The Giver By Lois Lowry
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Report on Book Review: The Giver
Maryam Khalifa Al-Hitmi
201201540
Qatar University
English 151 – G. L55
Dr. John Herlihy
1- Write a summary in your own words highlighting the main features of the book.
This book is written by Lois Lowry, a prominent writer of modern time. The title, "The Giver" is a novel which is a science fiction and intended for the children. The book was first published in the year of 1993.
The story is about a young boy named Jonas who lives in an imaginary society for the future where each one has a task, a spouse and children. Though children are born to their mothers, the mothers are not expected to look after them. When Jonas is grown up, he is given an important task to carry out. He faces a challenge in the society for saving an innocent girl, Gabriel, who is intended to release by her parents. Jonas takes it seriously and wants to save her. He leaves his home, job, and family to save the child and faces the harsh reality. In Jonas’s community release indicates death which is implicit. In his society everything seems to be planned and well ...
In this essay, the author
- Explains that "the giver" is a science fiction novel written by lois lowry.
- Analyzes how the story is about a young boy named jonas, who lives in an imaginary society for the future where each one has an important task to carry out.
- Analyzes how the society assigns jonas an uphill task of receiver of memory, which enriches his life and makes it more enjoyable and purposeful.
- Analyzes how jonas is the main character of the book who has grabbed my entire attention for many reasons.
- Explains that the giver is a thoughtful and well-presented story that you won't regret reading. it's one of the most thought-provoking novels for children ever written.
- Praises 's writing style and the way she describes everything vividly that hasn't happened at all, may one day come into reality.
- Recommends this book to anyone who likes a great book because it really causes you to think about the society and the way things should be, which is important in developing opinions.
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- The Giver, by Lois Lowryopinion essay“The Giver” a novel by Lois Lowry (1993), is an, engaging science fiction tale that provides the reader with examples of thought provoking ethical and moral quandaries. It is a novel geared to the young teenage reader but also kept me riveted. Assigning this novel as a class assignment would provide many opportunities for teachers and students to discuss values and morals.
In this essay, the author
- Opines that lois lowry's "the giver" is an engaging science fiction tale that provides the reader with examples of thought provoking ethical and moral quandaries.
- Analyzes how jonas is part of a family that is not his biological family since spouses and children must be applied for. the last scene of the book is ambiguous, giving the reader two interpretations
- Analyzes how jonas is an empathetic person who questions the validity of the rules and their morality. he learns that the whole community is kept calm based on lies, rigidity, and intolerance.
- Opines that a world without pain, hunger, loss or war would be worth sacrificing freedom, color, beauty and love even if it required the death of those who don’t fit in.
- Opines that people should have the freedom to make their own decisions, even if they might make the wrong ones.
- Introduces jonas, a well-behaved young boy who follows the guidelines without thinking about them.
- Recommends using the book to enhance a unit on genetic engineering or genetic disorders.
- Opines that the book is a riveting story that can expose students to great moral values.
- Explains lowry, l., and lickona, t. educating for character: how our schools can teach respect and responsibility.
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In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how lois lowry's the giver is about a young boy who is reaching his twelfth year and his hesitation to know what assignment (career) he will be given.
- Explains that the setting of lowry's the giver is a fictional world with no countries or states, just the communities. the narration is stylised in the third person, creating an overseeing effect.
- Analyzes how individuality is not depicted in the giver as the society and the communities are all the "same".
- Analyzes how jonas "lives" in a society where they believe they have the power of freedom.
- Analyzes how memories shape jonas' coming of age story in the giver. the novel paper towns by john green is similar in nature to the novel.
- Analyzes how jonas' coming of age couldn't have been aided with various topics, such as the importance of being an individual and how that shapes a person, and the power that comes with freedom and responsibility.
