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.

The book "The Giver" by Lois Lowry is a good book and I like the idea that there is no color or weather. Although the book was good I liked the movie better. I always like the movie better because I get to actually see how the story looks like. The differences from the book and movie changes the story a lot and makes the movie better for me. One of the differences is the jobs that Asher and Fiona have. Fiona in the book is the care taker of the old and in the movie she is the nurture. Asher in the book is the director of recreation and in the movie he is the drone pilot. If the jobs weren't different in the movie then the movie wouldn’t be as exciting. Like when Jonas was about to run in the book he took Gabe from his home and in the movie

Everyone is burden with pain. No one can escape emotional, physical or mental misery because it is part of what makes us human. Without pain we would live in a world of sameness. Although there is no way we can escape this reality, what if there existed a utopian society in which everyone could live peacefully without the burden of pain? Would everyone be better off or would living in ignorance be a burden for someone else? Lois Lowry gives us a glimpse into what life would be like in a world where conflict does not exist and shows us what this type of world would do to our humanity. In The Giver, she introduces us to Jonas, an eleven-year-old boy who starts off as an oblivious member of his

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.

Would you trade safety for freedom? In the book, The Giver, by Lois Lowry that is exactly the choice the people in this book had to face. The people who created the community were called, “Founders”. The Founders main goal in creating their community was to get rid of hurt and anger and gain peace and safety for all the people. There is a price for safety and happiness. Communities should be willing to let go of some of their liberties in order to live in a more peaceful and safe society. The Founders in this book took many measures to ensure safety for their community.

Elvis Presley once said, “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain 't goin ' away.” Plato’s The Allegory of the Cave relates to this quote by focusing on the truths of reality that humans do not comprehend. We think that we understand what we are seeing in our world, but we really just perceive shadows of the true forms of the things that make up the world. We are ignorant about the true nature of reality. The novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry also involves these concepts. The main character, Jonas, lives in a community of conformity and conflict. When he begins to spend time and train with The Giver, an old man who is the only keeper of the community 's memories, Jonas discovers the unsafe truths of his community 's secret past. Once Jonas discovers the reality about his community, it constantly pesters him until he makes an important decision. Jonas realizes that he must escape from his world in order to make a long needed change for his community. As the prisoner from The Allegory of the Cave seeks knowledge outside of the cave, Jonas from The Giver discovers dark and deadly truths of his community’s secret past that will change his life forever.

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.

Through our society we are all raised up to be independent and unique individuals such as being ourselves and expressing who each of us are to the world. However, in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, everyone is raised to count on one another and everyone must look and act the same. Our society differs from Jonas’s in many ways, such as the family units, birthdays, and the way we each learn about our past.

Lois Lowry, whose maiden name was Lois Ann Hammersberg was born on March 20, 1937, in Honolulu, Hawaii, she is known as one of America's most popular and versatile children's book authors. Lowry was a shy and introverted child who loved to read. She was around 8 or 9 years old when she decided she wanted to be a writer. Her father was a dentist and an Army officer, which led to her to live in several different locations while she was growing up. Lowry spent some of her school years in Japan, but she ended up graduating from a school located in New York City. Afterwards she spent two years at Brown University before dropping out in order to get married.

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.

I believed Lois Lowry wrote the book, The giver for a reason, and that reason is. The reason why Lois Lowry wrote the book, The Giver for a reason and those reasons are. One so people understand how lucky we are to have freedom, because where Jonas’s, is he doesn't have freedom, and he does ever get to make his own decisions. Also, she wants people to know what pain feels like, and other feelings of sadness, kindness, and all of the other feeling.

Before Hawaii became the 50th state of the United States in 1959, author Lois Lowry (born Lois Ann Hammersberg) was born to American parents in 1937 while her father was an Army dentist stationed in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her mother, Katherine was a school teacher. As with many career military families during that era, Lois' family moved to many locations within the U.S and to other countries.

According to the text The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas died of extreme cold and starvation before making it to Elsewhere. First of all, he saw the sled and hill in front of him, and in real life there probably wouldn't have been a sled waiting in the middle of nowhere for him. This was a positive memory for him, so maybe his life was flashing before his eyes. Next, Jonas was beginning to lose consciousness and was having trouble standing up. As it says in the text as he was sliding down the hill, when he opened his eyes, “...all at once he could see lights…”.

“The Giver”, which was written by Lois Lowry and was published by Houghton Mifflin in the year 1993. The successful movie adaption of “The Giver” was able to show an amazing depiction of the book and its meaning. The Giver is a fictional story that focuses on the the blandness of the human society without human memories. The author Lois Lowry was victorious in inserting issues in the story which includes suffering, pain, and guilt. Lois Lowry was born on March 20, 1937, in Honolulu Hawaii.

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.