Dickin Medal

In Equality 7-2521’s society is it a sin to be by yourself at all, have opinions, or any sense of individuality. The word “I” does not exist in their society since the Great Rebirth. They refer to themselves as the “Great WE” at all times and live in the Dark Age, which consists of nothing from the “Unmentionable Times.” The main issue throughout the book is Equality 7-2521’s desire to be named a “Scholar” by the Council of Vocations, but instead, he gets assigned a street sweepers job for life.

In the fictional universe that Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, is set in, all ideas of uniqueness have been done away with. People can no longer see colors. Community members are encouraged to use precise language only, to the point that concepts like love are considered antiquated and obsolete. People cannot experience things such as music. The weak, such as underweight newborns and the elderly, are “released”, or euthanized. Individuality is not only illegal, it is extinct. One would wonder why

"The Giver" was written in 1993 by Lois Lowry, won the Newbery medal, and many people around the world loved it. The movie was made in 2014, received the People's Choice Award, and was also loved by many adults, teenagers, and children. Though the movie did a pretty good job of following the book, there were some differences. These differences include characters' jobs and personalities, and other details or scenes from the story that were left out or added in. However the question is which one was

In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas lives in what he thought was a perfect world where no one makes their own choices and is assigned their job, family, and spouse. The community hates uniqueness and will go to extreme measures to make sure everyone is the same. To achieve this Sameness, emotions, color, and memories of the past have ceased to exist from their world, unless you are the Receiver. Jonas becomes the Receiver, who is given memories of the past from The Giver to help them gain

Imagine a world without any pain, any complexities, and everything that makes life bitter. But imagine that world where they sacrifice color, common holidays, freedom, music, and the true meaning of life to make life safe and easy. In The Giver, a book written by Lois Lowry, Jonas is the one person who stopped all of this and gave all those painful and amusing memories back to the people in the community by leaving the community. Jonas did the right thing due to the fact that the community needs

The Actual Giver Imagine yourself in a world without feelings, colors, and basic things in our world. That is called sameness-- a word all too familiar to the people in a community. The Giver by Lois Lowry is the basis of this topic. The genre of The Giver is science fiction. The story is set in a place that has sameness. The community has receivers and the elders of the community pick jobs or assignments that the younger people of the community do for the rest of their lives. There is a twelve

Author, Ellen Raskins created “The Westing Game;” a murder mystery set in Sunset Towers, Westing Town, Wisconsin, 1978. The eight pairs of heirs set out to solve who murdered Samuel W. Westing in this lively, intriguing story. Barney Northrup mails out six letters to the already chosen tenants of Sunset Towers, delivered by the 62-year old delivery boy, Otis Amber, on July fourth. All six respond, all six set up appointments and all six receivers buy an apartment. Scary stories are exchanged on

The dystopian novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry was a great suspenseful book read by our class. Although Lois Lowry wrote a great novel, we will forever be mad at her. The author uses great suspense throughout the novel and then leads us into a dead end. Even though you have your own theory, the true end will never be told. Jonas is dead. At the end of The Giver, we experience a part of the book where we are forced to produce our own theory of Jonas’ fate. Jonas is dead and saw the lights and gates

Imagine you were in a world where everything was completely controlled. Everything you knew and love followed a distinct set of rules, and if broken, they would disappear. Would you feel attacked, would you feel as if your very rights were violated, or would you feel nothing at all? This world would seem very dystopian to you, right? Let’s just say, you were born in this world, and you knew nothing of rights, nothing of your own reality; would you still feel the same way? This situation is described

In The Giver by Lois Lowry, we uncover the life of Jonas and his society in an isolated utopian. The story takes place in a society that aims for perfection, but when imperfect humans are involved that is sure to fail. There is no memory of any past events and there is no pain. All of the citizens look alike because there are no differences. Music, love, and color are not permitted but then again no one even knows what they are. The main characters in the novel are Jonas, a young boy who is selected