The Giver Controversy

Sameness and difference, is one of the themes Lois Lowry portrays in “The Giver”. The theme of sameness and difference plays a key part in Jonas’s life, and contributes to the people in his community, and their past as well.

I think the giver by Lois Lowry is interesting story about a world without the right to choose your jobs. They live in a dystopia like world. The world they live in is almost isolated, they don’t know about colors, music, or even some animals. My final reason on why the giver is a dystopia is because they don’t have any feelings, and if they do they have to get them taken away, I couldn’t imagine a world without feelings.

The Giver is considered as a dystopian society because everyone is under the illusion that there is freedom. An example of this is when the text states, “you're ready for the pills, that's all. That’s the treatment for the stirrings.” They can't even have independent thoughts. Medication is given to prevent

In The Giver, Jonas’ world is turned upside down when he is chosen to be the next receiver of his community. The ceremony of twelves is the last ceremony of the day. Jonas waited anxiously for his name to be called; he never hears it. The chief elder has made a mistake. Jonas now has to learn that everything he has been taught was not always the same and it ages him years.

The Giver, written in 1993 by Lois Lowry, is a very widely debated book. Lois Lowry, originally Lois Ann Hammersberg, was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on March 20, 1937. When she became 19, she married a naval officer named Donald Lowry. She had four children, two daughters and two sons, before Lowry divorced her husband for a time. Lowry published many popular books throughout her life, including The Giver, Number the Stars, and the many novels about Anastasia Krupnik.

Most often in people we find a mindset that people will turn out how they were taught as a child meaning how and where they were raised. In the beginning of your life you will act how you were taught to act but there comes a point when you choose.You'll choose if you want to acft how you were raised or the opposite. Your nature is not dependent on how you were raised but dependent on who you choose to be. It is what is in your heart that reflects the choices you make.

In The Giver written by Lois Lowry, the community chooses to not have weapons and is safe. They protect many lives. Jonas starts talking about Caleb, a four who died by a river, and he says, “Loss of a child was very, very rare” (Lowry 44). By doing this, their community is being very safe and protective.

President Ronald Reagan once said that,”Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in our bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected and passed down for them to do the same.” President Reagan would have been miserable living in the world as it is portrayed in “The Giver” by Lois Lowry. In the book there has been a utopian community built for people so that they have no freedom and no individual thoughts. Everyone is exactly the same. Everyone takes a daily pill which eliminates any memories, pain or stress. The protagonist named Jonas is chosen to receive all the worlds memories and figures out that everyone he loves has no feelings or independence. He decides to risk everything

The novel I’m relating “The Giver” to is the graphic novel Persepolis. Throughout topics of conformation I will be showing the many similarities between both novels. To begin, in both novels the main characters live in a kind of dictatorship/monarchy kind of society. To add, in both novels it’s seen for both characters to rebel against this form of government. To better explain, in the novel the giver the reader sees Jonas’s rebellious tendencies.

The book the Giver, by Lois Lowry, is about a community that has no feelings, does not experience pain, and doesn’t know anything about the outside world. The community that this book takes place in is a Utopia. I think this for three main reasons. Those reasons are: everyone in the community shares their feelings, they don’t have to pick their own jobs, and they don’t feel pain.

The Giver by Lois Lowry is a Utopia because no one is ever starving, no one really feels pain, and they can’t choose wrong. Throughout our world I have seen many people on the sides of streets having no food, no home, and no family with no one helping them to have a better life. I have also seen people helping the homeless and shelters but in this book they don’t need to do that because everybody already has a home and food. Plus they don’t have to ask for money and food, they already have it.

The Giver book was about how Jonas was selected to be the Receiver of Memory, which requires hard and painful training. Between The Giver book and movie, there were many differences. The Assignments were not the same. There were many differences on the memory topic and many of the things are paired with the idea that everything is futuristic. The book and movie have their own qualities, so they are both excellent works of media.

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 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.

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared. (Lowry, Goodreads). In other words it’s saying the pain Jonas is feeling is mental and emotional but not physical. The giver is making Jonas feel these memories and they're coming back to his head. And by sharing memories it lets you get help or makes you feel good because people can help you. My Thesis is comparing and contrasting modern day to the Giver.