The Giver by Lois Lowry is a realistic/science fiction novel about a boy named Jonas. In his community overpowered by Sameness. Sameness controls Stirrings (Sexual Thoughts), weather, color, and every little inconsequential commodity that the founders could contemplate. Although it keeps its people safe, it takes away numerous valuable traits such as emotions. The Giver should not be banned because it does not have any profanity, and does not portray drugs in a bad way.
The Giver should not be banned because it does not have the use of bad language. The main cause of book banning is because of its content of language that parents would not appreciate their kids reading. “Vickie Swindler, the parent who raised the first objections when her 14-year-old daughter, Brook, showed her the book, has been calling friends, reading passages from it, mostly the one on page 32 with three goddamns” (Mydans). “When she found out about the language in it, Ms Swindler said, ‘I called the school, and said, “How the hell did this teacher get this book?”’” (Mydans). Mrs Swindler commenced the objection of the book, The Catcher in the Rye because of its harsh designations, yet the Giver does not have any of that. In perspective of language for young readers, the Giver is safe, and there is no explicit words the people
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Drugs are used by numerous characters in books that are challenged and banned. The Giver has drugs too, but it does not use the term as a street drug. “It’s just the pills. You're ready for the pills, that’s all. That’s the treatment for Stirrings” (Lowry 48). In the case of The Giver, drugs are used and provided to the character, Jonas, as a prescription medication for something the community wants to have control over. The drugs are not only used by Jonas, but by the whole community making it not a good or bad choice the character makes, but a have to do
The novel the outsiders should be banned because it has violence things that happens in the novel. “But dally, heaters kill people’’,kill em with switchblades to, dontcha?” This quote states that the characters in the book are really dangerous. All this violence should not be told to kids,teens.
The Giver is about a boy named Jonas who was chosen to be the community’s next Receiver of Memory. He lived in a community where everything was chosen for the citizens, and everything was perfect. During Jonas' training, he realized that the community was missing something and that there was more in the world. Jonas wanted everybody to know that. The Giver book was then made into a movie.
The Catcher in the Rye Should Not be Banned. & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp; Since its publication in 1951, The Catcher In the Rye, written by J.D. Salinger has served as a conflagration for debate and extreme controversy. Although the novel has been the target of scornful criticism, it has also been the topic of wide discussion. The novel portrays the life of sixteen year old, Holden Caufield. Currently in psychiatric care, Holden recalls what happened to him last Christmas.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky is banned due to the use of drugs, alcohol, and smoking. There are occurrences of homosexuality, homosexuals and offensive language. There are multiple occasions with sexually explicit content and has been deemed unsuited for minors. I believe this book should not be banned to any grade higher than elementary because it deals with real life situations and delivers a very powerful message that many people can relate to.
The book I am reading is Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. It is a book about a specially challenged adult named Charlie Gordon. He is a middle aged adult who takes a specialized operation that should help his academics. Many people think that this book should be banned because of religious reasons and bad language, along with bad behavior by adults. I personally think that this book should not be banned because the literary merit of this book outweighs the challenged parts of this book.
I thought the book was very well written and the controversial parts of the novel gave specific characteristics to Charlie Gordon. I also believe Daniel Keyes accomplished what he set out to achieve regarding the plot of the novel. He shows the difference of Charlie’s social life before and after his procedure. The explicit sex scenes show Charlie’s growth as a character. The novel, Flowers for Algernon, should not be currently banned in high schools or community libraries. High schoolers and people willing to read the graphic novel should be mature enough to handle sex scenes within a book. Also, the First Amendment allows freedom of speech, so Daniel Keyes has the right to talk about or include religious context in his book. The bible is not banned for talking about religion, so why should Flowers for Algernon be banned for the same context? I believe that banning or challenging a book is a way to shield the eyes of the world from the
It shows that the society is making citizens vulnerable to change, which allows world leaders to manipulate and gain superiority. Additionally, it shows that citizens are mentally weak, as they are not able to formulate a plan of action to face difficulty. Reliance on drugs is ultimately making citizens slaves of the society, as citizens are commanded without objection because the need overrules independent thinking. Furthermore, the film The Giver displays how they take daily injections to rid any lingering emotions in their body which can interfere with their day to day duties. Jonas taking the injection.
