The society of “The Giver” was much like ours at one time, but they decided to get rid of all the pain, fear, hatred, and war this type of society is called futuristic. Everyone is given a job at the age of twelve, they continue school during their training with the job they were given by the Chief Elders, and the Chief Elders takes careful time to decide who gets what job. Every child receives a job that best fit them.
Lois Lowry was inspired to write “The Giver” with her fascination with memory. She’s always liked the concept of how memory works, and what there is to learn from it. Lowry’s book was published in 1993. Lowry has won countless awards for her writings. “The Giver” Lowry received Newbery Medals.
Jonas is the main character of the book. He is an eleven at the beginning of the book and in December at the ceremony is turning twelve, where he then receives his job as the Receiver of Memory. Jonas’s father is a Nurturer. He and the other Nurturers are in charge of the new children during their earliest life. His mother was a prominent position at the Department of Justice. Lily is Jonas’s younger sister, Lily was a seven and turning eight in December. When Lily turns eight she received the identifying jacket this one with smaller buttons, and it would have pockets to show she was mature enough to keep up with her own things. Asher and Fiona were Jonas’s friends. Asher received the assignment of Assistant Director of Recreation. Fiona was given the important assignment of Caretaker of the Old. Gabriel was a newchild that Jonas’s father would bring home and take care of through the night because he would become restless. He had pale eyes like Jonas. Almost every citizen had dark eyes with only a couple of them having pal...
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...r met her goal for this book and the ones she’s wrote, she left it for everyone to have their opinion on how the book ended. I was but wasn’t suitably worn on how it ended. I didn’t think Jonas would do what he did but he was also willing to save him from anything that would harm him. This was a fantastic book, I read it in high school and have wanted to reread and this gave me the opportunity to reread. I would recommend this book to anyone who would like to read about different society. Even for someone not interested in
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Utopian societies they should read “The Giver” and take a look at a different society and realize how well our Country really is. Though this book doesn’t have a real sequel to it. Lois Lowry has written books along the same lines as “The Giver” and they have been put into a Quartet. I may end up reading them because she’s a fabulous writer.
In the end, Jonas, with the help of The Giver, escapes from the community with an infant new-child at risk of being killed (released) and seeks out a life full of feeling and love. While he does get away, we don't know exactly w...
The Giver: A novel that revolves around an eleven year old. Jonas grows up in an arranged environment where everything is planned and nothing is incompatible. Given a special job Jonas and the Giver create a plan to change the way their world is organized.
Jonas decides to leave and change the lives of his people so that they can experience the truth. “The Giver rubbed Jonas’s hunched shoulders… We’ll make a plan” (155). Their plan involves leaving sameness and heading to Elsewhere, where Jonas knows the memories can be released to the people. He has a connection with Gabe, a special child who has experienced the memories, unlike the rest of the community. Jonas has a strong love for Gabe, and he longs to give him a better life. “We’re almost there, Gabriel” (178). Even with a sprained ankle, Jonas keeps pushing forward because he wants everyone to experience what The Giver has given him. He wants them to have a life where the truth is exposed. His determination allows him to make a change for a greater future in his community. This proves that Jonas has the strength to change his community for the
Lois Lowry describes a futuristic world with controlled climate, emotions, way of living and eliminating suffering in her book The Giver. The main character, Jonas, shows the reader what his world is like by explaining a very different world from what society knows today. Everything is controlled, and no one makes choices for themselves or knows of bad and hurtful memories. There is no color, and everything is dull. As he becomes the Receiver who has to know all the memories and pass them down to the next Receiver, he realizes his world needs change.
On the surface, Jonas is like any other eleven-year-old boy living in his community. He seems more intelligent and perceptive than many of his peers, and he thinks more seriously than they do about life, worrying about his own future as well as his friend Asher’s. He enjoys learning and experiencing new things: he chooses to volunteer at a variety of different centers rather than focusing on one, because he enjoys the freedom of choice that volunteer hours provide. He also enjoys learning about and connecting with other people, and he craves more warmth and human contact than his society permits or encourages. The things that really set him apart from his peers—his unusual eyes, his ability to see things change in a way that he cannot explain—trouble him, but he does not let them bother him too much, since the community’s emphasis on politeness makes it easy for Jonas to conceal or ignore these little differences. Like any child in the community, Jonas is uncomfortable with the attention he receives when he is singled out as the new Receiver, preferring to blend in with his friends.
