Medal of Honor

In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry Jonas the main character lives in “perfect world”. He learn the memories but is not aloud to tell anybody but wants to tell people. The themes are things are not as perfect as you think and there is more in the world than you are open to. The first theme is shown by the government controlling the town and the town cannot make their own decisions. The second theme is shown because there are more towns that that the people do not know about. The first theme is…

Holes Stanley Yelnats lived in an undersized apartment and has very bad luck and is constantly in the wrong place at the wrong time. throughout the book he is accused of stuff because of his bad luck. Stanley Yelnats lived inside of an undersized apartment near texas. He was walking home from school and someone threw a pair of shoes at him he was convicted of stealing the shoes and he went to court and was sentenced to detention camp, at camp green lake. At camp green lake stanley was…

“The life where nothing was ever unexpected, or inconvenient. or unusual; the life without color, pain, or past”. In The Giver, Jonas, an Eleven, is living in a community with no comprehension of love and is eager to find what is behind the scenes of his inhumane life. Lois Lowry brings to her readers a character with an intense curiosity for truth and a sharp mind to help himself lead his way into reality. Jonas is a male in his youth who’s mind seeks to understand the unknown. Moments after…

Neil Gaiman, author of The Graveyard Book writes about a young boy named Nobody Owens or Bod who has a unique relationship with the dead. Throughout the novel Bod learns many things that the dead know about and don’t. With his guardian Silas, a mysterious figure who is neither living nor dead, Bod learns multiple things about life, the dead, and how powerful knowledge is. Knowledge is Power and power is what Bod seeks in order to protect himself, avenge his family, and put a stop to the Man Jack…

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…

The Giver is a story written by Lois Lowry on the subject of utopia. In this story we follow our protagonist Jonas, who was a normal boy living in a happy but perfect community. However, there was no freedom in this world. Jonas is chosen as the Receiver of Memory who is allowed freedom with the price of having to bear the burden of knowledge. There is a message in The Giver which is how memories give you wisdom and allows you to be dealt with situations the next time. The first example of how…

In the book ‘The Giver’ we are first introduced to how life is in their society. They live in a very strict and rule tight society where everyone is the same and are expected to live up to specific standards in their life . They get assigned jobs that are most suited for them . They also have no emotions and live a very colorless and bland life . The main character Jonas is very different and gets chosen for a special assignment that not just any pupil can have he is given the assignment to be…

"The idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to death." Shelby Foote. I feel the exact same. Utopias may be a option in the future but I am definitely not going to live in the perfect world. It isn't worth giving up your choices to live in a perfect world. I would rather live in our world today because sameness, family units, and Birthdays. First and foremost, Family units or family is where you share moments with your actual blood relatives. In the givers community, family units are…

Imagine wanting to learn something, but not being able to. Imagine wanting to share something, while being incapable of doing so. Imagine knowing the truth, while others are dying to find it. In a world of complete equality, traits that create human life are removed in order to create a better society. These are your feelings. Your thoughts. Your emotions. All this is gone for the so-called “greater good”. In both The Giver and “Examination Day,” the main characters differ from other citizens…

The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a science fiction story about a young boy named Jonas who learns about the world that has been hidden from his whole community. He is given an assignment to have the memories of the last world to be transferred to him from an old man called the Giver. When Jonas gets the memories he is horrified by what he sees. But, he more terrified by what he learns about his community. He wants to change the people and show them what they do is wrong. Lowry vividly illustrates…