Lois Lowry

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…

The Power of Color In The Giver written during the 1990’s and set in the future, Lois Lowry presents a dystopian novel on a society where everything is the same, but one kid plans to change the whole society. A young man named Jonas that has an ability to see color in a colorless society. After being selected as the new receiver of memories, he realizes how much the society is missing and plans to change it. He plans to leave the society so that everyone can receive the memories he was…

Imagine if you lived in a town where everything is perfect. In the novel The Giver written by Lois Lowry, there is a 12 year old boy named Jonas who lives in a utopian community or a community where everything and everyone is perfect. In this community there certain people that make certain sacrifices to make this community chaos free. In this story Jonas is chosen to hold all the memories of the world so no one else has too. Jonas changes throughout The Giver and as a result, tries to change…

A book I read for the classic category was The Giver by Lois Lowry. Jonah lives in a organized world, children are assigned families, jobs, etc. Right before the Ceremony of Twelve where he will be assigned a job was, his family took in a third child (which was against the rules) but it was only temporary and approved by the Elders (the people in charge) this child was named Gabriel. At the Ceremony of Twelves Jonas is "selected" for a special job called the receiver of memory. His training was…

Imagine what it is like to live in a community with no color, no feeling, and no music. Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, shows the life of a boy, Jonas who lives in a place where color, feeling, and music do not exist. In his whole life, Jonas has no idea what it is like to feel something. However, Jonas soon learns about the community’s deep secret as he spends time with the Giver. He has experienced the real world, the one with true color, feeling, and music. This novel reveals that the memory…

In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas the main character was born into a society where everyone and everything is structured to be equal. By equal, that means that their is no such thing as race, because no one in this utopia that Lowry has created is able to see color. Jonas on the other hand stands out from the rest because he has, “the Capacity to See Beyond” ( Lowry 79) his light eyes allow him to see color, only few with this uniqueness are selected to be the Receiver of Memory. No…

Reading “The Giver by Lois Lowry took me to another place where I forgot about reality. While reading I came across the five elements of a story: characters, conflict, setting, theme and plot. To start, I will be explaining the plot. Following that will be conflict and theme. From then on I will cover setting and characters. “The Giver” is a story about a young boy named Jonas. Jonas lives in a world where everything and everyone are the same, except for him. On the day they get their jobs…

vibrant, lifelike characters such as the main protagonist Jonas, his instructor The Giver, a child that is brought into contact with Jonas, Gabriel.The novel is meaningful, and poignant,containing many valuable life lessons. In the The Giver by Lois Lowry, Lowry highlights the importance of freedom, freedom to make choices is an essential component of human life. She suggests this by showing Jonas’ understanding of the…

Image a world where everybody and everything was the same. That’s how the main character, Jonas, lived in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry. Jonas is a twelve-year-old boy who gets chosen to be the new Receiver of Memory. In the community this is one of the most important jobs, because they learn about everything in the outside world. Then, later he realizes what the community has taken from them. As Jonas starts to receive the memories that The Giver transfers to him he makes a brave…

You Be You The Giver by Lois Lowry is a book about a boy, Jonas, who becomes the new Receiver of Memory and faces challenges, that causes him to make some tough decisions about how he wants to live. The society that he is living in has been the same since he was young. But now that he is older and is seeing it as a totally different place, he decided that the town is a place where people live as if nothing is wrong but the whole town really isn’t a happy place that Jonas wants to live in. His…