabitants feel no real emotion, where individuality is a thing of the past, and where the world has been drained of color. Jonas is just like everyone else in his community. But after the Ceremony of Twelve, he is separated from his peers in a way that is to them, inconceivable. A man known as The Giver has chosen Jonas to receive memories in order for him to experience the world as it existed in the past: a place of pain, joy, sorrow…

torn apart. Lois Lowry's book, The Giver, Jonas believes his community is a false utopia because of their lack of choice, lack of diversity, and their decision to euthanize people in the community. In the community, the elders put people down in order to avoid confusion and try to keep a subtle and safe community. "There were only two occasions of release which were not punishment and release of the elderly is of…

you ever wanted to live in a world the could be considered “perfect” or made up your own little world in you head in which everyone is the same, hunger is never an issue, equality exists, no crimes, or conflicts, and best of all, no bad memories? In Lois Lowry's book, The Giver, Jonas and his family, along with the rest of their community, they live in a utopia like society where everyone has the same rules, there are no important choices they have to make, there’s no war, pain or conflict, and…

In the book Son by Lois Lowry, Claire has given birth to a child, named Gabe, after a complicated labor, he’s taken away and sent to stay with the other new children before she can see him. After being given a new job at the fish hatchery, she boards a ship and washes up in an entirely new community, where the people talk and act differently than her, she’s lost all of her memories of her life before, but piece by piece they come back, and she knows what she came here to do. Then, After a long…