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Lois Lowry’s “The Giver” Is a Study of What It Means to Be Fully Human (924 words, 2 pages)

Imagine a society without competition, hunger, jealousy and choices. Every member has been assign for a role in the community. The community keeps people thousand miles away from the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. There's only a Receiver who hold the burden to protect them. "The ... Read More

A Book Report of Lois Lowry’s the Giver (713 words, 1 pages)

The Giver By Lois Lowry The name of the book I read is "The Giver" by Lois Lowry. Another book she wrote is "Number the Stars". The books she writes are so descriptive you feel like you are right there next to the characters. Even thought she only gives minor ... Read More

An Analysis of the Giver by Lois Lowry (976 words, 2 pages)

In this novel called "The Giver" written by Lois Lowry, the author creates a perfect world known as the Community. In the community everything is perfect. There is no poverty, and all the meals are delivered to them. Every home has a family unit with a max of only two ... Read More

Summary of The Giver by Lois Lowry (230 words, 1 pages)

The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, is about a twelve year old boy named Jonas. Jonas is a normal boy who lives in a hueless community. Life there was serene and peaceful and nothing ever changed until the day of the ceremony of twelves. It is when people were assigned ... Read More

Utopian Society as Represented in Lois Lowry’s Novel the Giver (1062 words, 3 pages)

Have you ever wanted to live in a world that is just perfect? Or have you ever pictured yourself in that perfect world in which everyone is the same, equality exists, hunger is never an issue, nor crimes, or conflicts, and best of all, NO BAD MEMORIES? If you have ... Read More

A Review of the Novel the Giver by Lois Lowry (622 words, 4 pages)

Several weeks ago we read the book, The Giver by Lois Lowry. This is ascience fiction novel. When we began reading The Giver I was verysurprised. I had previously read the book before in fifth grade. Theplot of The Giver really disturbed me because in the story both babiesand the ... Read More

A Review of the Novel The Giver by Lois Lowry (670 words, 3 pages)

In The Giver by Lois Lowry, the citizens live in a world of aimlessness, where there is no emotions, no love, not even color, can you imagine? There are many characteristics about this futuristic world the citizens of sameness, per se, are living with that differentiate them from a normal ... Read More

Analyzing The Giver by Lois Lowry (592 words, 1 pages)

In the Science-Fiction novel The Giver by, Lois Lowry the main characters name is Jonas. Jonas Lives in a community where people cant remember past history from more than a generation ago the community is perfect and everything is the same. Jonas is selected to be different, and carry the ... Read More

The Root of All Evil in the Literary Works Anthem by Ayn Rand and The Giver by Lois Lowry (350 words, 1 pages)

A monster, the root of all the evils on earth (Anthem 96). I can connect this quote from Anthem with another quote, Money is the root of all evil. In Anthem, the root of all evil is the word We, and how individualism is important, and it should never be ... Read More

A Summer Reading Project Report on The Giver, a Book by Lois Lowry (318 words, 1 pages)

The GiverThe book I chose to do for this summer reading project is The Giver by Lois Lowry. The protagonist of the story is an eleven year old boy named Jonas, who lives in a rigidly controlled society with no war or suffering in the future. The antagonist of the ... Read More

Dystopic Perceptions of Family in Lois Lowry’s The Giver and Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 (1584 words, 6 pages)

Throughout mans tenure on Earth, one attribute of his in particular has been exclusive to his species and his alone the concept of family. Not a herd that flees as the weakest of its numbers is seized by pursuing predators not a pack in which every member contemplates overthrowing the ... Read More

The Idea of Sameness in The Giver by Lois Lowry and Divergent by Veronica Roth (1818 words, 6 pages)

Manipulation of Restriction of Divergence by Government Control The Giver by Lois Lowry and Divergent by Veronica Roth are bothdystopian novels that depict a society that seems perfect at first, butreally is an illusion of perfection. A dystopia is a futuristic, imagineduniverse in which oppressive societal control and the illusion ... Read More

The Horrors of the Holocaust and World War II in the Mediums Number the Stars by Lois Lowry and the Movie The Book Thief (1070 words, 3 pages)

World War II was a time when the human race became a game of cards, the Nazis and Hitler being the undefeated gamblers in a deadly game of who would die next. Every text read about this time, or even media watched about World War II, depict it as dark ... Read More

The Dystopian Societies in Lois Lowry’s Gathering Blue and The Giver (1407 words, 4 pages)

In both dystopian stories, Gathering Blue and The Giver, Lois Lowry clearly captures how the citizens of the community has a fear for the outside world, but in The Giver the way they control the community is more efficient and organized, while in Gathering Blue they are more messy and ... Read More

An Analysis of Conformity in The Giver by Lois Lowry and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer (635 words, 2 pages)

John F. Kennedy once said, "Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." In other words saying that limiting yourself to society's expectations acts like a prison, holding one's freedom of choice and hindering one's ability to better understand and accept themselves, thus disabling them from moving ... Read More

The Different Perspectives of Annemarie in the Book Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (1159 words, 4 pages)

