THE GIVER Safety and sameness are important, but not as important as creativity and freedom of actions. In Lois Lowry's book The Giver, Jonas, a boy who is chosen to be The Receiver, is wondering the same thing. When Jonas is chosen to be The Receiver he is stunned and scared of the knowledge he will obtain. While Jonas is collecting knowledge from The Giver, we in our own society are pondering over our own freedoms. In The Giver there is no freedom of choice, there is no fun, you have your assigned
The Giver is a book written by Lois Lowry. This book is very intriguing. The end of the book leaves us wondering where the main character, Jonas, is headed. Lois Lowry is a great author. She was able to make the book come alive. Even though it was confusing at some parts, all the mysteries worked out in the end. Except for if Jonah was alive. The ending of this book is a cliffhanger. It leaves us wondering, where is Jonas and if he is still alive. There is enough evidence, though, at the end of the
Knowledge 1. The Giver is a post- apocalyptic and dystopian book. The setting takes place in an isolated utopian community. The date is not specified in The Giver however it takes place in the future. Comprehension 1. If there had been one more chapter in the book, I think it will go as follows. It is an average day for the community, the children are at school or volunteering and the parents are at their jobs. Suddenly a cool sensation approaches them. A sensation that was never felt before
“Civil Disobedience: refusal to obey governmental demands or commands especially as a nonviolent and usually collective means of forcing concessions from the government” - Merriam-Webster's Dictionary Definition In the novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas lives in a society with no homelessness, no racism, and no war but at what cost? No one in this Community has feelings because of the pills the leaders of this society make them take. But no one minds because they don’t know they have options
I have been fortunate enough to read the wonderful story of The Giver by Lois Lowry. I found this novel very interesting and eye-opening from the minute I picked it up. The story began in a place where Jonas and his friends and family live. It is the community of Sameness where scientists have worked to control and maintain a world where everything is in perfect order and nothing is unexpected. Jonas' family, like all other families in the community, includes a caring mother and father and two children
happiness. In The Giver written by Lois Lowry, the characters all believe they live in an utopian society and there is no better place or way to live. The main character, Jonas, believes that there must be another way to live with love and happiness. On the day of turning twelve, Jonas is assigned the job of Receiver of Memory. Through his journey, he learns memories of the past and how it used to be with love and joy but also pain and suffering. At the beginning of The Giver, Jonas is apprehensive
I had asked for. The Giver by Lois Lowry is a book I will never forget. The book begins in a world of no confrontation, no color and no emotional depth, only order and rules followed by all of society, and a daily injection that’s said to be for their health. Jonas, a twelve-year-old boy attends an assignment ceremony along with all the other “twelves” where he is given the unique job of becoming “The receiver of memory”. Here, he begins his training with the current giver for their Utopia. Jonas
The Giver onas lives in a "perfect" world where war, disease, and suffering have all been eradicated. Everything is in order; everything is under control. The people have no worries or cares. The Community strives for "sameness," in which everyone and everything are the same and equal. To help the Community function as a cohesive unit, each member is assigned a position in society. When Jonas turns twelve, the Community selects him to be the new "Receiver of Memories." Only the "Giver" knows
Summary The Giver This book is about a boy names Jonas. Jonas lives in a futuristic society where there is no pain, fear, war, and hatred. There is also no prejudice, since everyone looks and acts basically the same, there is very little competition. They have also eliminated choice. You have to apply for a spouse. You cannot just chose who you want and marry them, the community does it for you. His dad works as a Nurturer of new children, and his mom works at the Department of Justice. He also
the pleasure in living. If you do not feel the loss of losing someone close to you, you never felt the love. If you do not know what is wrong, you will not know what is right. Yet, the people who live in Jonas’s community, presented by the book The Giver, by Lois Lowry, have lived peacefully without all the pain, suffering, loss, and wrongdoings. Everything was just…perfect. But soon Jonas realizes the truth: You really cannot live a good life without pain; the pain makes the other things in life worth
