The Giver By Lois Lowry

Do you want to reach perfection? Perfection itself is not captured through success, it is carried with you through failure. The average person wants to be perfect in some form, but never wants to fail. In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, a group of elders try and perfect a world so people will never fail, like their previous world. The previous world was much like ours today, but humans’ freedom caused destruction. Although the new society holds memories from the people. This is completely wrong because memories guide us. Memories keep us from repeating our past and memories shape our future. Your memories are vital to achieving perfection.

This play revolves around the flashbacks and memories of a little girl named Iris, as she recounts what she remembers of her childhood as it closed onto her 11th birthday. It shows the dynamic and different family structure of hers, and how that changed the way she looked at life. It also tells the story of an unhappy marriage between Iris’ parents, Sylvia and

“But, I 'm already resigned to this fate / Looking over my life, I recall / If it hadn 't been / for the loneliness / I 'd have no companion at all. ” This stanza from “Loneliness”, by Lora Colon evokes the negative impact a lonely fate has on a person. Words like “resigned” and “loneliness” establish a sense of depression and resignation. During the times of the Great Depression, many people felt similar feelings of melancholy and stoicism. Jobs were hard to come by, and realistic dreams of success were scarce. John Steinbeck’s novel, Of Mice and Men, allows readers to see the life of the Great Depression. The two main characters, George and Lennie, search for jobs, like many other migrant workers. They dream of owning their own land, however, Lennie’s habit of getting in trouble prevents their dream from being reality. After he accidentally causes more trouble at their new job, George is forced to kill him out of mercy. Throughout the novel, Steinbeck shows that even if one meticulously plans out the road to their American Dream, fate will inevitably intervene and lead one to desolation and loneliness.

Everyone is burden with pain. No one can escape emotional, physical or mental misery because it is part of what makes us human. Without pain we would live in a world of sameness. Although there is no way we can escape this reality, what if there existed a utopian society in which everyone could live peacefully without the burden of pain? Would everyone be better off or would living in ignorance be a burden for someone else? Lois Lowry gives us a glimpse into what life would be like in a world where conflict does not exist and shows us what this type of world would do to our humanity. In The Giver, she introduces us to Jonas, an eleven-year-old boy who starts off as an oblivious member of his

This play is about the experiences of a dying school boy, it is a celebration of life and the power to heal through gaining insight.

Would you trade safety for freedom? In the book, The Giver, by Lois Lowry that is exactly the choice the people in this book had to face. The people who created the community were called, “Founders”. The Founders main goal in creating their community was to get rid of hurt and anger and gain peace and safety for all the people. There is a price for safety and happiness. Communities should be willing to let go of some of their liberties in order to live in a more peaceful and safe society. The Founders in this book took many measures to ensure safety for their community.

Elvis Presley once said, “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain 't goin ' away.” Plato’s The Allegory of the Cave relates to this quote by focusing on the truths of reality that humans do not comprehend. We think that we understand what we are seeing in our world, but we really just perceive shadows of the true forms of the things that make up the world. We are ignorant about the true nature of reality. The novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry also involves these concepts. The main character, Jonas, lives in a community of conformity and conflict. When he begins to spend time and train with The Giver, an old man who is the only keeper of the community 's memories, Jonas discovers the unsafe truths of his community 's secret past. Once Jonas discovers the reality about his community, it constantly pesters him until he makes an important decision. Jonas realizes that he must escape from his world in order to make a long needed change for his community. As the prisoner from The Allegory of the Cave seeks knowledge outside of the cave, Jonas from The Giver discovers dark and deadly truths of his community’s secret past that will change his life forever.

Being unique is valuable. In the science fiction novel, The Giver, Lois Lowry uses Jonas to show that being unique is valuable. In the beginning of Giver, everyone in the community is the same and they have followed very specific rules or they will be “released.” The message of the novel, Giver, is being unique is valuable.

Through our society we are all raised up to be independent and unique individuals such as being ourselves and expressing who each of us are to the world. However, in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, everyone is raised to count on one another and everyone must look and act the same. Our society differs from Jonas’s in many ways, such as the family units, birthdays, and the way we each learn about our past.

The Giver How would you train a child if you knew it involved excruciating pain? In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, the Giver has to experience this situation. After knowing that Rosemary couldn't handle the pain, the Giver changed his tactics of training Jonas as his successor ; Jonas gets pain earlier, he gets both physical and emotional pain, and the Giver stays distant from Jonas. Jonas receives pain earlier in training than Rosemary.

The novel starts out in a perception of a twelve year old boy named Jonas who lives in a community that thrives in “sameness”. “Sameness” is described as a 2-D dimensional life, meaning there is no war, fear, hunger, sadness, or any experience a normal 21st century individual might have. It gives a black and white filter of life, which means perfect to the leaders of the community know as the “The Elders”. When Jonas was chosen as “The Receiver of Memory” he finds out what magnificent things the elders have taken away from society and discovers the nature of color, sadness, hunger,war, happiness and love.

Autumn Steeger The Giver "It wasn't a practical thing, so it became obsolete when we went to the Sameness." (pg. 84) The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is told from the point of view of a twelve-year-old boy named Jonas, who thought he growing up in a Utopian society. He attended the Ceremony of Twelve, where every Twelve receives their life-long occupation, and Jonas found out he has been selected to be the Receiver of Memory, the most honored assignment that anyone could have been given in their Community.

The novel The Help by Kathryn Stockett took place in Jackson, Mississippi, during the 1960s, a period that saw the segregation of blacks and the prejudice of whites dominate the southern United States. The novel focused on two black maids, Aibileen Clark and Minny Jackson, and their work environment with their white employers. The racism of many high society women, like Hilly Holbrook and Elizabeth Leefolt, was showcased throughout the story. Skeeter was the outlier in her society. After returning to Jackson following her graduation from the University of Mississippi, she wanted to do something more with her life than be a white married housewife. As a result, she worked with Aibileen, Minny and other black maids to write a book that revealed the relations and treatment that maids experienced from their employers. The harsh treatment of blacks in the south and the successes and difficulties of The Civil Rights Movement were displayed through the lives of Aibileen, Minny, and Skeeter.

One way the setting of the book The Giver by Lois Lowry creates conflict for the community is the rule that only the receiver is allowed to hold memories from the past. The giver tells Jonas that he gets asked for advice very rarely by the chief elder and if he had more of a say in most of the decisions for the community, he could use his knowledge to bring changes. The giver explains why the memories must be held onto, “ ‘Why do you and I have to hold these memories?’ ‘It gives us wisdom.’ the giver replied”( pg 139-140). This shows that wisdom is only possessed by Jonas and the giver because only they share memories. The lack of wisdom in the other citizens causes them to make decisions that may not be beneficial.

The Marxist criticism is based on the socialist theories of Karl Marx and how the readers must closely examine the dynamics of class as they attempt to understand the works they read. In a world where there is no pain, no prejudice, no emotion, and no detestation. Lois Lowry gives a vivid description of a community where everything is equal, everyone is just as important as another, and life choices are made by only one individual. In the book The giver by Lois Lowry, it expresses the exact opposite of Marx’s most important ideas which is a prime example of what people will do if they were forced to live a certain way.