The Giver Rhetorical Analysis

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The book The Giver, is set in a dystopian universe, with strange laws and strange names for things. The Committee of Elders are the ones who write and help enforce these strange laws. Jonas is the newest Receiver of Memory, a role jast has only ever been given approximately every 5 decades. The Giver is the one giving him all these memories, and explaining them and the world in the past.

The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a dystopian narrative about a boy who lives in a “utopia” where there is order and, everything is controlled. He alone must contain memories of the past. Unfortunately, many of these memories are traumatic and disturbing. Jonas can do nothing beyond withstanding the pain. Because that is how it had always been in the community. As often paraphrased by the Giver, who is the one giving Jonas the memories, "And back and back and back.”(62) This quote shows how there is nothing that The Giver or Jonas can do apart from accept tradition.

The dystopian novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a boy called Jonas becoming the new Receiver-of-Memories. Throughout the novel, the protagonist, Jonas matures as knowledge is gained, and begins to understand the deepest, and darkest secrets of the community he lives in that is seemly 'perfect'. The author has successfully analysed a variety of social issues present in today's modern world in the novel. Some issues implied are: lack of individuality which allows for easy control, the abandonment of emotions and the importance of memories.

The feeling of anxiety is one that transcends the many categories that society organizes us in; it is a feeling impartial to race, gender, or class. Anzia Yezierska, a Jewish immigrant from Poland, dealt with issues ranging from extreme poverty to the guilt she felt for abandoning tradition. In her book “Bread Givers” she exemplifies what she went through when she writes: “It wasn’t just my father, but the generations who made my father whose weight was still upon me” (297). Similarly to what Yezierska felt growing up, the main character and narrator, Sara Smolinsky, expresses similar anxieties about tradition and poverty. Through the fictional characters, Yezierska informs the reader what

In the story “The Giver’’, people live in a community where no one questions the way the citizens live, but sometimes there might be some disagreements between them, like when Jomas’ little sister Lily and her mother disagreed about the assignment of being a birthmother. At first Lily wanted to get assigned as a birth mother when she became 12, but her mother though differently, in chapter 3, page 27 it states “Mother spoke very sharply. “Don’t say that.There’s very little honor in that Assignment””, it was shown that Lily’s mother didn't like that assignment. Even though Lily knew that her mother didn’t like Lily’s idea of being a birth mother, she defended herself and said, “...she told me that the Birthmothers get wonderful foods, and they

"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.

The book The Giver had many significant meanings and symbols that make a person evaluate how precious life really is. One would like to erase a particularly unpleasant memory, but if one could accomplish that then life would have no meaning. If a person only had pleasant memories and did not know what an unpleasant situation feels like, it would be living with no significance. Like in the book, The Giver, people live in an isolated community with no choices, no pain or true happiness. The protagonist, Jonas, becomes the receiver and realizes that there is more Elsewhere, and does not understand how the community can live with no true feelings. Memories are extremely significant in an individual’s life because it gives a person feeling and emotions of happiness, excitement, fear, and many other mindsets that will allow a person to know who they really are deep inside. The community in The Giver does not have true emotions and feelings; furthermore, their life is precisely robotic where people are not aware of many important things in life. In The Giver, Lois Lowry designs a vague setting in a community of people that have no pain or feelings to make a statement that life today would be boring and with no meaning without memories; in addition, Lowry contains many symbols in the book to show why memories are important in a person 's life.

Have you ever wondered where the perception takes place in The Giver and in sorry wrong number? “Sorry, Wrong Number” author is Lucille Fletcher and the author for The Giver is Lois Lowery.In “Sorry, Wrong Number” the perception changes when Mrs. Stevenson husband Elbert was not home. In The Giver Jonas perception changes when he became receiver of memory.The Giver perception changes when he says that things must change.I think that The Giver and “Sorry,Wrong Number” parts of their story can actually happen in reality.

The main goals of these scenes were mainly showing the tension between Sam Spade, Cairo and Brigid O’Shaungessy. As from the very first scene, the audiences could tell the nervous of Cairo when he came into Sam’s house alone; after O’Shaungessy started to talk with Cairo, the scene showed the smart and tricky of O’Shaungessy by looking at her facial expression. While at the same time, Sam was more like a role of observer who sees through everything and being suspicious about what both O’Shaungessy and Cairo were talking about.

Schools whose students read The Giver have parents, especially of younger kids say it’s dangerous to expose the children to a book who have negative themes presented in a positive light. In the novel, the community has chosen to transition into Sameness, stunting the growth and the creation of a distinct identity for each member of the community. A person cannot express themselves freely in the community and individuality is shunned and everything in the community is controlled by the higher ups. This leads to having no emotion or feeling towards others whatsoever as well as the targeting of different people to be “released” as infants. The people of the community chose to forget memories of the past to avoid feeling pain as well as any other emotion, Jonas is exposed to memories for the first time when he is appointed as the new Receiver, one who bares past memories, he is exposed to new feelings and experiences that lead him questioning the way his community is run (Hanson) (The Giver).

In the excerpt from, A Tale of Two Cities, the author Charles Dickens uses symbolism and alliterations to foreshadow the upcoming revolution and how much blood will be spilled because of

The nature of freedom is for all humans to inherit their imperative rights in order for them to pursue their passion and to delve into their unique paths of life. This is a society’s foundation to preserve the dignity of its members. Throughout Lois Lowry’s book, “the giver”, the community’s concept of freedom is portrayed in a variety of abnormal ways. She shows us what happens to a group of people whom got their freedom stripped away from their lives to live as robots, due to their inhabitants in a dystopian society that restricts its people from acknowledging the true values of being a part of humanity. This idea is also explored in the song, “Imagine” by John Lennon, where the author gives the audience the ability to experience his conceptual

The book ¨The Giver¨ by Lois Lowry takes place in a utopian type world and is about a boy name Jones who is chosen for a job that only one person gets every couple of years and in this job he he is not able to talk to anybody about it. In the book Jones gets chosen for the job of the receiver of memories and in his job he has to take memories that only the giver and him are allowed to know about and the rest of the community is clueless about. When he starts to get these memories he becomes very curious about starts to test things in his community like not take his daily injection that stops the community from having feeling and from being able to see color. Jones in the book begins to become curious and wonder if what the community leaders

Be careful what you wish for. While some believe this cliché turn of phrase is reminiscent of a button or an old poster in the back of an English classroom, it can actually be distinguished as Dickensian. In the novel “Great Expectations” by Charles Dickens, the young Pip prioritizes wealth and power over morals and social responsibility, in hopes that wealth and power will turn him into a true gentleman. He thinks this way to woo Estella, whom he has been infatuated with since childhood. Throughout the novel he struggles to realize that financial and social status are not the foundation in which he should build his happiness. He does not fully develop this idea until late adulthood and in one moment, he comes to realization. He should have been wary of his desires