The Giver, By Lois Lowry

    The story in The Giver by Lois Lowry takes place in a community that is not normal. People cannot see color, it is an offense for somebody to touch others, and the community assigns people jobs and children. This unnamed community shown through Jonas’ eye, the main character in this novel, is a perfect society. There is no war, crime, and hunger. Most readers might take it for granted that the community in The Giver differs from the real society. However, there are several affinities between the society in present day and that in this fiction: estrangement of elderly people, suffering of surrogate mothers, and wanting of euthanasia.

The novel ‘The Giver’, authored by Lois Lowry, and the film ‘Pleasantville’, directed by Gary Ross, share numerous similarities. Many of the themes and messages conveyed throughout both the novel and film are very alike. Some of the various similarities between the themes explored include the concept of colour, denial of true emotions as well as the main character being a harbinger for change.

What would it feel like living in a world which everyone is same and the life is monotone?In “The Giver”,written by Lois Lowry,there’s a community based on perfection and the citizens who have strict and ethic rules to prevent their community from becoming unethical and unequal.Lowry conveyed her ideas both with in advantages and disadvantages,and the diversity which citizens in the community have lost.

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

“Just for a second, imagine a world without war, conflict or grief. Refreshing, right? But it's also a world without memory, feelings, and color, at least in the premise of Lois Lowry’s, The Giver” (NPR.org, 2017). It was published by HarperCollins in 1993, it shares the same motive of a perfect and utopian society. What is a perfect society? Is it where people have to be uniform to each other? What is the point having such a life where you cannot make your own decisions ? you cannot have feelings or unable to live with your own biological parents. There is one thing about the community in the giver, it is very well organized and no possible war. This is because each member of the community is trained to be polite from childhood. So, therefore, everyone uses polite language, we call it Euphemism words, this set of words are alternate or substituted to words that are harsh, blunt and might hurt somebody like killed, jail, etc. This essay will focus on some of the main and common euphemism words in the giver. The euphemism words are Release, Stirrings, and Assignment. For each word, I will discuss it’s meaning, it’s translation to a non-euphemism word, it’s function and some examples from the book.

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.

Just for a second, imagine a world without war, conflict or grief. Refreshing, right? But it's also a world without memory, feelings and color, at least in the premise of Lois Lowry’s, The Giver. It was published by HarperCollins in 1993, it shares the same motive of a perfect and utopian society. What is a perfect society? Is it where people have to be uniform to each other?What is the point having such a life where you cannot make your own choices?, you cannot have feelings or unable to live with your own biological parents. There is one thing about the community in the giver, it is very well organized and no possible war. This is because each member of the community is trained to be polite from childhood. So therefore everyone uses polite language, we call it Euphemism

Friedrich Nietzsche’s On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense represents a deconstruction of the modern epistemological project. Instead of seeking for truth, he suggests that the ultimate truth is that we have to live without such truth, and without a sense of longing for that truth. This revolutionary work of his is divided into two main sections. The first part deals with the question on what is truth? Here he discusses the implication of language to our acquisition of knowledge. The second part deals with the dual nature of man, i.e. the rational and the intuitive. He establishes that neither rational nor intuitive man is ever successful in their pursuit of knowledge due

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.

“ ‘Well…’ Jonas had to stop to think it through. ‘If everything's the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up and decide things!’ ” (Lowry 97). The book, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is an example of an attempt at a utopia. In the story, everyone is given the same thing as everyone else and no one is allowed to be different or unique. This is why they are not allowed to express their individuality and it is considered rude if they talk about themselves and their accomplishments. The community is prevented from knowing about things that were once common such as death, color, animals, and how to truly feel. This keeps them from knowing things that might have existed in our society when it comes up in theirs. They are not allowed to choose what they want and

The giver is a fictional novel authorised by Louis Lowry dedicated to informing readers about the devastating impact of extreme conformity on a community. As we progress throughout the book we start to realise and learn all these new things about the giver's community, such as creating and trying to maintain a perfect community, that comes beyond our abilities, while the givers society is having a huge impact on the individuality and individual choices on the members of the community. We learn that the inhabitants of the society had a hard time handling all the different memories, in a sudden event. All hints and evidence to these statements above are hidden and presented throughout the book.

In the book, The Giver by Lois Lowry, the world is perfect. In this utopia there are no problems, equality, no homeless, nothing to worry about. Everything is controlled by the "elders", their word is absolute. Trouble here is nonexistent, no one rebels and no one goes out of the boundaries. No one dies, they have this thing called being "released", which is something that is never to be questioned..

Lois Lowry’s dystopian story, “ The Giver” takes places in a time when nobody has the past to look to, no memories. Also, this takes place in a society where they choose where you work and how you look. The main character that goes through this all is Jonas. One lesson this novel teaches us is that memory is very important and everyone needs memory to survive.

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.

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.