Lea Vilna Santos Mrs. English, 7th September 1st, 2015 The Giver, by: Lois Lowry Log Entry 4: Chapters 7-8: Question 2: In chapters 7 and 8, Jonas is assigned the job of Receiver of Memory and although the Chief Elder calls it the greatest honor,it might give him more hardship and pain than fortune. She explains that the selection is rare and his role is very important because there is only one Receiver and it takes integrity, intelligence, courage, wisdom, and the capacity to see beyond to be that person. At first he wants to tell he has no idea what she means and that he doesn’t have it until he notices a change in the crowd that was quick but he knows that he isn’t dreaming because it’s happened before but to his apple. Then he realizes
Justin Rojas ElA- Essay #1 Mr. perino Due 03-07-23 How do society rules help us or hurt us Society rules can help us in many ways. The rules that we are following till this day keep us alive or being safe. These rules show us how we are supposed to act during a situation.
Weather it comes to saying “hi” to an employee when you walk into a store,close the door behind you when you walk out of a room, or even simply washing your hands after using the restroom, society, stereotypes, and the media can mold and shift your ideas, morals, and opinions rapidly. For example in the novel “The Giver”it illustrates that Jonas the protagonist lives in this somewhat “perfect” community where there are no mistakes (tolerated) and no emotion other than happiness. However, one may disagree and say “social norms help us and teach us new things”. In reality the “teaching” could be something bad but no one would know because they are already blinded by their previous words and are clueless. In Jonas's Community they live in
In the Novel ‘The Giver’ the author, Lois Lorwy uses many language techniques to convey the message that the world can turn into a dystopian society. Numbering people in the order they were born, taking away choice of job and having a state controlled family structure can all contribute to a dystopian society and Lowry is warning us of the possibilities that it could be like. The author uses dehumanisation as a strong theme throughout the book. Numbering people takes away individuality, this is shown through this quote “Sometimes parents used them in irritation at a child's misbehaviour, indicating that mischief made one unworthy of a name.” Lowry uses the adjective ‘unworthy’ to describe that the children do not deserve a name if they are misbehaving.
In The Giver, Lois Lowry shows her readers what it is like to live in a society with no diversity, no color, and no freedom. In this society, there is a twelve-year old boy, named Jonas, who finds the truth about life outside of his community. He does not have the option of choice, and he is stuck in a futuristic world of “sameness”. Jonas’ world is dull, and he wants to change it because it does not have the amazing features and opportunities that he learns about. In this story, Lois Lowry is warning her readers that too much conformity can lead to no freedom and no true happiness.
Whether it’s in real life, or from an authors imagination, community will always impact a persons’ or characters’ actions during a difficult situation. Being in a troubling situation can bring out the best or the worst in someone. Unfortunately, a persons’ first instinct might not be the best or most favorable, and this can be a result of a community’s impact. In most science fiction stories the characters all show a similar trait, defiance. Defiance means to act with open resistance and bold disobedience.
Red Apple “Perfection is never reachable” If we began to examine every effort in people, almost 99% of all humans try at least one occasion to grant perfection level. By the way, I'm just referring to the percentage as a one-time occasion, but then we have the other percentage of humans who tried every day to be as perfect as our God, which is wrong, if we tried more and push ourselves to be greater by altering us more just to get a "perfect" grade, isn't worth it. But in the image I created I'm not referring the apple as homework, I'm representing it as us, the human race. In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, she originates another definition of perfection, were in the chapters mean without feelings, not logic, and without the capability
The Handicapper General was proud that all citizens living in 2081 were equal. In the beginning of the text, the narrator states”... and everybody was finally equal”(Vonnegut 13). This quote shows that the Handicapper General controls people in order to make them equal to each other. No citizen was smarter.
Have you ever wondered the lessons you can learn from a dystopian society? Some lessons that are shown are dangers to the environment and even no independence. Important lessons that can be learned from the movie about the dangers of a government controlled society are no individuality and that the government has complete control. There are many cases in The Giver where decisions are made for you causing lack of individuality. One of the major examples of no individuality in the movie is the citizens’ jobs and families.
Debate-written Assignment, Conformity The idea of conformity is to eliminate individualism and to unite the society together, making it a safer place for the citizens to live, and develop in. A place that has no war, no hunger and no pain, where citizens create strong bonds between each other. The Giver written by Lois Lowry represents the idea of conformity in the society where they try to keep everyone the same as each other by following the same rules and trying to avoid having people stand out by receiving daily pills to lose the feeling of inclination between each other.
The giver by Lois Lowry- Analytical essay ________________________________________________________ What if we lived in a world of peace and equality? What if we lived in a world with no differences? A world with no social classes and inequality. That sounds pretty amazing doesn’t it?
To what extent can a perfect society be possible? In the novel The Giver the society was established to be a utopian world but, ended up becoming not so perfect after all with terrible things hiding underneath the surface. Modern day society is far from perfect; however, it does have some similarities with Jonas´ home along with many differences. In today's society we pride ourselves on having the freedom to choose our own lifestyle.
Modern Society V.S. The Givers Society Imagine living in a world where people have to do and say certain things. In The Giver they have to follow a lot of things, unlike our society where we have lots of freedom. The Giver has many different rules, technology, and precision of language unlike our society. Even though modern day society and The Givers society is somewhat similar, they do have many differences.
Through Speculative Fiction, composers expose us to witness unsettling worlds which guides us to understand the dangers of conformity. The Giver composed by Lowry is a powerful prose which demoralizingly elicits reflection within us towards the sacrifices made by the crafted dystopian community, culminating in the loss of individuality. "The Giver" by Lois Lowry is an incredibly thought-provoking book that warns us of the dangers of conformity. The novel presents readers with a supposed utopia-like community that discourages individuality, which ignites reflection within us about the dangers of conformity. Lowry's use of the characterisation of The Giver as a man who is defeated in terms of invoking change in his collective is evident.
Imagine living in a perfect society. No pain, everyone is equal, and perfect laws that every person follows. Now imagine being exactly like every other person with all your daily choices being made by someone else for you. In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, this is exactly how they are living. The author writes about how Jonas’ perfect society is not so perfect after all.
