The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a young boy who is reaching his twelfth year and his hesitation to know what assignment (career) he will be given as he doesn’t know where he fits within his community. Others around him have a close idea of what assignment (career) they will be given but he has no clue. He is an individual with a unique mind and he is different from the rest of the community. The book also covers the issue of lack of freedom and the control the Elders have over the communities. Jonas is given an important role as Receiver of Memory and is introduced to The Giver he is the fount of all knowledge past and present. The memories Jonas receives The setting of the worldwide known novel The Giver by Lowry is a fictional world. There …show more content…
Difference was not celebrated in the world of The Giver in fact it was the opposite. Jonas once said “I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feel strange and stupid”, the idea that difference is not normal shows how Jonas’ coming of age period of his life would be difficult. Other children in Jonas’ community could tell where there assignment (career) would be, he did not. He did not know where he fit in the world he was “living” in. He had a quality that was not possessed by any, all except the Giver, and it was individuality. He knew he was different and he knew he had no direction in his life. Because he was different, an individual, he was chosen to be the new receiver of memory. When Jonas was given his rules for being the new receiver of memory, they exempted him from foundational rules the communities lived by, making him different, an individual. Near the conclusion of Lowry’s book, Jonas has a revelation “If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!” Finally, Lowry shows the reader that Jonas has individuality and he chooses to accept it because it will mean he can be different and not do the same monotonous tasks everyone else has to do. Freedom in the Giver is clearly shown as a supressed
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)
In The Giver, a narrative by Lois Lowry, Jonas’s father illustrates his feelings during his Ceremony of Twelve and Jonas tells about his own feelings concerning the forthcoming event. In the text it states, “‘But to be honest, Jonas,’ his father said, ‘for me there was not the element of suspense that there is with your ceremony. Because I was already fairly certain of what my Assignment was to be,’”(Lowry, paragraph 3). This segment of text elucidates the reason of Jonas’s father’s lack of surprise of his Assignment. As stated above, Jonas’s father was already certain of his Assignment, which he continues to explain to be a Nurturer. Jonas’s father explains that as a result of the love he showed all the Newchildren and the time he spent at
Sameness is the quality or state of being alike or of not changing. Everyone is same in Jonas’s community. Sameness has both advantages and disadvantages, but more advantages in The Giver by Lois Lowry.
The essential thing to overcoming adversity is the ability to cause change in yourself and others. In the book, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas is singled out after he isn’t chosen during the Ceremony of Twelve. He has to learn to overcome the pain of being The Receiver of Memory. He also has to face the truth and discover who his real allies are. This helps him to become a changemaker because he grows. He grows by using the pain to become stronger mentally and physically. Ultimately, Lowry teaches us that to make a change, you must display curiosity and determination.
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.
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...
“The Giver” a novel by Lois Lowry (1993), is an, engaging science fiction tale that provides the reader with examples of thought provoking ethical and moral quandaries. It is a novel geared to the young teenage reader but also kept me riveted. Assigning this novel as a class assignment would provide many opportunities for teachers and students to discuss values and morals.
The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a book and a movie. In the book many ideas, concepts and actions are very different than the movie. The book starts off following the life of Jonas, an eleven year old living in a controlled community. With a few days coming until the Ceremony of Twelves, Jonas doesn't know what he will be assigned. He ends up being assigned to be The Receiver, a very honored job in their community.
Anderson lays a pretty solid foundation of the population control side of the giver and encourages young readers to question what society tells them. Anderson ststes that Lowery is questioning the politically correctness of children’s books, and redefining the industries skepticism of a government body being an all-powerful body in complete control. He states, the aspect that the book The Giver is a top seller ranking 63rd on the list of best child’s books of all time. He notes however her book is also one of the most challenged books as well.
In The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas, a 12-year old boy, lives in a world where everything is the same. Although the book demonstrate many themes including individuality, importance of memory, and internal conflict, the most powerful theme is internal conflict. When a child turn 12 you they given a job, Jonas obtained the job receiver of memory. The receiver of memory is the only person in the community who can be different, see color, and have amazing memories. However, great memories also come with dreadful ones.
“Freedom is one of the most important thing for us”. Who is against this statement? After the cold war, freedom became the world’s main value and many countries adopt the value. Contrary to the world today the society in “the Giver” by Lois Lowry is far from the freedom. In that society, people’s lives are strictly regulated. People there cannot choose their jobs and families, and these things are determined by the “chief elder”, who observes everything in the society and considers the most suited job for all citizens. What is more, a lot of things that have risks, like animals and climates except sunny, and that can make differences each other like colors, clothes and strong feeling like love and sexual desire, are restricted or deleted. In
Lois Lowry’s, In The Giver many past memories and secrets have been kept away from the people in the community, but there is only two people that will know what the secrets and memories are that have been kept away for along time and the are “The Giver” and “The Receiver of memory” the receiver of memory has to suffer pain and feel feelings he has never felt before but is the receiver of memory leaves a boundary the memories will be let out of the community…, In the community in which they live in its considered a “utopian” society where everything is perfect well that’s not the case because the memories are what is keeping the society together in “utopia”. The Giver has multiple stand points to it, decisions and consequences have affected their community multiple times and for many years,also with mysteries never to be spoken about again.
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.”
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
Sometimes in life things are unfair and sometimes in order for change you have to take action. The story “The Giver” by Lois Lowry is a story about a boy who realizes that his entire life is a lie and finds out that there is more to the world than his community. Lois Lowry uses character motivation to illustrate that Jonas is motivated to leave the community because he disagrees with the community’s rules and methods. Wants to to give all the memories to the community because he doesn’t want bear all the horrible memories. Lastly, he wants to save Gabriel from being released.