Lois Lowry

Avoiding Dystopia According to the American Library Association, over 11,300 books have been challenged since the origin of banned books began 33 years ago. Parents most often challenge these books rather than organizations, teachers or religious groups, and the majority of books banned are within schools and their libraries.When books are banned, it reveals a disapproval of the censors to look at the world with open eyes, to close their eyes just like they closed the banned books. Prohibiting…

had the same looking house, read the same books, et cetera. Nobody would be different, individuality would be frowned upon, and you could get killed for breaking one of the hundreds of rules. This is the society in the book The Giver written by Lois Lowry. Symbols such as mirrors and eyes, sunshine, and color help demonstrate the theme of Sameness in The Giver. In The Giver, mirrors and eyes help prove the theme of Sameness. For the most part, mirrors show the character thinking about a…

The Giver written by Lois Lowry is a piece that had no limits when it comes to imagination and creativity. Lowry made sure not to make an boundaries that kept him from doing what he destined. Unlike many of the books, this book’s plot was so original. It makes one build up a burden of thoughts that may possibly be never answered. The theme itself aligns itself far away from cliche and one has to admire Lowry’s triumph as it is quite difficult to catch a theme that is so original. It also tells…

Everyone at some point in their life feels as if they are being restricted from doing things the way they want to, but what if your entire life was under control because you chose to? Lois Lowry provides us with a glimpse of how this can come to be. In this combination of science fiction and mystery, this story always leaves the reader wondering what is going to happen next. ¨The Giver¨, starts out with what seems as an utopian society, everyone is the same and everyone seems happy with their…

One of the centralize themes in “The Giver” is obedience. Throughout this novel, Jonas symbolized rebellion in a dystopian society and the author, Lois Lowry, channeled the ugly and realistic truths of the world through Jonas. Lowry exposed her readers to poverty, suicide, euthanasia, violence, and sexually explicit content. She emphasized on the point of the community’s constraints and lack of freedom, the same issues that are faced in today’s society. The members of this dystopian community…

Many works can share conveyed messages and story elements that help build the plot. Two of these works are The Giver by Lois Lowry, a fictional book written about an ideal community; a utopia, and The Village, a movie directed by M. Night Shyamalan, in which presents the idea of having an ideal society kept away from what is known as the “modern world”. The blind following of traditions and the idea of difference or individuality in a character is common in both of these works. In The Giver,…

characters and objects in the book. The theme of a story is what the writing reflects as the message. Theme is also the hidden message in the writing. Symbolism helps the reader understand what is the theme of the story and supports it. The author, Lois Lowry, incorporated a way of meaning and significance to objects and characters, and supported the theme, in her novel The Giver. In the book the themes were the importance of memories, feelings and individualism, These aspects of the book were…

Memories need to be shared." In "The Giver" by Lois Lowry she explains and gives many similar and oppisite characteristics about both the utopian and the dystopian society. Even though they have a different approach but still kind of the same approach. They still convey the same message. One example of how they are different is how they get there jobs. In the book "The Giver" people don't get to pick out their job, people above them do. Lois Lowry talks about how "The Committee Of Elders" pick…

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” This is a quote from the book The Giver a story by Lois Lowry. The Giver takes place in a distant future where people have given up things like color and memories. Memories are given to the Receiver of Memory Jonas so that he may hold all the pain of things like war and wounds of all kinds so the rest of his society does not have to. In the end of the Giver while Jonas and Gabriel are…

author, Lois Lowry. Lois has written many novels including Number The Stars, Gathering Blue, Son, Anastasia Krupnik, and A Summer To Die. This quarter our class read The Giver by Lois Lowry and studied it’s concepts. This essay is analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of living with the law of “sameness”, or having the government control everything and everyone. “...what if we could hold up things that were bright red, or bright yellow, and we could choose? Instead of sameness.” (124,Lowry)…