The perfect world, no war, no disagreements, no fighting, and no problems. But is it really “perfect”? The Giver a novel by Lois Lowry takes place in a clean utopia where we find our main protaganist Jonas. We follow Jonas through his life eventually leading him to realize his world isnt perfect. This shows that there is flaws in all worlds and that no world can be “perfect” Jonas’s world is limited. “But I want them Jonas said Angrily, it isn't fair that nothing has color.” This quote is explaining Jonas’s anger for his society, He believes that the world should not be limited to no color and that people should be able to see the way things are supposed to be seen. This also goes with emotion, although emotion is still a part of Jonas’s world, its incredibly simplified to a point where love, anger, hate, greed and many more don't exist. People should be able to experience these things, it's what makes life, life. …show more content…
Without the ability of choice in Jonas’s society there is no ability to improve of change. For example the ceremonies “I remember how proud my parents were” exclaimed father telling Jonas how he had participated in a ceremony and his parents before him. This is true because no one has differed from the set path life in the community. Also without choice there is no ability for improvement. Humans learn from mistakes and without choices there would be no mistakes therefore making it impossible to improve anything. It’s almost like being stuck in the stone age and using a rock to hunt animals and not ever changing your
Utopia seems like a wonderful idea where everything is perfect and no one suffers. Three stories address this topic and show how even the best ideas have their downside. The Giver tells of a society where everything is the same and no one has to worry about making a wrong decision. Fahrenheit 451 tells of a society that bans book in the interest of preventing unhappiness. The society in Logan's Run is full of pleasure but only for 30 years. In practice though, these utopias present each of the protagonists with a problem where they question how perfect their perfect worlds really is.
“I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste, in fear, and had brought about their own destruction” (48). In the old days, when people in Jonas’s community valued individual needs, there were lots of terrible happenings: violence; and then the society ended up with general welfare and safety. It is difficult for us to think of a world without color, freedom, music and love, but in The Giver, the society denounces these things in order to make room for peace and safety. In The Giver, by having a society based on general welfare they gave safety to their people. No violence, no criminal activities, nor homicides.
Without memories, nobody can make the right decision, which will lead to a bad choice. Without memories, one cannot shape his or her future. In addition, when Jonas describes the pain he feel when experiencing a sunburn when, “‘It hurts a lot,’ Jonas said, ‘but I’m glad you gave it to me. It was interesting,”(Lowry 86). This quote show that Jonas does not understand
At the end of “The Giver” Jonas finds a small village in elsewhere, however, many people are skeptical that this is true.. On page 166 of “The Giver” the author wrote, “Using his final strength, and a special knowledge that was deep inside him, Jonas found the sled that was waiting for him on top of the hill.” Some people believe that he actually found the sled and others believe that he was hallucinating because he was freezing to death in the cold. I believe that Jonas was hallucinating from the cold because it seems more practical. My justifications for this belief are first, his state of being, second, it can be hypothesized from the quote, “His entire concentration now had to be on moving his feet, warming Gabriel and himself, and going forward” which is found on page 165, and finally this theory could be proven by looking at the descriptions of the memories given to him versus what
There are many advantages in Jonas’s community for Sameness. One advantage is that no one get jealous, which stops a lot of arguments. If someone gets a choice of something with color which they don’t have, they could argue about a specific color. Also if someone gets a better grade than the person with bad the not good grade, the person with the good grade will get praised and the other one won't.
Lois Lowry describes a futuristic world with controlled climate, emotions, way of living and eliminates 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. He starts to believe that a world of sameness where no one can decide or make choices for themselves is boring. Lois Lowry is warning readers that living in a world of sameness is not something to create as it is boring and dull, but if the world follows conformity and does not value diversity and difference enough, society could become that of Jonas’s.
...nts to pick his own spouse. Jonas is tired of sameness and little choices. “What if… he could choose? Instead of sameness”(pg98). He wanted to be free of sameness. Louis Lowry made it clear through Jonas that freedom of choice is a lot more important then sameness.
