Liteary Element Found in the Giver: EDIT

A liteary element found in Lois Lowry's fiction novel, "The Giver", is flashback. Rather than going "back in time" in the story, the past is presented with flashbacks and recollections of things, so that they make sense in the books current time period. Like in the beginning, when it says, "Frightened was the way he had felt a year ago when an unidentified aircraft flew over the community twice," then it proceeds with describing what happened that day. And, like in Chapters 10-12, the Giver transmits flashbacks of the previous life to Jonas, and these are a crucial part in the story. Without the flashbacks, the book would have to start at the time of the recollections and somehow skip to the time the book is currently at, which seems unrealistic. That is why flashbacks are used very often in the story and in many others, and why they are so important.

Liteary Element Found in the Giver

A liteary element found in Lois Lowry's fiction novel, "The Giver", is flashback. Rather than going "back in time" in the story, the past is presented with flashbacks and recollections of things, so that they make sense in the books current time period. Like in the beginning, when it says, "Frightened was the way he had felt a year ago when an unidentified aircraft flew over the community twice," then it proceeds with describing what happened that day. Without the flashbacks, the book would have to start at the time of the recollections and somehow skip to the time the book is currently at, which seems unrealistic. That is why flashbacks are used very often in the story and in many others, and why they are so important.

Element

"The Giver" by Lois Lowery is ongoing mystery. You never know whats going to come up next. So I think that the best literay element is Flashback. Jonas being a little boy still has so much questions and no one to answer them. I wonder if Jonas will runaway to go and experience new things or find the answers to his questions that no one will answer.Will he have a flashback on how simple everything was in his old community?Will he want to go back? These are the questions I ask as I read this novel.I wonder how many questions Jonas has?We can predict whats going to happen but to find the answers we have to read.

ELEMENTS

For me one of the elements that i thought would go along with this book up to chapter 12 is tone. In the book, The giver by Lois Lowry it uses tone to communicate with the reader to make it easier to understand. On chapter 10-11 it specifies that The Giver tells Jonas about snow and sleds and a downhill. The tone he uses to represent this was really strong. Also as he reminded Jonas of that specific detail in the book and the words that Jonas uses to describe the snow are also a good selection of word choice. So, so far what i state that this books symbolizes most for diction, tone, and some mood that we expirienced at the begining of the book.

Mood change

In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry Jonas was assigned rules that would change his mood significantly. His rules would be followed for his life if he's planning to work. The rule on page 68, jonas read, "From this moment you are prohibited from story-telling." Although Jonas hadnt talked much at dinner about it he'd tell them when things were important to him. Who could he express his feelings to if he could'nt story tell. His mood could go from being happy he told someone to suffering from holding it inside. Truly this rule makes me think Jonas's mood will be different.

Something That Disturbs Me

Something that disturbs me in Lois Lowry's novel, The Giver is the rule that was given to Jonas for being a receiver is you may lie. In the real world you the general population lies every day. In this community a lie is like a curse. Whats the point of being able to lie if after twelve years of not lying you would start to lie now? As a receiver though you would have to tell the truth most of the time, so that rule is not that important to him. "Still, the final rule said ... well, he wasn't quite ready to think about the final rule on the page." He knows he won't be using that rule that much. This is truly why this rule disturbs me.

In every book you read literary elements will be everywhere like they have been from chapter 1 up to chapter12 in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry. Like it can be seen in page 86, "This time, as he lay basking in the wonderful warmth, he felt the passage of time. His real self was aware that it was only a minute or two; but his other, memory-receiving self felt hours pass in the sun. His skin began to sting. Restlessly he moved one arm, bending it, and felt a sharp pain in the crease of his inner arm at the elbow." The reader can immediately see that the elemnt being used is diction. You can practically picture Jonas's actions as he is being sunburned because of the author's word choice which makes it real enough to picture it in our heads. Diction is an important element in one's writing like it is in the author's itself.
Melissa Atlixqueno