The Giver

The book, The Giver by Lois Lowry, and the movie, The Giver by Phillip Noyce, are based on a futuristic Utopia, with the idea of sameness, and a child with the capacity to see beyond and a mission to stop the sameness. Some similarities between the two are the same main plot of sameness and a plan to stop it. Also the setting, a futuristic plateau. They both also include the same main character, Jonas. Jonas also learns about release, which is what they call Euthanasia, the same way.…

the minutes and miles passed….The Giver had counted on, of strength and courage. So he relied on what he had, and hoped it would be enough. He circled the outlying communities, their dwellings dark. Gradually the distances between communities wid-ened, with longer stretches of empty road. His legs ached at first; then, as time passed, they became numb.”The Giver truly did count on Jonas to pass the boundaries to give the memories back to the whole community. The Giver thought Jonas as the son he…

The Giver, written by Lowis Lowry, is a book about a boy named Jonas, whose community chooses him to take the position of the Receiver. The Receiver is the most important person in the community since the job of the Receiver is to ultimately learn to be the Giver and become a judge for the community. Indeed the Giver must eventually make important decisions for the future of the community like parental planning. The Receiver must obtain some important memories from the current Giver about the…

Will he live or be lost? The Giver is an interesting movie with a young man named Jonas. He lives with his father and mother and sister lily. The Giver is a novel that copies the world today. Jonas and all the other 12 year olds in his world are given jobs. He, among them, is given the most important job of receiving all the memories of the world. He learns that there is actually color and truth about his world. It copies the world today because the whole point is that when your 12 in that world…

safety net if you will. Looking at the givers society they portrayed as a Utopian society. Everything was done in order and civilized, although the people were kept naive peace was able to be achieved amongst their society. From the time that there born, the people are trained and tested to see what their skills can do to attribute to their community. The society was set for achievements and success nothing less. Today's society should take note on The Givers society and eliminate people's…

In The Giver, Jonas– a boy who lives in a community where everything is the same– makes very few choices, and because there are no choices, there is no pain, fear, war, or hatred. (cc) People do what they are told to do, so they look like they live in a predictable way doing things without questioning why they should be done. (cp) Their society is so bland, that they cannot even see colors! (cp) Jonas embarks on a journey to leave the community and end this type of “Blandness life”…

settlements began to go to extremes as they tried to create perfect communities. They believed that an individual was truly set free when he or she no longer had any sort of temptations available. This contradictory idea is reflected in the book The Giver. The Giver is a novel about a supposedly utopian society…

be who you are. In The giver by lois lowry there is a boy named Jonas who he was picked to be the next receiver of memory . Everyday he will go see the giver and recive memories. Then Jonas started to notice something after he receives the memories. Although the book begins with what seems to be a perfect utopia but it turns out that it's a dystopia. First, the way in which a society celebrates birthdays reveals how that society values individuality. To begin, in The Giver, everyone’s…

In the novel The Giver a boy Jonas is placed in a dystopian society where sameness is key to having an “ideal” society. Jonas learns that there is a lot more about his community to be discovered that the leaders have not released. In anger and curiosity Jonas wanders away from his community to look for “else where”. There are many differences between Jonas’s society and the one you and I live in today. Jonas's society was a dystopian society because of these rules and the very limited and almost…

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.…