Symbol and Motiffs
In Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery, this small object represents blind tradition and the unquestioned power of the community.
The Black box
She wrote The Giver, a dystopian novel where memories are controlled and choice is eliminated.
Lois Lowry
"Precision of Language!"
Mother (Chapter 1)
Selected ten years earlier to become the new Receiver of Memory, and began training with The Giver, but after only five weeks, this character asked to be released from the community.
Rosemary
Which text type involves elements of rhetoric, such as rhetorical questions and repetition?
Speech
In The Giver, this recurring image represents freedom, difference, and the ability to perceive beyond Sameness.
Colour
This Nigerian playwright, the first African to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, wrote Death and the King’s Horseman
Wole Soyinka
“When you receive the memories, you have honor. You have no power.”
The Giver (Chapter 11)
She “wins” the lottery and is ultimately stoned to death.
Tessie Hutchinson
The use of hints or clues to suggest what will happen later.
foreshadowing
This place outside the community symbolizes the unknown, freedom, and the possibility of a different kind of life.
Elsewhere
She wrote The Hunger Games trilogy, a popular dystopian series.
Suzanne Collins
“I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! A blue tunic, or a red one?”
Jonas (Chapter 13)
Jonas’s assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve.
Receiver of Memory
A story that can be interpreted to reveal a hidden moral or political meaning.
Allegory
This recurring experience represents both pain and wisdom, reminding the community of what they have chosen to forget.
Memories
This British author wrote Matilda, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and The BFG.
Roald Dahl
“They know nothing.”
The Giver (Chapter 13)
This novel follows the memories of Jonas, the new Receiver of Memory, in a colorless, rule-bound society.
The Giver by Lois Lowry
What text type typically concludes with an invitation to comment or a drawn conclusion?
Blog
his recurring image symbolizes both the capacity to carry pain and the burden of holding humanity’s collective memory.
The Sled
This Canadian author won the Man Booker Prize in 2002 for Life of Pi, the story of a boy stranded on a lifeboat with a tiger.
Pi Patel
'It was chaos then. They really suffered. Before we made the choice to go to Sameness.'
The Giver (Chapter 12)
This allegorical novella by George Orwell uses farm animals to represent the rise of totalitarianism, with pigs leading a rebellion that mirrors the Russian Revolution.
Animal Farm
What text type should have a distinct introduction and conclusion?
Essay