...Lois Lowry's novel The Giver takes place way into the future. Jonas is chosen as the giver at the age of 12. He never had an assignment before. After getting this assignment, he started disobeying. He starts to disobey, he doesn’t believe in sameness and he doesn’t like all the rules. One lesson the story suggests is that when you are rebellious you can get in trouble and that sameness is not good. From the beginning Jonas always seemed to be a rebellious child, Lois Lowry describes how Jonas and the Giver were planning on how to sneak Jonas and Gabe out of the community. Because after all the memories that Jonas has received he wanted the community to see them and have them as well. Jonas, was not listening to the rules of the community...
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...David Ochoa September 16, 2009 English-Mr. Harrison Summer Reading In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry Jonas is taught that his world is perfect, but finds out that society is controlled. Jonas was one of the main characters of this novel. Throughout reading The Giver Jonas seems to always be seeking more warmth and human contact then what the society he lives in already allows. The character Jonas portrayed various characteristics. Three of those characteristics that he portrayed were intelligence, curiosity, and kindness. The first characteristic that Jonas portrayed was his curiosity. While he was at school he was playing catch with a friend he had noticed the apple change in a way. “ Does anything seem strange to you? About the apple?” ( Pg 24, Lowry) Jonas kept looking at the apple all types of ways trying to figure out what was it about the apple that would catch his eye and make him to wonder such things. Disobeying recreation area rules he decided to take the apple home so he can do further analysis on the apple. After trying to find a flaw in the apple all types of ways he somehow had to convince himself that the apple was perfectly fine, and he had curiosity get the best of him. One of the other characteristics that Jonas had was his Intelligence. His intelligence was considered to be one of his unusual characteristics traits, but was to his advantage. Only twelve years of his age but his decision making was good and would catch on to things quickly...
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...Response to Literature Essay for The Giver The Giver is a novel written by author Lois Lowry. In this dystopian reading selection, the setting is a place called the community. The community is a place where everything is the same. Also, everything in the Giver community is safety-proofed. It is ran by a group of people called The Elders. The Elders are considered the wisest and most powerful people in the community. They are in charge of everything, from picking out job titles for the incoming twelves, to keeping track of the newchildren that are born. The setting of the giver affected the citizens by keeping them proctected from dangerous things. In doing so, trial-and-error cannot occur. Also, many of the citizens are used to everything...
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...The Giver, Cathartic Responses How would you feel if you couldn’t see color? Or if you had lost memories that you didn’t even know about? The community in The Giver by Lois Lowry, were in that exact situation. In what appears to be a utopia, the people in The Giver cannot see color and they have no memories of previous historic events. This is due to the fact that the Chief Elders, the leaders of the community, think that eliminating all previous memories and the memory of color is better for the people. The Chief Elders strive to eliminate pain and all human desire throughout the book creating what seems to be a perfect world, but Jonas, the main character, later comes to discover eliminating these things may not make their world the utopia...
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...In The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas’s controlled community works to prevent world problems yet simultaneously restricts the people’s freedoms through the use of job assignments ,structure of the day, and lack of memories. His community controls how each of these aspects work and are used. All three have both pros and cons which work together to keep his town at peace. One aspect of Jonas’s controlled city is that he and his community are given job assignments. On the positive side job assignments prevent the people from becoming bored. For example, it is said “... The substitute Laborers ,would be given a different holiday, took over all necessary tasks: nurturing, food delivery, and care of the Old”(130). Job assignments prevent people from...
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...Tradition is a significant theme in "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, and I find that tradition is critical. I personally believe that tradition is a fundamental part of our society; it helps bring our friends and family closer together at moments that hold significance to us. Tradition for us, in my opinion, is one of the most important things we can have. In "The Giver" they have traditions such as speaking with the family about how they felt during the day, this, in my opinion, is a very proficient thing to do, because it can resolve any bad or mixed feeling and emotions you've built up during the day. Furthermore in "The Giver" they also have traditions such as The Ceremony of Loss, an event that takes place after the death of fellow community...
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...Imagine a world without any emotions. There would be no sadness, happiness, jealousy, pain, or love. Some might think that this would be a perfect society, but as proven in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry everything isn’t as perfect as it seems. In the book Jonas, the boy who was chosen to be the next Receiver, experiences a society that is different from his own. With the help of The Giver, the man who trains Jonas, he learns that “sameness” isn’t exactly perfect. The Community controls emotions in an effort to create a painless society; the result, however, is a society absent of true emotion. Once someone in the Community begins to develop feelings for someone they are given pills to control the emotions that they are experiencing. The...
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...The Giver Essay “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain, it’s the loneliness of it.” The Giver is based on many different rules in one little community. This paper will be about three different rules in that one little community. One rule in the community is you can only have two children in one household, one male and one female. The reason why they have this rule is because, so every family is the same and no family is different. An example of this rule from The Giver is Jonas’s family. Jonas’s family consists of his dad, his mom, himself {Jonas}, and his little sister Lily. Another example from my life is my family, my uncle Eric, my aunt Stacy, my younger cousin Ethan, and his younger sister, also my cousin Paige. That is...
