The Community 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.

One theme for The Giver is the importance of human connection. The author, Lois Lowry, portrays this theme by depicting a society without human connection. Jonas learns through the memories The Giver transmits about love and immediately longs to experience it in his everyday life. Jonas first started creating bonds with The Giver. They are the only ones who truly understand each other. The Giver has said that he felt love for Jonas. This is why he sent Jonas Elsewhere because he could not bear to see Jonas go through what he had. Jonas also feels this way towards Gabriel. Ever since Gabriel started to stay at his family’s lives, he started to create a bond between them. He felt the same way for Gabriel as The Giver had when he took Gabriel

Throughout the novel Giver, Jonas was questioning his society and community. Jonas accepting his society because he's unaware of the emotions of the other people in his community. Jonas starts to question his community when Jonas starts to feel emotions from getting memories. Jonas became to reject his society because he finds out what his community actually is. In the beginning of the novel, Jonas accepts his society's rules but once he starts to feel the memories of the past Jonas questions, and if they purposely took that out for the rest of the community.

Imagine having everything you wished for. You would live in a perfect world. But every world has imperfections and you come across to realizing...a perfect world doesn’t exist. Within time, you come from an illusion to reality. You choose your journey and it starts here. The community is a separate environment from the world and has many rules to live by. The rules can vary to be severe consequences. It includes sameness, no memories, and family unit regulations. The kids end their childhood at the age of 12 by receiving their life assignment. The main character, Jonas is chosen to be the receiver of memory. He is reliable to hold everyone's feelings, hopes, and devotions. In The Giver the author Lois Lowry uses the theme of change to reveal that growing up in “the community” is a non-stressful and organized environment but Jonas finds the real world a whole different place when he receives memories about strong feelings and hardships, intellects the word “love”, and how important it is to be an individual.

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

The dystopian novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry was a great suspenseful book read by our class. Although Lois Lowry wrote a great novel, we will forever be mad at her. The author uses great suspense throughout the novel and then leads us into a dead end. Even though you have your own theory, the true end will never be told. Jonas is dead. At the end of The Giver, we experience a part of the book where we are forced to produce our own theory of Jonas’ fate. Jonas is dead and saw the lights and gates of heaven or in this case, “Elsewhere”. Others believe that Jonas succeeds on his journey and saw a family celebrating Christmas. The author gives us a novel that shows the life of Jonas through his struggles of being the Receiver in Training but leaves

In the book, The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, the protagonist Jonas realizes the truth of his utopian society after receiving the forbidden knowledge from the Giver, his mentor, and soon plans to run away after he finds out that everyone in the city is fully brainwashed by the government (the Elders) of the society. Similarly, in Suzanne Collins’s second series of The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, the book tells a story about a rebellion against the oppressive Capitol. In the 75th Hunger Game, the Capitol requires the victors from the last games to participate. Katniss, the protagonist, thinks that this game will not be easy to win. During the game, she plans to destroy the arena and starts to rebel. Lastly, in the article, “Milgram Obedience

Rules are a "one of a set of explicit or understood regulations or principles governing conduct within a particular activity or sphere". The Giver describes and shows many rules that the community is built on. The community in the Giver is not the only place where there are rules. Every person has to live by a set of rules that they must follow, and if they don't there will be consequences. Some rules can be harsh but rules play a specific part in our world. My family runs by many rules and we take them very seriously. Rules are like the glue that sticks families together.

Would you like to live in a community where there is no freedom and is full of

How many freedoms are you willing to sacrifice to live in a peaceful community? In the novel the giver by Lois Lowry they have created a peaceful community by limiting all choices, and freedoms such as, choosing your spouse, the feelings you feel, and the colors you see. The story begins with 12-year-old Jonas who gets assigned the job of being the receiver. The receiver is someone who works with the giver to obtain all the memories from the time before their community had become a “Utopia”, the way they have created this utopia they take away all freedoms in order to have public safety. The line between public peace and safety and personal freedoms should be on the side of freedoms, but people should never feel unsafe to go in public as well.

‘The Giver’ by Lois Lowry is about Jonas, a boy who lives in a community which is highly controlled by the Elders. The Elders have taken over and destroyed what it means to be human. The people in the community are killed for being different, they’re watched by elders and also have their emotions taken away. The Elders of the community brutally kill the citizens of the community by enforcing conformity and watching the people of the community at all times.

In 'The Giver' by Lois Lowry, Jonas's society has a different method when it comes to creating a family than our society does. For instance, in Jonas's society, each family is assigned two children, one girl, and one boy. On page 10, Lily suggests, "Maybe we can even keep him." She is then reminded by her mother the rules of having a family in their society. On the contrary, in our society, there is no minimum or maximum when it comes to a number of children parents can have.

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).

In the book, The Giver, Jonas lives in a community where everything is perfect. Nobody feels pain, sorrow, or hunger. But is it really the best place to live?

“The Giver” written by Lois Lowry takes place in the future in a utopian society. The main character is an eleven year old boy named Jonas. He lives in a community where everyone dresses the same, their fate is decided by the Elders, common words such as “love” or “starving” is unacceptable, and their world does not consist of simple things like colors or choices. However, the one person who holds the memory of life is the Receiver. The Elders will choose one eligible person to become the next Receiver and that was Jonas. Since Jonas is to become the new Receiver, the previous Receiver tells Jonas to call him "the Giver" like the giver of memories. Jonas lives with his mother, father, younger sister Lily, and they take care of a newborn child named Gabriel. Jonas' father works at the nurturing center, but Jonas finds out that his father was planning to release Gabriel (in other words euthanize). His father felt no remorse ending a precious life. Ever since the Giver and Jonas were having sessions, they built an intimate relationship.Jonas helped the Giver realize that life should be the way it was so, Jonas brings supplies of food, steals his father’s bicycle, and brings Gabriel with him to change his fate. After months of traveling to Elsewhere (the life where memories existed), the two finally made it to a village during Christmas time. He knew it was destiny.