Essays on The Giver

Each year thousands of books are either banned or challenged. Most are classics like The Great Gatsby, Huckleberry and Finn, or Lord of the Flies. Books that have been challenged or banned usually have themes of sexually explicit, violence, bad language, and more. The list...

John F. Kennedy once said, “Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.” In other words saying that limiting yourself to society’s expectations acts like a prison, holding one’s freedom of choice and hindering one’s ability to better understand and accept themselves,...

In both dystopian stories, Gathering Blue and The Giver, Lois Lowry clearly captures how the citizens of the community has a fear for the outside world, but in The Giver the way they control the community is more efficient and organized, while in Gathering Blue...