The Giver

Esteban Montesinos Allison Welty ENG 099 5 December 2016 THE GIVER BOOK REVIEW The giver is a story written form the point of view of Jonas, an 11-year-old boy living in this modern society that has removed all emotions like pain, fear, love, hate. In this community there is no prejudice since everyone acts and adapts to this society the same. This society has eliminated all free will, at age twelve every member of this community is assigned a job based…

a perfect society is like? People across the world have spent ages trying to build a utopian society. The Giver, written by Lois Lowry is a story about a boy named Jonas who found out he had a special role in his society. At the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas gets selected to be the Receiver of Memory, which is the most important job. Jonas meets the previous Receiver Of Memory, now called Giver, who provides Jonas with memories of all sort; pain, happiness, sorrow, and death. As he experiences these…

into the center stage. The Giver was one of the most continually banned books around town. The most frequent reasons that this book was challenged is because there are…

is the same and all important decisions were made by one's leaders? In the controlling world of The Giver, Jonas gets assigned the role of the Receiver. The Giver gives him memories both happy and painful of their past world to keep for the community. Eventually Jonas realizes that the community members need to feel pain in order to be truly happy and understand the true meaning of life. The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a clear example of a dystopian society because the society is an illusion of a…

My giving of The Giver In the book difference is eliminated by eliminating all color, choices, and emotions. To the people no one knows difference to them color is not a thing all they see is black and white also choices are taken from them. In The Giver sameness is negative thing because it stops creativity, people don't understand difference, and lastly it makes them behave like robots. Sameness is a bad thing. In The Giver sameness is a bad thing because... It stops creativity so…

The Giver: Utopia or Dystopia? “I have great honor, so will you. But you will find that is not the same as power.” - The Giver. Lois Lowry wrote a book called The Giver. It’s about a boy named Jonas who was chosen to be the new Receiver of memory at the Ceremony of Twelves. With the help of the Giver, he finds out things he didn’t know about the community. To some people, Jonas’s community would be a utopia, a place that is perfection, but to others it would be a dystopia, a place that is…

law enforcer, and rules. In The Giver by Lois Lowry creates a futuristic society where humans of the community are dehumanized. Dehumanization happens in a dystopia/utopia society. Dehumanization means to take away basic human rights and to not be worthy of humane treatment. The two types of dehumanization are animalistic and mechanistic. Lois’s experience with her father’s dementia allowed her to establish a setting of dystopia/utopia in her novel The Giver. For example the first element of…

In the book Divergent and The Giver Tris and Jonas are the main protagonists, that play important parts in the story. Tris is a young women that faces many hard decisions that have to do with where she belongs. Jonas is a young man that lives in a society where everything is kept a secret. Tris from Divergent and Jonas from The Giver have similarities and differences. Tris and Jonas are both characters that face tough decisions and live complicated lives. For example, in the book Divergent Four…

means jonas is trying to sooth gabe. This quote pertains to the story because the two try to make it past the boundary of memory. In doing so they two are left in the cold. In the end of “the giver” jonas and gabe are lying their freezing because, the sled and the ouse was just one of the memories that the giver gave to jonas, secondly, jonas might be dreaming because he doesn’t take his medicine which enables him to dream, and lastly jonas might not have made it because the book says he is…

Recently I've been reading an astonishing book called The Giver. The Giver has brought me tons of knowledge regarding every genre you could ever imagine. The Giver is mostly about a boy named Jonas, who lives in a dystopian society. The book explains everything that happens in the society very detailedly so it is easy to get into character. One thing that really caught my interest was when Jonas was dishonest to Asher. This caught my interest because Asher and Jonas are truly good friends and…