Community Setting In The Giver By Lois Lowry

What would you do if the community you are living in has lied to you about, war, love, emotions and death since you were born? How would you feel if you had to conform with everyone and you had no clue why? In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, she writes about a community setting in the future. In Lois Lowry’s book The Giver she creates a dystopian world which has blind conformity being dangerous and no memories about the past showing that without memories people don’t truly know what’s real and what’s not.

My first topic of discussion is blind conformity being dangerous. On page 11 in The Giver it says “Each December, all the newchildren born in the previous year turned one. One at a time - There were always fifty in each year’s group, if

So when someone stops taking it they get those feeling back. Chapter seventeen talks a lot about this, and how Jonas feels about it, “’The details aren’t clear,’ Jonas explained trying to recreate the odd dream in his mind. ‘I think it was in the bathing room at the house of the old.’” Then his father tells him that he was there yesterday, then Jonas continues, “’But it wasn’t really the same. There was a tub in the dream. But only one. And the real bathing room has rows and rows of them. But the room in the dream was warm and damp. And I had taken off my tunic, but hadn’t put on the smock, so my chest was bare. I was perspiring, because it was so warm. And Fiona was there the way she was yesterday,’” (Lowry 35). The reason Lois Lowry put this in the book was because after that Jonas’s mother gives him a pill that he needs to take every day for the rest of his life, until he gets released. Another quote is, “He could hear noises: the sharp crack of weapons he perceived the word guns- and then shouts, and an immense crashing thud as something fall, tearing branches from the trees.” Lowery continues by saying, “He heard voices calling to one another. Peering from the place where he stood hidden behind some shrubbery. Two of these men had dark brown skin; the others where light. Going closer, he watched them hack the tusks from a motionless elephant on the