The Giver By Lois Lowry

A. In Jonas’ Utopia they are given a pill to make the Stirrings go away so they are not attracted to a certain person.

Jonas dreamed about himself going down the snow covered hill on the sled. The dream that Jonas had made him feel like there was a destination to where the hill was going to bring him.

The giver by Lois Lowry was an interesting book to say the least. In the beginning you are lead to believe these are normal kids and characters, possibly in the future, but in pretty much the same state of mind as our definition of “human” today. As the book goes on, you are slowly let in on details, like the characters can not see color, and that the parents are not biological parents, and everything is organized and decided for the characters in the book. The author did a great job of slowly bringing us into the world of sameness quite the same way the giver slowly brought Jonas into the world of memories. I believe the subject of the book is the Importance of the Individual. As corny as it sounds, we spend much of our life trying to be just like everyone else. I think Lois Lowry wrote this entire novel just to show how horrible it would be if everyone was the same as everyone else.

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

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.

Throughout our first few weeks of class we’ve gone through the ideas of many different thinkers and philosophers. Upon further reflection, I would like to touch base more on the Plato’s themes from the Republic, Book X and The Allegory of The Cave in relation to the Lois Lowry’s The Giver. What I would like to be kept in mind while making our comparison, is my previous commentary on the Allegory of the Cave from prior class discussions on Plato, 'The Allegory of the Cave ' shows us to not just stare at the known 'shadows ' and be satisfied with it, but to look beyond it to find the truth and real understanding." And Plato’s ideas in regards to art as discussed in the Republic, Book X. To be more specific a quote from David H

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.

Scout is a unique character in American literature because, she is one of a kind and she is courageous. In the story, To Kill A Mockingbird, by Harper Lee, Fictional southern town undergoes great turmoil of racial issues. In the story the readers encounter a unique character named Scout. The story tells a lot about racism by trial. Scout helps tell a man’s story of racism. Scout is unique because, she is different and likes to act like a guy,when most girls her age don’t(end of chapter 2). Scout is adventurous, and a tomboy. When the other girls her age are girly and sensitive.

In Lois Lowry’s book, the Giver, people live in a futuristic, colorless, emotionless, and uniform society. Those who live in the society, also called the community, is controlled intensely by countless rules with no memory of the past, which was more dangerous, yet exciting, than their current life. A common value that is held is to be precise with words. “Eventually, for a period of time, Asher stopped talking altogether, when he was three. “For a while,” the Chief Elder said, relating the story, “we had a silent Asher! But he learned.” She turned to him with a smile. “When he began to talk again, it was with greater precision.” (p.55) When Asher, as a toddler, pronounced snack as smack, he was beaten by a Childcare worker without mercy. It

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.

Saturdays are for 10-minute drives to the library, reading until the 15-minute-until-closing announcement comes on. Saturdays are for books piled high beyond my head, heavy tote bags on my shoulder, and shelves upon shelves of written masterpieces.

The Giver Review The Giver is an interesting and powerful children’s book written by Lois Lowry, a famous award-winning author. The Giver is about a young boy named Janos who lives in a perfect world with no war, no fear, no pain and no choices. At the age of twelve, every person is assigned a special role in the Community. However, Jonas is “selected” as the Receiver of Memories, who inherits all the good or bad memories of the Community from the Giver. He has all the Memories of the Community.

Lois Lowry's award winning book The Giver is about a futuristic world where nobody can see color, nobody can feel strong emotions, they don't even pick their spouse, also each couple is assigned two children. There is a young boy named Jonas, he was assigned a family who he calls mother and father. Jonas does not have a family they're just people living together.

Would you like to live in a society where anger, greed, hate and pain are eliminated? A society where differences are nonexistent and the feelings of envy and jealousy are extinct? It sounds wonderful, but what does this society cost its citizens? Lois Lowry wrote The Giver, and when it adapted into the film, it is directed by Phillip Noyce. The film takes place in a society that has eliminated the differences within people. They have little emotion, cannot see colors, and have no memory of all the past events like war, pain, animals, and emotions. They are all assigned jobs at a young age and Jonas is assigned as the receiver of memory. He keeps all the memories of the past to provide wisdom for the future. Once the current receiver of memory (the giver) gives him all of these memories and emotions he realizes that keeping all of these things from the community is wrong. He sees his father releasing (killing) babies and his father did not realize he was killing them. Jonas’ family was caring for a child that was not mature enough to be in the nurturing center and is eventually scheduled to be released. Jonas took the baby out of the community, crossed the boundary and restores all the emotions and memories to the entire population. Is a perfect, predictable, systematic society worth sacrificing personal choice and emotional individuality? No, emotions and personal choices give our lives purpose, drives us to become more; these things make us human.

In the novel ‘The Giver’ by Louis Lowry, Jonas learns several lessons regarding leadership and commitment in addition to choices he must make in order to be considered a good leader. At the Ceremony of Twelve, where every Twelve receives their life-long occupation, Jonas finds out that he has been selected to be the Receiver of Memory, the most honored of Elders. The current Giver transfers memories of the past to Jonas, the Receiver, including pain, joy, feelings, and color. He is faced with many obstacles, and hard decisions, but the choices he would make are wise choices that would help his “Utopian” society to progress, and derive from its ‘Sameness.’ This novel also portrays both the similarities and differences between how leaders in our society determine if something is right or wrong, and how a leader in the novel determines the right from the wrong.