Review Of The Book 'The Giver' By Lois Lowry

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.

“’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.

The setting of The Giver takes place in a fictional community known as the “Sameness”. Life here is supposed to be "perfect" because there is no pain or suffering. They don’t have to take

In Jonas society, nobody knows any information about anything. The elders, who are in the Giver’s community, believe that no community members except for them and the Receiver of memory should know all the information. Even in the beginning of the training, Jonas thought that he had to protect people from wrong choices. But, the Giver agreed that it was safer. Jonas was getting mad about how the memories couldn't be shared with everyone, so he decided to run away on his bike with Gabe. They decided to make a plan to leave. The Receiver and Gabe left the community together. Life is full of color, even though life was remained in this society, it was not colorful. All the bad days and good days were very valuable to

The dystopian novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a boy called Jonas becoming the new Receiver-of-Memories. Throughout the novel, the protagonist, Jonas matures as knowledge is gained, and begins to understand the deepest, and darkest secrets of the community he lives in that is seemly 'perfect'. The author has successfully analysed a variety of social issues present in today's modern world in the novel. Some issues implied are: lack of individuality which allows for easy control, the abandonment of emotions and the importance of memories.

In The Giver Jonas’s life flashed before him as became to feel happier, “Memories of joy flooded through him” (223). He started to remember his life back in the community. He remembers his family, his sister

Jonas lives in a world of Sameness. In his community, life has been changed to be a place without color, choice, feelings, love, or inequality - a “perfect” world to all. No one ever complains: this is how the community runs, and has been running for as long as citizens can remember. At age 12, Jonas is assigned his life work as the Receiver of Memory and joins a mysterious old man named the Giver. The Giver uses his knowledge help the community make the right choices in times of crisis. He shares his memories about when life had the things that make life amazing - the color, the love, the feelings, the passion. Jonas is amazed and decides his world desperately is in need of change. The problem is, he doesn’t know how to fix his choreographed world to the place he envisions when Sameness is all anyone has ever known. Therefore, Jonas and the Giver make a plan to release memories to the people of the land and give them the wonders they’ve never known. Jonas runs away with the baby he loves, Gabriel, from the

Newberry Medalist, Lois Lowry, reflects her fascination with the stages of life into her many novels that depict young adults coping with the challenges that come with growing up. And like many recognized authors Lowry has been asked again and again, “Where did you get this idea?” For each novel written by Lowry the inspiration arises from diverse occasions from her life. In The Giver Lowry explores the new territory of a fantasy realm of society that is free from pain, disorder, and overpopulation; but in a world without love, color, and memories the perfect society turns to dystopia. (Novels for Students) As an explanation for the origins of The Giver Lois Lowry, in her Newberry Medal acceptance speech, compares her inspiration for the novel to the river Jonas looks into, seeing the world differently for the first time. Her ideas started as a mere spring, trickling in from a glacier; and each of the tributaries came from memories, coming together to make the flowing current of the river. (Lowry)

I believe reflection is key to growth, and the social commentary in The Giver by Lois Lowry is that very key. A tale of a seemingly utopian society, I think it is telling of the dangers of conforming to a societal mold. The story explores a society where all pain and strife have been eliminated to achieve an ideal society. Citizens are brainwashed by propaganda, and have every decision, from the number of kids they’ll have to the job they’ll hold, predetermined for them. While this may be a far cry from our current society, this book portrays where we are possibly headed. Our perception of perfection is more defined than ever before: a secure job, a mansion, a luxury car, and of course the latest iPhone. However, in our plight to achieve “perfection”

Imagine you lived in a world with no pain, color, love, sunshine, memories,and have every aspect of your life controlled by a group of elders.Well in Lois Lowry’s The Giver for 11 year old (soon to be twelve) Jonas this is his average everyday life.In Jonas’s eyes, he lives in a utopian community.Jonas lives like this until he is selected as receiver and has some unexpected experiences. This leads Jonas to being able to see color,memories,pain,and love. These experiences makes Jonas realize that the community must change for the better.Jonas changes throughout The Giver and as a result, tries to change the community.

The book The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, is about Jonas, a 12 year old boy, who is selected to be the Receiver of Memory. His powers are that he has the memories of seeing in the past and the beliefs to live on in the future. Do you think a 12 year old average kid can manage high regards and respect for one another? This is called honor. For example, "Honor, he said firmly… Great honor..."

Have you ever thought about the government ripping the simple things that you had in your life, out of your hands? Jonas, the main character from The Giver written by Lois Lowry, was born and raised in a family, but it was not a normal family. Their own city chose their whole family from the marriages to the children. Jonas came up as a normal child in their town, and completely oblivious to what was happening around him, until he got chosen to be the next “Receiver of Memory” and started to see the truth about the people and things around him. From the beginning of the story to the end, there are very drastic changes in Jonas’s view on society versus his view when he learns about death, colors, release, love, and he tries to bring all of these back to the community so they all can learn the truth.

In The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Chapters seventeen through eighteen show that Jonas realizes that he now experiences a new depth of feelings such as curiosity and pain. In chapter seventeen, Jonas refuses to participate in a game with Fiona, Asher and the younger children because he recognized it as a war game. He tried to explain to his friends that the game was mocking a horrible reality, but they are only annoyed with Jonas. As a result, Jonas left his friends and trudged home thinking about the memories that the game brought back to him and he also realized that his friends and the children would never be able to understand his feelings of love, sadness, and hatred. For example, “ You ruined it, Asher said in an irritated voice ” ( Lowry 168).

The elders/community thought they could make the community a perfect place, but everything is not perfect in some way.They think sameness is perfect, keeping everyone equal, like same clothes same houses same birthdays and same types of families called family units. Imagine a world like that!.At the end of the year everyone has a birthday the community has a ceremony for all of the citizens like parents get children and the little ones age up like sixes to sevens and twelves get a job that the elders/community choose there is a rare job that one person gets every ten years is called a receiver and Jonas was chosen to be a receiver.The receiver's job receives the memories of pain and joyful from the old world because so he can use the memories to make changes to the community.The novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas changes from being ignorant, to knowledgeable and also from being boring to discovering the full range of emotion.

In the book The Giver, it tells the story of a perfect world. Everyone there is happy and feels no pain. As the story progresses, the society appears more and more dystopian as the main goal of the society is revealed, which is sameness.() The community is constantly observed and controlled by every aspect in their lives. The committee assigns jobs, housing, husbands, wives, and children. If found breaking any of these laws, people are “released”, an indirect term for murdering. When Jonas is 12 years old, he 's chosen to be the community 's Receiver of Memory. Once he enters into training with an old man called 'The Giver ', he begins to receive memories of the real world that the rest of the community is hidden from. As the giver begins to show Jonas the important memories, he learns not only of love and family, but also of pain, war, and all the unhappy