Self Destruction In 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.

Imagine a world with no feelings, no color, no choice; a world where individuality and freedom are exchanged for security and sameness. This type of world is a reality for Jonas, the protagonist in Lois Lowry’s The Giver. After being assigned the next Receiver of Memories in the community, where he has the capacity to see beyond. As he begins his works, he gains wisdom and through that wisdom, learned that protecting the community from the memories, their lives lacked understanding and feelings. Jonas goes on an archetypal hero’s journey and chooses to risk everything to restore memories and wisdom to everyone in the community. Throughout this novel, Jonas is represented as a hero considering he demonstrates integrity despite living in a

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

Henry David Thoreau, an American abolitionist once said, “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” What Thoreau is claiming is that the people who are following the laws are the ones who are slaves while the individuals who rebel are the ones creating freedom and liberty. With the exercise of disobedience, progress is made in the society which could not have happened without the destruction of order. Disobedience should not be deemed as an act of wrongdoing but a necessity required to push forward.

Lowry was inspired to write The Giver after visiting her aging father, who had lost most of his long-term memory. She realized that without memory, there is no pain. By focusing on Jonas’s escape from his community, Lowry portrays how important language, words, freedom of speech, and choice are to the value of the individual, to every society, and to the world in which we live in.

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.

“What happened ten years ago?” Jonas asked. The main character in Lois Lowry novel, The Giver is Jonas, who lives in a Dystopian Society. The problem he forces is that he realizes that the community is hiding many secrets such as what release truly is. During the course of the story Jonas became conscious of what his community is doing to his life. Jonas inherited many different types traits, learning many life lessons and enduring horrible secrets from the community. He thoroughly shows that he was proud of what he is accomplishing such as becoming receiver, sympathetic toward the cruel tactics of releasing the innocent or the guilty, and curious to know how his life is going to change after being presented with his job in the society.

“He killed it! My father kill it yelled Jonas!”(Lowry 188). This is just one surprise Jonas learns about in his community, when people are realest they are killed. In The Giver, there are many surprise/lies that Jonas discovers. Jonas is a twelve year old charter in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry. Jonas was chosen to be the next Receiver of Memory. The Receiver of Memory is a very significant individual who holds all the memories from the past. As Jonas receives the memories he begins to understand that his community is far from perfect. As the novel progresses, Jonas learns being true to oneself takes courage, and those who don't take risk never grow.

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.

The message of how differences in an individual has the power to go against a whole civilization of similarity is cleverly portrayed by Lowry using a range of techniques. By going against the grain of society in the novel, Jonas was able to ultimately save his community and restore memories of the past life, one with emotions, pain and most importantly difference. “The biggest challenge in life is to be yourself in a world that is trying to make you like everyone else”. The Giver is a fictional novel by Louis Lowry that revolves around a boy named Jonas growing up in a utopian world, a world without pain, suffering or violence. The author uses various techniques to convey to the audience how differences in an individual has the power to rebel or go against a whole civilisation of similarity.

A perfect world is something all people long for. No war, no hate, and no jaundiced emotions. In fact, there are no true feelings in this world, in all except for Jonas. In the novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas experience of knowing and feeling emotions his district is unaware of isolates him both emotionally and physically.

Lea Vilna-Santos Mrs. English, 7th September 1st, 2015 The Giver, by: Lois Lowry Entry Log 8: Chapters 15-16: Questions 6 and 7: In Chapters 15-16, Jonas shows signs of change and of coming of age when the Giver shows him a memory of love and family, but when he asks his parents if they love him they give Jonas a brief lesson on Precision of Language. Jonas starts showing that he wants to change their community. It all started when the Giver transmitted his favorite memory that Jonas loves.

Do you think that it’s fair to be given a job even if you don’t like it? The main character Jonas, in The Giver by Lois Lowry, lives in an isolated community where all choices have been eliminated. One choice in Jonas’s community that has been eliminated is a person’s ability to choose their own career. Jonas was picked to be the Receiver of Memory, which is an important position in the community. Jonas’s assignment as the Receiver of Memory is an important position within the community, yet Jonas feels his job is more of a punishment than an honor.

The Giver is written by Lois Lowry. It is about a boy named Jonas who got picked to gather memories from the giver. The story began with Jonas begging frightened that something bad was going to happen also how the giver approached Jonas and told him how he was chosen to hold the memories. During the middle of the book it was talking about the community's. At the end it talks about how the giver tells Jonas what happened to the community and what Jonas should be careful of. The book's main theme is courage because Jonas had the courage to hold the mammories and not tell anyone. included in this companion novel are the following sections: symbolism,characterization,conflict,setting and fan fiction. A final chapter will be about the author (