"The giver by lois lowry" Essays and Research Papers

Sort By:
Satisfactory Essays
Good Essays
Better Essays
Powerful Essays
Best Essays
Page 12 of 50 - About 500 Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Gathering Blue I am doing a book review on Gathering Blue by the author Lois Lowry. This book all in all is pretty good‚ just some parts can be difficult to grasp at once. This books plot is mainly about this girl that has deformed leg‚ twisted‚ she is now an orphan. Her father died at war before she was even born. At the beginning of the story the mother dies of illness. This book isn’t predictable and is consistent for the most part. I think that it is very believable‚ just a little less advanced

    Premium English-language films Character Fiction

    • 335 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Good Essays

    “Son‚” by Lois Lowry‚ is a novel about a mother and son being separated at birth and overcoming challenges to find each other in a dystopian society that discourages feelings of human connection. Told in three separate stories‚ “Son” begins with Claire giving birth to Gabe and Gabe being taken to another village because he does not meet his home village’s social and learning developmental requirements. Despite the expectations of their community‚ Gabe and Claire both yearn to find each other and

    Premium Family English-language films Son

    • 331 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    My book Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry was about a girl named Kira who lives in community where things are very weird. Kira had just become an orphan recently when her mother died of the flu. Since her mother died of the flu they had to burn down Kira’s house. Kira came to the grounds where her house was‚ and started to rebuild when a large women comes in and tells her she doesn’t own this space any more because her mother is dead and with Kira’s messed up leg she is useless‚ so they are taking her

    Premium English-language films Family Interpersonal relationship

    • 385 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    Symbolism of The Giver Drink apple juice‚ because OJ will kill you. This paper is about the symbolism in The Giver. More importantly three main ideas that really defined symbolism in this book. These three ideas are the river‚ the sled and the newborn child‚ Gabriel. These ideas had the biggest impact of the world in the book. They produced the biggest effects to the characters and to the plot. It made me think deeper and it explained more in detail. These ideas gave my mind things to think about

    Premium Mass media Writing Sociology

    • 252 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Better Essays

    in a world where everything is plain and pre-determined‚ the Giver puts its readers in a series of unlikely events that we don’t encounter in our everyday lives. A society that is perfect‚ yet disturbing where everything follows its own cycle so as to the lives of every individual. Everything is monitored; everything has its respective rules and must be obeyed. The novel can be read in a matter of hours but as to how the author‚ Lois Lowry‚ had managed to weave wonderful words to create a short but

    Premium Joseph Campbell The Giver Lois Lowry

    • 1396 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    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

    Premium The Giver Jonas

    • 812 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    hope to carry on. Lois Lowry named Number The Stars after the psalm 147. She knows this because “She was inspired a friend who grew up in denmark…” This happened during the German invasion. The people that heard of the Jews getting punished for who they are was the Danish. They Banded together to save the Jews from the Germans. Annemarie’s connection was she tried to help the Jews from being killed too. Number The Stars was named after Lois Lowry. The Book was named after Lois Lowry. The Book was about

    Premium Nazi Germany The Holocaust Adolf Hitler

    • 275 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    tearing itself apart before adapting and becoming numb to the feelings and moments from the past. This is the case for the numerous communities in Lois Lowry’s The Giver. By masterfully twisting together the idea of the the community’s lack of wisdom‚ the suffering of the Giver and his trainee‚ Jonas‚ and finally the lack of human bonds‚ Lois Lowry writes a tale of loneliness and heartache. Through words‚ she proves to the reader that memories are meant to be shared. Humans are constantly making

    Premium Psychology Leadership Management

    • 685 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    killed. Jonas knows then rebels against all of the rules and leaves the community with a little kid that was going to get released. The main character‚ Jonas‚ changes when he stops following the rules and starts receiving memories in the book The Giver by: Lois Lowlry. For example‚ in the beginning of the book Jonas was a big rule follower he used all the correct language such as not being allowed to say released without getting scolded Jonas used released once messing with a friend and was taken over

    Premium English-language films KILL William Golding

    • 328 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
  • Satisfactory Essays

    The Holocaust The title of my book is Number the Stars by Lois Lowry and it is a historical fiction. My book was about a jewish girl named Ellen that stays with her best friend’s family the Johansens to avoid being caught by the nazis and relocated along with her family. I selected this book because it was by Lois Lowry and I read other books by her so I thought that this book would be good. I also chose this book because it was a Newberry award winner. Annemarie Johansen is the main character

    Premium Nazi Germany Jews Lois Lowry

    • 511 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Satisfactory Essays
Page 1 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 50