Summary Of 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.

The Giver teaches Jonas about color. “ Dumbfounded, he stared at it. This time it was not a fleeting impression. This time the sled had--and continued to have, as he blinked, and stared at it again--that same mysterious quality that the apple had so

One example on page 98 is “But now I can see colors, I was just thinking what if we could hold up things that were bright red, or bright yellow, and he could choose”. The community would have been better with colors because then they will have a choice, instead of being controlled by the community. The freedom that the colors can give will also make the people of the community happier. Another example on page 99 is “He put his hands on Asher’s shoulders, and concentrated on the red of the petals, trying to hold as long as he could, and trying at the same time to transmit the awareness of red to his friend”. Jonas tried to give the colors to his friend because he thinks everyone should see it, not just him and the Giver. Colors would also help the people of the community be more alert, like the red on a stop sign will stand out more. This is how colors would make the community more

While Jonas was playing catch with an apple he has noticed how “It changed. Just for an instant.” Everything about this apple was the same as it always has been, but Jonas still noticed an inconsistency. This same inconsistency is brought up later in the book when Jonas notices something peculiar about Fiona. But “it seemed to be just her hair. And just for that flickering instant.” These two incidences lead up to a major part in this book but also a major part in jonas’s life. Jonas is “beginning to see the color red.” This shows how Jonas is having a reaction to the color red, as the apple and Fiona’s hair are that color. These two events along with many others lead up to a big surprise later on in the book, teaching the reading to acknowledge the little things as

Why did colors disappear?’” This shows that Jonas is changing, and is starting to be curious about the colors, and wants to find out more about his community. Jonas now can see that his community is different from the rest, and he wants to find out more. Before he got the job, Jonas wasn’t that curious, and he didn’t want to find out more; this may be because the community would not let him, but now that he has the job of the giver, he wants to find out more. Finally, on page 111, Jonas places his hand on Gabriel’s back and released the memory of the sailboat on the ocean. Jonas decides to not tell the Giver, and keep it a secret. If this happened before he got the job, he would have told everyone who he knows. He is becoming more brave, coming out of his shell, and is feeling more comfortable with the job and the rule that you are allowed to lie. In conclusion, Being Brave and Curious are very good characteristics to have, and starting off Jonas didn’t really have those. He is becoming braver from what he is finding out from the Giver, and also he is becoming more curious about the way he and his community members live in their

The community, according to the Giver, went to the idea of sameness a while ago. It involved the lack of weather (no snow), and the entire community is in black and white. Jonas thinks that the idea of sameness is unfair. Thanks to the memory of the rainbow and him not taking the pill, Jonas can see colors unlike his friends. He says to the Giver that things should be different, but the Giver thinks the idea is good because there will be no conflict. Because of Sameness,....

The book that I wanted to do my report on is The giver. In this book the story is told completely from Jonas’s point of view. It was written by author Lois Lowrey. It was published by Houghton Mifflin and it was published in 1993. The giver is science fictional and it was a fantasized community.

Jonas experiences color in flashes of: “brilliant green… returning to their flat and hueless shade” (123). The community promotes hueless color and dull experiences. The Giver’s people do not even know what animals are, as seen from one of Jonas’s interactions: “Did you know that once there really were elephants?” (127). People need a family, or at least someone who actually cares for them. People need to have the power to make their own decisions. People need to experience many things: sad, happy, painful, exciting, beautiful

This is showing that everyone in Jonas’s community saw things in shades and not colour. “It’s not fair that nothing has colour!”(Lowry 97) If nothing has colour no one can choose their favourite colour. This is a very big disadvantage because other people will not be able to explore the different colours in the community. So now, think again.

