Lois Lowry

a dictatorship or fascist government today. Jonas realizes that things need to be changed and that his community is certainly not perfect. His world is really just an illusion of a utopian society to keep people happy. In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, the community has a dystopian setting because the people that live in the community are…

Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, is about a boy named Jonas in a Utopian society of sameness. In this community, there is no pain struggle, or diversity. Choices for all are made by a group of elder citizens. There is no color, no weather, and no change. The absence of difference leads Jonas to question whether the lack of pain is worth inability to feel anything at all. Through her characters, Lowry warns readers that to conform is to lose choices, individuality, and ultimately, free will. This…

The Giver by Lois Lowry. The genre of The Giver is a novel. It’s a story about a boy named Jonas in a big community and how the Giver transfers his memories to Jonas, but the people in the community can’t have memories because the society doesn’t want the people to know everything. In the Giver the theme is the importance of memory because memories were given to him by the giver. Lois Lowry revealed the theme of memory by giving Jonas the main character a lot of important memories that Jonas…

The different types of language that people use in everyday life is related to their culture and even maybe their religion. The language that Lois Lowry used for the book “The Giver” is different. A weird kind of different, but different. The Language of Utopia. The one’s that are probably the most important to the book are “stirrings” because it tells you that, that person is growing up. “Newchild” because every community needs to have new life such as a baby. Last but not least the “Receiver…

One man’s utopia is another man’s dystopia is a great quote that goes hand in hand with the topic of Jonas’ world being superior or inferior to our world. This novel by Lois Lowry titled The Giver follows a boy named Jonas who lives in a world that has resorted to sameness. Emotional pain, war, colors, and weather are a portion of the things that have been dispensed just to name a few, they rolled out these improvements keeping in mind the end goal to dispose of differences so that everybody can…

beauty and joy and love in order to end pain and suffering?¨ - The Giver In 1992, Lois Lowry visited her father at a nursing home in Virginia. Her father was losing his memory. When Lowry showed her father a picture of her sister who had died, her father had forgotten her name, and also his daughters death. Lowry's mother on the other had remembered everything about that devastating loss. This situation made Lowry wonder ¨What would it be like to live in her father's world, where all painful…

When you read The Giver certain things will make more sense after you read this. The Giver by Lois Lowry is a novel that is based on a futuristic world with strict rules and beliefs. This being said, it makes this novel a Science Fiction novel. Many people can identify themes of The Giver. Here you will be given 2 examples of themes for the novel, The Giver. One theme of The Giver is living in a perfect world isn’t so perfect. A great piece of evidence can be found on page 122 when Jonas…

Lois Lowry, wrote the Giver in 1991 after the Great Depression, when people were in the first phase of financial recovery. In 1990 marked the end of the era of economic struggle from the collapse of the USSR and the end of communism, which led to controlled parenting, less children and parents were not content with normal and average children (CC-Fiction Background Power Point). Parents expected their children to model the actions of adults and adults controlled children’s activities (CC-Fiction…

Making Choices Color, love, pain, these freedoms are all connected, but could you ever think of a life without them? In the book The Giver, Lois Lowry creates this community that lacks sense of happiness or heartache. It's a town with strict rules and sameness, bland, and plain, almost nothing. The main character Jonas receives the power of feeling and seeing affection, discomfort,and his vision begins to morph into color. With these abilities, he feels the need to share them with his community.…

Language Arts Period ⅞ Truman Show and The Giver Similarities What if you lived in a world where there was no real emotions. Imagine figuring out that your whole life was a lie and your world was all controlled. “The Giver “by Lois Lowry and “Truman Show” have many similarities that you can notice throughout both of the stories. Trueman is the main character of “Truman Show” and Jonas in the main character in “The Giver”. In the beginning of both stories they both think their…