What would it be like to live in a community where there is no individuality? In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry the protagonist, Jonas in the story live in a community like with no individuality. Jonas changes over the book by questioning the community and breaking the rules in his community.…
To “live” means to wake up every morning, to experience life to its fullest, and to stay true to your values and what you stand for. There are many things that can contribute to the quality of life, for example, love, knowledge, hatred, war, family, and anything else that can alter the experience or values of life. In the film The Giver there seemed to be a low value placed on human life because of sameness. Everyone was doing the same thing everyday.…
Class of 2022, it has been a wonderful three quarters. Remember at the beginning of the year, when we all had the Big Bear trip? Then, everyone was “stiff,” but now, we’re all settled into our daily middle school routine, and many events have passed already. Period 5 English, can you recall us realizing that everyone in The Giver was on drugs? Well, our class was pretty chaotic, and Ms. Gershenhorn had to bribe us to be quiet with the possibility of her doing the dab.…
1. The mood, atmosphere and feeling of the first page is that Jonas was frightened more than scared. This was because a plane flew over his community, and it is illegal to fly over his community. Another reason Jonas was scared was because he was the only one home in his family when the announcement was made. This must have been scary because this has never happened before to him and he didn’t know what was going on besides the fact that he saw the plane fly over his community.…
In the novel The Giver, memories are the source of wisdom and pain. The society created by the elders, which lived in the old world, where there was chaos and agony. It's a supposed utopia. Everything is fair, everyone has the same education, family members, same life. There is no chaos or disease, it's “perfect.”…
Your thoughts. Your emotions. All this is gone for the so-called “greater good”. In both The Giver and “Examination Day,” the main characters differ from other citizens within their societies. However, being different is not always a good thing.…
“The way they communicate it was so strange, not like ugly's or clumbies at all. It was more like uglies arguing. Like equals.” (246) 1. (Social Questions.)…
In the short story “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. it takes place in a society that makes everyone equivalent. In the short story, Vonnegut suggests that total equality is not an ideal worth striving for, which is saying if everyone functions exactly the same, then the extraordinary will be the ordinary. Harrison Bergeron tries to be the savior of the society and makes a stand showing how prejudiced this civilization is.…
Have you ever wondered what it would be like in a perfect society, where everyone is equal? Well you will know what rights U.S. citizens have versus the citizens in the book called "The Giver". They are totally different but they are totally unique. Here are rights that two different societies have.…
Secondly, it can affect the people around you. It can do that, because in the book Jonas tells Asher and Fiona that they should stop playing war, because Jonas knew what war was and everyone else had no idea what it was (Chapter 17). In addition, when Jonas left the community his memories spread into the air like dust and everyone was affected by the new memories that collapsed on them in an instant. That is a valid reason, because him and his friends were never the same again and new people got new memories that they never knew existed.…
Could you ever imagine a life of having everything chosen for you? The Giver is a book where the leaders of a futuristic community want everyone to be as similar as possible. They ensure this by having everyone wear the same clothes and have the haircuts. To keep safety and peace in the community the citizens are given no freedoms. Citizens are given their spouses and jobs based on observations made about them.…
My Point of view is that Jonas and Gabriel Froze And Starved, Fell Into A dream Like A Coma. I chose that Point of View because Jonas and Gabe ran out of food and it was very rare to find any water. Which meant that Jonas and Gabe were starving with the lack of food they could find and have. Jonas and Gabriel also didn’t have the proper clothing to stay warm in all the new weather that they were experiencing. Without the proper clothing that we have now Jonas and Gabe were freezing and shivering with cold and there was nothing except the fading memories of warmth the giver had given.…
The Giver is about an imaginary perfect society, as the book continues on it seems to be more of a dystopia with a controlling government. For people life is a routine activity that rarely changes, like a story mode in a video game. In the United States you can do almost anything as long as it is not harmful. In some ways The Giver society and different but they also have similarities. We both have rules and leaders, but the United States has fewer and less strict rules.…
The Giver, a novel by Lois Lowry, is about a boy named Jonas who lives in a world of Sameness. Jonas´s world has no color or emotions. Their is no weather and the climate is controlled. Nobody can make their own choices. They all get assigned to everything.…
Chloe Ning English class April 9th, 2017 Chapter 24 Joy, happiness, excitement, sadness, fear, confuses, worries, and all kinds of feelings come upon Jonas, for the first time he feel all those feelings all at once. Snowflakes falling down from the bright blue sky, the forest are covered with white thick snow. Jonas and Gabriel no longer feel cold, instead they feel cozy and comfortable. The feelings that Jonas is having now, the view he is seeing now, it is just somehow so familiar.…