As I was riding my bike fast, through the streets, I came to a halting stop when I finally arrived at the Annex. Before entering, I wondered what memory I would receive today, whether it will be painful, or exciting. With an unwelcoming, heavy metal door I pressed the button, said my name, and the door swung open. I rushed down the stairs seeing only the same red books that I saw yesterday. I also saw The Giver in pain, sort of yelling, but not so loud. I sprinted to him and said, “Giver, give me the painful memory that is hurting you.” “Jonas it’s too soon, you’re not ready.” “But Giver I am ready, and I want to take away the pain that is hurting you now!” “Ok, if you really want to Jonas, here lie down on the couch, and prepare yourself” …show more content…
Up high in the sky (somehow moving), I can see a vibrant color. I can’t think of a word for the color but it was as beautiful as ever, so bright and full of life. Then I woke, I was back in reality, and the The Giver asked me what I saw, and I told him it almost looked like a color. He asked me what the color was called, and I didn’t know. Then, all of a sudden the color came to me like I had known it my whole life! Blue. The color was a vibrant blue, but why was the whole area blue, with huge cotton balls. The Giver then told me they were not big cotton balls, but clouds. With the “clouds” and then color “blue” there formed a sky. White puffy clouds, in a big blue sky. So, now that I knew what the beautiful color was, I went back in the wondrous memory. As I was enjoying the bright blue sky, there was a crash, and screech noise, so loud, shrieking, piercing my ears. Oh, the pain there was, objects moving everywhere, I didn’t know where to look. The people screaming and crying out for help, no where to go. I was so scared, but I didn’t want to leave, I needed to know what was …show more content…
Instead I saw a white and black color, called “grey”. As everyone breathed heavily, grey smoke filled the the wonderful sky, and our plane came crashing downward. Fast, we were falling, people were crying, smoke was filling the air, as people died. I couldn’t handle seeing this. Stunned, I then heard gunshots, there were killers, killing everyone. There more and more people getting killed by the second. Then we crashed. I awoke and couldn’t believe what had happened. The Giver told me there was a little more to experience, even though I didn’t want to go back to that awful place, I needed to finish the memory. So, I layed back down once more. I was there again, trapped in the crashed plane, but there came people that helped survivors out which, in fact, there was only one survivor, me. I came out of the plane, and saw towers, and buildings were knocked down. People dead everywhere, it was truly the worst thing I have ever seen. There was smoke everywhere, and people rushing me out of the place, telling me to get out and run fast. I did as told and ran away with my shirt covering my nose and mouth coughing up all the ashes, dirt, debri, and
... in the sky, described as a bright color change to a “sad universal tint of dingy purple” (216).
In The Giver, a narrative by Lois Lowry, Jonas’s father illustrates his feelings during his Ceremony of Twelve and Jonas tells about his own feelings concerning the forthcoming event. In the text it states, “‘But to be honest, Jonas,’ his father said, ‘for me there was not the element of suspense that there is with your ceremony. Because I was already fairly certain of what my Assignment was to be,’”(Lowry, paragraph 3). This segment of text elucidates the reason of Jonas’s father’s lack of surprise of his Assignment. As stated above, Jonas’s father was already certain of his Assignment, which he continues to explain to be a Nurturer. Jonas’s father explains that as a result of the love he showed all the Newchildren and the time he spent at
The Giver The Giver portrays three very important themes. One of which is we should always question something we don’t agree with, the other being we are all individual and being individual is a good thing and the last one being love is important and needed to help you get through the rough times in life. Some people might not realize one of these themes but once they do the way they look at themselves, others and the world changes. Examples of these themes are evident throughout the story and Lois Lowry does a great job emphasizing them.
Unlike the younger hunter, Phenix was old enough to control his high metabolism, to pace the rate at which his body burned through fuel, but after the change, he too needed to eat.
The previous week they had performed the spell successfully. After contacting Mordred, Merlin and Morgana had arranged to meet him and Aglain, the leader of the druid camp, in the woods near a small waterfall, halfway between Camelot and the grave of Gorlois. Morgana always went on her annual pilgrimage to her father's tomb at this time of the year, at the end of spring.
He walked around feeling carefree and enlightened. The bright yellov/ of the sun complementing the green ofthe trees so nicely. He had never felt this way, after all, some people see them just as colors, but not him. He associated these images with feelings. Then he looked down at another person.
