'Individual Differences In 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.

    The story in The Giver by Lois Lowry takes place in a community that is not normal. People cannot see color, it is an offense for somebody to touch others, and the community assigns people jobs and children. This unnamed community shown through Jonas’ eye, the main character in this novel, is a perfect society. There is no war, crime, and hunger. Most readers might take it for granted that the community in The Giver differs from the real society. However, there are several affinities between the society in present day and that in this fiction: estrangement of elderly people, suffering of surrogate mothers, and wanting of euthanasia.

As humans, we have an emotional depth unlike the people of Jonas' communtiy. Everything is already done for them but with this, there are many flaws such as not feeling love, compassion, empathy, fear, and sadness. One example of having no real depth of feelings is when at the Telling of Feelings session, Lily explains how she “felt” angry when a boy from another community was not following the rules of her community. Jonas’ family reassess this by telling

Jonas starts out with a very low understanding of what it means to be mature. He has no knowledge of pain, love, or any other emotion. He proves this by acting like a normal child. He plays with his friends after volunteer hours. He attends school on a regular basis. Jonas is a stickler for the rules. He has been told that it is wrong to not follow rules and that there

The novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is an everlasting story that shows the importance of individuality. This novel is about a young boy named Jonas who was elected as the Receiver of Memories, a person who is given the memories from the world that existed before their current society, Sameness. In this society there is no individualism. People can not choose who to marry, or what they want to do for a living. Over time Jonas becomes more and more wise, and realizes that the supposedly perfect community actually has some very dark and negative aspects. The author, Lois Lowry is a 76-year-old writer who focuses her writing on helping struggling teenagers become individuals. Lowry had a very tragic childhood. After both of her parents were

The sled slowed as they reached the bottom of the hill. Jonas stood up trying to get to the house that was straight ahead of him. It took all his strength to keep walking. He was so bitterly cold he would have thought he was frozen. The only thing that kept him going was the thought that he could save Gabriel. Give him a life that he himself didn’t have. Each agonizing step he thought he would die ,but he made it to the house ,his only hope of survival. He transmitted his warmest memory to Gabriel with the only strength he had left. Jonas saw the door open as everything went dark.

In The Giver by Lois Lowry the disadvantages of Sameness in Jonas’ society far outweigh the advantages. These disadvantages are shown through the way people can’t see colour, that feelings have been erased, and that people have no choice in their profession or education.

The people in the Giver are all the same that is called “sameness.”It says in the novel the Giver, “It wasn’t practical. Things it became obsolete when we went to Sameness.”The word sameness means that everything is the same , and nothing is different. In the Giver, they all see in black and white and no one see in color.The community just thought that the idea of sameness was right. like other dystopias,people here are not entitled to differences.

In The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the community is completely different than ours. The main character’s name is Jonas. In Jonas’s community nobody is allowed to choose their own spouse or keep their child. Nobody has memories and along with that nobody see’s color unless you are the Giver or the Receiver Of Memory. In each family unit there are only allowed two children and two books.

First, the Giver is a dystopia because they can’t see color or hear music, the world is just a bland mix of silence and gray. When Jonas starts to see beyond, the giver tells him that he is starting to see the color red, and the giver later tells Jonas that he first heard music instead of saw colors. That means that nobody in the community can see colors or hear music.

Prompt: Write an expository essay that compares and contrasts life in and The Giver to our modern-day society. Is it better to live in a society like The Givers or better to live in a society like ours? Living in a society like The Givers, would be nothing like our own. Their society is very controlled and no one has any free will or even feelings, in our society people get to make choices daily, have feelings of love, happiness, and even hate. Many things are different between our society and The Givers but even things that are different have some similarities.

“For the first time, he hears something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing.” Before Jonas escapes the community, The Giver explains “hearing beyond” to Jonas. Now that he was out of the boundaries of the community, he could finally hear the music. In The end of “The Giver,” Jonas and Gabriel did make it to the village in Elsewhere because he heard other people singing, Jonas was chosen to be the Receiver for a reason, and Jonas loved both Gabe and The Giver, so he did not want to disappoint them.

In this essay I will compare and contrast anthem and the giver. The first one is that I will talk about is anthem. The second one I will talk about is the giver. The third one I will talk about is that I will compare and contrast. In conclusion I hope you will stop here and not bother reading this.

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.

The family life in Jonas’s society is very different from our family life. In our society a man and a woman can have as many kids as they want, whenever they want, but in his women are not allowed to produce unless they are chosen to be a birth mother and even when you are chosen you’re only allowed to have up to 3 children and no, you can not keep them. They are given to family units in need of another child. One boy and one girl.