Lois Lowry

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

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

Lois Lowry wrote The Giver in 1993, which won the John Newberry Medal. She developed many themes in her writing. One of the themes are things aren't always as they appear. Character, setting, and plot all help this theme evolve. Character show the way Jonas feelings for the community change thus changing his character. Setting shows how Jonas learns about the lies the elders were telling therefore changing his opinion of the community thus also changing the setting. Plot gives an example of it influencing

In the novel The Giver, Lois Lowry insists that individual needs including choice, emotion, and diversity surpasse the needs of a community’s perfection involving sameness, organization, and “equality”. The Giver is an engaging book that truly drives you to wonder what is more important, individual or community needs? Lowry has Jonas flee his community because of the lack of individuality. A point Lowry makes in The Giver is about not having a choice surrounding your job, spouse, clothing, and

The Giver: Theme In The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the theme that the Lowry is trying to tell us that things aren’t always what they seem to be. For example, Jonas’s community may seem perfect, but in reality, many things are flawed in it. One example would be the lack of self-expression. Jonas’ community is adamant on switching to Sameness. Sameness is eliminating color, weather, landscapes, and other important properties. Switching to Sameness most importantly did away with color, resulting in the

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 by Lois Lowry tells the story of a young man growing up in a Utopia community where nothing bad happens. This story is told by the view of Jonas and his feelings throughout the story, the story itself happens through the eyes of Jonas. Jonas is born into a perfect community; Families are required to apply for children, married couples do not get to choose each other, they are matched to one another. Jonas lives in a perfect utopia where the Community of Elders controls everything beyond

Giver Essay Agustin Fitipaldi Bervejillo In the book The Giver, by Lois Lowry. The main character Jonas is not like others in his utopian community. He is a normal 12 year old boy and is living in the same old community of sameness. Until one day he gets selected to be the Receiver of Memory and begins to experience things on a different way because of the memories being transmitted to him. As the changes become more evident, Jonas begins to see flaws

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.