Spingarn Medal

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…

Lois Lowry and Gary Ross teach us what it means to live a satisfying life. Discuss. The two parallel worlds between the novel, ‘The Giver,’ written by Lois Lowry, and within the award-winning movie, ‘Pleasantville’ directed by Gary Ross, explore similar attempts, by society to create an idealistic world that contradicts the nature of living a satisfying life. Unlike the life that we are familiar with, the lives of the characters in these universes, live under strict conformity as they strive…

“I'm not unhappy," he said. "Only people with no purpose are unhappy. I've got a purpose.” (Clare, 240) This quote is said by Jace, one of the main characters of the novel, City of Bones, by Cassandra Clare. During this part of the novel he is talking to Clary, the protagonist of the novel, about what his life purpose is. You see, Jace parents suffered from an awful death, when they got betrayed by one of their friends. Jace was just ten years old when the incident happened. So he is explaining…

Title of Book: The Giver Author: Lois Lowry Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Year of Publication: 1993 The Giver is a 1993 American young dystopian novel by Lois Lowry. This novel is set in a society where at first everything appears to be utopia- the perfect place but as the story proceeds further it is revealed to be dystopian. This novel has a character who is a 12 year old boy named Jonas who is taken up for the highest position in his community which is of Receiver of Memory, the person who…

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.…

In the past children’s literature has been dominated by the agenda of religious institutions, the censorship of well-meaning adults and the pragmatic practice of inserting life lessons into children’s books (Glazer, 466). While these different interest groups have had a strong hold on children’s literature for many decades both Louis Lowry and Ayn Rand have not only written works, The Giver and Anthem, that address the dangers of special interest groups encroaching on the education and literacy…

It has impacted the world by becoming a popular international sport and the United States then, by giving us Americans, the gold and silver medals at the Summer Olympic games and now by allowing ou Olympic team to continue the quest for gold at the 2020 Tokyo games. We are very proud of the phenomenal athletes past and present, for their dedication, hard work and perseverance. The game of softball…

Point of view is important to a text because it shapes meanings and shows how it develops throughout a story. In John Updike's short story, "A & P," the point of view is written in first person from the perspective of Sammy. This allows the reader a limited amount of knowledge since they do not know the minds of the other characters. In “A&P,” point of view helps shape meaning because Sammy is an unreliable teenage narrator that views adults as “sheep” who conform to the society that surrounds…

When kids grow up in “The Giver,” by Lois Lowry, everyone in the community is the same. Every December, everyone has the same birthday and gets the same gift. Everyone is a year older at the same time. No one singled out; no one left out. It’s all the same. When someone gets an year older it means they are getting to be a part of the community and becoming more mature. Even the land is the same--flat. In the book, Jonas is part of this community where everybody is the same, everything…

In The Giver by Lois Lowry, their community has an unbiased society where everyone must be fair, and differences are not allowed. For example everyone in the community must have a specific purpose in the community even at a young age.If you don't have any purpose in the society there is no need for you.But in reality their “ideal” society turns out to be flawed. And soon enough things start to change, the community turns into more of a dystopia rather than a utopia. Jonas and the Giver two…