Newbery Medal

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…

Memories have an impact on not only our pasts, but also our future. Our previous experiences are shaping us into young men and women for the future. When I was asked if memories play an important part of your life and who you are I answered true, because it seemed like a reasonable answer. However, I had no supporting to back it up. This essay is here as my supporting evidence, to a question that I originally thought of as meaningless. Yet, now I think of it as something worth looking into. In…

“A utopia is nothing more than a truth that the world is not yet ready to hear” – Yann Arthus-Bertrand. In The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas's society and ours are different and similar. The differences include the careers people choose and the personality and character differences of one another. As the similarity, both utopias have the gaining of more responsibilities. In everyday life, we aren’t able to attain a utopia because people aren’t willing to sacrifice freedom, while in Jonas’s…

Authors often use symbolism to give their writing a new level meaning. There is a self-evident, literal meaning. This one is just straight forward from the writing. Then there is the meaning, which doesn’t stand out and is hidden. This way of writing creates a interest throughout the reader, and shows the significance of the 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…

What is a world or a community with NO pain? What about a world with a future with NO color? What is a community with NO freedom? In a book only one boy changes everything and everyone. The Giver by Luis Lowry published right after World War II. Jonas shows integrity and courage. Jonas has integrity. All the children entered the auditorium all were selected to come up to receive their job. Jonas knew he was up next to be called; after waiting his name had been skipped he looked around and…

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,…

How would you like to live in a community where there is no colors, sameness, and not much freedom? You probably would not like it. Well, I do not like the community in The Giver because they do not have much freedom, they cannot get things until they are a certain age at the ceremonies. The people in the community get released if they are not good enough, if there are twins that are born the bigger one is kept and the smaller one is released, and if they break to many rules they get released.…

“Be proud of your pain, for you are stronger than those with none” (Lois Lowry). In other words, if you never have difficult times you cannot truly appreciate the good times. Although we share some similarities to The Givers society, we have many differences. Like our rules, for example in the giver you are assigned a job at the age of 12 or (assignment). Where our world we get to pick what age we want to get a job. that's just one example though, as there are many other differences.…

Imagine a utopian society where everything is perfect for ordinary people, but Jonas is no ordinary person. In The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas can’t deal with this community where people are limited and the same, so he leaves. Jonas made the right decision by taking Gabriel, because living alone can lead to depression, a person must protect the things they love when they are in danger, when someone has the opportunity to give someone you love a better life, that person should always do so.…

Could you imagine living in a world without pain, color, and emotions? Well, in the book The Giver, everyone must follow a set of rules that create sameness across the whole community. A boy named Jonas is given the job of receiver of memory. His job is to keep the memories of the past to himself so the community can be protected from all those bad things that might cause chaos. Jonas makes a plan with a man he calls the Giver. The plan is to cross a border that keeps all the memories from the…