In the community，Lois Lowery portrayed in “The Giver，” The various ceremonies of the community are considered crucial. The people presented every rite of passage using ceremonies like bicycle allowance at nine years old and the jacket with pockets at certain age . Everybody take them seriously .The ceremony of twelves in the novel is a institution which stipulate that at the age of twelve, everyone should and will be assigned a job by the committee of elders.They will perceive your inclination of jobs and your interests then determine the job you will be assigned with so called meticulous concern. The community should cancel the ceremony of twelves，which will lead to numerous benefits to the people and teenagers. First ,the ceremony will cause depression and anxiety among the teenagers who are about to be assigned, that apprehensive feeling will cause negative effect to young individuals whose assigned result will be publicly announced. We could see in the novel that some times before the ceremony, Jonas feel nervousness as well as his fellow same-age teenagers. When Jonas was skipped at the ceremony , he felt unbelievable and extremely anxious after he had …show more content…
If the eternal goal of children doing volunteer hours is just to be assigned for a job ,they won’t likely and possibly to concern about as well as practice what they are interested in. For example ,if you like various of things which don’t bring you good job but at the same time getting a job which has high social class and honor may request finishing some practices you dislike, in the former situation one have no choice but to do the unfavorable thing. Since the community ought to cancel the ceremony ,it considerably decrease the attention on it . Therefore children probably could have more freedom in their career
Ceremonies describe birthdays. There are ceremonies going up all through the age of twelve. If someone is in the Ceremony of Twelve, that person and forty nine other people are turning twelve and receiving their assignments. On a rare occasion, the new Receiver of Memory would be selected, not assigned, but selected by the Committee of Elders. The difference is that the selections are special occasions that are not common. Assignments happen with every kid, except for if someone is selected. The twelves could be assigned a nurturer, a birthmother, etc. Birthdays are celebrations that take place for people every year, no matter what age they are turning. Most people get presents on their birthday. In the community, people get one item for their birthday most of the time. For example, the Nines receive bikes. The Eights receive coats with pockets because they are old enough to keep up with their belongings.
The book The Giver is about a Boy named Jonas who lives in a community. He lives with his little sister Lily and his mom and dad. He is 11 years old. In the beginning he tries describing the way he feels. He uses frightened but then realizes that frightened isn’t the right word to use. He says that frightened was the way he felt when an aircraft flew over the community after he knew that no aircrafts can fly over them. As he was at dinner with his family, they were sharing their feelings from that day. Lily describes her feelings as “very angry”. She was angry because a visitor boy that was at her daycare was cutting everyone in line for the slide. Then her father explains to her that maybe the little boy didn’t know that the slide had rules.
The novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is an everlasting story that shows the importance of individuality. This novel is about a young boy named Jonas who was elected as the Receiver of Memories, a person who is given the memories from the world that existed before their current society, Sameness. In this society there is no individualism. People can not choose who to marry, or what they want to do for a living. Over time Jonas becomes more and more wise, and realizes that the supposedly perfect community actually has some very dark and negative aspects. The author, Lois Lowry is a 76-year-old writer who focuses her writing on helping struggling teenagers become individuals. Lowry had a very tragic childhood. After both of her parents were separated and killed in the middle of a war, she was devastated and the only way she was able to block and forget all of the horrifying things that were happening, were books (Lowry). “My books have varied in content… Yet it seems… that all of them deal with the same general theme: the importance of human connections,” Lowry explained in her autobiography. In the novel The Giver, Lois Lowry uses the literary elements symbolism, foreshadowing, and imagery to express the theme: importance of an individual.
So basically, the book is based on this one character named Jonas, who lives in this community with no feelings, or pain, memories, colors, animals, music, and a place of no changing weather patterns. It’s honestly pretty crazy, but anyway, Jonas is an adoptive child that lives with his parents, a Nurturer (dad), and a Law/Justice worker (mom) and his younger sister, Lily, who was also adopted because all children are born through birthmothers. Anyway, they have a huge ceremony in the month of December where the kids basically do a step-up day, and become a new number. (EX: a 3, or an 11) Each year, the kids get something, like a haircut or a bicycle, but the year of 12 is when you are assigned your job and you enter the community as an adult. Now mind you, when they become this adult they are only about 12-13 years old, but anyway, they do their celebration for the ceremony of 12, but they skipped Jonas and it causes him and his community to panic, but it turns out that Jonas hadn’t been assigned, he had been selected… to be the next Receiver. There's only one receiver and he trains in private with the past receiver, who becomes The Giver. The role of Receiver is to receive the memories of the past and hold them until the next receiver is chosen. As Jonas receives these memories, he
When he becomes 12, he goes through a huge ceremony and all the elders assign them their jobs. In this community, there is no lying, stealing, racism, pain, sunlight, or color. Jonas was chosen to be The Receiver, and he didn’t know what to do because this job was such a big deal. Jonas then goes through training with the current Receiver, who is now The Giver. Training consists of The Giver passing down the memories from when the community was not what it is today.
