Risks In The Giver By Lois Lowry

In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, the receivers are the only people who have feelings and memories. The elders are the people who choose what the best is for their people in the community and sometimes they go to the receiver for help on making the right decisions. The people from the community do not see color, or have freedom on making a decision for them. There is no love, feelings, and grandparents. Jonas is assigned to be the next receiver of the community; He was trained by the giver, who transfers memories of the pain and pleasures of life, who also shows him the truth and reality that is hidden to the community. Jonas’s community does not represent the ideal of society because there are no choices or distinctions between men

Equality, the harsh rules, and the secrecy negatively impact society in The Giver and proves that if equality is wrongly understood, it can have a bad impact on society. The impacts are shown clearly in many ways throughout the beginning of the novel in the society. The citizens all have to go through a day when they are “a 12” when they get chosen for their jobs in the future. The protagonist named Jonas is chosen to a very special job named the receiver. The point of this job is to receive the memories of the past to keep them from being released to the society around. There are many painful memories and happy ones. In one of his first happy memories, Jonas sees his first-ever glimpse of color and starts to have different thoughts about the black and white world around him. He reacts to the memory and says “‘But I want them!’” Jonas said angrily. “‘It isn’t fair that nothing has color!’” (Lowry 122). After this and

During the beginning of the book, “The Giver,” by Lois Lowry, the main character named Jonas is almost the same as everyone in his community. All the people are known to be are the same as each other. Jonas and his younger brother Gabe both have different colored eyes than the rest of the community. In the community Jonas lives in everything is gray and the same. The community also has a lot of rules. In the book, it says, “It was the first thing Jonas noticed as he looked at the new child peering up curiously from the basket. The pale eyes. Almost every citizen in the community had dark eyes. His parents did, and Lily did, and so did all his group members and friends. … No one mentioned such things it was not a rule, but it was considered rude to call attention to things that were unsettling or different about individuals.” This contributes to Jonas and Gabe during the end of the story for a few reasons. A rule in the community is you are not allowed to lie. Also, every year up until you turn 12 you have ceremonies where you grow up and receive better items that will show you have been maturing. As Jonas becomes older and he becomes a 12 he gets assigned to be the new receiver of memories. At the ceremony of 12 Jonas’s name was skipped to come up and receive his assignment so he started panicking because they never made mistakes. Jonas was chosen to be the Receiver of memories because he had no dreams of uncertainty and he had intelligence, integrity, and courage. Because

In the novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry, the author makes it clear through the main character Jonas that freedom and safety need to find an equal balance. Lowry shows the importance of deep emotions and family through Jonas. Jonas becomes the new receiver of memory and learns about the past. He also learned about the way it was when people knew what love was. Jonas’ father releases newborn children because they don’t weight the correct amount of weight or they don’t sleep well through the night. Release is a nice way of saying kill; the people of the community don’t know what kill means. They don’t have the freedom to expand their vocabulary. Lois Lowry makes it clear that safety has a negative side and you need that you need freedom to

The Giver by Lois Lowry tells us that you should always do the right thing at any cost. Jonas is a twelve year old boy living in a seemingly perfect society. He is worried about what assignment, or job he will be chosen for. During the ceremony of twelve, Jonas is skipped over, but in a twist of events, he gets the most important job of all; the Reciever of Memory. During the training, Jonas watches a video of his father releasing a child, which is murder. Angry and shocked, Jonas, with the help of The Giver, devises a plan to run away to “elsewhere.” Jonas and a newchild, whose life has been threatened, end up going through cold and starvation just to get there, but in the end, it was worth it.

Being unique is valuable. In the science fiction novel, The Giver, Lois Lowry uses Jonas to show that being unique is valuable. In the beginning of Giver, everyone in the community is the same and they have followed very specific rules or they will be “released.” The message of the novel, Giver, is being unique is valuable.

