Essays on The Giver

In a country where many are free to learn what they please, express themselves and feel a vast range of emotions, it is an outlandish thought to have these simple freedoms restricted or even relinquished. Lois Lowry’s The Giver follows Jonas, a boy who begins...

Hope; it holds the potential to drive a man insane, feeding on any optimism one possesses, building up and growing larger until reality tears it down. However, It can also be a marvelous state of mind, allowing one to do things they never thought possible....

Ever since the species of man has existed, men have looked for improved states of society. Searching for food, shelter, and safety have been major problems, even in today’s world: naturally, authors would write books about utopias that provide for the common needs of people...

In both Lois Lowry’s The Giver and Paolo Bacigalupi’s “Pop Squad” a regulation of reproductive rights in order to encourage a better future for the society. While both of these regulations differ in terms of application, and level of restriction both are successful in furthering...

The novel “The Giver” begins with Jonas, a twelve year old boy who lives in a utopia where there’s no such thing as pain, war, fear, or hatred. In the community he lives everything is pleasant and as fair as possible. With the upcoming national...

The book The Giver is about an supposedly ideal society, however as the book continues it seems to be more of a dystopia with a totalitarian government. Everyday life is the same and almost never changes because the consequence is so severe, which could be...

In the book the giver the people in this world do not see color. They don’t know music. They do not know about death. They are told that the people that are release go to a different community. People believe that they spend their lives...

The book The Giver is about a supposedly ideal society, however as the book continues it seems to be more of a dystopia with a totalitarian government. Everyday life is the same and almost never changes because the consequence is so severe, which could be...

Imagine living in a community where everything you do is watched through the cameras of your house, school, cafeteria and everything you say is being recorded. Imagine living a life where you can’t feel any emotions, feelings, have no decisions to make any choices, have...

Everything in the world is perfect, right? The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a boy named Jonas, who lives in a utopia community, where there is no pain, no fear, no war. In this community, the people cannot choose who want to marry, their...

People ought to be grateful for what they have, typically they think their world should be greater, however, the one thing that they don’t recognize is that it doesn’t last forever. Once they recognize those nice things in their life, it’s already gone. In “The...

The fine line between utopia and dystopia tends to be overlooked by people as they are blinded by the many beliefs and interpretations that construct an idealistic society. Lois Lowry published The Giver in 1993 after she witnessed the suffering and emotional turmoil her father...

“We can forget pain…And it is comfortable to do so. But I also wonder…Is it safe to do that, to forget?” In the Giver Lowry effectively engages with the audiences by informing them into the key aspects of the novel memory and mortality and the...

In the novel “The Giver” by Lois Lowry shows how the people around the protagonist in the book influence and shape their life. These people are the Elders, Gabriel and the Giver all in some point make huge changes and control the main character’s life....

The book the giver by Lois Lowry is supposed to show what would happen if everyone is the same. It shows us that it’s good to be different and if people tried to make us all the same our lives would be boring. The author...

Adversity can manifest itself in every single one of our lives in countless different ways, like a non-discriminate occurrence. Though through these adversities we can have the opportunity to better ourselves and the outcome itself, depending on our levels of perseverance and determination, qualities that...

The Giver is a dystopian driven and intriguing story about a young boy named Jonas who lives in a community free of crime, pain, and sadness. When all the children in the community turn 12, they are assigned their jobs, which they will train for...

The Giver is an award-winning novel that tells about a utopian society- a perfect world envisioned by its creators. It has eliminated fear, pain, hunger, illness, conflict, and hatred—all things that most of us would like to eliminate in our own society. The author mentions...

To begin with, almost everyone in the community in The Giver by Lois Lowry are being controlled by the Elders, and no one can make decisions for themselves. Plus, they don’t even know their being controlled. Control is a good thing, but if it becomes...

In ‘The Giver’, we can see that Jonas lives in a dystopian place where his community believes that everyone should be the same. Throughout the story, we can see certain rules in the community that applies to sameness, and that at the same time restrains...

Imagine a place where there is no color, no choice; a place where individuality and freedom have been traded for sameness and security. Lois Lowry is a popular children’s book author, she was born on March 20, 1937. She won two Newbery medal awards for...