Lois Lowry

When kids grow up in “The Giver,” by Lois Lowry, everyone in the community is the same. Every December, everyone has the same birthday and gets the same gift. Everyone is a year older at the same time. No one singled out; no one left out. It’s all the same. When someone gets an year older it means they are getting to be a part of the community and becoming more mature. Even the land is the same--flat. In the book, Jonas is part of this community where everybody is the same, everything…

“There could be love. . .” The Giver by Lois Lowry is great book where it shows what love is. This book is science fiction, which means it takes place in the future that’s fiction. In this book Jonas, the receiver in training, is graduating after his twelves to his future life and job. He is scared to what kind of job he might get, or if he will like it or not. Jonas then gets selected as the receiver in training. In this job Jonas’s will be receiving all the past memories of his community for…

"Oh. Jonas was silent for a minute...we don 't dare to let people make choices of their own. Not safe? The Giver suggested. Definitely not safe, Jonas said with certainty. "What if they were allowed to choose their own mate? And they chose wrong? (Lowry 98) Making wrong choices can seem catastrophic to someone who has never made their own choice before. However, look at how many people make their own choices on a daily basis. Do all their choices end up being the correct one? No. Yet, from wrong…

diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, beliefs, rituals.” – Randa Abdel-Fattah. We have discovered our past, present, and future in our differences, and without that, we are all the same. The Giver is a science fiction novel by Lois Lowry about a twelve-year-old boy named Jonas who believes that he lives in a perfect community. After the important Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas receives a major job with unique responsibilities. As the new Receiver of Memories, Jonas is…

Image that a society was sameness, same haircut, can not see color. It's a whole different world. In modern society you can be who you are. In The giver by lois lowry there is a boy named Jonas who he was picked to be the next receiver of memory . Everyday he will go see the giver and recive memories. Then Jonas started to notice something after he receives the memories. Although the book begins with what seems to be a perfect utopia but it turns out that it's a dystopia. First, the way in…

community because they want everything to stay the same and everyone to be the same so there are no problems. In The Giver it says, “What if we could hold up things...and he could choose, instead of sameness,’ “He might make the wrong decisions” (Lowry 98). That was a…

for centuries. Are we truly virtuous? Or does the wicked nature overtake us? Harvey, from the story “The Half-Husky” by Margaret Laurence, demonstrates how living in a poor environment affects how you are mentally and physically. “The Giver” by Lois Lowry shows a utopian world where both morality exists and iniquity lurks as well. Furthermore, the two perspectives shown in “The Pencilsword: On a Plate” clearly show the effect that our personal experience has on us. Neither good…

The Giver: Utopia or Dystopia? “I have great honor, so will you. But you will find that is not the same as power.” - The Giver. Lois Lowry wrote a book called The Giver. It’s about a boy named Jonas who was chosen to be the new Receiver of memory at the Ceremony of Twelves. With the help of the Giver, he finds out things he didn’t know about the community. To some people, Jonas’s community would be a utopia, a place that is perfection, but to others it would be a dystopia, a place that is…

Imagine living in a community where there is no pain, feeling, hunger, or differences. Lois Lowry, the author of The Giver, writes about a utopian society where everything and everyone is the same, except for The Giver and Jonas. Jonas is a twelve year old boy, who was selected the most honorable job in the community, Reciever of Memory. As excited as he is, Jonas learns that he will become lonely. He was told that the job will give him wisdom, but he will experience pain. Jonas learns about the…

Birthdays in Different Societies In the dystopian novel The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas’s society celebrates birthdays both similarly and differently from the current American society. First, both societies acknowledge birthdays, but the way they are acknowledged is different. In Jonas’s society, birthdays are done in one mass celebration. Until age twelve, the celebrations are done over two days in December. Also, in The Giver, birthdays are only celebrated for twelve years. After the Ceremony…