Even as a child Jonas was unusually perceptive, this is characterized through his pale eyes which appear deeper than the other children’s dark eyes. While he gets along well with his peers he still feels different. Jonas has a heightened sense of people and who they are, the reasoning for things, and curiosity of new things. He particularly enjoys the freedom to make his own choices as to where he will serve his volunteer hours. Jonas never volunteered at one place more than another, which made it hard for him to predict what job he will be assigned. He liked being able to experience all sorts of positions in the community. Jonas is set apart in many ways, one is particular is his ability to see beyond. The closer the ceremony of twelve gets, the more often he see sees flashes of items changing for a second, flashes of the beyond (Lowry 94).
Memories that are passed down are things that are normal to us. Memories of sun, snow, pain, and sorrow. The ending of the book is highly controversial and extremely maddening to most people. Lois Lowry has said in an interview that the question of the book is why there even has to be a Giver, and why people have to remember the past, even if it was just one person. She said that creating the Giver was just part of the story and needed some suspense.
Dystopian literature brings warning to the modern world and allows the audience to experience a new perception of life. The 1993 novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, fits into the dystopian genre because it makes judgment about modern society. She inscribed her novel “For all the children to whom we entrust the future”, which serves as a hope for a better future (Franklin). She targets the younger generation because they are the future. In Lowry’s novel, The Giver, Lowry’s perspective on modern society is that it tends to stay within its comfort zone, which creates limitations in life. The dystopian characteristics of the novel, importance of memory, the history surrounding the novel, and Lowry’s personal background all convey the notion that modern society should freedom bestowed it and to fully appreciate life in itself; society tends to take life’s freedoms for granted.
Lowry, L. (1993). The giver. New York, NY: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Groups, Inc.
Lois Lowry’s The Giver considers something the world takes for granted: personal empowerment. These simple day-to-day decisions create what the world is. Without self-empowerment and right to believe in a personal decision, what is the human race? The world can only imagine, as Lois Lowry does in The Giver. She asks: What if everything in life was decided by others? What if spouses, children, the weather, education, and careers were chosen based upon the subjects’ personality? What if it didn’t matter what the subject thought? Jonas, the Receiver, lives here. He eats, sleeps, and learns in his so-called perfect world until he meets the Giver, an aged man, who transmits memories of hope, pain, color, and love. Jonas then escapes his Community with a newborn child (meant to be killed), hoping to find a life of fulfillment. On the way, he experiences pain, sees color, and feels love. Irony, symbolism, and foreshadowing are three literary devices used to imply the deeper meaning of The Giver.
Throughout the history of the world, there has been many societies. All these societies had similar structures and ideas, but they all are different by their own special traditions and ways of life. Similarly, both our society and the society in The Giver share similar ideas, but they are different in certain areas. For example, they both celebrate birthdays and have family units, but they have their own way of doing so. Based on the celebration of birthdays and the formation of family units, our society is better than the society in The Giver by Lois Lowry.
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.
He is very mature, responsible, and shows competence throughout the story. Jonas is very smart and when someone is being immature, he tries his best to help them learn from their mistakes. As the new receiver he shows much maturity, and is very prepared for adult life, has grown up. According to the text it states, “Don’t play it anymore,” Jonas pleaded…….. “Asher,” Jonas said. He was trying to speak carefully and with kindness, to say exactly what he wanted to say. “You had no way of knowing this. I didn’t know it myself until recently. But it’s a cruel game. In the past, there have” (134). Jonas knows that, war games are not appropriate, because he is one of the only twelves who know what war was really like. He knows this because the Giver showed him that memory. Jonas is trying to explain to Asher and help him understand why it is a bad game to play, but Asher does not care to listen. The text also states, “Once again, there was just a moment when things weren’t quite the same, weren’t quite as they had always been through the long friendship. Perhaps he had imagined it. Things couldn’t change, with Asher” (66). Jonas is happy for Asher that he got the recreation job, but now things were not the same anymore. They both got different jobs, and now Jonas is realizing that he is different from everyone else. Even though things are hard for him right now, he is not acting like a child and throwing a fit.
Jonas has always been an inquisitive and curious person, even more so when he obtains the role of Receiver of Memory. One example of this important trait occurs after the Ceremony of Twelve. Jonas was still confused about his role, but he was anxious to learn about the incident involving the previous girl who was supposed to take the position of the
The society in The Giver by Lois Lowry is fairly broken and messed up. Everyone inside the community thinks that everything is under control and they like living that way, because they don’t know any other way to live. To them they live in the perfect world, a utopia. To everyone outside of the community it is a dystopia. They are controlled immensely. There are a few reasons why the community is a dystopia, they have no choice or freedom, and they don’t know what color, music, real emotion, and feelings are.