Language is a tool to communicate with others, convey your ideas and meanings. Precise language is important because it can help you exchange ideas with others more efficiently without any chance of being misunderstood. Sometimes, different words are used to conceal the true meaning of the idea or action, such as passing away implicating death. In Lois Lowry’s “The Giver”, people living in the community are taught to use precise language to prevent any misunderstanding or misconceptions. But some
jobs, and stricter. In The Giver’s community there are no feelings. Without feelings they will never experience happiness, sadness, and anxiety. If there were feelings in The Giver, everything and everyone would change. Some examples are that when you see something sad or depressing you will cry or feel sad. In The Giver if they see something sad or what I think is sad, they won’t cry. Jobs are important in the real world because that is
The Giver Essay Lois Lowry, the author of The Giver, displays many themes throughout the book. While one of the many themes may be that people should be able to express themselves any way they want. Lowry truly reveals her theme that one person should not carry all the bad memories of the community . In The Giver when Jonas learns about the emotion of love, he asks his parents if they love him. “Do you love me?” There was an awkward silence for a moment. Then Father gave a little a little chuckle
Creating a Problem Free Society Do you live in a problem free society? There are many ways to create a problem free society such as, more laws or better guidance from the people around you. In The Giver they created a problem free society with no pain by decided long ago to take away color, personal freedoms, and love, but that cost them to lose what it means to be human. In Divergent they created a problem free society by separating everyone into factions so they were with people that were like
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
Response to Literature Essay for The Giver In the dystopian novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry, the story takes place in the future. The setting of the novel revolves around sameness. Same weather, same houses, same furniture, and even the same, flat landscape. There are no colors or animals, other than fish, in the small community. The government is strictly controlled by the Elders. They make decisions and control every aspect of the society, limiting emotions and choices. In The Giver, the setting and
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
this society, it now strongly resembles dystopian one. In the Giver, oppression is crystal clear and none of the community’s citizens are aware of it. Having never known anything else, they are inattentive to what they are missing out, and thus appear to be happy. The oppression is not physical but exclusively psychological and appears to stem from a real concern for the
Ansh Trehan Explanatory Essay Courage Did you know successful people are proven to have more courage than those who are not successful? A quote from Kelley Kalafatich does a good job explaining this fact, “You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face…”. This quote explains that courage is the ability to face your fears and pursuing the path that you want to. Courage is a very exceptional quality to have because it helps a person
thing he or she do is give advice to the elders so they can make decisions. This essay will explain the reason why it is a punishment to be selected as Receiver of Memory. Jonas learned about the lies that the elders have told him and the community. When Jonas finds out about all the horrible stuff the elders have done, he gets confused and furious with them which causes him to leave the community. According to The Giver, Pg. 107, “But why can’t everyone have the memories? I think it would seem a little