Book Analysis: The Giver By Lois Lowry
Book analysis: The Giver
Lois Lowry was born on March 20th, 1937. Her father was a military officer so she grew up all over the world. She graduated the University of Maine and finally began to write professionally which she had dreamed of doing since she was a child. Her books vary in style and content but she says that they deal with the same general theme: the importance of human connections.
The main theme of The Giver is The Importance of Memory. Lois Lowry got the idea to write this book after she visited her father, who had lost his long-term memory. She realized that if there was no memory in the world then there is no pain. The community in The Giver got rid of all the pain. To do so they got rid of all memories from their lives. This made it so that they would …show more content…
It's quite difficult to explain the world in which it is set in, without spoiling it, but it makes sense once you begin!” https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2014/oct/05/review-the-giver-lois-lowry “Without desire, we wouldn’t be here,” John Amodeo, PhD, said in a Psych Central article. He references insight from Mark Epstein, a psychiatrist and Buddhist teacher who wrote the book Open to Desire: Embracing A Lust For Life. “To set desire up as the enemy and then try to eliminate it is to seek to destroy one of our most precious human qualities.”
“The scientific research that led to Attachment Theory, pioneered by John Bowlby, tells us that we’re wired with a need for connection — what he calls human attachment,” Amodeo said. “Without strong bonds, our immune system languishes and we’re more prone to anxiety, depression, and other ills. As we welcome our longings and uncover how they’re guiding us, we might find that our deepest longing is to love and be loved. Now, how can that be anything other than sacred?”
Lois Lowry was born on March 20th, 1937. Her father was a military officer so she grew up all over the world. She graduated the University of Maine and finally began to write professionally which she had dreamed of doing since she was a child. Her books vary in style and content but she says that they deal with the same general theme: the importance of human connections.
The main theme of The Giver is The Importance of Memory. Lois Lowry got the idea to write this book after she visited her father, who had lost his long-term memory. She realized that if there was no memory in the world then there is no pain. The community in The Giver got rid of all the pain. To do so they got rid of all memories from their lives. This made it so that they would …show more content…
It's quite difficult to explain the world in which it is set in, without spoiling it, but it makes sense once you begin!” https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/2014/oct/05/review-the-giver-lois-lowry “Without desire, we wouldn’t be here,” John Amodeo, PhD, said in a Psych Central article. He references insight from Mark Epstein, a psychiatrist and Buddhist teacher who wrote the book Open to Desire: Embracing A Lust For Life. “To set desire up as the enemy and then try to eliminate it is to seek to destroy one of our most precious human qualities.”
“The scientific research that led to Attachment Theory, pioneered by John Bowlby, tells us that we’re wired with a need for connection — what he calls human attachment,” Amodeo said. “Without strong bonds, our immune system languishes and we’re more prone to anxiety, depression, and other ills. As we welcome our longings and uncover how they’re guiding us, we might find that our deepest longing is to love and be loved. Now, how can that be anything other than sacred?”