There are many strange things in The Giver. The Giver‚ by Lois Lowry‚ has many good traits‚but even more bad ones. This book is a dystopia. A dystopia means world that looks perfect but is really not; utopia means a perfect world. The community is a dystopia because of lack of knowledge‚ sameness‚ and complete control. The Giver takes place in sameness. In sameness they have a lack of knowledge. The receiver of memory only knows the past.Each of the families have only two books. Every
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calmly at the dinner table [is] unthinkable” (Lowry 132). Jonas is distressed when his mother expresses sadness and is quickly consoled by the rest of the family unit. Jonas’s mother quickly discards her sadness and forgets about it. Jonas‚ however‚ knows the sustained impact of true sadness and emotional pain‚ and “he [knows] that there [is] no quick comfort for emotions like those. These [are] deeper and they [do] not need to be told. They [are] felt” (Lowry 132). Jonas’s newfound emotional maturity
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The Giver‚ written by Lois Lowry (1993) is a fictional novel about a boy called Jonas and how he responds to his community’s lack of choice and individuality. The novel explores Jonas’ encounter with memories of the past‚ and how he feels towards the lack of freedom within his highly controlled society. As the novel develops Jonas starts to question the ways in which his community work and disagrees with the strict laws of his society. People in the community in The Giver are unable to make choices
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I am writing a paper on the similarities of the setting between two books‚ The Giver and Gathering Blue both by the same author Lois Lowry. To start off‚ in both of the books they have annual gatherings each year that start in the morning‚ are multiple hours long‚ have lunch and resting breaks and continue into the afternoon. During these gatherings or celebrations the celebrate their past and their maturity and age. Another likeness is that they both have a committee of elders or the people that
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Different world’s essay Utopia or dystopia “The Giver” by Lois Lowry is like any other novel and to every novel there are two ideas and concepts that you may apply to the novel; the one each person thinks of is determined by the different clarification and interpretation the book. In analysis of the building of Jonas’s community‚ some may debate that the community is a utopia or a dystopia. Some may claim of it being a utopia based on the way that they want their world to be and that is different
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that creates a state of tension or uncertainty. One type of suspense is when the action is “slowed to a crawl.” Another type is when the writer continues to add complications to an event or situation. Both of these types of suspense are displayed in Lois Lowry’s‚ “The Giver.” “Jonas felt more and more certain that the destination lay ahead of him‚ very near now in the night that was approaching. None of his senses confirmed it. He saw nothing ahead except the endless ribbon of road unfolding in twisting
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moment. The members of Jonas’s community cannot appreciate the joys in their lives because they have never felt sadness. Correspondingly‚ they also do not feel grief because they have never appreciated the true wonders of life. Throughout the novel‚ Lois Lowry uses multiple literary devices to conjure these thoughts into the readers mind. When Jonas is chosen to take the role of Receiver of Memories‚ he starts to learn how life used to be‚ when love‚ pain‚ hunger‚ and happiness existed. After deciding
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At the end of the novel‚ the Giver‚ Lois Lowry left a vague ending which did not fully state whether or not Jonas and Gabriel made it to Elsewhere. Giving an unstated ending allow the reader to decide what happens next. Based off of the ending‚ Jonas and Gabriel lived to make it to Elsewhere. After Jonas and Gabriel leave the community‚ they overcome barriers‚ including the starvation possibilities and freezing to death. Despite being cold and wet‚ Jonas carried Gabriel up the snowy hill. As he walked
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"The giver" takes place in a dystopian society where everything is regulated‚ no one does or says anything without the Council knowing; Their jobs‚ spouses‚ and children are all chosen for them‚ everything is on a schedule everyone is on a routine‚ get up go to work come home eat sleep repeat every single day. There is no time for recreation or anything of the sort. In some ways this is superior to our own society‚ perhaps it would be better to suppress certain emotions of the human psyche. We evolved
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religion‚ no languages‚ no races‚ a world where everything was the same? In the futuristic world of the Giver all the people wear graym with the same haircut and no colors. Although some people may claim the world in the fiction novel The Giver by Lois Lowry is a utopia‚ it is a dystopia because sameness means there is no diversity which takes away from being human. Although sameness solves many of this world’s problems‚ it is not worth giving up diversity. In the story‚ as Jonas continues with his
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