Giver By Louis Lowry

In the book, The Giver ,Lois Lowry conveyed the idea that memory is connected to humanity by showing the reader that without memories people’s lives would be meaningless, dull, and boring due to their inability to change and be individuals. A few weeks after Jonas becomes the new Receiver, he and the Giver are in the Annex when the Giver decides to tell Jonas about the true importance of memory and that without memory people live dull, boring lives due to their lack of ability to be individuals. The Giver explains to Jonas about how people need memories because that is what makes them human, “It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless” (105). Humans can’t feel emotions and value life if they don’t remember

Give and Take is a book written by Adam Grant to describe his view of economic drivers and motivations through the lens of his theory of Give and Take. Economics is the study of how people make choices under scarcity and the results of these choices for society and Mr. Grant asserts that success isn’t just achieved by those who take it; but the majority of success goes to individuals who are willing to look out for others at their potential detriment. According to Grant, the perception of givers are often taken advantage, his research indicates that givers make up a majority of those at the top of the success ladder, even though they are more likely to “sacrifice their own interests to benefit others. Give and Take compares to economic theories like scarcity, cost/benefit analysis, equilibrium, and opportunity costs. To better understand the principles of economics through the lens of Give and Take, one must understand the concepts of Grant’s Give and Take as a description of day to day operations as they relate to well established economic theories.

The giver by Lois Lowry was an interesting book to say the least. In the beginning you are lead to believe these are normal kids and characters, possibly in the future, but in pretty much the same state of mind as our definition of “human” today. As the book goes on, you are slowly let in on details, like the characters can not see color, and that the parents are not biological parents, and everything is organized and decided for the characters in the book. The author did a great job of slowly bringing us into the world of sameness quite the same way the giver slowly brought Jonas into the world of memories. I believe the subject of the book is the Importance of the Individual. As corny as it sounds, we spend much of our life trying to be just like everyone else. I think Lois Lowry wrote this entire novel just to show how horrible it would be if everyone was the same as everyone else.

Memory provides a sense of personal identity. Memories that were made from the past create the person that they have become today. It helps to ground judgments and with reasoning. As an illustration, one day a young girl was shopping at the mall with a group of friends and they deiced to steal a cute

Everyone is affected differently by memories. Some choose to dwell on the past and often struggle in their present lives, while other let memories inspire them to make improvements in their current lives. Amanda and Laura from “The Glass Menagerie” by Tennessee Williams and Beatty and Montag Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, choose to allow memories to positively or negatively dictate their lives.

In Lois Lowry’s The Giver the community feel free but they are restricted by the rules of this society. Their individuality has been taken away along with their emotions, precision of language has taken control and the rules have brainwashed the community. Is it worth living in a society with rules and restrictions like these.

Memories: they can cause us grief, bring us joy, or make us regret the choices we made. There are some memories that we hold close our hearts, so strong not even oceans can wash them away. The memories we hold all remain the same, even when everyone else changes. One thing is true; memories are best when you make them.

Autumn Steeger The Giver "It wasn't a practical thing, so it became obsolete when we went to the Sameness." (pg. 84) The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is told from the point of view of a twelve-year-old boy named Jonas, who thought he growing up in a Utopian society. He attended the Ceremony of Twelve, where every Twelve receives their life-long occupation, and Jonas found out he has been selected to be the Receiver of Memory, the most honored assignment that anyone could have been given in their Community.

In today’s society, one can see a divide among people, a world with disorder, and a world dominated by crime. Lois Lowry illustrates in her novel, The Giver, a world unlike any other, a world with no fear and disorder. A perfect society, or so it looks. As the readers go on they come to realize that an ideal society is nothing like it sounds. The readers take for granted our rights to chose what we want to do with our lives; if the audience lived like the people in the novel, our society would have no individual rights. This is a community, created by Lois Lowry, where no one has memories, feelings, or ambitions.

Imagine if everything that you ever knew, you suddenly forgot. What would you do if you couldn't remember the good things, or the bad things, or any of that. Without these core parts of life, everything would be different. We wouldn't be making decisions, and anything new that came up would be impossible to handle. It’s like the Receiver's job in Lois Lowry’s, The Giver. In the book, whenever an issue had arose that they had not dealt with before, the elders would call upon the Receiver of Memory to help deal with it. This was the only way that they could come up with new ideas and would be the case for us if memories did not exist. They are great learning experiences, for the greatest way people learn is through

“Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.” This quote spoken by Holocaust survivor and author, Elie Wiesel show how dull and uneventful life would be without memories, and how they affect society. In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, the people living in the community do not experience memories and do not feel emotion. This relates to the utopian characteristic of sameness. Jonas, the protagonist, is given the job of receiver, and from that, obtains what the community cannot, memories. The Giver provides memories to Jonas, which drive him to become brave and stand up against the community. From memories, Jonas’s characteristics change. He becomes more independent and courageous. In the science-fiction novel The Giver, the importance of memory is shown by the lifestyle of the community and Jonas's disposition to the rules there, the effect memories have on Jonas, how sameness is impacted by memories

Memory can play huge roles in our day to day lives. Without memories, we wouldn’t be able to improve our past mistakes, be emotional, and keep ourselves safer.

It is very important to used our memories to get new information so that our memories can function. Many things that have to do with life can cause our memories to changed and to created anew different memory in our mine. For instance, our imagination and the leading questions or different reminiscences of others people. Sometime we can't trust our memories, nevertheless they can be helpful to lead to a questions about the illegal convictions that are victims or witnesses. Our memories must be used to help the lawful system to plot the danger. According to the author, Elizabeth Loftus she explained that memories are valuable, they give us personality also created a shared past that collects us with family and friends. Although, memories are

A memory can mean many things to you, and can always be a good thing or a bad thing. Many that I remember are mostly good, but some are bad. Memories can brighten someone's day, and can go throughout your whole life. It is important to have memories because you can always be able to share them to many different people. You can share them to family, kids, friends, and even someone that you don't know. My favorite memory is learning how to ride my bike. Memories make you feel different ways like, feeling that you can do anything, feeling like you can make good grades, and even just be able to know people are there for you.

The Marxist criticism is based on the socialist theories of Karl Marx and how the readers must closely examine the dynamics of class as they attempt to understand the works they read. In a world where there is no pain, no prejudice, no emotion, and no detestation. Lois Lowry gives a vivid description of a community where everything is equal, everyone is just as important as another, and life choices are made by only one individual. In the book The giver by Lois Lowry, it expresses the exact opposite of Marx’s most important ideas which is a prime example of what people will do if they were forced to live a certain way.