The Giver, By Lois Lowry

In this chapter you will read about the different themes in the book. The theme of the book is very important to know and understand. I believe that the themes in this book are never giving up and we should be thankful for everything we have in life. One theme in The Giver is to never give up. Never giving up is something which is projected throughout the book.

Through our society we are all raised up to be independent and unique individuals such as being ourselves and expressing who each of us are to the world. However, in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, everyone is raised to count on one another and everyone must look and act the same. Our society differs from Jonas’s in many ways, such as the family units, birthdays, and the way we each learn about our past.

Elvis Presley once said, “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain 't goin ' away.” Plato’s The Allegory of the Cave relates to this quote by focusing on the truths of reality that humans do not comprehend. We think that we understand what we are seeing in our world, but we really just perceive shadows of the true forms of the things that make up the world. We are ignorant about the true nature of reality. The novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry also involves these concepts. The main character, Jonas, lives in a community of conformity and conflict. When he begins to spend time and train with The Giver, an old man who is the only keeper of the community 's memories, Jonas discovers the unsafe truths of his community 's secret past. Once Jonas discovers the reality about his community, it constantly pesters him until he makes an important decision. Jonas realizes that he must escape from his world in order to make a long needed change for his community. As the prisoner from The Allegory of the Cave seeks knowledge outside of the cave, Jonas from The Giver discovers dark and deadly truths of his community’s secret past that will change his life forever.

Does your community have Traditions and Customs? Well, in the giver by Lois Lowry there are many Traditions and Customs for adults and kids. So in this essay there will be information about the ages like twelves and fives. There are many customs for ages zero through fives and here are some examples.

In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, the character Jonas experiences seeing his community in ‘different eyes’, with his capacity to see beyond. Jonas begins to see his community with an mindfulness or awareness that the people in the community lack. The story is set in what seems to be a utopian society, but we later find out that all of the citizens of the community are living superficial and empty lives. Through the wisdom Jonas gained in being the receiver, Jonas learns that protecting the community from their memories, the people have lost emotions and feelings. Jonas demonstrates in his own experiences, that without experiencing pain or happiness, human life is shallow and pointless. Nearing the end, Jonas is mindful of his new way of seeing, and decides to defy the community in order to restore emotions and mindfulness back to everyone in the community.

In The Giver written during the 1990’s and set in the future, Lois Lowry presents a dystopian novel about a society where everything is the same, but one kid plans to change the whole society. A young man named Jonas that has an ability to see color in a colorless society. After being selected as the new receiver of memories, he realizes how much the society is missing and plans to change it. He plans to leave the society so that everyone can receive the memories he was given. However even before becoming receiver, Jonas is shown to be different in a society where everything is the same. His society lacks the ability to see color yet when he and Asher were throwing the apple, the apple had changed Jonas looked at it for a little, then threw again, “and again- in the air, for an instant only- it had changed” (Lowry 24). Later as he was being selected for the new receiver of memories, it happened again. When he was asked if he has the quality of Capacity to See Beyond, All the faces of the crowd seemed to change for only a second. This ability to distinguish something “ different” again happens when he was going to the first day of training, but this time the hair of his friend Fiona changed. When Jonas was asking the giver what was happening, the giver told him to look at the books on a shelf and again it happened. It is then that the giver finally told Jonas that what he had experience was seeing color. Lois Lowry gave Jonas the ability to see color in a society that can

In some distant future of humanity there lies a community in which its members live a “life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. [a] life without color, pain, or past.” Exemplifying the aimlessness of human intellect that Nietzsche explains, this dull community is the main setting of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. This community is a supposed utopia where feelings, history, and even color are kept from its members in order to ensure peace and “sameness.” Although this fictitious piece may exaggerate some aspects, many elements in The Giver exemplify Nietzsche’s theories on truth and communication.

Same, dull, predictable. These words are the building blocks of a community where everything is decided for its people. It all happens in The Giver, a science fiction novel that was written by Lois Lowry. The story follows Jonas, “a twelve” who will soon receive an assignment which he will do for the rest of his life. Jonas is selected to be the receiver of memory and learns that life used to be much, much more. He then sets off to return emotion and difference to his community. That is why Jonas is the true giver.

