The Giver

The Giver by Lois Lowry is a fine piece of literature, and the beginning of the up-and-rising popularity of dystopian books. It turns out that many songs, no matter to genre and age, match up to many moments that happen in The Giver. These songs carry the tone and message that Lowry delivers through the story, but by using sweet melodies. The song that I think matches The Giver the best is “When the Children Cry” by White Lion, which was recorded in 1987. As strange as it seems, a song that was…

Could you ever imagine a life of having everything chosen for you? The Giver is a book where the leaders of a futuristic community want everyone to be as similar as possible. They ensure this by having everyone wear the same clothes and have the haircuts. To keep safety and peace in the community the citizens are given no freedoms. Citizens are given their spouses and jobs based on observations made about them. The people do not have colors or feelings. When Jonas is given his job he is selected…

Jonas and The Giver watched the release of a new child and found out that they actually killed the babies. As time went by, Jonas decided to run away from the community. Jonas took Gabe with him because Gabe was too little to live in the community and was going to be…

and trends as everyone else. In The Giver the society has strict rules that everyone must conform to. In my opinion conformity is a bad thing. In The Giver the people have no choice of freedom, In addition, there is no diversity or uniqueness and lastly no self-expression. To begin with when you conform you have no freedom of choice. In the Giver people have no choice on what to name your child, choose your job, and choose your spouse. In the Giver it stated, “Like the Matching of…

language is often used as a tool for social control in The Giver. Why does the Giver use such precise language? Why do they distort or conceal the meaning of the words we use now in order to promote the rules and conventions of the community? Why do they have such social control? Why does everything have to stay in order? What will happen if it doesn't? How does the community affect the people living in it? One word that is used in the book The Giver is the term “Stirrings.” This is a feeling…

Lowry uses light eyes to symbolize the depth of potent emotions, such as familial love, and how important they are to form a family. When Jonas first sees Gabriel, he is able to see the depth that both of their light eyes contain. While Jonas and his family are looking at Gabriel, Lily points out that both Jonas and Gabriel have light eyes, and “he was reminded that the eyes were not only a rarity but gave the one who had them a certain look- what was it? Depth…” (21). This shows that the eyes…

When Jonas first learns about colors from the Giver, he is so amazed by it and wants everyone to see. The next day, after given the ability to see red, he sees Fiona. To his surprise, she has beautiful red hair. This is a major significance later on when he is given the ability to love because then those two things goes hand in hand. Love an emotion that is absolutely unknown to Jonas, yet when he experiences it, he decides it is the most amazing thing ever because it made him feel "a little…

In the Giver by Lois Lowry, the main character Jonas lives in a community where language is very powerful. Certain work choices affect an influence on how the community acts and reacts to certain events and situations, like release and love. Jonas leaves because of all the different things/words that they community. The language that the community uses is very powerful in a bad way. Precision of Language is used alot in Jonas’s community because they can get punished by using the wrong words.…

I was that person who wanted adventure and excitement. However, I did not know nothing before I found the giver and he gave me the Truth about life. It was wonderful, but also painful and sad to know all the memories from the past. The first question in my head was why Sameness would take away so much knowledge and happiness. Now I can feel pain, love, scariness…

The Giver uses very formal words that might be strange in our life. The words are words that is not what maybe an American or someone else would use a whole lot of times. We put a lot of slang into our words. They have a lot of different words, but they are all still words. So let’s start off with some of the strange words that they might use in the community. One of the first words in The Giver birthmother. Most people use the word birth mother still to this day, but most of us people use…