...Lois Lowry's novel The Giver takes place way into the future. Jonas is chosen as the giver at the age of 12. He never had an assignment before. After getting this assignment, he started disobeying. He starts to disobey, he doesn’t believe in sameness and he doesn’t like all the rules. One lesson the story suggests is that when you are rebellious you can get in trouble and that sameness is not good. From the beginning Jonas always seemed to be a rebellious child, Lois Lowry describes how Jonas and the Giver were planning on how to sneak Jonas and Gabe out of the community. Because after all the memories that Jonas has received he wanted the community to see them and have them as well. Jonas, was not listening to the rules of the community...
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...In a perfect society conflict, pain, distrust, and secrets would be eradicated. That is a far cry from from society today where people fight constantly, there are grave differences in the way people think and act, and pain is evident everywhere. But while we are not perfect people are still happy and if you look true joy can be found in many places. Through Jonas’ experiences over the course of “The Giver”, Lois Lowry develops a theme of nothing is perfect. Though opposing readers may believe that perfection is attainable, Jonas’ actions and experiences throughout the novel convey that attempting to become flawless can only lead to ignorance and the unavoidable idea of an escape from a life of strict perfection. Jonas society strives to be...
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...Memories are valuable things. Memories can help you recognize the consequences for your actions. The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a young boy named Jonas who lives in a “perfect” community. The people who live in the community know nothing of their history. When Jonas receives the honored job title of the Receiver, he learns about the world’s history by memories gained from the previous receiver - also known as The Giver. When Jonas receives these memories, he understands more about the community’s consequences for their actions. Jonas’ experiences develop a theme over the course of The Giver by teaching the reader that for every action there is a consequence. Although some people believe that their actions don’t affect their future, Jonas’ experiences show that your actions lead to either positive or negative consequences....
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...→ In the novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas is a brilliant example of the character trait maturity, because he is very responsible, he accepts his job with a positive attitude, and he behaves like an adult when he takes matters into his own hands. Throughout the book, Jonas is very responsible. There are many examples throughout the book of him being sensible and mature. Like the Chief Elder says, he was a top student, which meant he was compelled to be responsible. In the book, the Chief Elder says that when he has made mistakes, he has always come and apologized in the correct manner. For instance, “Jonas has, like all of us, completed minor transgressions... we accept that. We hoped, also, that he would present himself promptly for...
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...Tradition is a significant theme in "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, and I find that tradition is critical. I personally believe that tradition is a fundamental part of our society; it helps bring our friends and family closer together at moments that hold significance to us. Tradition for us, in my opinion, is one of the most important things we can have. In "The Giver" they have traditions such as speaking with the family about how they felt during the day, this, in my opinion, is a very proficient thing to do, because it can resolve any bad or mixed feeling and emotions you've built up during the day. Furthermore in "The Giver" they also have traditions such as The Ceremony of Loss, an event that takes place after the death of fellow community...
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...the book The Giver by Lois Lowry everything isn’t as perfect as it seems. In the book Jonas, the boy who was chosen to be the next Receiver, experiences a society that is different from his own. With the help of The Giver, the man who trains Jonas, he learns that “sameness” isn’t exactly perfect. The Community controls emotions in an effort to create a painless society; the result, however, is a society absent of true emotion. Once someone in the Community begins to develop feelings for someone they are given pills to control the emotions that they are experiencing. The...
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...Our story we had been reading is The Giver by Lois Lowry, our main character is Jonas (the Receiver) and the Giver (trainer for the Receiver). This essay is about Jonas's point of view of Jonas's experience about being the new Receiver. During that time period, some terrible things had occurred. And his point of view had changed because of desensitization and terrible truths. In the beginning Jonas's point of view had been been just simple.He had a regular life, a perfect family unit: mom, dad, Lily and Jonas. He felt peaceful in his world before he became a Receiver. He was happy with his family unit. He had a best friend named Asher. Jonas was always excited for every December for every ceremony. On page 12 says "' You know," his father finally said," every December was exciting to me when I was young. And it had been for you and Lily too, I'm sure. Each December brings such changes." Jonas nodded". Every December was always exciting for Jonas. Until his twelfth December, Jonas received an honorable, worthy, sacred assignment. His assignment was to be a Receiver of...
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...The Whole World? Why did they pick Jonas? The Giver is full of amazing scenes but some increase the symbolism, conflict or some other items of literature which strengthen the description of the story. I will be talking about a scene that i think is filled with all of these things. On page 98 in the book “The Giver” written by Lois Lowry there is all of the sensory detail that is good for a book so that the reader feels the sentiment that the protagonist is feeling. When Jonas the main character that was selected to be the new “receiver of memory” which is the job of the one who takes care of all the memories of the world from the past and future so that no one else would have the pain of war in their memory, is...
