The Giver Controversy

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.

"All knowledge hurts." — Cassandra Clare (City of Bones, The Mortal Instruments, #1) Knowledge may hurt, if the truth is discovered, but the knowledge and truth can give wisdom among other traits, but in the novel, The Giver wisdom gives honor. Knowledge can also change the way one may feel towards something. The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a novel which portrays the notion that knowledge can change someone's opinion. Knowledge may change your likes, dislikes, and fears.

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.

Dystopia. A place where everything seems perfect. But really, everyone is behind the veil of lies and propaganda. In these stories, there is a character, who questions reality, and learns to go beyond that veil, where they realize what the society is really doing. The Giver By Lois Lowry is a story where an obedient boy named Jonas gains the special ability to go “beyond”.

Societal rules are a useful way to contain a situation without expressing a taboo. They are able to avoid bringing up negatives to younger generations and establish a form of control that values superiority over knowledge. This is helpful to establish dominance through secrecy, while also putting the minds of future generations at ease. On the other hand, this is harmful to the development of a society from the lack of knowledge about the past issues. Gabriel, a character known best for escaping societal rules, said it best in chapter 14. “They have never known pain.” He recognizes that his family’s lack of development comes from a lack of knowledge about past issues. In a society such as our own where honesty and information is valued, societal rule is damaging to future generations.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.