As you can now see “To Kill A Mockingbird” should not be be banned because it tells an important fictional story about America's past. This book does contain rape, violence, and foul language. The author is keeping true to the time period. Also these kind of things are seen in the world on a daily basis. Us children should not be sheltered from these kind of serious
The Giver provides a chance that readers can compare the real world with the society described in this book through some words, such as release, Birthmothers, and so on. Therefore, readers could be able to see what is happening right now in the real society in which they live by reading her fiction. The author, Lowry, might build the real world in this fiction by her unique point of view.
Jonas is the protagonist in The Giver. He changes from being a typical twelve-year-old boy to being a boy with the knowledge and wisdom of generations past. He has emotions that he has no idea how to handle. At first he wants to share his changes with his family by transmitting memories to them, but he soon realizes this will not work. After he feels pain and love, Jonas decides that the whole community needs to understand these memories. Therefore Jonas leaves the community and his memories behind for them to deal with. He hopes to change the society so that they may feel love and happiness, and also see color. Jonas knows that memories are hard to deal with but without memories there is no pain and with no pain, there is no true happiness.
The Giver is actually one of my all-time favorite books, so I’ve looked into why she left the book so inconclusive in the past. The Giver is basically about a boy named Jonas who lives in a perfect society. He lives in a household with his two parents and his little sister Lilly. When he becomes a 12, he goes through a huge ceremony and all the elders assign them their jobs. In this community, there is no lying, stealing, racism, pain, sunlight or color. Jonas was chosen to be The Receiver, and he didn’t know what to do because this job was such a big deal. Jonas then goes through training with the current Receiver, who is now The Giver. Training consists of The Giver passing down the memories from when the community was not what it is today. Memories that are passed down are things that are normal to us. Memories of sun, snow, pain, and sorrow.
The Giver presents a community that appears to be perfect on the surface. Jonas's community is free of warfare, pain, sorrow and other bitterness we suffer in our society. The world seems to be secure and undergoes little conflict. Such a community seems flawless and is the idealistic society that we longed to live in. However , through Jonas's training, the imperfections of the Utopian community are revealed. The community allows little individual freedom and choice. In allowing only one person, the Receiver, to bear the memories of the world, the community frees itself from suffering and conflict. As a result, it gives up the ability to experience true feelings, passion, individual privacy, freedom and knowledge. To maintain the community's order, strict rules are applied to the inhabitants. "Releases" ( a less offensive term for kills) are performed to the citizens who jeopardize the stability and peace of the community. The inhabitants' careers and spouses are chosen by the Elders (or government).
“The Giver.” Novels for Students. Ed. Diane Telgen and Kevin S. Hile. Vol. 3. Detroit, MI: Gale Research,1998. 167-81. Print.
...wined into her writing the answer becomes clear. Society has boundaries and limits that are acknowledged should not be crossed. Yet humans have a craving to do so. Each time the fine line between acceptable and inappropriate is crossed, a new boundary is created; therefore a new crave develops and the cycle never ends. The Giver takes place after the last limit was broken, when the Elders took away some of the most beautiful pleasures of life, and the last line was drawn with all memories of freedom stored away. And this storage happens to be a human mind, the Giver, passing it down to the next Reciever into conceivably the end of time. Jonas disagrees; the memories he has seen, the pain he has endured, the beauty he has experienced must be shared. He wants the whole world to know the full extent and intention of life that God created. The boundary must be crossed.
The Infamous novel, A Clockwork Orange, has been banned in several places over the years. Most recently banned in “1982, in Alabama because of objectionable language.” (Doyle). Different people have different mentalities, no one