Response To The Giver

In The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas has a lot of different character traits. However, most of all, Jonas is determined. He shows this throughout the story. Jonas is determined because he wants to find out more about the community, he is determined to help the community, and above all, he takes risks to save Gabe from release.

(AGG) Sometimes all you need to do is break away to find the truth. (BS-1) Jonas always followed the rules until he started to notice small issues.(BS-2) Jonas starts to receive memories and he begins to turn against the society.

The Giver by Lois Lowry is full of many twists and turns. The government in “The Giver” is controlled by the Chief Elder and The Committee of Elders. Their type of punishment is “Release.” “Release” is really another word for punishment by death. After they have been “Released,” they throw them away in the garbage. It is inhumane for someone to do that to another. It saddens me to think that someone would do that.

“’Memories are forever”’ (Lowry). People make new memories every day without even realizing it. Some good some bad, that’s just the way of life, but in The Giver nobody knows what happened before them. People barley remember what their childhood was like, they don’t understand the importance of memory and that memories are forever. Aspects of life, rules, and prosperities between our world and Jonas’ world are very different yet have some similarities. Things that are crucial to the characters in The Giver are not as meaningful to the people in our world.

     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.

The book The Giver is a neat book. We all know some of us cry when reading or watching The Giver. The Giver takes place in a little society with so many rules. I mean who goes and killed babies and old people (evil). The Giver utopia or dystopia? In my opinion I think the giver is a dystopia because you will have no choices, you will go through pain and if you become a nurturer you will kill babies.

“Our problem right now is that we’re so specialized that if the lights go out, there are a huge number of people who are not going to know what to do. But within every dystopia there’s a little dystopia.” (Margaret Atwood) In 1992, Lois Lowry had was inspired by her father’s memory loss to write a novel. In The Giver, 12-year old Jonas is chosen to be the Receiver of Memory but throughout his training, he struggles understanding whether the community he lives in is a utopia or dystopia.

Did you know successful people are proven to have more courage than those who are not successful? A quote from Kelley Kalafatich does a good job explaining this fact, “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face…”. This quote explains that courage is the ability to face your fears and pursuing the path that you want to. Courage is a very exceptional quality to have because it helps a person succeed in life. Courage lets you face your fears and move on with life. Courage allows you to make decisions that you don’t regret later on in your life. There are many people around us that show the quality of courage. Having courage builds integrity

Everybody has their own opinions on whether or not Jonas’s community is a utopia or a dystopia. The author got the inspiration for this story when her father was losing his memory. She then meant to write about a utopian community. Is Jonas’s community utopia or dystopia? Jonas’s community is a dystopia because they have release, no freedom of choice, and no freedom to leave.

Can the society in The Giver be considered an utopia or dystopia? Lois Lowry, the author of The Giver got her idea in 1992 when she went to go visit her father. She then discovered that her father was losing his memory, but her mother wasn’t. This then made Lowry questions if live would be easier if all the painful memories disappeared. Is The Giver's community an Utopia or Dystopia? The Giver’s community is a dystopia because there is limited freedom, people of the community are oblivious to what is happening around them, and the Committee of Elders are abusing their power.

The Giver: Utopia or Dystopia? In your opinion do you think The Giver society is a utopian or dystopian society? The author of The Giver is Lois Lowry, her inspiration to write the book was her dad. Lois’s dad had forgotten all the painful memories because he was sick and forgot all the painful memories and that made Lois wonder what a world would be like where people had all the painful memories were taken away.

The novel The Giver by Lois Lowry illustrates a dystopian society hi lighting the limitations of individuality and suppression of cultural memory in order to prevent any potential destruction that warrants deviation from the totalitarian state of mind with the society depends on. The dependence on the elaborately regulate system however causes the burden of beneficial and detrimental knowledge to the rest on one person's shoulders. Through sociological analysis I will analyze the effects of this reliance on the Giver’s ability to retain such crucial information on a singular causes the detrimental affect triggered not by the inability of the Giver but rather by the society’s unwillingness to change. It can be observed that dystopian societies are ambivalent in nature, situated in utopian text; however, in Lowry's novel the world is engineered where the utopia goes wrong due to its extinction of the aesthetic and personal choices. In “The Utopian the Function of memory in Lois Lowry’s the giver, the author analyzes the ambiguity between the dystopian aspect and the utopian aspect of the society created in the novel (Hanson).

Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, offers a thought provoking, well written story, because it changes the perspective of anyone who dares to read it to. Lowry places her novel, at some point in the future when mankind has gone away with changes and choices in life. She forces readers appreciate, or at least re-think the world they live in today. Her novel presents a fully human created environment where people have successfully blocked out conflict, grief, and individuality. Each person follows the same routine every day. Failure comply with standards, to be different, means death. Jonas, the main character, finds himself trapped in this world.

Exposition Topic 6 When I first read the book I was disappointed following there was no genuine closure however in the wake of rehashing it again and examining it in class I changed my assessment. " Behind him, crosswise over unlimited separations of space and time, from the spot he had left, he thought he heard music as well. Be that as it may maybe it was just a reverberation.

is a spectacular book, but the community they live in is not the best. first off if there are twins the one with less weight will be released or otherwise killed. Second we need memories to live and be successful in life.Third whatever gender you are,you are assigned a job for the community so be what you become when you grow up does not matter.I completely disagree with this community.