Chapters 6-11 In The Giver By Lois Lowry

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,” written by Lois Lowry, Jonas is a boy who follows the rules, spends time with friends and family, goes to school, and at the Twelves Ceremony is given the job as the Receiver of Memory. At the end of the novel, Jonas learns information that makes him leave the community to save the people he loves. As Jonas becomes older, he acknowledges that he is different from his family and the people surrounded by him. Once Jonas got his assignment as the Receiver of Memory, his maturity became inconsistent throughout the novel.

Change is inevitable no matter what difference is made. The Giver by author Lois Lowry is the story of a utopian community that has adopted sameness that actually seems more dystopian later on. The Giver’s protagonist is a boy, Jonas, who is chosen and honored to take the assignment of being the Receiver of Memories. Jonas as the new Receiver of Memories is trained by the previous Receiver of Memories who Jonas calls The Giver. This causes many joys and pains for Jonas, but a curiousness to every new memory that is given. The setting is set in a community that has gained the culture to be a strict community that is controlled by The Elders. Before meeting the Giver, Jonas began as an outcast,later as he met his mentor Jonas was brave, and as he became more mature he became determined.

The setting of The Giver takes place in a fictional community known as the “Sameness”. Life here is supposed to be "perfect" because there is no pain or suffering. They don’t have to take

Jonas’ has had a variety of interesting experiences throughout the book. The Giver by Lois Lowry is about Jonas and he goes through many changes in his life with some help from the Giver. Jonas’ experiences develop a theme over the course of The Giver by teaching the reader for every action there is a consequence. Although some readers may believe that there will not be a consequence, Jonas’ experiences show that there are good and bad consequences for everything you do.

One example of Jonas’ character changing throughout The Giver is that Jonas was obedient at the beginning of the book but later becomes rebellious. An example of Jonas’ obedience is when a plane was flying over the community. The speaker advised everyone to drop their bikes where they were and sprint to the nearest building immediately. Jonas obediently did everything the speaker had said. Another time when Jonas was being obedient is when the Chief Elder said during the ceremony that he had always presented himself on time when he had chastisement. ” ‘We hoped, also, that Jonas would present himself promptly for chastisement, and he has always done so.’ “ (62) These are all times when Jonas was an obedient child and never questioned the community.

Newberry Medalist, Lois Lowry, reflects her fascination with the stages of life into her many novels that depict young adults coping with the challenges that come with growing up. And like many recognized authors Lowry has been asked again and again, “Where did you get this idea?” For each novel written by Lowry the inspiration arises from diverse occasions from her life. In The Giver Lowry explores the new territory of a fantasy realm of society that is free from pain, disorder, and overpopulation; but in a world without love, color, and memories the perfect society turns to dystopia. (Novels for Students) As an explanation for the origins of The Giver Lois Lowry, in her Newberry Medal acceptance speech, compares her inspiration for the novel to the river Jonas looks into, seeing the world differently for the first time. Her ideas started as a mere spring, trickling in from a glacier; and each of the tributaries came from memories, coming together to make the flowing current of the river. (Lowry)

in the book the giver the author Lois lowry tells about a dystopian society and about a boy named jonas and his friends fiona and asher. in a dystopian society you can't do what you want and there are very many rules you have to follow. jonas lives with his MOMMY, DADDY, and his sister. even though that's not jonas's real family it's the family he was chosen to go live with.

Jonas is an eleven year old boy who lives in a community where everything is the same. Jonas has a flashback seeing a jet fly over the community, and everyone was frightened. The speaker comes on and tells everyone that a pilot in training was lost, and was to be released. Jonas says that being released was an “Overwhelming statement of failure.” Jonas' family has to tell their feelings every evening. His sister Lily talks about a visiting group of sevens’ who went to the school who had not obeyed the rules. She implied that they behaved like animals. Jonas’ father, who is a nurturer, tells them about a baby boy who doesn't seem to be growing and developing, as he should. He then states that the baby may be released. Lily wants to

    The quotation that I will be saying if I agree or disagree will be "Character is what you are in the dark."-Dwight Lyman Moody. The literature I will be comparing it to is The Giver by Lois Lowry. My interpretation of this quotation is you're the real you when nobody is watching. The position I am is that I agree with the quotation. The quotation also applies with the piece of literature I chose.

Being unique is valuable. In the science fiction novel, The Giver, Lois Lowry uses Jonas to show that being unique is valuable. In the beginning of Giver, everyone in the community is the same and they have followed very specific rules or they will be “released.” The message of the novel, Giver, is being unique is valuable.

The Giver by Lois Lowry tells us that you should always do the right thing at any cost. Jonas is a twelve year old boy living in a seemingly perfect society. He is worried about what assignment, or job he will be chosen for. During the ceremony of twelve, Jonas is skipped over, but in a twist of events, he gets the most important job of all; the Reciever of Memory. During the training, Jonas watches a video of his father releasing a child, which is murder. Angry and shocked, Jonas, with the help of The Giver, devises a plan to run away to “elsewhere.” Jonas and a newchild, whose life has been threatened, end up going through cold and starvation just to get there, but in the end, it was worth it.

Jonas had always been different, but he never knew how so. He was selected to be the new Receiver of Memory, the person who takes all the pain and memories of the past that the society has eliminated from everyone else. In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, people can learn without memories knowledge is useless, those who do not feel sorrow cannot know joy, and those who never take risks never grow. Without memories, knowledge is useless. For example, when Jonas and The Giver were talking about the memory of colors, The Giver said, “Because it’s from a time when color was” (Lowry 120).

Imagine yourself in a world without feelings, colors, and basic things in our world. That is called sameness-- a word all too familiar to the people in a community. The Giver by Lois Lowry is the basis of this topic. The genre of The Giver is science fiction. The story is set in a place that has sameness. The community has receivers and the elders of the community pick jobs or assignments that the younger people of the community do for the rest of their lives. There is a twelve year old boy named Jonas that is trying to change his community back to a normal forever. Jonas is the real giver in the book because he gives to Gabe, the Reviver and his community.

The Giver is in many ways Jonas’s coming-of-age story. Jonas reaches maturity only when he is given memory, and through memory, experience. In this way, Jonas becomes more mature at twelve than the "adults" of his community. But The Giver also teaches Jonas the wisdom to recognize his own shortcomings. Jonas truly becomes an adult at the