The Giver, published in 1993, is an American, young adult, dystopian, science fiction novel. This is the twenty-second book Lois Lowry has written. According to Marie C. Franklin, Children’s Literature: Debate continues over merit of young-adult fare (The Boston Globe, February 23, 1997, p. G1), some reviews have criticized The Giver for lacking originality.
Set in the future, the society described in The Giver has eliminated war, pain, hatred, and fear. It is in the point of view of an eleven-year-old boy named Jonas. At the Ceremony of Twelve, he is assigned the job of Receiver of Memory where he is the only one, along with the current Receiver of Memory named the Giver, who has the community’s collective memory.
With this new ability, he can now sense and know how the community was before
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It was a book that made you think because it displayed a style of life we as humans don’t have even if we live in the rich developed world. No matter where we leave, as a whole, we still have to face pain, fears, prejudice, injustices, and cruelties. In this book, it displayed a life where people didn’t have to worry about pain, fear, death, cruelties, and injustices. However, it came with a price. Would people nowadays be willing to sacrifice some of our most cherished characteristics for a peaceful society where everyone is basically the same?
The book as a whole has affected me. A world without violence, cruelties and everyone (including women) is free and equal would be a desirable world. Reading this book made me wonder if I would like a society like that. To be honest, I would not. I think that society could have done better. I am not sure if the tendency for humans to be violent and cruel towards one another is an inherent or learned trait. But, planning out people’s life is no better than those dictators telling others what to do even in the name of keeping the peace. After all, they will eventually be executed if they don’t follow every
Maturing is an part of life it's essential to be a good adult. Can you imagine a life without mature people?The Giver is written by Lois Lowry.The Giver is a dystopia and utopia mixed coming of age book.The community is very rare presented as a perfect utopia but it has many dark secrets.The Giver is an coming of age story because Jonas matures and gains wisdom throughout the story.
Lois Lowry’s The Giver is set in a futuristic, dichotomous society, one that is both utopian and dystopian. In response to the overwhelming destruction and chaos in the world, the Elders have attempted to create and maintain a peaceful and orderly utopia, but this security comes at a price. The citizens of the community have sacrificed their individuality and freedom. Although most adult members have some knowledge of the hypocrisies involved, they choose to perpetuate the deception, allowing the community, as a whole, to continue on blissful ignorance. When young Jonas is confronted with all the truths of the present and all the memories of the past, he must choose for himself
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.
The Giver, by Lois Lowry is about a young boy named Jonas who is growing up in a utopian society. In The Giver they have no memories of anything that has pain even involved which meant that the community had to get rid of some joyful things also. Jonas, the receiver, and The Giver himself are the only two that know the memories. The author, Lois Lowry, was given the Newbery medal in 1994. In her acceptance speech of the medal she stated things in her life that influenced her book, The Giver. Many of the events in Lois Lowry’s life had really influenced many of the big events in The Giver.
The novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is an everlasting story that shows the importance of individuality. This novel is about a young boy named Jonas who was elected as the Receiver of Memories, a person who is given the memories from the world that existed before their current society, Sameness. In this society there is no individualism. People can not choose who to marry, or what they want to do for a living. Over time Jonas becomes more and more wise, and realizes that the supposedly perfect community actually has some very dark and negative aspects. The author, Lois Lowry is a 76-year-old writer who focuses her writing on helping struggling teenagers become individuals. Lowry had a very tragic childhood. After both of her parents were
The Giver was created by Lois lowry, Lois is a 78 year old author and was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and she was inspired to write at age 8. She currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and she's married with four kids. The Giver is definitely an interesting book. It’s different, there's an 11-year-old boy named Jonas, he lives in a community with his parents and sister. They don't have a president or a queen, they have a chief elder.
The Giver (by Lois Lowry) has an extraordinary amount of controversy on specific regions and sector of this Sci-Fi novel;; such as whether the “community” can be classified as a utopia. We all classify a utopia as a perfect area that is completely free of any government or social negativity. In the “community”, their people are genetically enhanced and drugged to conduct an equal lifestyle and race as everyone else; they are all chosen their path where they will live their life, and they cannot alter it in anyway. To prevent war or any other negative conflicts they had to drug the people to make them unable to know/remember anything or anyone in the past and unable to feel a certain way about anything or anyone. They eventually realized that
Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, offers a thought provoking, well written story, because it changes the perspective of anyone who dares to read it to. Lowry places her novel, at some point in the future when mankind has gone away with changes and choices in life. She forces readers appreciate, or at least re-think the world they live in today. Her novel presents a fully human created environment where people have successfully blocked out conflict, grief, and individuality. Each person follows the same routine every day. Failure comply with standards, to be different, means death. Jonas, the main character, finds himself trapped in this world.
The Giver Letter Dear, Jordan Hello Jordan,for my fiction report, I am reading a book called “The Giver” by Lois Lowry. It was originally published in 1993. This book is really good, and I have enjoyed it quite thoroughly, and it is something that I consider as a masterpiece of literature. This book is so good that I decided to recommend this book to you.
In 1994, the science fiction book, The Giver, was awarded the Newbery Medal. This book is about a young boy learning where he fits in the ordered of society. The readers are able to relate to this book because like the main character of this book, Jonas, they are still learning their own role of society. Also, like Jonas the readers will learn the importance of taking responsibility in their own lives (Lowry,
The Giver written by Lois Lowry. In The Giver there are two main characters; Jonas and the giver. The Giver is a very interesting book, especially for young teenagers. the book is about a very controlled society, from infants being born and which family the infants go, to the memories of the whole community. Anyone that has read The Giver has to love every aspect of the book.
“The Giver” novel published in 1993 written by Lois Lowry. And until after 21 years, released on big screen directed by Philip Noyce. “The Giver” is a must read, about a teenage boy, 16 years of age, Jonas (Brenton Thwaites) living in a far futuristic dystopian society where everything seems to be a “PERFECT” life with “Sameness.” But when Jonas is selected instead of assigned a job, he is to receive memory from the Giver (Jeff Bridges) as his assigned role. Jonas realises the bright and dark factualities of his community.
Later in the book Jonas is skipped in his ceremony of a 12. In which he gets assigned his new job he’s very anxious, he finds out he is a receiver of memory, one of the most responsible and hard jobs of all because they feel pain, can ask questions, and Jonas can lie. He meets this man named the giver, the giver can transmit memories onto other people making them see color and things they never experienced. The Giver transmits a memory of release, war, and snow. Jonas has always wondered what else other than the community is out there and when he hears that one of his close brothers Gabriel is gonna released he decided to make a plan to leave the community. When he and Gabriel leave the community he runs into these search planes when this
The Giver is a utopia novel about an eleven year old boy named Jonas who
The Giver is a novel by Lois Lowry, written and published in 1993. The Giver is