The Giver
What would it be like to live in a controlling community?
The book “ The Giver “ is about a boy named Jonas and The Giver. It was located in The Giver Community. It is in the future and the community is controlling. He becomes the Receiver Of Memory.
No Release, Choices, Love would have been important to create a positive community in The Giver.
No Release would have been important in the community to make it positive.
On page 42-43, it says “ Those who were released-even as children were sent Elsewhere and never returned to the community. “
This detail shows that no release is important because babies are too young to be released and shouldn’t have to go through times like that.
On page 151, it says “ His father loaded the carton containing
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Love would have been important to the community to make it more positive.
On page 122, it says “ Now he understood about animals, and in the moment that the horse turned from the stream and nudged Jonas’s shoulder affectionately with its head, he perceived the bonds between animal and human. “
This detail shows that Love is important because Jonas is starting to feel love between humans and animals.
On page 123, it says “ What did you perceive? The Giver asked. Warmth, Jonas replied, and happiness. “
This detail shows that Love is important because Jonas is starting to feel that he feels like he is starting to feel like he is feeling love and is happy about it.
To make the community more positive, Love would have been important.
To make The Giver Community more important, It would have been important to have No Release, Choice, and Love.
No Release is important in a modern community because it wouldn’t be fair if they tried to release someone just by their weight and height.
Choice is important in a modern community because people wouldn’t able to choose their clothes, their shoes, and their style but they should be able
Jonas, the protagonist, is assigned the job of holding memories for the community. This is so that not everyone has to experience sad or painful memories. The Giver's job is to transmit these memories to Jonas and, in doing so, reveals the wonders of love, and family, and pain, and sorrow to this young boy. Jonas begins to resent the rules of sameness and wants to share these joys with his community. After receiving his first memory, Jonas says, "I wish we had those things, still." (p. 84)
Soon after, the Giver provides Jonas with a joyful memory as an attempt to balance out the memory of war. The story describes, “While Jonas watched, the people began one by one to untie the ribbons on the packages, to unwrap the bright papers, open the boxes and reveal toys and clothing and books. There were cries of delight. They
Jonas decides to leave and change the lives of his people so that they can experience the truth. “The Giver rubbed Jonas’s hunched shoulders… We’ll make a plan” (155). Their plan involves leaving sameness and heading to Elsewhere, where Jonas knows the memories can be released to the people. He has a connection with Gabe, a special child who has experienced the memories, unlike the rest of the community. Jonas has a strong love for Gabe, and he longs to give him a better life. “We’re almost there, Gabriel” (178). Even with a sprained ankle, Jonas keeps pushing forward because he wants everyone to experience what The Giver has given him. He wants them to have a life where the truth is exposed. His determination allows him to make a change for a greater future in his community. This proves that Jonas has the strength to change his community for the
Like any child in the community, Jonas is uncomfortable with the attention he receives when he is singled out as the new Receiver, preferring to blend in with his friends. Once Jonas begins his training with the Giver, however, the tendencies he showed in his earlier life—his sensitivity, his heightened perceptual powers, his kindness to and interest in people, his curiosity about new experiences, his honesty, and his high intelligence—make him extremely absorbed in the memories the Giver has to transmit. In turn, the memories, with their rich sensory and emotional experiences, enhance all of Jonas’s unusual qualities. Within a year of training, he becomes extremely sensitive to beauty, pleasure, and suffering, deeply loving toward his family and the Giver, and fiercely passionate about his new beliefs and feelings. Things about the community that used to be mildly perplexing or troubling are now intensely frustrating or depressing, and Jonas’s inherent concern for others and desire for justice makes him yearn to make changes in the community, both to awaken other people to the richness of life and to stop the casual cruelty that is practiced in the community.
Set in a community with no climate, emotions, choices, or memories Lois Lowry tells the tale of Jonas in The Giver. Jonas is selected to be the receiver of memory, which means the memories of generations past, before the community was created, will all be transferred to him to hold. As Jonas receives memories his concept of the world around him drastically changes. Jonas starts out as twelve-year-old boy with perceptions different from those around him, he then begins to see the community for what it really is, and he makes a plan to change it.
Evelyn Sanchez (esanchez47@student.cccd.edu) Professor Leighton English 143, Final Essay 21 May 21, 2014 What the heck happened to Jonas? Topic #2. 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.