...under the strain of loss and pain, of losing his daughter, was unable to help his community in dealing with all the memories. However during the time when Jonas was training with him, they both come to the conclusion that the disadvantages outweighed the advantages of their elders choosing to go to sameness. The day that Jonas learns what release is he refuses to go back home. The Giver reminds him that things were once different, long, long, ago. The Giver himself had been hopeless over the possibility of change, yet being with Jonas for almost a year had caused him to reached the decision that things must somehow change. And Jonas several hours ago inadvertent had shown him a way how. My point is that The Giver several times states that there is still hope for change in the community, and in the end Jonas escaping was a symbol of hope just like Noah’s dove.
In the book The Giver, Jonas, the main character, lives in a very communistic society. With the elders creating unrealistic rules, and breaking them themselves, taking away color, and there very own rule enforcement lady, that happens to be Jonas's mom, breaking rules too, the givers society is very hypocritical.
The book "The Giver" depicts perfection as no choices, no memories, no individuality which equals no pain and sameness. In the case of "The Giver" I feel that it is not fair that no one can be unique and they have to be like everyone else, the reason is it is not right that the elders are choosing for everyone to be alike and genetically modify the community members like taking away their ability to see color. Imagine if your whole life you had no choice and suddenly you were given an important job of enduring all the pleasant or unpleasant memories and protecting the citizens from these memories; that was how Jonas felt. He felt that he was given a job that not only one person should bare. A perfect community should be a community with no violence, not a community that despises you when you break a rule about helping people to ride a
As Jonas receives these memories, he ponders how their community would be different if they could make more choices. For example, after the Giver transmits Jonas a memory of family, Jonas thinks how crazy it is that they have generations and he says about his community, “‘What if they were allowed to choose their own mate?’”...”’Or what if’”...”’they could choose their own jobs?’” (124). Jonas then thinks if people should make these choices, and things that could go wrong if they did. For instance, while he is thinking about how crazy these choices are, he says, “‘I can’t even imagine it. We really have to protect people from wrong choices’”(124). People in his Community don’t choose their own spouse, the Community leaders assign them a spouse and children if they want. Jonas’s Community is brain-washed into not having opinions or choices. Although they have no divorce and wrong choices, Jonas would rather have choices and a real
The sincere awareness of colors is not only forgotten, but dismissed into mere memories, and consigned into oblivion. Jonas, after gaining the awareness of colors, comes to the conclusion of wanting the choices that he could make in his daily routine. “I want to decide things! A blue tunic, or a red one?” (97). After The Giver asks Jonas why it is not fair that nothing has color, Jonas realizes that, for him, color is not just an nature. It also represents a level of individual freedom and choice that he has never known in his rigidly controlled society. This forces Jonas to face the disadvantages of living in such a community where self-expression is stifled. Jonas is talking about the sameness in the community and how he has to wear the same, old gray tunic. The Giver points out that choice is at the heart of the matter; when you can’t choose, it makes life very dull. “It’s the choosing that’s important” (98). Because the world in which Jonas has grown up has no color, the appearance of color in the story is important and meaningful. Color represents Jonas’s want for more individual expression. Colors brighten in a special way and Jonas, coming fro...
Movie The Giver, directed by Phillip Noyce, is based on Lois Lowry’s book and tells the story how the perfect world would look like. Where everyone is happy, safe, and there is no pain. Jonas is the main character and I will be analyzing how his values and beliefs changes though the movie. This movie is interesting because everyone lives within boundaries where past memory does exist just for the chosen ones. Jonas is one of those people who learns past wisdom and suffers while trying to understand what is the right thing to do.
Imagine a world with no color, weather, or sunshine. The Giver is a book by Lois Lowry and is based on a utopia where no one makes choices, feels pain, or has emotions. The book takes place in a community where all of this is true. The story is about an 11-year old soon to be 12 year-old named Jonas who is unsure of which job he will get when he is 12. Jonas changes throughout The Giver and as a result, tries to change the community.