The Giver

the population in different kinds of ways. In the book The Giver written by Lois Lowry, Jonas struggles through making people realize emotions and finding a new way to live without the rules showing censorship. In the novel The Hunger Games written by Suzanne Collins, Katniss Everdeen struggles through poverty, loss, and dealing with an oppressive government as her family struggles through with the loss of her father. In the novels, The Giver and The Hunger Games, the protagonists struggle…

In the utopian world of The Giver, they speak a little bit of a different language. The people use a very simple version of the English language that makes names of things simpler. For instance, there is the Assignment, the Ceremony of Loss, and Elders. The words they use in The Giver are more bland and everyone speaks the same.Many of the words are meant to hide the real meanings. An example of that would be stirrings. On Earth this is called puberty. The community does not like stirring so…

In the novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas, twelve, is chosen to be a community’s Receiver of Memories. In the event that Jonas further learns the utopian community is not as halcyon and perfect as it has always seemed. With this in mind, he decides to flee the community in order to return all the memories he has to the community. As a matter of fact, the world problem that humans are facing now is overpopulation, and although written in 1993, the novel has dealt with the problem by…

In the novel “The Giver” Lois Lowry creates a society that appears perfect and orderly but in depth it is not. In this perfect society, not only almost everyone has a job and a dwelling but also there was no poverty, no hunger and no pain. People live there have never complained; they always accept instructions and assignments they have been given and play their role faithfully. As mentioned in the book “The community was so meticulously ordered, the choices so carefully made." (48) Inhabitants…

As I arrived to Elsewhere, I saw the scenery, and it was beautiful, People playing together, colors of the setting, nature, and many more amazing things! But before I entered Elsewhere, I realized the people I am leaving behind, my friends, including Fiona. I have 2 choices, go to Elsewhere and enjoy a new life, but without my friends, or go back to the community and try to save my friends, but with a risk of getting caught and being sent to release. I didn’t want to leave my friends behind, so…

Moreover, The Giver discusses, “‘You’ll be able to apply for a spouse, Jonas…’” (Lowry 96). Comparatively, the people do not even have the choice to pick who they want to live with for the rest of their life in fact they have to apply for a spouse. This is impossible…

As humans became more advanced the settlements became more complex. With the complex settlements came the need for organization with governance, leadership, and laws. Family structure held all these settlements together. In Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver she introduced this idea by showing that the community had to reform the family structure to hold the society together. For example, the children were not given last names to make it look like they belonged to their family unit in the novel. The…

said by Corrie Ten Boom, a Holocaust survivor. This truth is very evident in my everyday life. All of my collective memories, both pleasant and grim, have helped shape me into the person I am today. In The Giver, Jonas also undergoes a colossal transformation during his training with the Giver. The memories from the past that he received aided him in making decisions that affected his future. In the same way, riding a rollercoaster for the first time made me daring and inspired me to try new…

Sameness is something the Community had that was extremely unnecessary due to the fact it eliminated many human qualities that we have. The Giver is a fantastic book written by Lois Lowery that tells a wonderful story about a young boy named Jonas. The Community lives in a terrible world, where they have created this thing called "sameness". The world that they live in has no color and they are forced to have their own jobs picked for them. The worst part is that they have no memories of the…

Symbol – The Giver The apple in The Giver symbolizes change. In Jonas’s visions he “had noticed, following the path of the apple through the air with his eyes that the piece of fruit had-well, this was the part he couldn't adequately understand - the apple had changed. Just for an instant.” (21-22) Observing the change demonstrates Jonas’ power to see beyond. Throughout the book Jonas sees the modified apple even visualizing the apple as red, taking the adaptation further. Change…