Did you know that most people can only see black and white in The Giver? The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is about a seemingly perfect community that has lots of weird, strict rules to keep the peace. Everything is the same, so no one gets jealous. Jonas is a member of the community along with his two friends, Fiona and Asher. But when Jonas is chosen to be the new receiver instead of receiving a normal assignment like his friends, everything changes.

Could you ever imagine living in a world that is controlled. After reading both the non-fiction article, as well the selected passage by Lois Lowry it was obvious that both communities were being ruled by a strict government. The selected passage is about their strict government that made the community a “perfect world” by not letting them see and do certain things. The non-fiction article is about North Korea's world and how they also limit certain things such as, freedom and occupations. Both articles show the challenges of their world.

In the book, The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, the protagonist Jonas realizes the truth of his utopian society after receiving the forbidden knowledge from the Giver, his mentor, and soon plans to run away after he finds out that everyone in the city is fully brainwashed by the government (the Elders) of the society. Similarly, in Suzanne Collins’s second series of The Hunger Games, Catching Fire, the book tells a story about a rebellion against the oppressive Capitol. In the 75th Hunger Game, the Capitol requires the victors from the last games to participate. Katniss, the protagonist, thinks that this game will not be easy to win. During the game, she plans to destroy the arena and starts to rebel. Lastly, in the article, “Milgram Obedience

When I was in eighth grade, I read “The Giver” by Lois Lowry for the very first time. Since the first time I read the book, I have read it three additional times. Since the book was published in 1993, it has sold over ten million copies. It is a required reading in many schools. The story follows a young boy named Jonas through his life in a seemingly utopian society that has eliminated many issues that the modern world now faces. There is no crime, no war, and no poverty. In this world, every individual looks and behaves similarly; the world is seen only in black-and-white, with no color existing. When children turn twelve years old, they receive a job that they will perform for the rest of their lives, until they are eventually “released”

The dystopian novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry was a great suspenseful book read by our class. Although Lois Lowry wrote a great novel, we will forever be mad at her. The author uses great suspense throughout the novel and then leads us into a dead end. Even though you have your own theory, the true end will never be told. Jonas is dead. At the end of The Giver, we experience a part of the book where we are forced to produce our own theory of Jonas’ fate. Jonas is dead and saw the lights and gates of heaven or in this case, “Elsewhere”. Others believe that Jonas succeeds on his journey and saw a family celebrating Christmas. The author gives us a novel that shows the life of Jonas through his struggles of being the Receiver in Training but leaves

In a community where there is no colour, and only sameness throughout everyone, no feeling or memories, and no knowledge of the way of life before you. This is the community in which Jonas lives in. Would you like to live in that world? In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry Jonas learns to take risks to grow, the importance of memories ,and that being true to oneself takes bravery.

The setting of The Giver takes place in a fictional community known as the “Sameness”. Life here is supposed to be "perfect" because there is no pain or suffering. They don’t have to take

China’s economic reform in 1978 completely changed China’s economic and political state. Just under four decades later, now the second largest economy in the world, China’s international role has completely shifted. Much like Western nations expanded outwards in the 19th century in search of greater markets for manufactured goods, and for new sources of raw materials, China has also begun to expand their global influence. The African continent in particular has been a prominent focus of Chinese expansion, providing both a large market for Chinese goods, and a wealth of yet-untapped raw materials. Through mass immigration, heavily subsidised companies, CCP (Chinese Communist Party) funded projects and increased diplomatic ties, China has shown

What if a whole community had the absence of color, expect for one twelve-year-old child? According to the novel The Giver written by Lois Lowry, Jonas, the twelve-year-old child, lives in a seemingly ideal, but colorless, community of conformity and contentment. Not until he is assigned, and given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory, as he starts to understand the dark, and complicated secrets behind his community. He begins to recognize various ways in which his community needs color to be more free and happy. Within, the novel Lois Lowry, mentioned a lot of themes that were contributed to Jonas’ ability to see color, and the absence of color in his community. One of the themes that was expressed within the novel was, the