Everyone around the world have witnessed or suffered from the dismay of a war. War can lead to hunger, injury, or even death. War is defined as a state of open, armed, often prolonged conflict carried on between nations, states, or parties. This means that many different types of war that can transpire. Kids can war against their parents. Drunk driving victims can war with drunk drivers. Environmental activists can war against polluters. Policemen often wage war on criminals. Why can't the world live in harmony? If the earth were to obtain this unachievable unity, what would be the cost? Is this peace worth the price? These are some of the questions that author, Lois Lowry, wanted the reader to ask himself as he read The Giver. Lowry wrote The Giver as an investigation to the questions above. By using diction ,epiphany, and anecdote, Lowry is able to illustrate the possible sacrifices the world would have to make for tranquility. .
As a result of diction, Jonas and the rest of the community is completely oblivious to the events that are transpiring around them. The whole community is seemingly perfect. There is little crime and few misdeeds. If a wrongdoing is offensive enough, then the community "releases" the offender from the community. This deceptive word is .
an euphemism for kill. Because no one had ever attended the actual "releasing" process and substandard infants and qualifying elderly were also released, the reader, along with .
the rest of the community, is fooled into believing that being "released" is nothing more than the moderate act of expelling the person to another community. When Jonas first starts to experience "stirrings," which the reader eventually discovers are sexual desires, he takes a pill to suppress them. The topics of death, "release," and sexuality, "stirrings" are dealt with so simply and directly that it does not occur to the citizens of this community to think about them.
In Lois Lowry's The Giver, Jonas-the protagonist- is born into a community of uniformity. ... In this society, there is the Receiver, and the Giver. ... The Giver believes that everyone in the community should be able to keep their memories. ... When Jonas met with the Giver for the first time, he was shown color. ... The second time Jonas met with the Giver, a painful memory was transferred to him. ...
This critical theory can be studied through Lois Lowry's novel "The Giver". ... Her parent's health was a major influence when Lowry wrote "The Giver". ... The giver gives Jonas all the memories, good or bad. The giver and the new receiver, Jonas, keep these bad memories from the community. ... Her life has greatly contributed in her writing "The Giver". ...
Givings goes so far as to question why women are the chosen gender for the torture of giving birth and providing food for the child, perhaps even suggesting that women have to endure worse than what Jesus had to go through. ... Givings spends his days giving other women a kind of satisfaction that he denies his wife, which leads Catherine to experience jealousy, even though she isn't completely sure what she is jealous of. ... Daldry returns to the Givings' home in a flustered state as if sexually aroused, which Dr. Givings responds to by giving her further "treatment.... Giving...
The Givers character shows that rules/customs (Sameness) can prevent problems such as wrong choices. In the discussion between the Giver and Jonas, Jonas says "He could choose? Instead of Sameness" then the Giver says "He would make wrong choice"(98). ... But the Giver says that he could make wrong choice and there could be problems them. ... In the book the Giver says that "Climate Control. ...
The people have been going to the Giver for help and concerns, but I haven't had the chance to make an appointment with him. ... The community should give the right to all the families to have as many children as they want. ...
The Giver There were a few main characters in this book. ... He was to be the next Giver. ... So when they got started the Giver started transferring memories to Jonas by him lying down on a bed and the Giver put his hand on his forehead. ... Then, one day he was with the Giver, he asked the Giver to see the video of a MK2 release. So the Giver let him watch it. ...
The Giver The book that I chose to read was "The Giver", by Lois Lowry. In this book, the Giver, an old man gives all the memories of a world such as ours to a boy named Jonas. ... The Giver tells Jonas of a place such as our normal world. ... The Giver later gives Jonas his consent to escape their town to go search for a normal and happier world. ... The rest of the book, is about the visions that Jonas has, and explains how the Giver, is the keeper of memories from the village from hundreds of years ago. ...
There are many good and bad things in The Giver. ... A bad thing about the giver's community is release. ... It was time for a new giver. ... Once the Giver showed Jonas the memory, the memory the Giver has is gone. ... The Giver and Jonas made a plan to leave town. ...
The Giver By Louis Lowry Jonas and his family live in a place that would be looked at as a dream in today's world. ... They saved the best for last; the job he was assigned was the most honorable in the Community, the Giver. Having the job of the Giver, Jonas, holds everybody's memories. The Giver that is retiring and having Jonas take his place must transfer all his memories to Jonas. ... Gabriel and Jonas travel by night and sleep by day, they eat food that the Giver has saved for him over the past two weeks. ...
As the Receiver he has to get every memory from all over the world from the old Receiver he calls The Giver. The Giver: The Giver is the man who is the old Receiver. He is also the one who gives Jonas the memories. ... The Giver is the only one who is not controlled. ... Plot: Introduction of Characters: Lowry introduces Jonas and his family, with Gabe, plus The Giver. ...