The Giver Theme Essay

Imagine a place where there is no color, no choice, a place where individuality and freedom has been traded for sameness and security. Lowry has created such a place in the novel The Giver. This place, or rather community, is presumed to be in the future and is supposed to be a utopia where everyone conforms to the rules. The citizens have no connection with their past or what they have given up. There are only two people who can remember. One is the Giver and the other is the Receiver of Memory. These two people are the main characters in this story. The Giver is an old man that the council of elders turns to when they have a problem. He listens to their proposals and then tells them what they should do by basing his decisions on the

The importance of individuality and choice. In the story “The Giver”, the narrator says that all people are the same and not one person is better than the other.“Look how tiny he is! And he had funny eyes like yours, Jonas. Jonas glared at her. He didn’t like it that she had mentioned his eyes.” pg 20, Lowry. The Danger of Extreme Governance. In the novel “The Giver”, the author says that all laws must be obeyed. “Everyone had known, he remembered with humiliation, that the announcement ATTENTION. THIS IS A REMINDER TO MALE ELEVENS THAT OBJECTS ARE NOT TO BE REMOVED FROM THE RECREATION AREA AND THAT SNACKS ARE TO BE EATEN, NOT HOARDED had been specifically directed at him, the day last month that he had taken an apple home. No one had mentioned it, not even his parents, because the public announcement had been sufficient to produce the appropriate remorse. He had, of course, disposed of the apple and made his apology to the Recreation Director the next morning, before school.” pg 23, Lowry. The Importance of Knowledge and Truth. In “The Giver” the author says making the citizens have no choices means that everyone will be safe. “Jonas had to stop and think it through. ‘If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up up in the morning and decide things! A blue tunic or a red one? He looked down at himself, at the colorless fabric of his clothing. ‘But it’s all the same, always.” pg 97,

The Importance of Individuality and Choice. In modern day society we all need choices. If we didn’t have choices then people would know how we like to act or what we want. Our individuality is what strives us to be different. For example, If someone wants to make a choice to go out of their house past 11 o’clock and go on a run or a drive they can, but not in our protagonist dystopian society. The Danger of Extreme Governance. In the modern day society we have our government to make laws and look over us, but we still have things that we could do without getting in trouble. Here is an example, If you’re playing tackle football and hit someone, then you will not get in trouble because it is apart of that game. If we are in the streets and we tackle and punch people then you will go to jail because that is against the law. So we are still eligible to do things but our government still watches us. The importance of knowledge and truth. In our society we are able to know what is going on. People do not hide things and keep everything a secret from us. For example, if someone dies, then people would tell about it and say the truth instead of hiding it from us. So for us knowing the truth with our society makes it from feeling like we are lied