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
The Giver is a novel by Lois Lowry, about a dystopian society. At the beginning of the book, Jonas was obedient and loyal to his community; but when he gets assigned the job of the receiver he gains knowledge about his community which including colors, animals, and most of all, feelings. When Jonas learns these things, his opinion about his community changes, and he starts to feel resentment, anger, and hatred. At the beginning of the book, Jonas felt loyal and obedient toward his community.
The Giver’s job is to show Jonas all the memories from the past and to teach him how to guide the Council of Elders using the memories that the Giver passes to him. Throughout the
This article examines Seacrest High School that had major violent episodes between Asian-American and African-American students. While trying to decide how to deal with the violence and school safety, the other components of the school went by the wayside. All of this was chronicled in the media and an ensuing court order forced the school district to take measures that secured the safety of the students that attended the school. Although not done on purpose, the subsequent result was a neglect of academics and the overall school culture. The focus on safety, created during a chaotic approach to school improvement, led to a loss of focus of content knowledge, critical thinking skills, social-emotional support for students, and moral reasoning.
Imagine yourself in America in the 1700’s under strict and unfair british rule. As a citizen, wouldn’t you want to free yourself and change your life forever. Although rebellion and defiance in society was necessary then, it is often looked down upon in society today. In the stories Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut and The Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka, they analyze the lives of two different rebels who are forgotten by their own society. In Harrison Bergeron, Vonnegut writes about the life of George and Hazel, whose son, Harrison had gone to prison.
The Giver by Lois Lowry embodies the hero’s quest through it’s dystopian and thought-provoking plot. The main character, Jonas’s call to adventure took place when he was selected as the Receiver of Memory. Although this assignment was very painful, it was one of the most honorable assignments that he could have been chosen for. His helper was the previous Receiver of Memory, who guides him while helping him adjust to his new way of life. Jonas crosses the threshold when he begins to learn more about the real world that he could ever image.
Imagine living in a world with no freedom, choice, individuality, and color. Would you want to live in a world like this? Most of you would have said no, but a boy named Jonas has no choice, but to adhere to his community’s rules. In the book and the movie, “The Giver”, by Louis Lowery, Jonas finds it difficult to accept his community’s way of life. However, after he becomes the receiver of memory, he challenges the community after discovering what the world used to be like before sameness.
The Giver is timeless because it occurs in the “here and now” of an alternate universe instead of a certain time period of our world, be it in the past, present, or future. The long-lasting appeal of this work is at least partially due to the fact that because it can be interpreted in any way, the characters and the dilemmas that they face are relatable, and the ideas conveyed pertain to almost any point in time. Truly a moving and fascinating piece of literature, Lowry’s The Giver is a very relevant work that will continue to engage readers of all ages in deeper thinking and change the way that we see the world
Imagine never knowing what color is, always seeing different shades of gray. Imagine never learning what sunshine or snow is. Well, this was the life of Jonas and everyone in his community. This was the way Jonas lived until he became a Receiver of Memory and learned about Sameness. In Lois Lowry’s dystopian novel, The Giver, Jonas challenges his society’s demands for Sameness through trying to transmit memories from before Sameness to others and escaping his society to go to Elsewhere, because he can no longer handle this view on his society.
Literary Analysis: The Giver Imagine a world where everything seems perfect but truly it is not as pleasant as it appears. In The Giver by Lois Lowry shows us a community in the future with no feelings at all. Jonas a twelve year old boy knows his life as it is and one evening he learns the truth about the community. Jonas set’s off into a adventure to change it all. Character,conflict,and symbolism makes the reader see thru the eyes of a twelve year old in a place of slavery disguised without anyone knowing it.
Jonas hates how his society decides to keep memories a secret from everyone. Jonas remarks: “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared” (Lowry 154). Jonas feels that memories, whether it be good or bad, should be shared with everyone.
As the Receiver of Memory, he is responsible for experiencing and passing on the remembrances forbidden to society. The Giver mentors him for the job. In this community, color, choice, feelings, and other manifestations of creativity are taken away. Jonas realizes, after The Giver displays him a year’s worth of memories, that the community’s current situation without love is unethical, and he plots to give the community back its memories. Despite the community in The Giver’s strict belief in precise language, they use the words Release, Elsewhere, and Sameness as euphemisms for negative ideas that are avoided in the community.
The Giver Everything is the same even the color of everything is in back and white, no body has freedom of their own and everything is controlled by the government. In the book The Giver written by Lois Lowry, a twelve-year-old boy named Jonas lives in a futuristic community where everyone and everything is the same everywhere you look. Jonas is selected to receiver memories from the time before their community. The community is named Sameness because everything was the same.
One memory change that. Jonas saw the Giver’s favorite memory. The memory was about Christmas. It showed love, warmth, and grandparents. At the end of the book Jonas became affectionate.
I have read the novel, “The Giver”, written by the famous American writer Lois Lowry. This book was written under author’s impression after visiting her aging father in the hospital, who had lost his long term memory. The idea of the book is the importance of memory. The novel is set in a society which seems like utopian, in this society there is no hunger, sadness, or misery. However this utopian society is held from experiencing true emotions.