1129 wordsRead More - The Giver by Lois Lowryanalytical essay“What happened ten years ago?” Jonas asked. The main character in Lois Lowry novel, The Giver is Jonas, who lives in a Dystopian Society. The problem he forces is that he realizes that the community is hiding many secrets such as what release truly is. During the course of the story Jonas became conscious of what his community is doing to his life. Jonas inherited many different types traits, learning many life lessons and enduring horrible secrets from the community. He thoroughly shows that he was proud of what he is accomplishing such as becoming receiver, sympathetic toward the cruel tactics of releasing the innocent or the guilty, and curious to know how his life is going to change after being presented with his job in the society.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how jonas felt a mixture of different emotions after stopping taking the stirrings pills, one of them being sympathy. he was easily affected and heartbroken from watching his father release the poor infant.
- Analyzes how jonas gradually became proud throughout the course of the story, through thick and thin. he felt a great degradation in him, since his number is never said to receive his job.
- Analyzes how jonas showed his inner self through the story with the help of the giver, and these magnificent traits are curiosity, to know and to improve his strength.
- Analyzes how jonas, the main character in lois lowry's novel, lives in a dystopian society and learns many life lessons and enduring horrible secrets from the community.
687 wordsRead More - Lois Lowry, the author of the book The Giver, often portrays her young protagonists from her experience as a child. Lowry was born on March 20, 1937 (Dellinger). During her early life, she was very interested in reading and was very solitary (Dellinger). This is where she got her idea to become an author. Lowry went on to pursue her dream of writing at Brown University (Dellinger). After graduating, she went back to college at the University of Southern Maine to further study writing (Dellinger). Lowry married a Naval officer and together they had four children (Dellinger). Lowry often used her children's escapades as inspiration for her books (Dellinger). Continuing on, The Giver is a story about a young boy named Jonas who lives in a dystopian society (Hanson). Jonas is different, though, because unlike the others in the community, he has the ability to see color and retain memories such as war, snow, and even a sunburn (Hanson). To sum up, Lois Lowry uses foreshadowing, setting, and symbolism in The Giver to portray the theme man vs. society.
In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how lois lowry, of the giver, uses foreshadowing, setting, and symbolism to portray the theme of man vs. society.
- Analyzes how lowry uses foreshadowing in the story to show the reader that jonas is breaking free of his community's "brainwash".
- Analyzes how the setting expresses the theme man vs. society. jonas lives in a dystopian society, which is strictly made up of rules and rituals, and the people are colorblind.
- Analyzes how lowry uses symbolism in the story to portray the theme, man vs. society.
- Analyzes how lois lowry describes the theme man vs. society by using elements foreshadowing, setting, and symbolism. imagine what if americans had their freedoms stripped from them like jonas and his community did.
- Analyzes how the utopian function of memory in lois lowry's the giver is explained.
- Analyzes lord, elyse's "overview of the giver." novels for students. vol. 3. n.p., n.d.
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In this essay, the author
- Explains that kathryn stockett's the help is about aibileen, a black maid, who is taking care of her 17th white baby. skeeter phelan thinks that blacks aren't all that bad.
- Analyzes how aibileen, minny, and skeeter are different from each other.
- Analyzes how skeeter wants to change how blacks are treated in mississippi. she wants aibileen to help her with the miss myrna articles.
- Analyzes the meanings of ten words in the book, such as naacp, bathroom, and satchel.
- Analyzes the connotative meanings of hilly, aibileen, and the league, which is a group of white women who try to do things right for the city.
- Quotes aibileen as saying that she doesn't mind having baby girl on her legs. white women have a white colored skin, while blacks are people who give them their paycheck.
- Analyzes how displays first-person points of view in the story. aibileen, minny, and skeeter all focus on their feelings.
- Analyzes how kathryn stockett does a very good job with ordering the events. she doesn't have one event and have all three people's point of view.
- Opines that kathryn stockett's the help is an amazing book. the characters skeeter, aibileen, and minny are different people, but somehow, they manage to become close friends.
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In this essay, the author
- Introduces kathryn stockett's the help, a story about three women in jacksonville, mississippi, aibileen, minny, and skeeter.
- Analyzes how skeeter and aibileen teamed up to write a book of true stories about their experiences as the ‘help’ to the white women of jackson, mississippi and the entire country.
