The Giver By Lois Lowry

Lois Lowry uses the dystopian genre to get the reader to think carefully about the future of society. The novel, The Giver, allows the reader to understand and value how current society is. Love and human connection plays a huge part in how people view differently to current society, choice and individuality also raises concern in The Giver. Followed by many dark secrets that Lois Lowry cautions us may be hiding beneath.

In The Giver Lowis Lowry cautions her readers about how love and connection can change how a community functions, the individuals in the of community in The Giver do not value like current peoples do. She shows her audience that a community's functionality can be affected by love and connection because it can create a different

Lowry shows the audience this when the Giver is telling Jonas about color and Jonas realizes that “’if everything is the same, then there aren't any choices’” In the example exclamative tone is used to display Jonas’s strong feeling on the topic to the reader. This draws the reader's attention to how different and wrong the world in the Giver is. Lowry also shows the reader her personal importance of value in holding choice and individuality when she writes ‘we relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with our differences.’ From this, the reader can see the sun's symbolism is used to describe diversity and happiness in their lives. Without the sun there would be no life on earth, inducing the reader to think that Jonas’s life in the book is dull and uninteresting as living out their daily lives is the same. Lowis depicts to the reader that diversity and individuality are important when she quotes ‘I apologize for inconveniencing my learning community. Asher ran through the standard apology phrase rapidly.’ Lowry uses the technique of irony here to add humor and add an unsettling topic to the story to further engage the reader in the differences between their life and the text. It draws particularly on Asher’s and the audience's tolerance and understanding. An apology should be genuine, however when you apologize for every small wrongdoing it becomes overused and not heartfelt. Upholding choice and individuality are an important theme in ‘the Giver’. It can create choice and allow for change and growth in a