Spingarn Medal

In the dystopian novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry, the theme of oppression leading to freedom is illustrated in Lowry’s use of the literary elements of allusion, foreshadowing, and characterization. The society that Lowry creates is a perfect world without crime, war, or poverty. Every person has a specific role and they are not allowed to make any choices on their own. One person, The Giver, is responsible for holding all the memories of all the pain and pressures of life. Now Jonas has been…

Have you ever been in a difficult situation without the support of your family? In Holes by Louis Sachar, Stanley was struggling with difficult situations, but he had support from family and friends. Therefore, the theme in a hole is friends and family help you when you are struggling. I can see this in the beginning of the story, the middle, and the end of the story. In the beginning, Stanley was getting bullied a lot. In the middle Stanley, Stanley leaves camp to find Zero, due to Zero running…

Chapters 9-11: In chapter 9 the people post signs in the elevator: 1) Sydelle wants her copy of the will returned. 2) Grace will offer a reward for her lost cross. 3) Someone stole Turtle's Mickey Mouse clock 4) Flora lost a pearl necklace, 5) go to the Hoos' restaurant, 6) six more "clues" have been found and Turtle's a brat 6) Judge Ford's having a party that night, and 7) Turtle should be home by 7:30 and 8) that anyone who wants to share clues should meet in the coffee shop. When Turtle…

Utopia, an imagined place and state of being in which everything is perfect. Jonas’s society is a utopia unlike modern day society. In The Giver they have celabrate birthdays, create families, and establish laws and rules somewhat like modern day society, yet both societies practice these things differently. A birthday is a celebration of age, This is shown in both the Giver and modern day society we celebrate birthdays. However we celebrate it very different. In The Giver all of the…

A Perfect World Full Of Mistakes Imagine being in a perfect world since birth , where no one endures pain, suffering, starvation, or the depth of emotions. Everyone is the same, happy, and equal so that order and peace may last forever. In The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas, a special young boy, resides in a perfect utopia where their lives are planned out for them. At the Ceremony of Twelve, the Twelves will part ways and start training for the assigned jobs where they will work until they enter…

Utopia: an imagined place or state of thing in which everything is perfect. Except in this novel, they are living it. Jonas’s community names themselves a utopia. No color, love, or war. However, the most important thing they are missing is memories from the past. In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas learns that joyful, sorrowful, and painful memories are all very important. Joyful memories are very important. They give us a positive outlook on life. Joyful memories are the first ones…

Anelise Colenzo September 12, 2017 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…

Novel Paper In the novel “the Giver” by Lois Lowry tells of an unusual way of life. The community is unaware that there is more to life then what is currently taking place. Therefore, an example of their way of life, the parents are not really their birth parents. “The Giver is set in a perfect world of the future. This Utopian community is free of disease, prejudice, and crime, but it is also missing diversity, memories, and love.” (Franklin)The parents are more in what we would consider a…

The community in the Giver represents a Dystopia. The Society in the Giver by lois Lowry does represent a Dystopia. The lack of the quality of uniqueness in each individual means everyone is the same and equal to each other resulting in no poor and many more. No one has experiences or feelings of pain, love, hate, jealousy of others ,etc because all of these experiences and feelings both positive and negative all go to the Giver. However the Elders attempt to Depict the society as Utopian…

“We are, at almost every point of our day, immersed in cultural diversity: faces, clothes, smells, attitudes, values, traditions, beliefs, rituals.” – Randa Abdel-Fattah. We have discovered our past, present, and future in our differences, and without that, we are all the same. The Giver is a science fiction novel by Lois Lowry about a twelve-year-old boy named Jonas who believes that he lives in a perfect community. After the important Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas receives a major job with unique…