- Analyzes how stockett was trying to show that racial prejudice corrupted society and separated communities through violence and judgments toward people of a different color.
- Analyzes how kathryn stockett's novel explores the worst of the false stereotypes about black people that they are lazy, dirty, carry diseases, and are in general less intelligent and less valuable than whites.
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In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how jonas feels trapped in this numb, heartless world and feels he needs to escape. he undergoes a journey to figure out how life was before him.
- Compares jonas' society and modern day society, stating that the word love is used so little that it's almost obsolete.
- Compares jonas' society and modern day society in that they experience sameness.
- Analyzes how jonas' father was given an unusual job by the committee, and whether or not he liked it, had to keep it. modern society is not assigned jobs.
- Concludes that jonas is set in a society which at first appears utopian but later revealed to be dystopian as the story ends.
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In this essay, the author
- Analyzes margaret atwood's "happy endings" as a story about stereotypical gender roles and the pursuit of love in the middle class with dreams of romance and marriage.
- Analyzes how atwood gives the reader an extremely basic outline of a story with characters john and mary in plotline a. she adds more detail and depth to the characters and their stories.
- Analyzes how atwood emphasizes the mundane and conventional lives in which john and mary live, constructing ordinary individuals to represent the middle class.
- Analyzes how atwood demonstrates middle class, gender-specific roles with more details given in this plot to introduce the struggles people go through in life.
- Opines that plots a, d and e are not as thought-provoking and do not provide as much detail or backstory as b and c. john and mary had a good life together once, fred and madge lived happily until natural disaster occurred.
- Analyzes how the roles are reversed when john is married to madge but in love with mary. mary sleeps with him out of pity but does not love him; she eventually has an affair with james who is younger and more fun.
- Analyzes how fred and madge's story moves along at the same pace as in plot a, except for a major negative event. they survive the tidal wave and their lives continue on.
- Opines that the plots that are riddled with sorrow, anguish, depression, murder and death are the most interesting. the characters who experience no complications are monotonous and unexciting.
- Analyzes how atwood leaves the reader with many questions unanswered, such as how did john and madge meet?
- Analyzes how atwood describes the characters in plots a, d, and e. the dialogue between mary and her friends is minimal and john and mary represent middle-class gender-specific roles.
- Analyzes how atwood's intent is for us to assume the stereotypes of the middle class and apply what we know the story.
- Analyzes how atwood tells readers that what happens in life is not all-important, but how it happens and why it happened is what makes a story out of life.
- Analyzes how atwood communicates directly to her readers at the conclusion of the story in plotline f. she tests the stereotypical classification of men and women to the reader.
- Analyzes how atwood's "happy endings" retells the same characters stories several times over, never deviating from clichéd gender roles while detailing the pursuit of love and life and a happy ending in the middle class.
- Opines that atwood suggests that we shouldn't spend so much time trying to get to the "happy ending" and should be more concerned about what's going on in the middle.
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In this essay, the author
- Explains kasworm, rose, a. d., and ross-gordon, j. m. handbook of adult and continuing education.
- Analyzes how kathryn stockett's the help tells a story of the struggles that african american women experienced in the early 1960s through the eyes of some southern african-american maids.
- Analyzes how skeeter's learning process can be analyzed through the study of malcolm knowles' andragogy.
- Analyzes how skeeter's internal desire to discover what happened to her nanny constantine helps with self-reflection and growth.
- Cites merriam, caffarella, & baumgartner, in learning in adulthood: a comprehensive guide (3rd ed.).
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In this essay, the author
- Analyzes how the giver is about a boy named jonas who was chosen to be the community's next receiver of memory.
- Compares asher and fiona's assignments in the book, the giver, and the movie, stating the difference between the two.
- Explains that jonas and the previous receivers of memory had one thing in common, and that was having light eyes.
- Compares the role of the chief elder in the giver book and the movie.
- Concludes that the giver book and movie are very different from each other. asher and fiona's assignments helped jonas in the movie.
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