Have you ever thought of having a world with no pain, loneliness, or love? Well in the book The Giver, by Lois Lowry Jonas never thought of a world with it. His world was perfect. Until the day he turned twelve. Jonas had been given a job to work with The Giver. All is well until JOnas has to have the things in life he never knew of, even though those emotions are why Jonas has become the person he did at the end of the book. The GIver shows how valuable emotions like pain, loneliness, and love can change a person.…
Imagine shutting away the memories in one’s mind; covering them with a cloak, never to be seen again. The brain could spend hours searching, tearing itself apart before adapting and becoming numb to the feelings and moments from the past. This is the case for the numerous communities in Lois Lowry’s The Giver. By masterfully twisting together the idea of the the community’s lack of wisdom, the suffering of the Giver and his trainee, Jonas, and finally the lack of human bonds, Lois Lowry writes a tale of loneliness and heartache. Through words, she proves to the reader that memories are meant to be shared.…
Bread Givers is a novel written by a Jewish lady Yezierska Anzia in 1925, the novel covers a number of aspects. The set up is in the old Manhattan in the United States of America, in the 1920s. The author is believed to have migrated from Poland to United States of America in the year 1890. The novel talks about a poor Jewish immigrant named Reb Smolinsky, who has four daughters namely, Bessie, Mashah, Faniah, and Sara. Sara goes against the beliefs of her father by adopting divergent views. This paper seeks to explore how identities are shaped by cultural and societal influence within the context of equality and inequality.…
Imagine a word with no love, no affection, and no biological families. Well in the dystopian society in The Giver by Lois Lowry. This is their everyday life, which makes the protagonist Jonas wonder why is this the case. Jonas’ society and modern day society have close to nothing in common. While Jonas’ society is emotionless, experiences sameness, and does not have choices, Modern day society consists of love, celebrates individuality, and has freedom to choose.…
The American writer, Lois Lowry in her novel, The Giver, claims that in creating a utopian society the creator manufactures a dystopia, since the individuality of a person contradicts the creator’s idea of a utopia. She develops her claim by first creating a utopia where the residents lack individuality conforming to the criteria of sameness, then presenting the absence of intense emotions, then convey the reader’s thoughts of the utopia by placing a main character who gains his emotions and individuality, and finally declares that the utopia lacks morality spawning a dystopia. Lowry’s purpose is to criticize conformity in order to state that to enjoy life one must suffer to appreciate life. She establishes a thoughtful tone for the audience…
While there are many themes that are present in "The Giver" and "Harrison Bergeron", one theme stands out. That theme is, memories are important and if they're lost, they can cause pain.…
Just imagine a world where everything was the same all the time. Every day, the weather as plain and ordinary as the clothes you wear. This is the world perceived in The Giver. The Giver is a story of a boy named Jonas living in a dystopian society where everything is the same; the people, the homes, the weather. Though they have eliminated all fear, pain, war, and hatred, they have also eliminated choice. But when Jonas is chosen as Receiver, he must fight to bring choice, passion, joy, and love back to the hearts of his community. This type of society differs from modern society. The culture of current-day varies from the novel’s as well as its structure and values.…
Initially my understanding of belonging was to conform to groups and individuals you want to ‘belong’ to and that where you belong contributes to your identity. However my understanding of belong has developed since then. Belonging is a concept of an individual being accepted unconditionally. A person’s identity is represented by what they pride themselves in. This is shown through the text, ‘The Simple Gift,’ by Steven Herrick as Billy does not pride himself from where he belongs but from his identity. Billy yearns to be accepted for who he is.…
The idea of belonging is conveyed in several ways throughout these three texts, the novel ‘A Simple Gift’, by Steven Herrick, the song ‘She’s Leaving Home’ by The Beatles, and an image from an online art site. By analyzing these texts, you’re drawn to many conclusions on belonging, such as the idea that the need to belong shapes our behaviour, attitudes and actions, as well as the realisation that belonging is a basic human need to be accepted.…
In The Giver, the people of the Community get rid of sexual desire and romantic feelings using a pill. They call these feelings ‘the Stirrings’, and believe they are bad for the Community as a whole. I disagree with them. I think that we need these feelings in our lives. For one, they make us happy. When someone is close enough to someone that they feel comfortable sleeping with them, they are happy. Some people argue that love and sex can only bring heartbreak and pain. Although that is a valid argument, heartbreak and hurt is something that eventually fades. When it is gone and you let love back in your life, it’s something wonderful. Another argument given is that without the Stirrings, there would be no rape, pedophiles, sexual assault…
When we look at belonging we see that it is composed of many aspects, belonging to people, belonging to group, but one which all revolves around is place. Belonging to place means a deep connection to everything associated with it. Good morning/afternoon Teachers and fellow peers, today i will be attempting to explain what the concept of belonging means to me and how it is illustrated through my two texts. This intricate connection to place is developed through the novel ‘The Simple Gift’ by Steven Herrick and ‘Heat and Dust’ by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.…
An individual’s sense of connectedness is conditional upon one’s acceptance of others and by others.…
Characters in books make choices which set the plot. The Giver by Lois Lowry has the main character, Jonas, making many significant choices in his Utopia community, that excludes war fear, pain, and emotions that affects him and the plot dramatically. Two significant choices he made is throwing his pill that takes his emotions, and giving memories to his brother, Gabe.…
A nation’s growth is not just dependent on the economical and natural resources but it lies more in the kind of quality of the wealth of its children and youth. It is they who will be the creators and shapers of a nation’s tomorrow. Compare to other countries, American society recognizes the future contributions of children as private responsibility rather than public responsibility. The ethos of individualism is deeply embedded in our culture in that raising children’s cost and care is solely the private problem of the individual. In this essay, the main argument is that America promotes the principle of individualism in raising children as personal duty and not as public responsibility which results in the lack of public policies and laws…
Every person is different from other person in some aspects, but similar in others. The way people differ can be moulded by both hereditary and personal life experiences.…