The Giver by Lois Lowry Newberry winner, The Giver by Lois Lowry expresses pain and pleasure by expressing internal feeling through textual features. As an American writer, Lois Lowry was born on March 20th, 1937 in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Katharine and Robert Hammersberg. Born the middle of three, Lois was a solitary child who lived in the world of books and her own imagination. Since day one, Lois loved reading different types of literature; she would rather curl up with a book, than to hang out
Jonas is the main protagonist of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. Jonas’ environment in the story is a type of futuristic community where color and weather are removed or made the same. When it’s Jonas’ eleventh December since his birth, he is chosen to have the assignment or job of Receiver of memory. After Jonas learns of pain, the excruciating kind which the community hides from them, he and the Giver, an elder protagonist in the story, plan an escape to Elsewhere. Monique Pool, is an active animal lover
the one in “The Giver”. In Lois Lowry’s “The Giver”, the author portrays a society in which there is absolute control of the choices made by the citizens. Lowry describes how this community is under the control of an utilitarian type of government that controls what jobs the citizens will have, what foods they will eat, how many children they will have, the extent of language they will use and most of all, the access of their past generations’ memories. This reduces the community to a state in which