Love and other deep emotions are not worth giving up for safety. Jonas’ own mother doesn’t love him, she doesn’t know what love means. “Do you love me… So meaningless that it has become almost obsolete” (pg127). Jonas refused to live where your parents don’t know what the meaning of love is. So he left. He took a stand. Jonas found out that his father was going to kill his stepbrother, Gabe and he was furious. His father doesn’t even know what the word kill means. His father honestly thought he was helping Gabe by releasing him, just because he didn’t sleep soundly through the night. If he knew the emotions of love, empathy and hope he might have known that release is a bad thing. But they chose to not have feelings because they were afraid of heartbreaks,
In the book The Giver one way that this book is odd in a way…..is that one odd way would be the characteristics of the Dystopian Society. The society that is used in the book is like a complete unnormal place. To tell how this stands out is citizens are perceived to be under constant serveillance & citizens conform to uniform expectations. Individuality & dissent are bad. The Cheif Elder Explains to the children that being different is not a good thing but being the same is fine. What the Cheif Elder is trying to portray is that being different is like a bad
In The Giver, their community was created to make everyone and everything the same. Things such as color, music, memory of the history of the world, and feelings were taken away from the people living in the community. The community in The Giver tried to protect the people from making wrong choices by taking away choices. The citizens in the community did the have the freedom to choose where they wanted to do their volunteer hours. Their version of a perfect society and culture are very different to communities and cities like Chicago, IL and the Amish lifestyle,. There are many pro’s and con’s to each community that separate their differences.
Memories are one of the most important parts of life; there is no true happiness without the reminiscence of pain or love. This concept is portrayed in "The Giver" by Lois Lowry. The story tells of a 12 year old Jonas who lives in a “utopian” society, in which civilization coexist peacefully, and possess ideal lifestyles where all bad memories are destroyed to avoid the feeling of pain. Jonas becomes the receiver, someone who receives good and bad memories, and he is transmitted memories of pain and pleasure from The Giver and is taught to keep the secret to himself. The author shows one should cherish memories, whether it be good or bad, as they are all of what is left of the past, and we should learn from it as to better ourselves in the
Life would be so much different if people did not have the ability to make decisions on their own. In the Giver, a twelve-year-old boy named Jonas does not have the option on who he marries and is not related to his parents or the future children he has. All of those selections are made for him. Even the decision on when he dies is made for him. The biggest differences between Jonas society and modern day society are family, death, and marriage.
The Giver is a dystopia world because they can’t feel happiness or love or other emotions. I think that emotions help people relief their feelings. Nobody knows how to feel sad, hurt or happiness, they don't know how 10Nobody knows what feelings does to you and what it means. “‘Your father means that you used a very
When they feel love toward someone they have to take something to get rid of that feeling. There whole world is black and white and they don't get to feel love or happiness at all. When Jonas had a dream about Fiona his parents made him take a pill to forget the feeling of love. “he had liked the feeling that his mother called stirrings. He remembered that upon waking, he had wanted to feel the stirrings again. But the feelings had disappeared. The stirrings were gone” ( Lowry 39 ). This is explaining that when they feel certain emotions they have to wipe them out of their minds, which is very
The Giver is a futuristic novel that was written by Lois Lowry. She wrote the book shortly after the First Gulf War. Lowry writes about an ultramodern utopian civilization with strict rules and guide lines. In this society people don’t have the basic feelings and do not have the free will to choose for them self. When one boy receives the ability to do all of these things it could change all culture in the society. His ability put to the test and he might not be ready to survive. The story is written from the third person point of view because the narrator is telling the reader what is happening only through what Jonas thinks and sees. Because the reader doesn’t know what others are thinking, they don’t know if others are feeling the
He is exceedingly considerate towards his family and acquaintances, sometimes even acting without instinct to help them. For example, on page one hundred eighteen, he noticed that the Giver was in pain and asked him if he needed help. The Giver said “Put your hands on me,” signaling Jonas for him to transfer the painful memory. Jonas has already experienced various horrifying memories and does not like them, but dislikes to see the Giver in pain. Therefore, he swallows his fear and takes it all in. Furthermore, there is an instance where Jonas is kind, it is stated on page one hundred fifteen. He volunteers for Gabriel to stay in his room so that his mother will not be disturbed by Gabriel’s restlessness. He also shows affection towards Gabriel, first unconsciously and then consciously when he transfers the peaceful memory of a sail to Gabriel. He does not want Gabriel to fret so he tries to soothe him with tranquil thoughts. These examples illustrate Jonas’ thoughtfulness and warmth to his cared