The Giver By Lois Lowry: Chapter Analysis

In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, the receivers are the only people who have feelings and memories. The elders are the people who choose what the best is for their people in the community and sometimes they go to the receiver for help on making the right decisions. The people from the community do not see color, or have freedom on making a decision for them. There is no love, feelings, and grandparents. Jonas is assigned to be the next receiver of the community; He was trained by the giver, who transfers memories of the pain and pleasures of life, who also shows him the truth and reality that is hidden to the community. Jonas’s community does not represent the ideal of society because there are no choices or distinctions between men

Imagine living in a world where one would be in this strict community, where one would have to live their life the way they are told to do. At one ceremony, everyone must turn one day older on the same day. Then, have a big ceremony to find out what your job will be for the rest of ones life! This is what the community is like in the book, The Giver, by Lois Lowry. She tells the story where the main character Jonas is having to live everyday of his life in that community. Jonas lives in a world of sameness. At the ceremony of twelve, Jonas was given the job of the Receiver of Memory. This job is very special because not very many people in the community get this job. When Jonas was at the ceremony of Twelve, they

In the book The Giver Jonas and the community have little choices they can make. In America we have lots of choices like how long your hair is, what you are going to wear to school and what color we want to wear. In Jonas’ community they cant even do that. Jonas left the community because he yearned for the freedom of choice. “If every things the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things”(PG97). Jonas wants to be able to pick his own tunic and job, but in the giver community he cant. He wants to pick his own spouse. Jonas is tired of sameness

Sara Smolinsky, protagonist in the novel Breaad Givers, is one of the most successful characters in the book. Although her father, Reb, is financially dependent on his four daughters, Sara is determined to become an otherwise independent woman, contrasting with her sisters, who follow in their father’s wishes of becoming a wife and/or mother. Analysis of the book reveals that, despite Reb Smolinsky’s oppressiveness and dependence on the rest of his family, Sara’s success can be attributed to her morals of independence, extreme determination, and her impoverished youth. Sara shows her morals of independence and determination while working towards he college degree, and her troubled childhood is explained in the beginnings of the novel. While Sara’s circumstances are extremely difficult, she proves that anything is possible if one is willing to work for it.

Could you ever imagine living in a world that is controlled. After reading both the non-fiction article, as well the selected passage by Lois Lowry it was obvious that both communities were being ruled by a strict government. The selected passage is about their strict government that made the community a “perfect world” by not letting them see and do certain things. The non-fiction article is about North Korea's world and how they also limit certain things such as, freedom and occupations. Both articles show the challenges of their world.

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

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

“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.

In The Giver the authorities aim at achieving “Sameness” which means all people must be equal and the same. Lois Lowry describes a world of “sameness” where the lack of differences allows all members of the community to have predetermined roles and to follow an enforced set of rules. The Elders depict sameness in a way that makes it sound absolutely necessary, and without it, the whole world may fall apart. In the community of The Giver people accept everything as it is because they do not know any difference: “Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time … we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference” (Lowry, Giver 95). This sameness is terrifying and further imposes conformity on all people. So the community of The Giver is a uniformed society. People wear the same clothes; eat the same food; their houses are the same; and most of them look the same as well. By the age of ten, they all have the same short hair style: “females lost their braids at Ten, and males, too, relinquished their long childish hair took on the more manly style which exposed their ears” (Lowry, Giver 46). In The Giver the purpose of sameness is to protect people from wrong choices and to achieve safety for them.

“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.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but a lifelong attempt to acquire it,-- Albert Einstein. This quote ties in very well with a book, “The Giver” by, Lois Lowry. It starts with an 11-year-old boy named Jonas. Jonas lives in a community that is perfect. No war, starvation or divorce. He lives with his assigned parents and friends. The residents in this town have only good memories and experiences, but to grow into a whole individual you need to be exposed to both the good and bad things in the world. When exposed to good things, it brings out people's good side. Bad experiences bring out people's sensitive or protected side, together they are building a person's personality into a whole individual.

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” Lois Lowry, The Giver. Take a minute and think back to the first time you traveled and experienced a new culture. What a journey, right? You have come so far and inspired countless individuals to embark on their own adventures through your storytelling. Even though you may have struggled to grasp the right descriptive words on your experience in a new culture, it was enough to impact someone, and that’s all it takes. It takes just one person listening to inspire the desire to seek a new challenge.

Jonas, the main character of The Giver, lives in a society where there is not much freedom. He is not able to choose what job he will have, who he will marry, what he will eat, and which child he will get to raise. Nobody in the society ever thinks of doing anything differently. This is because they are brainwashed into thinking that they live in a perfect place. They are told that the society makes the best decisions and they believe the leaders. Everyone belongs to the society and is the person that the

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

Imagine waking up every morning to a colorless world, where happiness is a vaccine, and the ability to make choices for one-self are eliminated. You are watched and controlled on everything you do. And the horrifying thing is there is no way out of this dictatorial, strict lifestyle. These type of societies demonstrate examples of totalitarianism. Throughout the novel The Giver, Lowry displays a “flawless” point of view of the society Jonas lives in to show that she’s against the way they live and how the government runs. Even though they assemble everybody to be the same just to avoid contention, it is still wrong to take away the freedom of making your own choices.