The Giver presents a community that appears to be perfect on the surface. Jonas's community is free of warfare, pain, sorrow and other bitterness we suffer in our society. The world seems to be secure and undergoes little conflict. Such a community seems flawless and is the idealistic society that we longed to live in. However , through Jonas's training, the imperfections of the Utopian community are revealed. The community allows little individual freedom and choice. In allowing only one person, the Receiver, to bear the memories of the world, the community frees itself from suffering and conflict. As a result, it gives up the ability to experience true feelings, passion, individual privacy, freedom and knowledge. To maintain the community's order, strict rules are applied to the inhabitants. "Releases" ( a less offensive term for kills) are performed to the citizens who jeopardize the stability and peace of the community. The inhabitants' careers and spouses are chosen by the Elders (or government).
The main protagonist is a young boy named Jonas, living in a utopian community, which, at first glance, seems like an ideal place to live. In this society each birthday celebration has its own distinct rights of passage and privileges. Each age group has distinct expectations of behavior and responsibilities to the community. Infractions of expectations carry extreme shame and might even lead to being “released to elsewhere” from the community. Jonas is a well-behaved young boy who follows the guidelines without thinking about them. We first meet Jonas when he is eleven and apprehensive about his upcoming 12th birthday. This birthday will determine what his life’s work will be within the community. The community is lead by a group of elders and it is the elders who determine what jobs each 12 year old will have. The children have no word or input into their jobs, they must accept whatever is decided for them. In his ceremony of twelve, Jonas is surprised to learn that he has been picked to be Receiver of Memories in training, a unique and prestigious position.
At the Ceremony of Twelve, the 11’s are given their jobs assigned by The Elders. Things become tense when Jonas has been skipped during the ceremony. At the end of the ceremony, he is selected Receiver of Memory, which is one of the most important
At the start of the semester each year, students of all ages are asked the same questions. What kinds of classes are you enrolled in? I am in five AP classes. And? I am also playing varsity volleyball. And? I go to music lessons every Wednesday and Saturday for violin. Well, how about community service? There must come a point when society needs to step back and really focus on the damage that words have on the young mind, and on the fact that children are simply incapable of juggling all of these demands, both physically and mentally. Instead of expecting so much out of a child when they are already involved with plenty of (and in most cases, too many) activities, it should cross the mind to offer
Jonas’ community chooses Sameness rather than valuing individual expression. Although the possibility of individual choice sometimes involves risk, it also exposes Jonas to a wide range of joyful experiences from which his community has been shut away. Sameness may not be the best thing in the community because Jonas expresses how much he feels like Sameness is not right and wants there to be more individuality. Giver leads him to understand both the advantages and the disadvantages of personal choice, and in the end, he considers the risks worth the benefits. “Memories are forever.”
The story in The Giver by Lois Lowry takes place in a community that is not normal. People cannot see color, it is an offense for somebody to touch others, and the community assigns people jobs and children. This unnamed community shown through Jonas’ eye, the main character in this novel, is a perfect society. There is no war, crime, and hunger. Most readers might take it for granted that the community in The Giver differs from the real society. However, there are several affinities between the society in present day and that in this fiction: estrangement of elderly people, suffering of surrogate mothers, and wanting of euthanasia.
Kim, in the United States, grades are not the only factor in evaluating school applicants and job candidates. From Rhodes Scholar selections to college applications, excellence in other areas such as leadership, volunteer activities, sports and arts is equally important (p82-90). In American schools, students are encouraged to do volunteer work. So much so that many schools have guidelines for how much time students are expected to spend serving in the community. Children learn the value of giving from an early age. Volunteer activities is one way Americans feel a part of things and share the goal of serving and contributing to build their communities. From neighborhood watch programs to environmental issues, Americans do not wait for the government to initiate action: they take action to bring about the changes they desire. Therefore, Americans view volunteer work as a way to teach children and young adults values such as cooperation and teamwork, dedication and work ethics, equality and social justice, leadership, generosity and compassion for
The Giver starts off as the ordinary story of an eleven-year-old boy named Jonas. When we meet the protagonist, he is apprehensive about the Ceremony of Twelve, at which he will be assigned his job. Although he has no clue as to what job he might be assigned, he is astonished when he is selected to be the Receiver of Memory. He learns that it is a job of the highest honor, one that requires him to bear physical pain of a magnitude beyond anyone’s experience.
Volunteering enables a person to develop new skills that he or she would otherwise not have been able to develop. Unlike most other organizations, a charitable organization is happy to give positions to passionate, though inexperienced, individuals who desire to help others and benefit the community. Therefore, an individual with little experience in a field of work can gain meaningful skills that he or she can use in the future. For example, while I volunteered at the hospital this summer, I learned about the daily work lives and professional duties of doctors and nurses. Had I not volunteered, I would not have learned about these things. I was always interested in the medical field, but volunteering at the hospital let me explore my interests and en...
Volunteering benefits a person by building connections with peers, improving family life, expanding career skills, overcoming self doubt, having lasting life impressions, and creating new opportunities. Just a small act can make a huge difference in someone’s life. The future is dependent on the individual person and the people they surround themselves with. Just a few hours will change both the volunteer’s life and the one that is in need.