The Giver

whose name is not supposed to be said in the community and whose training was believed to be a failure. However, he is now using his last ability to train Jonas into the next Receiver, replacing his place. There is a similarity between Jonas and the Giver, which is their pale eyes. This suggests the destiny of Jonas to become the Receiver, which also shows their abilities to see beyond, unlike the rest of the community. We also notice that the slowly developing baby, Gabriel, who is given…

Then he noticed something strange about the house. Everyone that was in the house was everyone he knew from the community. Jonas saw his father, his mother, Lily, Gabe, The Giver, Asher, Fiona, and even Rosemary. He saw one older lady he did not recognize from the community. Then after a few seconds of looking at the Giver, somebody burst through the front door with red and white coat and pants. He started saying “HO HO HO, merry Christmas everybody!” Jonas was scared out of his mind. He saw his…

Poet’s Society (DPS), and Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, each presenting coinciding empowering and oppressing forms of influence. Whilst authority may suppress individuality, leadership functions to embolden…

The purpose of our advertisement was to give the audience the message/theme from the novel The Giver. The story has multiple messages, but our group chose to do the message of “love shouldn’t be taken away”. We chose the message “love shouldn't be taken away” because in the novel, the people in the community took pills to stop the “stirrings” or the actual feelings for one another and for them to actually start having the strong feeling of love they would need to stop taking the pills and then…

In the book "The Giver" the message this book was trying to send out is that everyone should have the rights to make decisions of their own. Because people learn from their mistakes, in some places in the world even people today can not make their own decisions. The another's purpose of writing this book is that people. In the book "The Giver" the author explains clearly that Jonas wants to make his own decisions. “Jonas had to stop and think it through. "If everything's the same, then there…

In the children’s book The Giver, at the precise age of twelve, the residents are appointed a role in the committee that is chosen for them to serve. However, in the modern world, people are given the prerogative to decide whichever career they desire, and whenever. This, exactly, is the reason why a twelve year old is not set to select a future career. Careers are meant to be accompanied by the person for it’s lifetime, thereby it has to be something that they relish and find happiness within.…

The giver, a novel written by Lois Lowry, about a boy named Jonas living in a strict community with no holidays and everything is under control like weather or sunshine. Tells the tale about his life and how he finds out about life other than his community. In this community you can’t lie but when Jonas finds out about someone lying, it adds more than you might think to the book. Jonas’s dad is lying about how he release’s people. Jonas’s dad seems to be a nice guy, he doesn’t look like…

grew heavier and heavier, instead of vanishing. I decided to go where the music came from, shoving all the snow and snow slide away to keep Gabriel warm, but the snow kept getting in our way. As I walked through the snow, all the memories from the Giver I learned came up in my mind growing in a cycle and I felt balmy. The colors, food I liked, the sleigh all I learned, all the memories warmth myself even in the snow. Yes, I felt warm, but as the memory grew, I felt more exhausted. I shouted for…

human life in the young adult novel, from the institutional to the biological, and thus the novel clearly continues an established dystopian tradition of critiquing totalitarianism and emphasizing the importance of individual freedom and privacy. The Giver, (1993) winner of the Newbery Medal of 1994, by Lois Lowry concentrates on situating the tradition and characteristics of dystopian fiction, to showcase that the novel continues an established dystopian tradition. The tradition and features…

In “The Giver” by Lois Lowry, Jonas lives in a community which was made to be perfect. Jonas is soon told about the past and the truth about his community, and he then shortly disagrees on what had taken place. For him to solve and change what is about to take place, he must hold the truth about the real world that is given by the Giver. This story made me realise how perfect their world is, and if ours will ever be as perfect as theirs. The society that Jonas lives in is a Utopian Society…