The Giver Research Paper

The Giver: Dang good book or fool part of literature?

Faulkner Defines what qualities make a good book in his Nobel prize speech he says “Love honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice.”(last paragraph faulkner's banquet speech) These are the qualities he thinks that makes book good. The Giver by Lois Lowry is a good book according to faulkner’s definition because of love, sacrifice, and choice.

The first reason The Giver is a good book is because of love. Closer to the end than the beginning of Lowry's book, The Giver gives Jonas his favorite memory of a family eating dinner at christmas and, They call the feeling in the memory Love, In the book Jonas has a deep brotherly love for his brother gabe and when jonas learns of love he tells gabe all about it. Also in the book the giver and Jonas make a plan for Jonas to escape the community so all the memories can be released, But things change in their plan they have decided to kill gabe. There is another moment of love with the giver and rosemary The Giver’s daughter, Jonas in lowry’s book says,” It had that wonderful feeling with it. You told me it was love.” Then The Giver says, “You can understand, then that’s what I felt for Rosemary… I loved her.”(pg 176-177 lowry) The second reason is In the book The Giver there is sacrifice. Like his love for gabe he risks his own life to save gabe that maybe he can save gabe and himself. In lowry’s book it says,“ One night Jonas fell, When the bike jolted to a sudden stop against a rock. He grabbed instinctively for Gabriel;”(pg 214 lowry) He sacrifices Himself so someone else doesn’t

After reading this book what do you think the giver good literature or bad literature?

Works cited

Lowry, Lois. The Giver. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.

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