The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a twelve year old boy Jonas who lives in a futuristic society of sameness. In Jonas’ world everything is the same, there is no color or emotion in the society. Everyone acts the same and no one has the ability to choose. Although the people of the society are able to avoid pain and suffering, they are not able to feel happiness. Lowry is warning that if the world turns into sameness, although in may sound great for some points, like no pain, it is not, readers should value differences.
In The Giver everybody in the society gets their husband/wives given to them from the society. They would apply for a spouse, but what if they were given a spouse that they do not like? In the future of their marriage then they
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Everyone wearing the same clothes, everyday, takes away from everyone being unique. For example, in the book, when everyone turned four they get jackets that button in the front.. If everyone dressed the same then people from the society might get sad after a while. This highlights Lowry’s warning because it takes away from happiness, and being different.
Lastly, in The Giver, jobs are given to the people of the society by The Committee of Elders. Although they watch carefully and try to pick a job that will be fit for who they watched. They can make the wrong choice and then they could be sad for the rest of their lives until release. For example, in the book, Jonas was given the job of the giver, when he was selected the giver Jonas was not sure if he would like the job. Jobs that are given, not chosen, highlight Lowry’s warning because if they choose wrong and then the worker is sad, they will not do the job, then the society may fall about if the job was important.
In The Giver, it is a world of sameness, people are given husband/wives, they all dress the same, and everyone gets their jobs given to them. Citizens should realize from Lowry’s warning, being different is good, and a world of conformity is not as good as it
“How could someone not fit in? The community was so meticulously ordered, the choices so carefully made.” (Lowry, 48) In Lowry’s novel, The Giver, eliminating choices and feelings caused their society to be worse than our society today because you don’t have any choices and you don’t get to experience the feeling of joy and happiness.
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.
The Giver is actually one of my all-time favorite books, so I’ve looked into why she left the book so inconclusive in the past. The Giver is basically about a boy named Jonas who lives in a perfect society. He lives in a household with his two parents and his little sister Lilly. When he becomes a 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. Memories that are passed down are things that are normal to us. Memories of sun, snow, pain, and sorrow.
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).
Lowry writes The Giver in the dystopian genre to convey a worst-case scenario as to how modern society functions. A dystopia is an “illusion of a perfect society” under some form of control which makes criticism about a “societal norm” (Wright). Characteristics of a dystopian include restricted freedoms, society is under constant surveillance, and the citizens live in a dehumanized state and conform to uniform expectations (Wright). In The Giver, the community functions as a dystopian because everyone in the community conforms to the same rules and expectations. One would think that a community living with set rules and expectations would be better off, but in reality, it only limits what life has to offer. Instead, the community in the novel is a dystopian disguised as a utopian, and this is proven to the audience by the protagonist, Jonas. Jonas is just a norma...
society, everyone wears the same clothes, follows the same rules, and has a predetermined life. A community just like that lives inside of Lois Lowry’s The Giver and this lack of individuality shows throughout the whole book. This theme is demonstrated through the control of individual appearance, behavior, and ideas.
Picture a place where everyone is safe and nobody is burdened with decisions. The Giver is a fictional novel written by Lois Lowry and is about a young boy named Jonas who grows up in a community that has Sameness. Sameness in the community allows very little differences by taking away changes in weather, colors, and people’s characteristics such as eye and hair color. The community also makes all decisions up to a small number of the population, including all the jobs that people receive. Sameness in a community is an advantage because nobody is discriminated against and everyone is safe.
Human, (verb) - of or characteristic of people's better qualities, such as kindness or sensitivity. In the novel, The Giver, the author Lois Lowry presents an inhumane society in which the sole purpose of every occupant is to participate in their jobs, then be moved to a home in which they simply wait till their day of release, a euphemism for de All the communities members are made to live almost identical lives, and all choices, other than time spent giving service in the community, are made for them. No one know anything other then this way of life. The main character, Jonas, lives with his family unit along with a small child, Gabe, who is being cared for as he wasn't developing at the prefered rate. Jonas is chosen to be the next receiver of memories of the community. While being trained, he is faced with the question of why. Why conform, why keep, why are
Imagine a world where there was no color, no race, no religion, everyone was the same, everyone thinks the same. is sameness a good thing or bad thing. The book "The Giver" is about a boy named Jonas's who lives in a society where everything is the same and there is no freedom. Jonas is selected the receiver for the community. He learns experiencing different things is better than doing the same thing everyday.
Even though both the society in The Giver by Lois Lowry and modern society are both unique in their own ways, our society is a better society to live in. Our society gives us more freedom to choose for our own benefits and
In conclusion, Lois Lowry’s ending of The Giver was poorly thought through and her decision of leaving it up to the reader to decide what shall happen was not the right choice and likely just a lazy excuse. If a story’s resolution is not properly done, as is the case with The Giver, then the reader will be left uncertain with what truly occurs. When readers are finished with The Giver, they are left with unanswered questions, such as what happens to Jonas and Gabriel and whether they die or not. This question could be answered by using evidence, yet, it cannot be confirmed, for anything could occur. Using evidence, it would seem likely that Jonas and Gabriel would have died. I find that The Giver was an outstanding book in general, however, I dislike the ending as it does not explain what happens to the community or what happens to Jonas and Gabriel.
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.”
Lowry fills the text with his views on perfect societies by using Jonah to compare and contrast to the rest of the population. In the book, nobody is different from one another making no one unique. Lowry expresses that ordinary is never a positive characteristic. Obviously, Lowry felt that unique traits in people were necessary for differentiation and life. In The Giver, no one was allowed to express how they truly felt. When Jonah began realizing the major differences in lifestyle from the past to the future, he began to rebel against the ways of life he had been following daily up until that point. The council began to express and warn Jonah, but Jonah didn’t feel that it was fair to the other people. Through this, we see that Lowry believed
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.
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.