Most of the time, opposition groups who call for the censorship and banning of books, are misguided by religious beliefs or personal values that they insist on imposing over the surrounding community. Such is the case with Lois Lowry 's The Giver, a fictional story of a society without emotions, arguments, or differences amongst people, where equality is the ultimate goal. The story revolves around 12-year-old Jonas, who is chosen to become the Receiver of Memories, which would be given to him by the Giver, a historian of humanity 's past. His lessons force him to confront feelings for the first time and the growing awareness of death. In recognizing his controlling community, Jonas sets out to expose society 's false idea of a utopia and

Lois Lowry has been one of the most influential authors who has ever lived. She has written so many novels that every time we read one of her novels we have a desire on reading more and more on what’s going to happen next. Lois Lowry has been very successful on publishing her novels. Well, what I learned about while I was watching this video was when she wrote “The Giver” I believe the reason she wrote that book was because of her son. When Lois was talking about how she gets influences on writing such marvelous books like “The Giver” or as well like “Gathering Blue” was that she get’s influenced on what she see’s all over the world. Like for instances, Lois Lowry explains “That in order to be greatly influenced on something you must be thinking to yourself what you’re always wondering about”.

The Giver is written by Lois Lowry. It is about a boy named Jonas who got picked to gather memories from the giver. The story began with Jonas begging frightened that something bad was going to happen also how the giver approached Jonas and told him how he was chosen to hold the memories. During the middle of the book it was talking about the community's. At the end it talks about how the giver tells Jonas what happened to the community and what Jonas should be careful of. The book's main theme is courage because Jonas had the courage to hold the mammories and not tell anyone. included in this companion novel are the following sections: symbolism,characterization,conflict,setting and fan fiction. A final chapter will be about the author (

As I was reading the first few pages, I found that this book particularly reminds me of The Giver by Lois Lowry. Both books take place in a future american society, which many customs we value today, such as freedom of choice, have been eradicated. The timeline of the two stories are based upon that of a Dystopian society which appear as Utopia to the inhabitants who know of nothing outside of their institutionalized community. Seemingly harmless commodities such as books, music, etc. are ironically forbidden to prevent disorder from erupting in their restrictive, law-abiding society. Events that occurred anteriorly to the forming of the society are not to be discussed nor known about.

As we walk through life, we take for granted the gifts that make it such a blessing: its beauty and complexities, the small things that we do not even think of on a moment to moment basis; the flowers, the different colors of green in the trees, the yellow and black of the bumble bee. We take for granted the people that we share our lives with, missing out on the beauty of their mere presence at that moment. Within mainstream society we tend to get in such a hurry or so caught up in the day’s activities that we miss out on the unseen beauty in life, fail to feel deep emotions and the joy of sacrificing for the love and happiness of another; missing out on the opportunities to make life more beautiful and worth living. Lois Lowry’s The Giver both the novel and the film are a great illustration of what appears to be a utopian life but in reality it is a dystopia, which Jonas and the Giver set free by opening the minds of society to the true beauty of life, deep emotions, and self-sacrifice.

The Giver by Lowis Lowry is a book with a society where everybody looks alike and acts similarly. No one in the society was able to make choices and their jobs were selected for them, their husbands, and so forth. Citizens were not given memories. They basically eliminated all feelings of pain and fear. The people in the society weren’t even allowed to see color; their world is black and white. The society in The Giver is a dystopia, an imaginary place where people often lead dehumanized and fearful lives because people aren’t able to make their own choices, they aren’t given memories, and they aren’t able to experience emotions.

Any reader who is a fan of the renowned author Lois Lowry admits that the writer pays close attention and details to several themes such as those of family and relationships, themes of heroism, memory or recalling past events, futurism, and several others. In his book titled The Giver, he stills ventures into similar themes, even though the most pronounced and recurring themes are that of sameness and individuality. He narrates a story in the third voice and limited omniscient view where a boy with a divergent mind arises in a society that upholds sameness and punishes differing opinions and choice. The masses exist in a state of perennial strict adherence to the set rules and regulations, which