The Giver

Louis Lowry's The Giver is a novel that traces the quest of a boy named Jonas who has to cope with being in a society where choice is limited and government control is maximized. He is raised to confo…

Lois Lowry's novel The Giver is about a conflict between Jonas and the community in which he lives. Inequality, divorce, unemployment, injustice, and choice were all eliminated from the community. Jon…

Do you live in a dystopian society? A dystopian society is a society that is not perfect. In the Giver by Lois Lowry Jonas is a boy that lives in a dystopian world. Everyone in the community is given …

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in Jonas' world from The Giver?? Well, if you do, let us go over a few things that would be similar and different between the two worlds and commun…

In certain societies people have different methods of equality ranging from putting weights on people to make them weaker, to just color blindness so all people are equal in spirit. "Harrison Bergero…

"I believe that stories are incredibly important, possibly in ways we don't understand, in allowing us to make sense of our lives, in allowing us to escape our lives, in giving us empathy and in creat…

As Shirley Henderson once said, "There is so much pressure on kids these days to be the best at everything." In our society, the pressure that everyone puts on people to stand out and succeed is a gre…

"Because of the horror of Communism, Stalinism is not that bad people do bad things-- they always do. It's that good people do horrible things thinking they are doing something great" \- Slavoj Zizek.…

In the fictional world of The Giver, there is a tradition called the Ceremony of Twelve in which the children of the society officially turn 12 years of age and are assigned their future occupation. A…

Humanity, from the start of time, has been known to have segregated groups between those who fit in and those who are left on the "outside." The population's aspiration to constantly belong has warped…