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...In The Giver, they give up their personal freedoms and achieve peace. I don’t think this trade off is worth it they give up almost everything for peace. They don’t have everything that they want and they can’t make their own choices, they can’t be unique and they don’t have their own opinions. They all act like everything is fine but in my opinion and Jonas’s it is not ok. The personal freedoms that are taken away are the biggest reasons why Jonas doesn’t like the rules of the community. Making your own choices are big in your life you use it to pick something to wear in the morning or what to eat. In the book you have no choices and all you can do is follow the rules. In the book you have only one choice which is where to spend your volunteer hours. You can’t pick your own job or where you live it is all decided for you for “Peace”. You aren’t able to pick your own clothes or pick your own religion because if you would pick your own clothes, that could contradict someone’s belief and it could cause an argument. In the reality you are able to pick your own clothes, house and how you live and where you live. . The only reason the community doesn’t go into panic mode is because they are brainwashed to think that everything is ok. Making your own choices are big in your life so when you think about making a choice, remember that this is a luxury and if you didn’t have you would want it. In The Giver, they all look the same except for Jonas, a Five, and Gabe who have pale eyes....
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...The Giver Lois lowry dystopian story The Giver takes place in a small community sometime in the future, where everybody is almost the same. They live the same life. Jonas is the most important person. He is the first person to do something different. One lesson you can learn from the book is being different is fine. One way everyone is that same is that people could not see color. They even took pills so they could not see color. Jonas had to take pills so he could see not color. But then he stopped taking them. Jonas was different because he wanted to see color. When Jonas became the receiver his job was to get all of the Givers memories. People in the community weren't allowed to have those memories. So it could be the same. Jonas was...
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...Imagine your whole life has been decided by elders. the person you marry, who your children are, and what your job is. You do not have the freedom to choose how you live. Life in the community, where everyone was the same, was boring as gray. All of the dwellings and clothes were very basic. You made no choices, unless you were the elders. The novel The Giver written by Lois Lowry shows the theme of avoiding a deal of pain if we are willing to sacrifice freedom. So you must ask yourself, Pain or Freedom? What if every time you fell or scraped your knee you wouldn't feel the emotion, pain. The Community do not feel pain. Whether it is physical or emotional. There was no feeling of pain. For example,"It's the choosing that's important, isn't...
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...2/26/2012 English 2, paper 2 The Effect of Knowledge on Happiness and Relationships There is a common expression that "Ignorance is bliss." It implies that not knowing about a potentially troubling situation allows for more happiness. Can this be the case for most people? Would people be happier if they lacked knowledge about their surroundings and lives? Does gaining knowledge push people away from their loved ones? These questions surface in the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry. They arise from a society where knowledge is only kept by a select few. This lack of information keeps the people happy, but possibly not to the extent they could be. In the novel The Giver there exists a society in which there is no emotion or feeling. A world with no choices and no individuality, where everything is set out for everyone. Most importantly in this society, people have no memories of times before their own lives began. This lack of knowledge is the reason no one experiences feelings for they have no idea of what feelings are. They don't know love, pain, fear or happiness. The main character Jonas, a boy of 12, lived this way until he was chosen, like the rest of the children his age, for his occupation. Jonas received the position of receiver, the person in charge of keeping every memory of the society to themselves. As the receiver Jonas would receive every memory of times before, including feelings and emotions. As Jonas received more and more memories, he began...
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...The Giver (Jeff Bridges) is one of the main characters in The Giver. His real name is and, while formally recognized as the Receiver of Memory, he decided to call himself the Giver as his job is to give the memories to Jonas. Chief Elder (Meryl Streep) is the elected leader of the community. She shows genuine affection for all of the children at the Ceremony of Twelve, knowing of their names and everything about each one. Jonas (Brenton Thwaites) is the main character in The Giver and he was also called by his pet name Jonas-Bonus by his father once. He is an Eleven in the beginning of the book, and is selected to become the Receiver of Memory during the Ceremony of Twelve. Father (Alexander Skarsgard) is a Nurturer at the Nurturing Center....
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...Two well known stories, Anthem, by Ayn Rand, and The Giver, by Lois Lowry, are both very similar, as well as very different. They are similar because they are both dystopian stories, which means that they are both set in a futuristic setting. The difference between the two stories is the main conflict between the two characters, Equality 7-2521 and Jonas. In the book Anthem, by Ayn Rand, Equality 7-2521 just wants to be placed in the home of the Scholars. When he meets a new friend, and discovers things he wasn’t supposed to know about the city that he lives, there are major consequences. In the story, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas was chosen to be the new receiver of memory, which means that he will be able to look into the past at what the community used to look like before the elders changed it so everyone could be equal. After receiving several memories from the giver, Jonas decides that he needs to bring the memories back into the community by going out to cross the boundary of memory. With the support of his friends and the giver, Jonas does the unimaginable and chooses to do wrong, but also help the...
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...Live, Laugh, Love. Or live in a world of peace.. You must decide The Giver is written by Lois Lowry. In this book the main character (Jonas) is introduced as an 11.(grouping according to age) All Jonas can think about is becoming a 12. He's worried about whether or not he shall receive the job that best fits him. However he fears what matters least, and will eventually find out the truth of his societies horrid past, and come to find out the reality of the masked society. Jonas is trapped in a society where no one knows as he knows. He's forced to break the rules in an attempt to make others see as he sees. Jonas and the giver are the only ones who knows the true meaning of "release". They're the only ones who see the faults in their...
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