The Giver By Lois Lowry

Jonas is a receiver of memory so he can see some colors. Jonas will receive memories from the Giver and that’s where Jonas will get see some colors. The Giver was the old receiver of memory. Jonas also gets to see some stuff no one else will see and he knows what bad there is in the village. Jonas does not like the strict rules of the community either.

The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a twelve year old boy, Jonas, living in a utopian society. This story follows Jonas on his way to find out the truth about his Community, and what secrets lie in the past. The society where Jonas lives knows nothing of the real world, and only know of their perfect reality. In the novel The Giver, the most significant theme is control because in the society there is no freedom of knowledge, freedom of love, or freedom to do what they please, which amounts to uttermost control.

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

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.

The Giver by Lois Lowry follows Jonas in a world that has left emotions, colors and love. Instead the community stays safe with routine and control. That is until Jonas learns about love, feelings and most importantly what the community has left behind. Jonas must now decide how to save his and his little brother's life before it is too late.

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.

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.

Have you ever wondered what it is like to be part of a society where there is no emotion? If so, I recommend reading, The Giver by Lois Lowry. This book is about a boy who receives an assignment to be “The Giver.” With this assignment, he realizes what the community leaders are doing, is wrong and so he tries to stop it and save the community. “ ‘Why don’t we have sleds and hills?’

According to the text The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas died of extreme cold and starvation before making it to Elsewhere. First of all, he saw the sled and hill in front of him, and in real life there probably wouldn't have been a sled waiting in the middle of nowhere for him. This was a positive memory for him, so maybe his life was flashing before his eyes. Next, Jonas was beginning to lose consciousness and was having trouble standing up. As it says in the text as he was sliding down the hill, when he opened his eyes, “...all at once he could see lights…”.

The Giver is filled with surprises. In The Giver by Lois Lowry a boy named Jonas who lives in an isolated community, and goes through many adventures. He learns his community is not perfect like everyone thought. Jonas’ experiences develop a theme over the course of The Giver by teaching the readers every action has a consequence. Although some readers may believe some actions have no result Jonas’ experiences show that for every action there is a consequence.

The book "The Giver" by Lois Lowry is a very intense and interesting book. Every time that I have read this book my opinion always changes. This book is pretty complex, and towards the end you kind of have to use your imagination to imagine what happens to the characters. In the book a young boy named Jonas lives in a very controlled society. Families are only allowed to apply for children, and there can only be two children per home.

As we walk through life, we take for granted the gifts that make it such a blessing: its beauty and complexities, the small things that we do not even think of on a moment to moment basis; the flowers, the different colors of green in the trees, the yellow and black of the bumble bee. We take for granted the people that we share our lives with, missing out on the beauty of their mere presence at that moment. Within mainstream society we tend to get in such a hurry or so caught up in the day’s activities that we miss out on the unseen beauty in life, fail to feel deep emotions and the joy of sacrificing for the love and happiness of another; missing out on the opportunities to make life more beautiful and worth living. Lois Lowry’s The Giver both the novel and the film are a great illustration of what appears to be a utopian life but in reality it is a dystopia, which Jonas and the Giver set free by opening the minds of society to the true beauty of life, deep emotions, and self-sacrifice.

Genre: The genre of the book is scientific fiction. It is scientific fiction because Lois Lowry made a setting where everything is unusual than the things we do now. There are birthmothers, rarely Receivers of Memory ( which Jonas turns out to be ), and other special jobs in the community center.

The movie The Giver directed by Phillip Noyce is a movie I would truly call lovely and intriguing. This movie is based on a central theme of the importance of memories. We are looking at a community that looks perfect from a lame man’s view. Everything seems ideal. There happens to be no form of illness, hunger, conflict or negativity, but as we begin to unravel the mysteries behind this seemingly perfect community, we realize that it is but a false sense of utopia.

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.