The Giver Letter Essay

In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, the receivers are the only people who have feelings and memories. The elders are the people who choose what the best is for their people in the community and sometimes they go to the receiver for help on making the right decisions. The people from the community do not see color, or have freedom on making a decision for them. There is no love, feelings, and grandparents. Jonas is assigned to be the next receiver of the community; He was trained by the giver, who transfers memories of the pain and pleasures of life, who also shows him the truth and reality that is hidden to the community. Jonas’s community does not represent the ideal of society because there are no choices or distinctions between men

Throughout the novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas made choices that led to a positive and negative aftermath. The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a boy and his family unit in a community where everything is about sameness and perfection. Jonas’ experiences develop a theme over the course of The Giver by teaching the reader that choices can lead to a positive and negative aftermath. Although some readers may believe that choices do not affect your future, Jonas’ experiences show that some choices can lead to an unfortunate consequence. Occasionally people create choices that can be poor by choice, since they do things without thinking.

“’Memories are forever”’ (Lowry). People make new memories every day without even realizing it. Some good some bad, that’s just the way of life, but in The Giver nobody knows what happened before them. People barley remember what their childhood was like, they don’t understand the importance of memory and that memories are forever. Aspects of life, rules, and prosperities between our world and Jonas’ world are very different yet have some similarities. Things that are crucial to the characters in The Giver are not as meaningful to the people in our world.

E.M Forster said "A work of literature must provide more than factual accuracy or vivid physical reality... it must tell us more than we already know," meaning that literature doesn't need factual information to mean something to the audience, and I agree. "The Giver" by Lois Lowry supports this claim, because it is fictional, and still provides emotional appeals. This novel is a good example of how literature can be effective while being fictional. It is based in a futuristic dystopian society. By examining all of the flaws in society today, it shows that there is room for improvement without being controversial. Lowry wrote the book to give us a general idea of his opinion on issues in modern society, and to foreshadow the larger issues that will eventually be created.

     This book is about a boy names Jonas. Jonas lives in a futuristic society where there is no pain, fear, war, and hatred. There is also no prejudice, since everyone looks and acts basically the same, there is very little competition. They have also eliminated choice.

Jonas is feeling things that no one in his community has ever felt before. He is beginning to understand that others are missing out on important emotions. He knows that The Giver has already given away most of the memories, and in order to stop the process, he must make a sacrifice in order for his community to be aware of what they are missing. This proves that he is conscious of the fact that his community is not perfect, and the act of staging an accident is a noble, selfless thing to do; something that his perfect peers would not understand. When talking about the harms of banning books and by quoting Lois Lowry, Jennifer Kendall states, “The world portrayed in The Giver is a world where choice has been taken away. It is a frightening world” (Kendall). Kendall makes the point that the Utopian society is not something that people strive for. As a middle-schooled child, it is easy to see that life is not perfect. I feel as if Lowry does a great job in showing the reader that Jonas does understand that his community is not perfect, and he goes to great links to stop the perfection. While there may seem to

In The Giver, Lois Lowry uses many techniques to make the novel a good read. She uses techniques that gives suspense, curiosity, and pulls us readers into the book. She especially uses foreshadowing, which makes it so we cannot pull down the book.

The story is about a boy named Jonas. Jonas lives in a community where everything is perfect, everything is the same and no one is allowed to brake the rules imposed by the Elders. The Elders are in charge of creating all the rules and basically ruled everyone’s lives.

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

How would it feel if this world didn’t let people have choices, didn’t let people share, or if they didn’t let people celebrate birthdays, holidays, or just celebrate anything? Well that’s what it was like for Jonas in The Giver. Jonas lives in the future in a community where The Giver is the only one who knows everything, but soon all that changed for Jonas. He became the the community 's new Receiver of Memory, and soon Jonas learns the terrible secrets of this “utopian” community. Later on as he learns some more about the community’s secrets he makes a plan to leave the community, and to take Gabe with him so he wouldn’t get released.(which means they die, but the community doesn’t understand that) In this book choices, sharing, and celebrations would have made The Giver community more positive.

The movie not only speeds up the plot to compress the book into a two hour film, but also adds much more plot such as a villains role, escaping from the villains thugs, etc. Because of all this, some important parts make much less sense in the film than they do in the book, due to the fact that there are too many wheels spinning. A well done part of the movie were the memories. Whenever The Giver gives Jonas the memories, the camera sort of zooms in into the head of Jonas and starts playing all the memories onto the screen. This captivates the viewer by thinking about their own world and suddenly feel moved.

“The first step to living the life that you want is leaving the life that you don’t want.” - anonymous. The community started to feel more like a black hole than a home when Jonas started to receive the memories along with starting to see color. He knew that there was something else out there so he left, meanwhile rescuing a soul from being released. This was at the end and whether they lived or die is the mystery. In the end of The Giver, Jonas and Gabriel lived while also made it to the house in elsewhere because Jonas got chosen for a reason, Jonas witnessed the house, the trees, and he heard the music, and as smart as Jonas is he wouldn’t have taken Gabriel if he didn’t believe they couldn’t live.

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.

In the novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry, the author makes it clear through the main character Jonas that freedom and safety need to find an equal balance. Lowry shows the importance of deep emotions and family through Jonas. Jonas becomes the new receiver of memory and learns about the past. He also learned about the way it was when people knew what love was. Jonas’ father releases newborn children because they don’t weight the correct amount of weight or they don’t sleep well through the night. Release is a nice way of saying kill; the people of the community don’t know what kill means. They don’t have the freedom to expand their vocabulary. Lois Lowry makes it clear that safety has a negative side and you need that you need freedom to

Lois Lowry should be pleased about the movie that Phillip Noyce made from her book. She should have been given more publicity and appreciation about her book. Noyce made us feel and see how Jonas was seeing everything. Also how we felt when he was around Fiona. Noyce had action all the way through the movie that kept my attention throughout the whole movie but during the book i lost interest sometimes. For instance when Jonas took off with gabe and asher came in in the drone it caught my attention because it never said anything about it in Lowry’s Book. Another important part is how Jonas feels around Fiona and how she helps him. Jonas shares his feelings with Fiona so she can help break Gabe out so Jonas can help save