The Giver

One of the things very much the same in Anthem and The Giver was how there societies limited their knowledge. In Anthem Equality said “We asked so many questions that the Teachers forbade it.” (Pg. 23). Knowledge, to Equality’s society, was good but if you were too smart it was a sin. The people in Anthem were also not allowed to know anything from the past or the “unmentionable times”. They couldn’t know any of the simplest things that we know today like electricity. This supports knowledge was…

One of the centralize themes in “The Giver” is obedience. Throughout this novel, Jonas symbolized rebellion in a dystopian society and the author, Lois Lowry, channeled the ugly and realistic truths of the world through Jonas. Lowry exposed her readers to poverty, suicide, euthanasia, violence, and sexually explicit content. She emphasized on the point of the community’s constraints and lack of freedom, the same issues that are faced in today’s society. The members of this dystopian community…

“There could be love. . .” The Giver by Lois Lowry is great book where it shows what love is. This book is science fiction, which means it takes place in the future that’s fiction. In this book Jonas, the receiver in training, is graduating after his twelves to his future life and job. He is scared to what kind of job he might get, or if he will like it or not. Jonas then gets selected as the receiver in training. In this job Jonas’s will be receiving all the past memories of his community for…

The Giver, by Lois Lowry, fits the description of a dystopian novel and appeals to young adult readers because of the plot, concept, and characteristics of the novel. The Giver tells a tale about a boy named Jonas who lives in a perfect world which he calls the “Community”. What he doesn’t know, along with many others, is the dark side of this utopia. As he goes through his journey as being the next receiver of memory - a special job selected carefully - the illusion of his perfect world,…

The Giver? How would it feel not to have love? in the future a boy named jonas lived in a community called The Giver in The Giver community where no one knows anything about the outside world or past. The only one who knows anything is The giver,but the twelve ceremony, jonas becomes the new receiver memory. he goes out to learn new things about the past, Elsewhere secret about his own community.The Giver community would be better with love, honesty and empathy. One thing The Giver…

the book The Giver a story by Lois Lowry. The Giver takes place in a distant future where people have given up things like color and memories. Memories are given to the Receiver of Memory Jonas so that he may hold all the pain of things like war and wounds of all kinds so the rest of his society does not have to. In the end of the Giver while Jonas and Gabriel are escaping they survive because he hears things like music which the Giver never gave him any memories of. Jonas had the Giver keep the…

There are different themes developed in different novel. There are different themes developed throughout The Giver. There is a character who is in a community who becomes a Receiver of Memories , but then runs away and the memories that he has received begin to fade away back to his old community. Jonas’ develop a theme over the course of The Giver by teaching the reader that with every action there will be a positive or negative consequence. (outcome) Although some readers believe that there…

In the giver, Jonas the main character risked his life so many times to escape the community with no choices, feelings and uniqueness. I support Jonas’s decision to escape because of these three points. They don't see cool and beautiful things like colours, sleds and more. The second reason is, they never got to experience love. Finally, citizens in the community never had choices. The First reason I supported Jonas when he escaped is, they don't get to experience the fun and exhilarating…

“From the place he has left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo.” These are the last words by Jonas in the book The Giver by Lois Lori which is young adult non-fiction. Jonas's world is perfect and everything is under full control with no emotions or pain. When Jonas is about to enter the ceremony of twelves. Jonas was singled out to become the new receiver of memory and to be trained by the old receiver. Since they are in sameness they needed someone to hold all of…

Could you imagine what it would be like if you lived in a world without any color at all? And everything is just the same grey hue? Well, this is the world that Jonas, the main character of The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, lives in. The book, The Giver, is a book where everyone lives in a community, where everything is perfectly controlled. This world is controlled by a group of people called the Elders. In the world that Jonas lives in, it would not fall into the category of utopia. Overall,…