The Giver

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…

In the Award-winning novel, The Giver, Lois Lowry Addresses the theme that people must remember both the pains and Joys from their past in order to fully experience life. To begin, the theme is first introduced when Jonas first started his job his first memories were snow and sledding for instance, Jonas experienced “ through the swirl of what he now, somehow, perceived was the thing the old man has spoken of-snow-” (103). Therefore, it's a great memory and will bring people joy and happiness…

The novel The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a book about a rather unusual community somewhere in the world. It consists of: a utopia, a perfect, strict, very precise community, Sameness, our main character Jonas, and a Giver of memories. This community is constantly being watched by other people in the community to analyze each person's day so that no one breaks the rules, and no one makes a mistake. And because of the so-called Sameness that the council’s community used to create the community,…

‘The Giver’ by Lois Lowry is a utopian novel. It follows the story of Jonas, who receives the community’s most honourable job of Receiver of Memory. The Receiver of Memory gets access to memories of how the world was prior to the Sameness regime which now governs the community. After seeing how the world was previously, Jonas starts to second guess and abandon the totalitarian-like rules of Sameness. In the end Jonas leaves the community with a baby called Gabe, with whom he has a special…

themselves. A theme in a novel often reveals the author's opinions on life and one does not simply have one opinion on one subject, throughout their whole life.In The Giver their are many themes that give the book depth and meaning, that the book woulld be boring without. A few of these themes are more important than others. Throughout The Giver, the author tries to show the reader the dangers that exist when people opt for conformity over individuality. When they first created this society…

Argument Rough Draft Jonas is one of the main characters in the book the giver, but is his assignment a punishment or a honor? Jonas’s assignment as the next receiver of memory is a punishment rather than an honor. Jonas’s is seperate from his friends and age group, he is lonely.The receiver of Memory and Jonas had and has gone through lots of pain. Jonas even with honor and respect is still separate from people in the community. Jonas’s is seperate from his friends and age group, he is…

to both societies is crucially important, The Giver’s fashion of executing it differs from our modern day method. Sameness, or equality, in Jonas’s community is the effect of the government having complete control over everyone in the society. The Giver conveyed this message to Jonas, by how through Sameness, they,” gained control of many things...but [they] had to let go of others” (Lowry p.120). In Jonas’s community, the government plays a big role in keeping equality maintained, using methods…

message in the writing. Symbolism helps the reader understand what is the theme of the story and supports it. The author, Lois Lowry, incorporated a way of meaning and significance to objects and characters, and supported the theme, in her novel The Giver. In the book the themes were the importance of memories, feelings and individualism, These aspects of the book were supported by symbols such as the color red, the sled and snow hill, and pale eyes. One theme that was reflected by in the story…

The Giver: Describe an important idea you identified from a written text. Explain why this idea is important An important concept I became aware of in the text was a perfect society, Utopia. A utopian society is an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. In the book, The Giver, the writer wrote about a perfect society in which there world is made up of equality, sameness and uniformity. They tried to make their society perfect by taking away colour, pain, love In…

The Giver Since the beginning of time, humans have formed settlements in order to survive. Naturally the settlements have become more advanced and complex. Communities and settlements advanced as did society and the way people lived. The settlements became more organized with laws, forms of government have been created, and they even had leaders. As time passed, novels plotlines have advanced in this same way. An example would be Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver that takes place within a Utopia.…