Reflection For The Giver

The book, ‘The Giver’ written by Lois Lowry is a futuristic novel about communities trying to achieve utopia. In their desire for this perfect world, a concept called Sameness is introduced which means that every aspect of their communities are uniform and monotonous. They are oblivious to concepts such as colours, true love, war, pain, hunger, freedom of choice and seasons. They live in a society where they are trying to achieve mechanical perfection. It is meticulously ordered, but unknowingly, despite all their attempts, dystopia still prevails. An important theme of the book is the importance of individual strength in a character when faced with a conflict such as conformity to regulations. It displays the growth of character during the quest for knowledge and understanding.
In the story, a sense of sympathy for the Giver is felt within the reader throughout the book. The writer has used effective techniques to instil this sense in the reader. The Giver is the pivotal character as well as a central figure, thus the book is named after his character too. The Giver is a bit of a paradox. He looks ancient, but he is not old at all. He says that, “The job has aged me”. The author uses a metaphor here to show the difficulty of the job that has been assigned to the …show more content…
He has faced the fact that he has to live with it, that’s why when he is talking about himself and the past, he says “I tried before to train a successor, I failed.” The author ends the sentence very abruptly here to show how the Giver felt that he must punish himself for not succeeding in his job of training a new Receiver. This sentence creates a sense of foreshadowing in the reader, wanting to know more about what had happened with the previous Receiver in training and why the Giver felt it was his own blunder. The understanding for the Giver in the reader enhances at this point, making the reader yearn to know more about the