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...Lois Lowry was born on March 20, 1937. She was born on the island Honolulu of Hawaii. Lowry was a shy child that loved to read. She was around 8 to 9 years old when she decided to become a writer. Her father's job occupations led her to live in several places. Lowry's family was later reunited with her father in Japan for some time after the war ended. Lowry took some of her high school years in Japan, but she finished high school in New York City. Lowry is one of America's popular children's book authors (Lois Lowry Biography.com). Lois dropped out of College to get married. She married Donald Lowry at the age of 19. She published A Summer to Die in 1977 as her first book. Lowry finished college while she was living in Maine and...
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..."The community of The Giver had achieved at such a great price. A community without danger or pain. But also a community without music, color or art. And books." Lois Lowry once said this. She is saying how the community of “"The Giver"” can be reached but everyone would have to give up books, art, music, and color. Music and color played a big role in both "The Giver" movie and novel. These elements in the movie and book are different and they have an impact on the story of "The Giver" in both the film and novel. "The Giver" book and movie are different because the music in the movie add more of a connection with the story and finding out about the loss of color in the film so soon takes away the insatiable feeling the reader gets in the beginning of the book....
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...stories, Anthem, by Ayn Rand, and The Giver, by Lois Lowry, are both very similar, as well as very different. They are similar because they are both dystopian stories, which means that they are both set in a futuristic setting. The difference between the two stories is the main conflict between the two characters, Equality 7-2521 and Jonas. In the book Anthem, by Ayn Rand, Equality 7-2521 just wants to be placed in the home of the Scholars. When he meets a new friend, and discovers things he wasn’t supposed to know about the city that he lives, there are major consequences. In the story, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas was chosen to be the new receiver of memory, which means that he will be able to look into the past at what the community used to look like before the elders changed it so everyone could be equal. After receiving several memories from the giver, Jonas decides that he needs to bring the memories back into the community by going out to cross the boundary of memory. With the support of his friends and the giver, Jonas does the unimaginable and chooses to do wrong, but also help the...
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...Imagine a society where everything was perfect, where everything would always go exactly according to plan. Such a society exists in Lois Lowry’s The Giver. In the society, multiple systems are set up so that order can be maintained. While starting with good intentions, the societal systems eventually become a machine that rips humans of basic emotions, and hunger for these emotions eventually leads to the destruction of the society. In The Giver, Lois Lowry uses the systems of Sameness, the Ceremonies, and Releasing to maintain order; however, these same systems ironically also lead to the downfall of the society. The system that the society prides itself most on is the system of Sameness. Sameness was originally intended to bring about order...
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...The Giver, Cathartic Responses How would you feel if you couldn’t see color? Or if you had lost memories that you didn’t even know about? The community in The Giver by Lois Lowry, were in that exact situation. In what appears to be a utopia, the people in The Giver cannot see color and they have no memories of previous historic events. This is due to the fact that the Chief Elders, the leaders of the community, think that eliminating all previous memories and the memory of color is better for the people. The Chief Elders strive to eliminate pain and all human desire throughout the book creating what seems to be a perfect world, but Jonas, the main character, later comes to discover eliminating these things may not make their world the utopia...
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...Life of Lois Lowry “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”- Lois Lowry, Quoted from one of her most famous books. Shes an american writer who has published over thirty childrens books. Lois Lowry had a busy childhood, a rocky adult life, and a successful career. Lois has two other siblings. She was the middle child, one brother ,Jon and one older sister, Helen. She was a child that lived in her own little world of books and great imagination. She was around the age of eight when she knew she wanted to be a writer. Her father was a military officer and dentist so she had lived all over the world. She was born in Hawaii, then moved to New York. Ended up graduating from New York City high school, then spent...
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...Lois Lowry has exposed the world to her life in almost every book she has written. From losing her sister at a young age to watching her mother suffer in a nursing home, Lowry has been challenged with those hardships, and created her own world in her books. Every book she wrote had a personal experience behind it. Her creative mind draws readers in with her heartwarming symbols and themes. Lowry has pushed past the boundaries, and wrote one of the most controversial books in history, The Giver. Lowry was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on March 20, 1937 to Katherine Gordon and Robert Hammersberg. Lowry was the middle child with an older sister, Helen and a younger brother, Jon. She was no ordinary child, her father was a military officer which means she had to move around a lot. She never had one stable place to call home, and never made very many friends. Lowry was a solitary child who would rather curl up with a good book then be outside playing with the other military children. Lowry went to Brown University for two years before she transferred to the University of South Maine. There she met her husband...
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