Response To 'The Giver' By Lois Lowry

Dear Germanna English Professors, I had been flipping through the movie channels recently and had come across a familiar title. This title brought me to remember my eighth grade year when I was just about to read an unfamiliar book called, The Giver. The Giver is a story by author Lois Lowry about a boy named Jonas, who just happens to live in a futuristic society. In this futuristic society, no one has any emotions or freedom to do what they would like. In the society at a certain age, everyone is assigned a certain job based on their limited interests and skills. The job Jonas is assigned to be the Receiver of Memory, which makes him the keeper of all the memories of before the society. These memories are given to him by a person called the

So the Giver and Jonas decide that he must leave to go elsewhere, so that everyone in the community can regain their memory. The author of this book, Lois Lowry, wrote this book about memory after seeing her father lose his which made her inspired to write and to imagine what it would be like if we could control people’s minds. Lowry just happens to hate books with messages and says she never intends for her books to have a message, but I believe this story relays many different meanings and messages but I only attained a few. A message I receive from this story is that it is better for one not to be shielded from experiences and feelings that could possibly make one stronger. I believe the Giver and Jonas wanted to release the memories not to punish the community, but to let them experience what life truly is for themselves so that their society could fully prosper. Which I think life is having those happy and sad memories and moments but in the end they make you and the people around you. Another message I gather from this novel is that sameness is not always the way to go and that you should be your own