Lois Lowry

In the novel The Goner, by Lois Lowry, the central theme is being blinded by obliviousness. It is very vital and prominent throughout the story. A good example for this is located on page 48, Jonas, the main character is talking to Asher about requesting for release and had asked Asher, “have you ever once known of anyone – I mean anyone – I mean really known for sure, Asher, not just heard a story about it – who joined another community?” Of course, Asher said no, but he included that did…

The book "The Giver" by Lois Lowry , which appeared in 1994, presents a different kind of society. The right of choice is clearly forbidden. The citizens have a regulated live. The Elders makes the decision for everyone. They determine your curriculum vitae. Everyone makes the same experience. Everything must be perfect. Unperfect people will be released. They strive for success. The citizens don't know everything about their society. Nevertheless, they have to follow the rules without question.…

for Vendetta by Alan Moore and David Lloyd was published. This series depicts a totalitarian England with a vigilantly hero who stands up to the government and inspires a rebellion. The first popular young adult dystopian novel was The Giver by Lois Lowry published in 1993. This book is meant for the younger ages in the young adult range, primarily middle school age children. It deals with the issues of memories and dealing with our past, pain, and learning hard truths. It is a coming of age…

student with an opportunity to enjoy numerous rhetorical approaches. It makes the students deepen the world of the story and makes the reader experience the same challenges and events as the characters. To sum up, The Giver is a novel written by Lois Lowry. The book has been recently adapted to movie. It is easy to know the story by watching the movie version or reading the book. However, reading a book and watching a movie have some differences, for example, the duration of the story,…

One of the many things that our group enjoyed in The Giver, by Lois Lowry, was the intriguing society where it takes place. We liked reading about the customs, laws, and rules, such as their policies on precision of language. It was interesting for us to hear about how it was focused on in lessons.In fact, lessons were interrupted to focus on precision of language. A book is always more interesting when it takes place in an interesting setting. The society in this novel was very intriguing in…

There aren't many things in life as destructive as ignorance. While we have all heard the saying "ignorance is bliss," the book The Giver by Lois Lowry fully embodies the saying by creating what seems to be a futuristic civilization based on ignorance. The goal of the actual civilization is to have complete equality, but they do this by stripping away the core foundation of what makes people human. The civilization in the book is both a utopia and a dystopia due to the necessity for sameness,…

The short story 'Harrison Bergeron', composed by Kurt Vonnegurt Jr.and the novel 'The Giver' by Lois Lowry both offer a subject of constrained fairness, and how absurd and troublesome it is to oversee. In both writings, the goverment is controlling the residents in light of the fact that the consider it to be a perfect society. Both are stories that occur in universes that fake utopias they put on a show to be perfect, to have no flaws of any kind, however truth be told, they are only…

Dystopian Literature Books and films like Anthem and The Giver grab the attention of teens because they can relate. The Giver is a film directed by Phillip Noyce based off the novel by Lois Lowry and Anthem is a novel written by Ayn Rand. Teens can relate to the characters in dystopian stories like Jonas or Equality though school, whether it is because they are not allowed off of campus during school hours or because the students have to learn all of the same things and are limited.…

out for you before you reach the age that these decisions should even be made. Everything in this world was meant to be perfect, everything went right and nothing ever went wrong… Now lets imagine that was an actual reality. Through “The Giver” by Lois Lowry we get a first hand experience of a boy named Jonas who happens to live in this so called “perfect world” or in actuality, a dystopian society. There is no way that a utopia will never prosper.A utopia, like I stated above, is a society that…

Pity, no longer bad Imagine a world in which every person is a selfish being that only keeps their own interests in mind and where they have no social responsibility to help a person in need, be it a friend or family member. There are many in modern-day society that face persecution due to their race or gender. Those who support their ideology are the same people who fight for social justice. On the other hand are people who do nothing or support the maltreatment to benefit themselves and those…