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. At the age of twelve the children of the community become adults. A ceremony takes place every December that acknowledges this change in front of the entire community. Each "adult" received a job assignment. Each of them except Jonas, he, instead, had been chosen to become the next Receiver of Memory, the most honorable potion in the community. .
In this world there is no color, love, or twins, and the babies and children are bred by special people who have the job of birthmother. They then are adopted away. Everybody in the town has a special but awkward job. .
The Giver tells Jonas of a place such as our normal world. After Jonas learns of the world before, he becomes anxious to escape and discover if there is a color outside world in which there is love, and normal families. The more visions that Jonas receives, the more painful they become. He also begins to become more and more anxious about discovering what is beyond his dull and controlled town. .
There are many good and bad things that happened in this book. Some of the good things are that hardly anyone gets hurt. When people get hurt, they take a pill and the pain goes away immediately. No one ever breaks bones or anything. There are no criminals and there are no locks on any homes or buildings. Another good thing is that everyone knows who everyone is. The community is very small with only a few hundred people. There are hardly ever any visitors from outside the community. All the people are provided with homes, jobs, and food.
Some more bad things are that there are lots of rules and none of them can be broken or else whoever broke it is punished or released. Only the receiver knows anything about the past. They get all the memories from the previous receiver.
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 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. ...
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. ...
