The Giver

experience this nature, what if you were captivated, and you had no right to rebel, to go against such place. Well, such events occurred in Louis Lowry's utopian book called Giver, Jonas who lives in a community of conformity, where individuality isn't expressed. When Jonas gets the job as the Receiver, he then starts to spend time with Giver, was he sees memories, and also learns the dangerous truths of his community. When, then he seeks rebellion, and goes and risks his life, to help return everyone in

own children and are to take care of someone else’s children. Visualize a world where everyone is the same, except you. In The Giver by Louis Lowery, Jonas is different in ways he cannot change. His alienation reveals the surrounding society’s assumptions and moral values about individuality, memory, and emotions -in order to achieve sameness? The society in The Giver is based on sameness, which in order to achieve sameness individualism is discouraged, and rules and discipline matter most.

How did the absence in color and Jonas’s ability to see color contribute to the theme? In the novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry, is told by the eyes of a third person, about a life of a male named Jonas who is living in a community without suffering, color, fights, and pain. Both of his parents held a job in the community, Jonas’s father, a Nurturer, took care of newborns and one of them was a male named Gabriel, whereas his mother, who held a prominent position at the Department of Justice, punished

Lois Lowry’s original novel ‘The Giver,’ is indeed honoured by the film adaptation, directed by Phillip Noyce, although in the film, it doesn’t do great justice to the deeper understandings and morals behind the original plot. However, both adaptations do share the same messages that relate to sameness being an awfully sinister way to rule a society, despite being portrayed in both texts as an ethical, utopic way to live. Accordingly, this demonstrates that achieving a perfect utopian paradise is

Can you truly achieve perfection? The Giver by Lois Lowry follows a twelve year old boy named Jonas who learns how imperfect his community really is. After receiving a new job Jonas’ eyes are opened to how horribly the community treats its citizens. Jonas’ experiences develop a theme over the course of The Giver by teaching the reader that the truth hurts. Although some readers may believe that knowing the truth is always the best option Jonas’ experiences show that some aspects of his life have

Billie Jo. Otherwise, Jonas is a boy that lives a secure community. In the book The Giver, His story is filled with lots of emotions. Both of their lives are different, while there thoughts and personality are pretty

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

After reading The Giver, it can be understood that our world and their community has many differences, but there are also some similarities. In this fictional world, the government’s main goal is sameness. For that to happen there had to be some changes in the community and the people that lived there. This community, was meant to be an Utopian society, way different from our world, but as the time had passed. The perspective of looking at it changed in a dramatic way after more and more differences

E.E Cummings, a famous American poet from the mid-1900s, once said, “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” In The Giver by Lois Lowry, the main character Jonas makes the right decision by choosing to take Gabriel and running from the community. His courageous act helped Gabriel, benefited himself, and assisted the community. When Jonas makes his brave choice, he transitions from a child to an adult. First, Jonas’s decision to leave was correct because it saved Gabriel from

emotions. Imagine living in that kind of a community. Would it be hard for modern day people, or would it be easy for modern day people? In addition, in the novel The Giver by: Lois Lowry, Jonas becomes the new receiver, but he had a lot of obstacles along the way. He had to see some of the very little bad parts of the world, by The Giver giving him them memories. The memories were tough for him to take in, because he had never seen them before. So, he went of with his little “brother” Gabriel to find