Character Analysis Of The Giver

The First edition of the giver was written in 1993, Lois Lowry lived in Honolulu, Hawaii. Lois ended up graduating from New york City High school. She then spent two years at Brown University before dropping out to get married. The giver was seen as controversial by some for its violent themes sexual content and depiction of infanticide and euthanasia. Others however praised this book. People believe that she wrote this for children to let children know the future is in their hands. The giver was meant for children. No Lois didn’t intend to use stereotypes or show prejudice although some might take it that way. I could not find where the book was published.

     This book is about a boy names Jonas. Jonas lives in a futuristic society where there is no pain, fear, war, and hatred. There is also no prejudice, since everyone looks and acts basically the same, there is very little competition. They have also eliminated choice.

In The Giver, Jonas’ world is turned upside down when he is chosen to be the next receiver of his community. The ceremony of twelves is the last ceremony of the day. Jonas waited anxiously for his name to be called; he never hears it. The chief elder has made a mistake. Jonas now has to learn that everything he has been taught was not always the same and it ages him years.

Lord, Elyse. "Overview of The Giver." Novels for Students. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Literature Resource Center. Web. 27 Mar. 2016. Elyse Lord is one of the many critics who describe “The Giver” as terrifying but offering “hope and a constructive view” of the Utopian world in the book. She explains that other critics praise the book with many awards such as the Newberry Medal. Lord goes on to reason that the story is favored by different readers for its complexity, symbolism, metaphors, ambiguous ending, and can be compared similarly to classic science fiction like “Brave New World” and “Fahrenheit 451.” Contradicting this statement, Lord says that ‘librarians’, ‘educators’, and ‘students’ debate “The Giver” to be censored from public schools around the world because of its graphic scenes and ideas of infanticide and euthanasia. This includes the time Jonas witnessed his father murder a baby and throw it down a trash chute in cold blood. This is ironical compared to the language, emotion, and behaviors being censored in Jonas’s ‘Utopian’ society. Lord argues this through Anna Cerbasi of Port Saint Lucie, Florida, who asked the school board to remove a book that was about a family murdering their child for crying at night and called the book inappropriate for the sixth grade. Lord raises the question of who is to “decide which books are appropriate for which children,” and argues that it cannot be answered with not one but the many books integrated in school curricula that compose

Imagine living in a world with no individuality. Everyone would be limited to a degree of “sameness”. As a result, humans would lack the ability to love, to feel emotions, and to imagine. The world would essentially be filled with one shared mind; there would be no opinions, no choices, and no awareness that your mind was even being constrained what so ever. In her book “The Giver”, Louis Lowry exposes the dangers of the lack of individuality in a Utopian Society.

In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, the biggest flaw in Jonas’s community is their awful idea of hiding the past from the citizens to create an unreasonable world with no disappointments. They almost never admit that a mistake had been made, and they wiped away memories of the past, like war.

    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.

Can there be a perfect society? While modern day and the novel society differ, they both aren’t perfect. The society in The Giver has a few similarities from our society, but there are a lot of differences that make them completely different. They both may seem like they are perfect, but in all reality they are not.

Leydi Valdes 5/6 Embedded Assessment 2.1 Our modern day society is far from a perfect society. However Jonas’ society has various rules. That makes it much more dangerous than a modern day society. Modern day society and the society in The Giver have many differences including precision of language, can’t pick job or spouse, and books were not available.

Father, You are powerful. You are greater than the universe in which I am so small, because You created both it and me. With this power you can do whatever You please. You set up nations and kingdoms, and take them down at Your will. You have the power over even life and death, for You have set the bounds of my days. Alongside Your omnipotence, You are also the definition of good. Everything You do is holy, righteous, perfect, and good, even when we cannot see how it could be. You are completely trustworthy and worthy of all my praise and devotion.

Have you ever wanted to live in a world that is just “perfect”? A world where you can have diverse families, a world where nobody can’t control the way how you feel about a person, and able to keep your best memories to yourself. Well, in the book, The Giver by Lois Lowry, an eleven male named Jonas(the protagonist) lived in a utopian community where rules must be obeyed. Rules like having no bad memories, can’t feel attraction or love for someone, which is controlled by elders. Living with a family that has one daughter, one brother, one mom, and one dad.

In The Giver, humanity has suppressed individuality to prevent and stop the “mistakes” of the past. The movie centers around a young man named Jonas, who he has been chosen to, bear the community’s most important responsibility as the next “receiver” of memories. But as he begins to spend time with “The Giver”, who is the sole keeper of all the community’s memories, Jonas begins to very swiftly realize the truth of his community’s secret past and what it means to truly be human. He’s faced with a possibly dangerous choice to either accept his community’s solidarity or free his friends and family from total blissful ignorance. In The Giver, Jonas decides to escape from his community because he wants his community to understand what being human is truly about.

A perfect world is something all people long for. No war, no hate, and no jaundiced emotions. In fact, there are no true feelings in this world, in all except for Jonas. In the novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas experience of knowing and feeling emotions his district is unaware of isolates him both emotionally and physically.

Imagine a world without love or color. Jonas the protagonist in The Giver he ran away and left comparing his community to our society. In our society we aloud to love whoever we want and we free to love. In jonas society love is a word that is prohibited no longer said for example abandoned no longer mentioned because they don't know what it means.

In The Giver it can be argued that a different theme fits better with the text. For example the theme our system of government would be better if we changed. In the text it even says “‘I think it would seem a little easier if the memories were shared. You and I wouldn't have to bear so much by ourselves, if everybody took a part.’” Jonas is referring to how no one else sees the same thing he does and experience the same pain. This theme is not supported as well because the system of government in their society works smoothly. As said in the text, “‘It seems to work pretty well that way, doesn't it? The way we do it in our community?’” This shows that the community runs fine, and doesn’t need to be changed. The theme that knowledge can help