Literary Analysis: The Giver By Lois Lowry

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. In order to truly know what the movie or the novel did well or awful on, we must first consider the following criteria, characters, plot, and the setting.

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? In Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver that is the reality. The catch? The catch is freedom. There is no room for being different, no room for spontaneity, no room for experimentation and breaking the rules. If you break the rules you will be caught and their is no room for forgiveness. Also, if you are diagnosed with a disease, or just simply sick, you must likely will be released into the “elsewhere” world.

Imagine a world where you could make all of your own choices , make all of your day-dreams of what life could be like come true. That world does not support governments that will make choice for you. That world is what the giver, written by Lois lowry promotes, that world is anarchy.

The significance of the scene in the book, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas experiences seeing color for the first time, which sparks a memory within him. Jonas lives in a utopian society where color is not noticeable and everyone is the same. There is no color and everyone is the same because in their black and white society, they want everyone to be equal. Despite the innocent people being equal, they each do not have memories within them. The color red in this book plays a big role by symbolizing love, excitement and fear. While Jonas is playing catch with a colorless apple with his friend Asher, Jonas notices something odd with the apple. Jonas grabs the apple and notices a change with the apple. He questions his friend asher to see if he

Lois Lowry, the author, wrote a novel titled “The Giver” which took place in a dystopian society with ideas like climate control, sameness, and precision of language. The main character, Jonas, was selected for the assignment “The Receiver of Memory” and this assignment caused him many hardships. Throughout the story, Jonas faces many hardships related to his assignment, his friends, and the community. The theme to the story is overcoming obstacles because Jonas has to conquer many hardships throughout the novel.

Utopian (N) an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. The key word there is ‘imagined’ as we haved learned in The Giver that not everything can be perfect; it 's just limiting the being of a human. By having such limitations, the people can’t hold their memories, can’t see color, and the government chooses their family. Jonas’s society is vastly different than ours in various ways.

Different feelings and emotion are not known in the community within the people.The Giver and Jonas are the only true people that know how to feel the different emotions. Every night at the conclusion of their evening meal one of the rituals is the evening telling of feelings. In the very first Chapter Jonas talks about how it was almost December and Jonas was beginning to be frightened. But then thought that was the wrong word to use. Frightened ment that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen. Now that it was almost upon Jonas he wasn't frightened but he was eager he decided. He was eager and excited. But then their was a little shudder of nervousness when he thought about what might happen at the ceremony of twelve. Apprehensive, Jonas decided. That's what I feel like. (chapter 1)

“The Giver” by Lois Lowry is a third person, limited omniscient story about a young boy who overcomes mass brain-washing and strives to overcome the dystopia he lives in. The book explains the faults in true equality through multiple ways, and how it can drastically backfire on the people.

Is a perfect society possible, or is it just the seed of a corrupt governments rise to total control, masquerading the truth from its community. In The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the protagonist named Jonas just happens to be one of the government’s pawns at the time. Throughout the book, Jonas learns that the ‘perfect’ society he’s been living in his life isn’t a utopia after all. It actually turns out to be a dystopian society, where there is no freedom to do the things that people take for granted in modern society. The dystopian society written about in The Giver has many distinct differences and some similarities whilst being held up to the light with modern society today.

Jonas is the main character in the book. Everything that happens in the book happens from Jonas’s point on view, you get to know how he feels, his thoughts and all the minor characters. Jonas is an ‘’11’’ which means he is eleven years old. In December he turns twelve, same as all the other children born on the same year as him. From the start of the book you get to know that being a ‘’12’’ is very important because you get to know what you’re going to do your whole life, basically your career. Jonas is unsure of how he should express himself on how he feels about it to his family, it’s difficult for him, but he eventually decides he feels Apprehensive.

In a community with sameness, a boy named Jonas saw the lameness and decided not to follow the rules. He begins to see differences in his community that goes against unity after they choose him to hold the memories that have grown dim. In the novel

The Giver written by:Lois Lowry, talks about a way of life within a community built on Sameness. Jonas becomes the Receiver, the person appointed to receive the memories of the World, and begins to question his relationship with his family and the Giver. With the Giver he is free

Wars have been fought. People have gone mad. The entire world cannot seem to agree on the answer to one question: what is the meaning of life? In Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver, the community and the Elders who run it have their own answer-- to be a part of society and keep the community “perfect”. However, by getting rid of the aspects of life that cause problems, they are eliminating the purpose of living. Without choice, complex emotions, or individuality, life would not be special or have any meaning, something that the community in Lois Lowry’s novel does not understand.

The Giver has, so far, has the characters: Jonas, Lily, Asher, Jonah’s Father, Jonah’s Mother, and the Elders. Jonah is a nice kid, but is scared of the future. Lily is energetic, fun, and chatty. Asher, from what I know, is a troublemaker, and a class

The Giver was a really great book to read in my opinion it was really great for it's unexpecting cliff hangers. There was confusion between an amount of unexpecting people about the ending in The Giver. As well as all the the people I to have some confusion over