In The Giver, Lois Lowry creates a very unique setting. How do you think the setting is important to the book? Please include examples of the setting from the book to support your reasoning.
I think the setting in The Giver is extremely important. The author describes a gloomy and dark town. Although the author describes the scene as dark, if you look on the cover of the book, you see the rip that reveals a scene of the sunrise. The sunrise is colorful, so I think that Lois Lowry will add color to the town at some point in the story.
I thought Harknessing with the playing cards was a success. I agree with Luca's comment on the fact that he thought the world there was black and white. The way the author describes it makes it sound like the world there is colorless, dull, and uniform. If their world had colors, I think they would be dull, like beige and brown. Maggie
Nic- The setting that I pictured in my mind was very dark and gloomy. I think that it was a very silent and ordering community. Everything had to be perfect in this town. I had a question about what was the community called an were there any others? I also pictured that everyone had to look similar and serious. Were other communities (if there were any) different from this one or alike?
I think that the setting plays a huge part in this book. I think this is true because if the setting was my neighborhood in Newport Beach, CA it would not make any sense. But, since it's in a "community" it makes you feel a little bit like there is a wall surrounding the whole place and everyone is locked inside unless they get released. The setting also matters because it makes you feel like everything is black and white and nothing is colorful.
I think that the setting ties the whole story together. The town isn't gloomy, but it is strict. They experience happiness, but not in the way we do. The tense is very hard to explain. I think that it is in the future, but in a fictional world.
Kate- I think the setting in The Giver will vary throughout the book. Right now, the town is strict, with a very tight community. The community is anything but open and cheerful. The government wanted to keep the community very instructive. On page 1, an unidentified aircraft flew over the city, and the pilot was, or will be, released. I think Jonas, after receiving his assignment, will travel away on a journey out of the community. Where Jonas will go, I have absolutely no clue. I think he will find out about the real world, go back to his original community, and understand what the Government was keeping from him and his fellow citizens.
The setting in The Giver by Lois Lowry is very important in the book. I think the "Community" is plain and bland. There is no color. I identified this on page 20 when the book said "It was considered rude to call attention to things that were unsettling or different." Its rude to be different. -Sarah
In this book it is very dreary, but you have to remember that this is about the community being efficient and you might not always like where you live. For these people if they don't like where they live or obey they will get released. We still do not no if released is or bad, but If I didn't like this setting or my life I would not take the consequences. -George
I think that each time we have a Harkness discussion we get better at them. Today we did a good job. Now to the setting of The Giver. I made a prediction that there are other communities and that each one is different from the next. I don't know if I am correct. The Giver starts out in winter. I think it is in past time because they have electricity but no telephones and televisions.
I think this setting is much like Quill in the Unwanteds. This "community" I imagined had high walls, and not advanced technology. It is probably very dull and lifeless because they don't know what animals are, and it doesn't seem that they are very creative people. I think this may come into play later in the book. -Will A.
I also didn't think the setting in this story was gloomy because the kids have fun playing and riding bikes. They are a lot more strict than where we live.
In the discussion, we talked about if it was in the past or the future. I was out of cards and was not able to respond with my opinion. I think this is in the future, because in the past, animals were all around us, and we would be able to know. What I really want to know is why they had such useless rules? -Matthew V.
The setting in the Giver very much effects the plot. If this city had creativity, when you thought it you wouldn't think of gloomy and gray. Why do you think people would come to live here? Would you want to live in a world like this? I wouldn't. There are logical reasons for this though, for safety or even equability. I still would like to know who started this city, and why? -Alana
I think the setting in The Giver is extremely important. The author describes a gloomy and dark town. Although the author describes the scene as dark, if you look on the cover of the book, you see the rip that reveals a scene of the sunrise. The sunrise is colorful, so I think that Lois Lowry will add color to the town at some point in the story.
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I thought Harknessing with the playing cards was a success. I agree with Luca's comment on the fact that he thought the world there was black and white. The way the author describes it makes it sound like the world there is colorless, dull, and uniform. If their world had colors, I think they would be dull, like beige and brown.
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Nic- The setting that I pictured in my mind was very dark and gloomy. I think that it was a very silent and ordering community. Everything had to be perfect in this town. I had a question about what was the community called an were there any others? I also pictured that everyone had to look similar and serious. Were other communities (if there were any) different from this one or alike?
ReplyDeleteI think that the setting plays a huge part in this book. I think this is true because if the setting was my neighborhood in Newport Beach, CA it would not make any sense. But, since it's in a "community" it makes you feel a little bit like there is a wall surrounding the whole place and everyone is locked inside unless they get released. The setting also matters because it makes you feel like everything is black and white and nothing is colorful.
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I think that the setting ties the whole story together. The town isn't gloomy, but it is strict. They experience happiness, but not in the way we do. The tense is very hard to explain. I think that it is in the future, but in a fictional world.
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Kate- I think the setting in The Giver will vary throughout the book. Right now, the town is strict, with a very tight community. The community is anything but open and cheerful. The government wanted to keep the community very instructive. On page 1, an unidentified aircraft flew over the city, and the pilot was, or will be, released. I think Jonas, after receiving his assignment, will travel away on a journey out of the community. Where Jonas will go, I have absolutely no clue. I think he will find out about the real world, go back to his original community, and understand what the Government was keeping from him and his fellow citizens.
ReplyDeleteThe setting in The Giver by Lois Lowry is very important in the book. I think the "Community" is plain and bland. There is no color. I identified this on page 20 when the book said "It was considered rude to call attention to things that were unsettling or different." Its rude to be different.
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In this book it is very dreary, but you have to remember that this is about the community being efficient and you might not always like where you live. For these people if they don't like where they live or obey they will get released. We still do not no if released is or bad, but If I didn't like this setting or my life I would not take the consequences. -George
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ReplyDeleteI think that each time we have a Harkness discussion we get better at them. Today we did a good job. Now to the setting of The Giver. I made a prediction that there are other communities and that each one is different from the next. I don't know if I am correct. The Giver starts out in winter. I think it is in past time because they have electricity but no telephones and televisions.
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Matthew S.
I think this setting is much like Quill in the Unwanteds. This "community" I imagined had high walls, and not advanced technology. It is probably very dull and lifeless because they don't know what animals are, and it doesn't seem that they are very creative people. I think this may come into play later in the book.
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I also didn't think the setting in this story was gloomy because the kids have fun playing and riding bikes. They are a lot more strict than where we live.
ReplyDeleteIn the discussion, we talked about if it was in the past or the future. I was out of cards and was not able to respond with my opinion. I think this is in the future, because in the past, animals were all around us, and we would be able to know. What I really want to know is why they had such useless rules?
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The setting in the Giver very much effects the plot. If this city had creativity, when you thought it you wouldn't think of gloomy and gray. Why do you think people would come to live here? Would you want to live in a world like this? I wouldn't. There are logical reasons for this though, for safety or even equability. I still would like to know who started this city, and why?
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