The Giver Hypothesis

The main theme shown in The Giver is the idea that good cannot exist without evil, and evil cannot exist without good, thus making reaching a perfect society impossible. It does not matter how amazing an experience is, unless you have something bad to compare it with you can never taste the true meaning of that moment. The members of Jonas’s community cannot appreciate the joys in their lives because they have never felt sadness. Correspondingly, they also do not feel grief because they have never appreciated the true wonders of life. Throughout the novel, Lois Lowry uses multiple literary devices to conjure these thoughts into the readers mind.

The book Giver by Lois Lowry is about a 13 year boy named Jonas. Jonas was selected for a special job because he can see beyond such as the color red. The special job is getting memories of the past such as snow and love from his mentor the Giver. Jonas also receives memories about death. He sees a release, which is where a worker of the community injects a liquid killing the person. His dad killed one of the newborn twins because no one in the community can look the same. Everyone in the community was told that release was kicking someone out of the community and shipping them to elsewhere. Jonas sees his dad throw the baby in a trash chute. Everyone but Jonas and the Giver don’t have feelings such as love. They don’t

Sofia Petrovna follows the life of Sofia Petrovna, a typist who works at the Leningrad publishing house. After the death of her husband and capture of her son, Sofia goes insane. It’s a type of unhinged that demonstrates itself in mirages minutely dissimilar from the deceits those surrounding her voice to guard themselves. Sofia Petrovna proposes an extraordinary and fundamental account of Stalin's Great Purges through simple fictional story arcs. First, there is the vanishing of seemingly innocent people. Sofia looses several people in her life throughout the duration of the novel with almost no warning or explanation. This provides an effective look into

The Giver is a 2014 film directed by Phillip Noyce. The film is solely based on a novel with the same name by Lois Lowry. It talks about a teen, Jonas, living in a society where none of them is different. Each individual in their society is equal. Labels like popular, losers, winners, and as such does not exist within their society. They have created the new definition of fairness.

In the novel The Giver, Jonas make choices that leads to consequences. Although some readers may believe that the choices you make does not affect your future, Jonas experiences shows that choices can affect your aftermath. Jonas experiences develops a theme over the course of The Giver by teaching the readers that choices can lead to a positive or negative aftermath.

Imagine living in a world where nothing changed and everyone was the same. In Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, the society is all the same. For example the people of the society do not fight and there is no war. Sameness is slowly working its way into our society. It is used as uniforms in some schools, even secluding yourself to a specific friend group because everyone has the same interests could be considered as Sameness. I believe Sameness is a major advantage due to no one suffering, but living where a society is completely the same would not be an interesting life to live. The Giver portrays how sameness in a society could have advantages and disadvantages.

In order to understand this novel we have to know about the NAZI, holocaust, which aimed to exterminate the Jewish people from Europe

You are about to experience a brief compare and contrast paper between reality and a fantasy. In which our world is no long a mass chaos but everyone is equal to each other. I am going to compare the book to the movie. Many things are different and most are the same, but i'm going to point of the differences today between the movie and the book.

(Page 6-10) Eva had a brother she was very close to, his name was Heinz. At the age of 9, Heinz had a problem with his left eye which had him blind in that one eye. Heinz always made Eva cry, telling her stories about him dying. They both lived with their dad, then Mutti and their pappy. They ate with other families in a large dining room, both German and Jews. (Page 11) They were Jewish, but over eight years Eva had spoken German, now her and her brother were taking French. (Page 12) November 9, 1938 7,500 Jewish shops were burnt down. (Page 13-14) Mutti didn't like that they didn't own their home by themselves anymore. (Page 17) Since 1933 lots of Jewish families lived in the same area, and their children would always play in the same area. (Page 21) Wearing the Star of David was a very important thing in this time.

Nerissa Gonzales-Sanchez Ms. Emmet Writing 9 Dec. 2016 Conformity versus Individuality in A Wrinkle in Time and The Giver In The Giver,and The Wrinkle In Time they finally realize individuality. The wrinkle in time author is Madeleine L’Engle. The givers author is Lois Lowry.

Gulag Voices by Anne Applebaum is a collection of stories of people who lived in the Gulag camp system because the NKVD arrested them for political crimes. All of the stories in this novel describe different situations the prisoners endured. Some female prisoners were raped while the male prisoners were sent to concentration camps to support the soviet industry by mining, cutting trees for lumber, or working in factories. This novel gives real background into how the camp system changed their lives and stayed with them forever. Gulag Voices shows the prisoners coped emotionally, psychologically, and physically with being in the camp system. The stories from this novel also show why some of the prisoners were arrested and what the crimes they

What is the book about: It follows twelve-year-old Greta who’s family has been split in half when the Berlin Wall is erected after her father and one of her brothers left to find work in West Berlin for the day. She tries to carry on with her life in East Berlin with her mother and older brother Fritz, but she yearns for her father and for freedom that doesn’t seem at all possible,

The novel, Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys, follows a teenage girl named Lina and her family as they are taken from their home in Lithuania, and put in multiple labor camps across Siberia by the NKVD. Lina, along with her mother, Elena, and younger brother, Jonas, are forced into filthy cattle cars and taken to camps to serve as prisoners. Lina and her brother have no clue as to what their family did that was considered a crime to the NKVD. Along the harsh journey, Lina makes friends with many people that group together in effort to help each other survive.

Firstly, the book Once teaches students about historical events that take place during WWII. The force of the Nazis is demonstrated in the novel when they didn’t let anything interfere with their schedule and purpose. Felix, Chaya and Zelda risked their lives and jumped out of a Nazi controlled train that they had been squashed in for hours. This shows the desperate measures the living Jewish had to do to survive. Also, the children and adult starved on limited food supplies. This book gives high school students an excellent understanding of events that took place during the brutal WWII.

It had probably been about an hour or so after they had woken up, they had nothing to look forward to like school, sports or even playing outside with their friends- they hadn't been outside since their parents left, except for Karla- all there was to look forward to was eating once a day. No one knew what day it was or what time it was but it was probably in late January, they had missed Hanukkah. It was then about 10:00 pm and all the kids were sleeping besides for Klara, she was looking around in the dark, small place in the basement, she was wondering if she and the kids would make it through World War II, if they did where they would go (because for all they knew Claudia could have been dead) and how would they live. A pounding sound on the floor above startled Karla and she lost her train of thought. Her heart pounded harder as the pounding got closer and closer to the basement, then her life started to fall apart after one single second. One of the officers lifted up the top of the emergency room door and there he was, a tall man with perfectly jelled brown hair and dirt ugly brown eyes that matched the ugly off green uniform they wore.