Analyzing Lois Lowry's 'The Giver'

This novel is about a community where each person is the same. Everybody in this community go by certain rules and if they do not follow those rules they are punished. Everyone is to act the same in this book. Every person is assigned a job when they become a twelve and they are to work at the job until they go to the house of the old. This book is explained by Lois Lowry the author is explaining a whole different world than ours in this world he describes a person called the giver who is the receiver who hands off the job to Jonas one of the main characters who asks the receiver about all his memories and about what his job will be like. Jones had become the receiver. the giver gives him training and tells him what memories were like, the giver tells him why were like giver tells him why were like.

In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, the receivers are the only people who have feelings and memories. The elders are the people who choose what the best is for their people in the community and sometimes they go to the receiver for help on making the right decisions. The people from the community do not see color, or have freedom on making a decision for them. There is no love, feelings, and grandparents. Jonas is assigned to be the next receiver of the community; He was trained by the giver, who transfers memories of the pain and pleasures of life, who also shows him the truth and reality that is hidden to the community. Jonas’s community does not represent the ideal of society because there are no choices or distinctions between men

The book is a testimony to the strength and determination of her grandmother, her mother, and herself and their resourcefulness in recreating themselves during

In the 1994 Newbery Medal Acceptance Speech given by Lois Lowry, she uses a big metaphor to explain her life and the inspirations for The Giver. The “tributaries” she went through during her life became major inspirations for her novel “The Giver” She was talking about her journey when she said, “...if I’ve learned anything through that river of memories, it is that we can’t live in a walled world. This essay explains the memories she has and how it connects to The Giver.

Many of the issues explored in the story were likely experiences by the author herself. Similar to the main character Irene, Nella Larsen was

For years people have pondered about the true theme and concealed symbols in the end of this Newbery Medal science fiction book. In this novel, Lois Lowry uses several literary devices such as imagery to send the message that hope can pull a person through their gravest of times while using specific diction and anaphoras to show a more in-depth meaning in chapter twenty-three and to express the voice at the end of this literary work.

There are a variety of different focuses that were present throughout this book, all which have a very important message and impact. The one focus, or intent as to why the author wrote this novel was to inform the reader about such a tragic event that has taken place in history and to raise awareness so that things like this do not end up reoccurring. Something that has inspired many readers already, this book was also intended to inspire those reading it not to give up on achieving their goals and dreams in life. Leslie did not give up on trying to

She was the only one to survive a horrific flood that claimed the lives of her four siblings. It was those trials in her life that strengthen her beliefs and her will to overcome the obstacles she faces when she set out to leave her home, crossing the desert, in the direction of the sea and in search of a better way of life. As she made that journey, she discovered herself and writing, a skill that would bring her fortune. Her motivation for survival and the trials she had already faced as a child and through her journey brought her out of the aggressive kidnapping when she was struck in the head, with her hands and feet bound and thrown on the back of a horse like a sack and taken to serve the colonel. After she had helped the colonel write his speech and left him with two words, he was to the point of insanity until they were reunited.

You cannot live without love and emotions, but when you have sameness, everything is the same and your emotions are stolen from you. Jonas, the Receiver of Memory, is the only one who has those memories. But everything changes when he gains certain knowledge. The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, has proven that knowledge does have the power to change a person's opinions and likes, but not your fears. In most cases, knowledge has the power to change most people's opinions of people in Jonas' community.

     Most of the chapters in the book are just her telling about her life. She was born a very poor and sickly child, growing up with her mother and grandmother, after her mother had left her abusive husband. This was only the beginning of a very rough and trying life that she would face. She went on to describe her childhood, how other

Many people believe that when an author writes a story that they are reflecting some part of their life into that story. I am using this critique to find the connections between Lois lowry and her life to her story The Giver. In The Giver, Lois Lowry was inspired by her father to write about some of the aspects that she did to her story. The idea of memory loss and the idea of losing someone you love were the two main ideas that her father inspired her to write about.

Lois Lowry wrote this novel in a difficult time of her life. Her inspiration for The Giver was her father. Her father was put into a nursing home because he could not take care of himself, and he started to lose his memories. Lowry decided she was going to create a society where there were no memories or feeling. In an interview with Lowry, posted on the website, NPR, she says

The Giver is a very well thought out book by the author Lois Lowry and the director Phillip Noyce made a even better movie , and did a great job of adapting them to gather . I was really shocked at how off some of the detail was in the movie like how Asher acked and that he became a drone pilot . But it made the movie better and more interesting. The book's theme and the movies theme is pretty close the being the same , the book’s theme is to not let others manly the government control you . The theme of the movie was a little more clear than the book was, the movies was make your own choice and that the folks should have feelings . The adaptation was really good and overall was like the book in more ways than not .

Jonas, from the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, would enjoy and appreciate Cooper in the future, because it provides choice in classes, curriculum, and learning style. The author indirectly characterizes Jonas as rebellious, as this can be seen when Jonas tells The Giver “...I was just thinking: what if we could hold up things that were bright red, or bright yellow, and he [Gabriel] could choose? Instead of Sameness” (Lowry 125-26). He believes that members of the Community should have decisions that they can choose to make. He is not afraid of change. This shows that Jonas disagrees with the ways of the Community. Therefore, the author is portraying him as rebellious. He would appreciate a school that gives students the option to take certain

We all have read The Giver. In fact, I’ve read the whole Giver Quartet. But, why did Lois write it? She didn’t do it for money, and, she didn’t do it just for jollification, so, why did she? In this essay I’ll be supporting my opinion, on why she wrote the book.