Lois Lowry’s book, The Giver, shows that depriving people of certain knowledge is a way of dehumanizing and endangering them. People following rules blindly appeared multiple times in this book. It is extremely visible in the community, and with characters such as Jonas and Jonas’s father. In The Giver, following rules aimlessly does not always […]
The Giver starts off with Jonas who lives in a special community. Feeling apprehensive, he was afraid of the twelfth ceremony. Jonas was only eleven at the time, every night during dinner, Jonas’s family holds a traditional ceremony of Sharing Feelings. His little sister Lilly went first, she was was angry about a boy visiting […]
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Get startedThe Giver is a book written by Lois Lowry in 1993 and is about an 11 year old boy named Jonas living in a futuristic society. This society has eliminated all pain, fear, war, and hatred. Everyone in this society acts and looks very similar and often acts too polite. The society has eliminated choice: […]
The plot for The Giver is very fresh and original. Children’s Literature states that, “The plot is the plan of action; it tells what the characters do and what happened to them”(3rd edition, pg.10). The Giver starts off in a society where a boy name Jonas lives. The main conflict is man vs. society. Jonas […]
Chapter 1 Jonas lives in a place called the community. In the community people live under strict rules. Planes are not allowed to fly over the community. One day an airplane flew over the community, everyone was stunned, later that day the pilot of the plane was released, killed or eliminated, as a punishment. In […]
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” This quote by Marcel Proust speaks of discovering what’s right in front of you by seeing it differently, with “new eyes.” In The Giver, Jonas, the main character goes through the same thing when discovering his “Capacity to See […]
This Book is made aware that not only are choices limited, but also that the people have not experienced true feelings, enjoyed individual differences and cannot even see color!. Jonas seems to be just any ordinary young boy, Jonas who lives in a futuristic society which has tried to relieve its citizens of choices to […]
How would you like to live in a world without pain, without difference, and without freedom? The Book The Giver by Lois Lowry is a dystopian society where the memory of the past and pain are taken away. Your life isn’t your own, people make your decisions. Jonas the main character in the book wants […]
Imagine a place where there is colorlessness, no choice; a place where there is only uniformity and dullness. The author has created such an obscure place in the The Giver. We do not know the exact location or time period, however since it is fiction we usually think of it as being set some time […]
Our society and the society from The Giver have a mass amount of differences, but they still have a minimal amount of similarities. For example, the societies both have jobs that support the communities/economy, but this does not mean that they are even close to the same. The GIver’s society has their jobs decided for […]
The story by Lois Lowry takes place in a community that is not normal. People cannot see color, it is an offense for somebody to touch others, and the community assigns people jobs and children. This community shows through Jonas’ eyes, the main character in this novel, is a perfect society. There is no war, […]
In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, she infers that the strongest way for a government to control its people is to eliminate the people’s ability to question their way of life and heavily influence their ideologies. One strong way that for a government to control its people is to censor their people’s ability […]
You might think our society with “The Giver” is way different, but they are still similar in ways. The story is how a community is totally controlled in order to have a perfect world. This applicable to modern society because people are becoming more and more controlled with less freedom. In the story “The Giver” […]
