The Giver

Can a society truly function without the social normative of gender? Lois Lowry begins to explore this idea in her text The Giver. This fictional society contains binary oppositions which paradoxically reinforce and redefine gender. Gender is reinforced by the visual manifestations of girls and boys, assumption of gender based on sex and alternative treatment towards a specific gender. In opposition of these elements, gender is redefined by the fulfilment of occupational roles of individuals in…

In the book The Giver, it states that(page129) “The smaller twin all comfy will be released in the ceromony”. This novel is about a utopian society where people in the entire community are supposed to be all equal with no diffrences except for, facial apperences. There should also be an equal amount of food, and kids for the people that live in the society. The rules created by the Comittee of Elders are unfair. Its argued that in the giver, twins aren’t allowed to live in the society.…

In The Giver the community is a utopia, but perhaps they could make it a better place. The community would have no weapons or crime, this would create a perfect place because that creates less temptation to hurt others. A utopia could contain no hazard like cliffs, sharp places or knifes. No sickness or disease would help create a perfect place because you would not have to go through the pain of having sickness or losing someone because of a disease. Although not having some of the worst…

Everyone is an individual and possesses their own expression of creativity. The creative person in “The Giver” is Lily Jonas’s little sister, as her mother states that she should become the ‘storyteller because of her great imagination.’ Lily’s expression of her creativity is to tell stories or exaggerated facts that happened earlier that day. Bill is the creative character in the movie “Pleasantville” as he mentions that he enjoys painting pictures in the window of his shop. Even though he only…

The Giver Essay Every day, Jonas goes to the Annex for his new job. Jonas's assignment as the next Receiver of Memory is a punishment. He endures physical pain when going through training. Not only that, he has to keep the emotions he goes through to himself, consequently making it a burden. Now, when there is that much frustration on someone, the may commit suicide. The community may see it as an honor, but if they looked closely, then they would see it as a punishment. When the Giver…

heard a story about it – who joined another community?” Of course, Asher said no, but he included that did state in the rule book that you could join another community if you wanted to. Thus, when Jonas was chosen to be the Receiver he asked The Giver what happens when you’re released, normally it was met with silence or a change in the subject which only intrigued Jonas’s curiosity more.…

the book The Giver by Lois Lowry. Throughout the book The Giver they invade their privacy by watching them and controlling them. In the book the people don't have a say in anything and is the disobey they will release them from the community. This has started to happen in real life drones watching us cameras everywhere and so much more. In the world now a days all we do is use technology and its disconnecting us from the world and doing more harm than good. In the book The Giver…

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synonyms whereas in the society which had been depicted by lowry Lois in the book The Giver these two words don’t look like synonyms and only one aspect is shown to the citizens of the society. Tyranny had adopted for the community and it had limited most of the truth behind the back of the few leaders,moreover, tyranny leads to faster decisions and usually in tyranny points are not heard, however, in context to the Giver, the society was molded in such a way that neither could this happen nor…

exactly the same way. One of the ways that a utopian society is shown to not have succeeded is in The Giver. In The Giver, there are quite a few examples of how and why utopias always seem to fail. There are many parts of the book that talk about it not being worth giving up amazing feelings such as love, for that “perfect word” that isn’t supposed to have any conflict within it. For example, in The Giver it says “It was possible what they had planned. Barley possible. But what did it matter? If…