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Does your community have Traditions and Customs? Well, in the giver by Lois Lowry there are many Traditions and Customs for adults and kids. So in this essay there will be information about the ages like twelves and fives. There are many customs for ages zero through fives and here are some examples. When kids in Jonas community are born in a cretan year they are all the same age like if a child is born in January and one born on the last day of December they are both one automatically. When a child

In Lois Lowry’s book, the Giver, people live in a futuristic, colorless, emotionless, and uniform society. Those who live in the society, also called the community, is controlled intensely by countless rules with no memory of the past, which was more dangerous, yet exciting, than their current life. A common value that is held is to be precise with words. “Eventually, for a period of time, Asher stopped talking altogether, when he was three. “For a while,” the Chief Elder said, relating the story

March.9/16 The Giver Book Review JohnPaul Calimlim The Giver; written by Lois Lowry is a very compelling and well written novel that challenges the way humans view the general aspects of life. The novel, a work of contemporary fiction is about a boy named Jonas who lives in a utopian community; free of crime, pain and sadness. Jonas’ community has eliminated choice, and so everything in his community has been choosen for them. Citizens are assigned a role in the community at the age of twelve depending

How would you feel if you were not able to have a choice? Your spouse would be assigned; you can apply to have two children--one boy and one girl. What if there was no pain, poverty or suffering, this seems too good to be true. The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a boy named Jonas in a fictional utopia where the community, ruled by elders, implemented sameness and took away color to make the community ‘better’. Jonas is selected to be the Receiver, a job where you have to hold all the memories of the

Title: The Giver Author: Lois Lowry Illustrator: No illustrator Genre: The genre of the book is scientific fiction. It is scientific fiction because Lois Lowry made a setting where everything is unusual than the things we do now. There are birthmothers, rarely Receivers of Memory ( which Jonas turns out to be ), and other special jobs in the community center. Point of View: The point of view in the story is third person because if there was a first person, the narrator ( which is a person that is

Lois Lowry’s 1993 young adult novel “The Giver” captured audiences worldwide with its fascinating characters and dystopian society. The book was long due a film adaption, which finally came in 2014 from director Phillip Noyce. While critics remained mixed about the film itself, the movie offers a decent adaption of its source material, keeping in mind its original themes of pain, pleasure, and memory, but strays away in certain areas. Both the film and novel carry the same themes that have made

Expository Essay Through our society we are all raised up to be independent and unique individuals such as being ourselves and expressing who each of us are to the world. However, in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, everyone is raised to count on one another and everyone must look and act the same. Our society differs from Jonas’s in many ways, such as the family units, birthdays, and the way we each learn about our past.

Lois Lowry’s dystopian story, “ The Giver” takes places in a time when nobody has the past to look to, no memories. Also, this takes place in a society where they choose where you work and how you look. The main character that goes through this all is Jonas. One lesson this novel teaches us is that memory is very important and everyone needs memory to survive. In the beginning of this book, it tells that reader that their feelings arent the same. At the dinner table Lily ( Jonas’ sister) is “angry”

“The Giver”, by Lois Lowry, is a great book. The book has many spectacular events and the movie too. I was wondering how the book and the movie compare to the author's main idea, “The price for perfection is too high and that it is not enough”. The book and the movie has many similarities. One of the main ones I noticed was that right away was how during the ceremony of twelve Jonas was skipped. In both presentations he was skipped and then came back to at the end to be selected, recognized and

The giver by Lois Lowry was an interesting book to say the least. In the beginning you are lead to believe these are normal kids and characters, possibly in the future, but in pretty much the same state of mind as our definition of “human” today. As the book goes on, you are slowly let in on details, like the characters can not see color, and that the parents are not biological parents, and everything is organized and decided for the characters in the book. The author did a great job of slowly bringing