The Giver The Giver is about a boy named Jonas who lives in the future in an almost perfect community. Jonas is chosen to be the person who carries all the memories of the past, given to him by the giver. It is by Lois Lowry. There are many good and bad things in the Giver. Some good things are that hardly anyone gets hurt. When people do get hurt they take a pill and the pain goes right away. No one ever breaks bones or anything. There are no criminals, and there are no locks on any homes or
Jonas’s community. In the book The Giver Jonas and his community is living with no personal rights. I believe that the inhabitants of Jonas’s community and Jonas should be given personal rights. The community should be given personal rights because they can learn from their mistakes, to have memory and to have emotions. Those are the reasons why I believe that the community should be given personal rights. The first reason why the community in the book The Giver should be given personal rights is
The Giver takes place in the future and the location is never disclosed. I feel that the author did not disclose the information because he wanted to leave the destination up to the reader’s imagination. It is written from the view of Jonas, an eleven year old boy who is part of a small community who lives a very structured life without the choice of options and decisions. Thus we are limited in only knowing what he knows and experiences. I think telling the story in his perspective adds mystery
line. If we delay a decision, the opportunity is gone forever. Sometimes our doubts keep us from making a choice that involves change. Thus an opportunity may be missed.” Once, the famous John Newbery Award was awarded to the spectacular novel The Giver by Lois Lowry in 1994. In the novel, the protagonist Jonas, became what is known the receiver of memories. For Jonas, he has dealt with problems inside the dystopia everyone thought that it was a perfect utopia. He finds out that a baby named Gabriel
He was a peaceful looking man, with a large round belly and rosy red cheeks. Jonas couldn’t help but smile as he stared at the gentle looking figure. The man looked down at the freezing pair. He noticed Jonas’ trembling blue lips and the tiny shaking bundle of blanket that was Gabriel. The man immediately invited Jonas into his home and screamed for his wife to grab blankets and hot chocolate. Jonas sat shyly bundled in blankets as all of the strangers around him whispered to each other about him
Book Report - The Giver The Giver by Louis Lowry was published in 1993. I did not choose this book it was recommended to me I classify this book as an inner adventure. As in Jonas goes through an emotional metamorphosis (if you will) Jonas lives in a community where pain, rudeness, and war are non-existent. All children undergoes a ceremony in December every year until they reach twelve years of age, at which point they receive their Assignments, the jobs they will perform as adults. A committee
The Giver - Main Character Jonas, the main character in The Giver by Lois Lowry, is a very strong person, which allows him to go farther in life then the people that surround him. Throughout Jonas's life he has known nothing but "sameness". He lives in a Utopian community where there are no choices and everyone in his world has their lives laid out for them. But, Jonas is given the job of "Receiver of Memory". He alone knows the truths of the world, a world with colors, pain, and choices. What he
One of the first things Jonas notices about the Giver is that he seems somewhat set apart from everybody else. In the novel, the author writes “…and the Chief Elder’s eyes were now on the one who sat in the midst but seemed oddly separate from them. It was a man Jonas had never noticed before, a bearded man with pale eyes. He was watching Jonas intently. (Lowry 60-61)” The next day, when Jonas has to report for training, he meets the Giver and starts fumbling on his words. He keeps tripping up then
term The Giver refers to the old man, the former receiver who transfers all his memories to Jonas. The names giver and receiver remind us that memories are meant to be shared, the function of the old man is not holding memories but passing them from one person to another. That is why the title is not memory keepers' .The old man becomes the giver as Jonas becomes the receiver. Jonas also becomes the giver when he transfers his memories to Gabriel. But more interestingly, Jonas becomes the giver when
The Giver by: Lois Lowry Jonas lives in a dystopian world where the government centuries before have taken away memories taking away destruction, danger, and pain, but also color, music, and art. Jonas starts seeing changings for only an instant and stirring( emotional dreams that the government couldn’t destroy so the people have to take pills). Jonas is then chosen to be the receiver, a job where Jonas must receive the memories of the world from the giver( the one who holds the memories). He has