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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

A World With No Choice Imagine a world with no color, no weather, and no pain. The Giver by Lois Lowry is a book about a boy named Jonas who lives in a dull society where citizens feel no pain or emotions. Where the citizens see no color and there is not a lot of freedom. This can result in sadness or depression. Lois Lowry is warning the reader that if people are the same there will be no diversity. An example of conformity is that everyone has the same clothing. If no one can make their own decisions

The Giver I think Lois Lowry wrote the book the giver for some different reasons but it qoutes this was one of the main reasons she wrote it, “is the significance of memory to human life.” She is saying it's important to have memories. She was inspired by this when her dad was starting to forget things and starting to have memory loss. She was basically like the giver giving her dads memories back so he could remember again. Then she wondered would the world be better if there was no

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”