His transition, expressed by the setting change and supported by his alternating actions, is also gradual. Marked by his obtaining the new “receiver” position in his community, Jonas’s departs from the society that raised him. Evidently, Jonas had always been different from the rest of his peers as he would see something more, something beyond his “reality.” “The apple had changed. Just for an instant… Then it was in his hand, and he looked at it carefully, but it was the same apple. Unchanged… The same nondescript shade, about the same shade as his own tunic” (Lowry 24). No one in Jonas’s community possessed the ability to see color of any sort, which emphasized the theme of sameness. Yet, the fact that Jonas notices the color red first, and repeatedly in Fiona’s hair, insinuates his separation from an emotionless society. “Red is the single most dynamic and passionate color symbolizes love, rage, and courage… red has a great emotional impact… The desire to experience the fullness of living leads to constant activity” (Przybyla, Red Web). The red apple foreshadows Jonas’s ability to see color and further suggests the idea that Jonas will begin to feel. As Jonas later discovers, the reader recognizes a damaging lack of color in his society’s apparent flawlessness after he describes the apples shade as “nondescript,”

In The Giver written during the 1990’s and set in the future, Lois Lowry presents a dystopian novel about a society where everything is the same, but one kid plans to change the whole society. A young man named Jonas that has an ability to see color in a colorless society. After being selected as the new receiver of memories, he realizes how much the society is missing and plans to change it. He plans to leave the society so that everyone can receive the memories he was given. However even before becoming receiver, Jonas is shown to be different in a society where everything is the same. His society lacks the ability to see color yet when he and Asher were throwing the apple, the apple had changed Jonas looked at it for a little, then threw again, “and again- in the air, for an instant only- it had changed” (Lowry 24). Later as he was being selected for the new receiver of memories, it happened again. When he was asked if he has the quality of Capacity to See Beyond, All the faces of the crowd seemed to change for only a second. This ability to distinguish something “ different” again happens when he was going to the first day of training, but this time the hair of his friend Fiona changed. When Jonas was asking the giver what was happening, the giver told him to look at the books on a shelf and again it happened. It is then that the giver finally told Jonas that what he had experience was seeing color. Lois Lowry gave Jonas the ability to see color in a society that can

Another thing to think about is the idea of Sameness. In chapter 11 Jonas ask the giver why do people see black and white and the Giver said that is so people don’t start judging other people for what they look like.He also so said that so people won’t end with the wrong person. Also when Jonas try to give asher color memories but it did not work on him. So only the giver and Jonas can get and give memories. On chapter 14 the night gabe was sleeping in Jonas room when gabe woke up and jonas try put him back to sleep.Jonas gave gabe the sailboat memories by accident but he could not to asher. So now we know that they don’t get to choose who get to see color and who don’t.

Jonas society is a utopian society because everything and everyone is the same. How are people suppose to see the differences in life if they can't see no color. On the other hand if you wanted to pick a color to wear they could not because no one can see color(Lowry 120).we relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with differences.Jonas replied ¨we shouldn't have!¨he

During the beginning of the book, “The Giver,” by Lois Lowry, the main character named Jonas is almost the same as everyone in his community. All the people are known to be are the same as each other. Jonas and his younger brother Gabe both have different colored eyes than the rest of the community. In the community Jonas lives in everything is gray and the same. The community also has a lot of rules. In the book, it says, “It was the first thing Jonas noticed as he looked at the new child peering up curiously from the basket. The pale eyes. Almost every citizen in the community had dark eyes. His parents did, and Lily did, and so did all his group members and friends. … No one mentioned such things it was not a rule, but it was considered rude to call attention to things that were unsettling or different about individuals.” This contributes to Jonas and Gabe during the end of the story for a few reasons. A rule in the community is you are not allowed to lie. Also, every year up until you turn 12 you have ceremonies where you grow up and receive better items that will show you have been maturing. As Jonas becomes older and he becomes a 12 he gets assigned to be the new receiver of memories. At the ceremony of 12 Jonas’s name was skipped to come up and receive his assignment so he started panicking because they never made mistakes. Jonas was chosen to be the Receiver of memories because he had no dreams of uncertainty and he had intelligence, integrity, and courage. Because

Jonas learns a lot about his community when he becomes the receiver of memory. The first thing he learns is that colors exist, but have been kept away from the people of his community by something called “sameness” (119). Learning this made Jonas very upset, and contributed to the building of the theme. When Jonas learns to see colors, he instantly tries to make his best friend, Asher, see colors too, but is instead greeted with unease from his friend. As stated in chapter thirteen, “It was extremely rude for one citizen to touch another outside of family units” (125). This shows what reaction Jonas got for simply trying to show his friend colors, a basic right that every human deserves. Instead, according to the conduct of his community, which was