It is information or in other words, data, that enables the ability of a human being to make predictions amongst others as well as assumptions of what another being may appear to be in reality without social interaction, but no information has the same impact. Throughout Number the Stars by ... Read More

A Review of The Giver, a Novel by Lois Lowry (1506 words, 6 pages)

Removing Societies Blindfold The GiverMore than 10 million copies of the 1994 Newberry Medal winning book The Giver have been sold, which raises the question of why it is so popular. I, myself, read the book in middle school English and immediately fell in love with the work. I have ... Read More

The Dangers of a Utopian Society in the Giver, a Novel by Lois Lowry (971 words, 3 pages)

The GiverLois Lowrys The Giver shows what happens when people try to make a utopian society. In the world of The Giver, there is no pain or suffering of any kind, all decisions are made by a council, and people have no control over their lives. The whole world is ... Read More

The Theme of Oppression in the Books, The Giver by Lois Lowry and Wanting Mor by Rukhsana Khan (1206 words, 4 pages)

The Giver vs. Wanting MorThe Giver and Wanting Mor are both books which are greatly based on the theme of oppression. Both novels follow the protagonists journey through an oppressive and unjust world. The Giver is about Jonas, a twelve year old boy, and his struggle to have his people ... Read More

The Use of Shallow Feelings in the Giver by Lois Lowry and Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut (511 words, 1 pages)

To make a perfect society, anger and jealousy would have to be eliminated, and have only shallow emotions left. Then the people would have to be altered emotionally and have different attitudes. There would need to be no extreme emotions and there must be no pain and understanding of the ... Read More

The Utopian World in the Novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry (586 words, 2 pages)

A utopia is an imaginary place in which everything is perfect. Unfortunately, it does not exist. At least not in The Giver, a novel by Lois Lowry. This story takes place in a Utopian world where a boy named Jonas, discovers the truth behind his community only to find out ... Read More

A Critique of the Movie Adaptation of Lois Lowry’s Dystopian Novel The Giver (1085 words, 3 pages)

The Giver Dangers of Condensing AdaptationsI will just say right off the bat while I moderately enjoyed reading Lois Lowrys The Giver and give it credit for being an early teen-centric dystopian novels (before it nearly became a genre of its own), I am not a fan of the 2014 ... Read More

A Comparison between the Reader’s Community and Fen and the Council of Edifice in Lois Lowry’s Gathering Blue (640 words, 3 pages)

Gatherings Blue EssayIn the book, Gathering Blue, written by Lois Lowry, the village has many vicissitudes which makes it different from the utopian societies the audiences reading the book, Gathering Blue, come from. Readers can depict the cultural and educational differences in the communities in Gathering Blue compared to their ... Read More

How the Life of Lois Lowry Shaped the Primary Themes in Her Literature (2193 words, 7 pages)

On How the Life of Lois Lowry Shaped the Primary Themes in Her LiteratureLets suppose that you have one petroleum tank to fill. Our assumption is that someone is giving away expensive petroleum for free. Obviously, you will want to fill your tank with more and more of petroleum. Nevertheless, ... Read More

The World of Sameness in Lois Lowry’s The Giver (270 words, 1 pages)

In Lois Lowrys novel, The Giver it presents a community, which is deprived of the privileges of everyday life. They do not experience real pain and suffering, they do not experience being able to choose and they do not experience any depth of feelings. While it may seem like the ... Read More

The Literary Hero in the Giver by Lois Lowry (1170 words, 4 pages)

The Givers Literary HeroHeroes are notorious in many stories, for being valiant, and never giving up. A literary hero is a protagonist in literature. In The Giver, Lois Lowry clearly depicts Jonas as a literary hero. There are certain traits that can show this character is a hero, from the ... Read More

An Analysis of Number the Stars and The Giver by Lois Lowry (1715 words, 6 pages)

There have been many great authors throughout the years who have impacted many readers lives. Lois Lowry has been one of those authors. She has contributed many great works, over 20 novels and has been recognized as winner of the Newbery Medal twice. Lowrys greatest strengths as an author are ... Read More

The Bad and the Good Things in the Giver by Lois Lowry (1246 words, 2 pages)

The GiverThe Giver is about a boy named Jonas who lives in the future in an almost perfect community. Jonas is chosen to be the person who carries all the memories of the past, given to him by the giver. It is by Lois Lowry. There are many good and ... Read More

An Analysis of Freedom in the Giver by Lois Lowry (405 words, 1 pages)

In a community that is all the same lives a boy named Jonas,who discovers he is very different. Jonas is the main character in this book called The Giver. The theme of this book called The Giver is clearly represented by freedom, the right to make your own choices, uniqueness, ... Read More

An Examination of the Settings of Lois Lowry’s “The Giver” (709 words, 3 pages)

Title The Giver Author Lois Lowry Setting The setting of this story is in a community that is confined with strict rules. Main Characters The main characters are Jonas, Lily, Asher, Fiona, Jonas's Mother, Jonas's Father, and the Giver. Jonas is a twelve year old boy that is very keen, ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013