When people learn new things, they tend to alter their opinions. Lois Lowry's The Giver, very well describes how the change of opinions in people happens. Jonas, a special eleven-year-old boy changes his opinions about his community's rules when he meets The Giver, a wise old man. The Giver teaches Jonas new things and gradually, his opinion about the rules in the community alter. Jonas feels the rules are important at the beginning and at the end, Jonas feels the rules aren't right for people.
I thought that I was dead man the second I jumped out considering the fall but survived. Due to my heroic actions, I was globally recognized but wasn't enough to replace the leg I lost in the fall. Now the prosthetic leg I wear today reminds me of all those people who were scared and bleeding out because of the fire. Everyone around me...in awe...burned... or just dead. The ones who survived had ran from the scene not knowing which way to go because it all happened to fast. Everything... POOF!...gone...all in a blazing infernal which is now known as the Hindenburg disaster. I may have lost a leg that day... but the one things it really took away was my drive. The drive to fly great distances and want to ever be like a bird in the sky again. Death when unmasked shows us a friendly face and is a terror only at a distance.
Imagine a place where there is no color, no choice, a place where individuality and freedom has been traded for sameness and security. Lowry has created such a place in the novel The Giver. This place, or rather community, is presumed to be in the future and is supposed to be a utopia where everyone conforms to the rules. The citizens have no connection with their past or what they have given up. There are only two people who can remember. One is the Giver and the other is the Receiver of Memory. These two people are the main characters in this story. The Giver is an old man that the council of elders turns to when they have a problem. He listens to their proposals and then tells them what they should do by basing his decisions on the
The Giver is a futuristic novel that was written by Lois Lowry. She wrote the book shortly after the First Gulf War. Lowry writes about an ultramodern utopian civilization with strict rules and guide lines. In this society people don’t have the basic feelings and do not have the free will to choose for them self. When one boy receives the ability to do all of these things it could change all culture in the society. His ability put to the test and he might not be ready to survive. The story is written from the third person point of view because the narrator is telling the reader what is happening only through what Jonas thinks and sees. Because the reader doesn’t know what others are thinking, they don’t know if others are feeling the
I can't remember the memories the Giver gave me!” More specifically, Jonas could recall what the memories were about, but he couldn’t remember what the memories were like; the feelings, the color, the smell, the taste, the sight, or the touch. Jonas was relieved to be able to remember his life back at the community. He could remember the people who he had once called family. He remembered Asher and Fiona.
The Giver by Lois Lowry is the book where people in the community have no memories and no experience. The citizens have no connection with their past and they can't remember things then they cannot remember pain and its as they never experience it in the first place. Jonas is the only one who sees other people's experiences. The memories are taken away from the people. Jonas is the only one who experiences the memories because of his job as the Receiver of Memories.
My name is Heidi, no need to say I am in English Department, Faculty of Alsun. As our main theme is Utopia and Dystopia novels I tried to find a novel that combines between them both, which is The Giver (1993) by Lois Lowry. Through my research, I tried to illustrate that the claim that Dystopia and Utopia are the each other’s opposite is not merely true. In other words, they are both subjective. Even though they have their own definitions, what to one person may consider ideal, might be another person’s nightmare.
I woke up to the pungent smell of hospital disinfect, invading my nostrils. The room was silent apart from my heavy breathing and the beep beep sound you often hear in hospitals that indicates you're alive. I slowly opened my eyes, squinting in attempt to sharpen the blurred images before me. I glanced around and took in the deserted, blue and white colour schemed hospital bedroom. How long have I been here? I shut my eyes, trying to remember what had exactly happened. Then it all hits me with a bang. The memory of it all starts to occupy my thoughts.
The flight to London felt like it took forever, we were all so tired and just wanted to take a shower and go to bed, but we had to get off that plane and get on another going to Scotland. When we finally landed in Scotland, I couldn’t believe I was actually in a foreign country, I was so excited. The first thing I did when we landed in Scotland was to look through the window, of course what I saw were other airplanes and men running around getting luggage and showing planes to the terminal. After we got all of our luggage and the rental car, we walked outside, as I looked around, I could see so much green in the distance; so many different colors of green. I had never seen so much beauty in one place.