In Lois Lowry’s engaging novel The Giver, we meet a young boy named Jonas who lives in a restricted community where everything is planned out perfectly, when Jonas turns twelve his world is turned upside down when he receives the job, the Receiver Of Memory. As entitled Jonas receives memories and this changes his life forever, he receives memories of joy and pain, this drastic change shows Jonas what him and the community had missed out on for so long. “ Life is meaningless without memories” memories provide joy, pain, and resilience and provide individuality so life with no memories would truly be, meaningless.…
In the novel The Giver, memories are the source of wisdom and pain. The society created by the elders, which lived in the old world, where there was chaos and agony. It's a supposed utopia. Everything is fair, everyone has the same education, family members, same life. There is no chaos or disease, it's “perfect.”…
In the book The Giver, the protagonist Jonas lives in a Utopian society on a future earth where the community has no feelings and emotions. At the ceremony of 12, Jonas is assigned as the Receiver of Memory, a task that only one person receives. He receives memories of love, joy, sadness, and pain and starts to feel these feelings. After a month of training, he watches his father release a baby, he is shocked to find releasing a baby means death for the baby. Jonas finds out that baby Gabe will be released and decides to escape to the place called Elsewhere.…
This essay discusses Jonas’s decisions and why people should support it. In Lois Lowry’s book, The Giver, Jonas decides to leave the safety of the community to allow Gabriel to live, to allow the memories to return to the community, for Jonas to live a meaningful life and for the Giver to have a second chance at helping the community at a time of distress when Jonas’s memories return to the people. Jonas’s decision was the preferred one. How and why is releasing Jonas’s memories to the community better than not releasing the memories to the community?…
You and I wouldn’t have to bear so much by ourselves, if everybody took part “(146). The Giver and Jonas have always had troubles with holding memories and with receiving them. All the different thing that Jonas never knew about and not letting the community know about the different thing. For example, “The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient.…
Could you ever imagine a life of having everything chosen for you? The Giver is a book where the leaders of a futuristic community want everyone to be as similar as possible. They ensure this by having everyone wear the same clothes and have the haircuts. To keep safety and peace in the community the citizens are given no freedoms. Citizens are given their spouses and jobs based on observations made about them.…
Have you ever wanted to live in a world the could be considered “perfect” or made up your own little world in you head in which everyone is the same, hunger is never an issue, equality exists, no crimes, or conflicts, and best of all, no bad memories? In Lois Lowry's book, The Giver, Jonas and his family, along with the rest of their community, they live in a utopia like society where everyone has the same rules, there are no important choices they have to make, there’s no war, pain or conflict, and everyone is assigned a role they have to play out it the community. Jonas was given the honor to be the next Receiver of Memories and is to be trained by the Giver. The Giver is the only one who has memories of true pain and pleasure of life and he must give the all to Jonas so The Giver can retire his position and Jonas…
Rough-Draft Decide if Jonas made the right choice in leaving the community. Did his leaving produce more positive or more negative results? Jonas should not have left the community. The Giver is in pain and Jonas should be there to help him through it. The citizens of the community are now left with the pain and confusion getting all the memories at once.…
When the elders of the community first set up their rules and regulations and put people into jobs without their consent and took away their rights, they highlighted one of the biggest issues in the community. The council of elders attempted to create a utopian society, but instead, they created a false utopia, so the community was torn apart. Lois Lowry's book, The Giver, Jonas believes his community is a false utopia because of their lack of choice, lack of diversity, and their decision to euthanize people in the community. In the community, the elders put people down in order to avoid confusion and try to keep a subtle and safe community.…
Memories have helped shape the main character Jonas throughout the entire book. In The Giver, memories are vital to give individuals wisdom and experience. Individuals gain wisdom through memories. The Giver and Jonas talk about why receivers are important and the giver argues to him that they provide wisdom to the community so they can make the best decision possible. “ I used my wisdom from the memories”(page 141).…
Once The Giver starts giving Jonas memories, Jonas wishes things could be the way they used to be, where there is not sameness, where they have snow, rain, sunshine, hills, holidays. Therefor he leaves the community so that they can have the memories of how it used to be,…
Can you imagine a world in which there’s no color, weather, or sunshine. Imagine you not being able to have your own children, well in the dystopian novel The Giver by Lois Lowry. The protagonist, Jonas has to deal with this for 12 years and doesn’t begin to realize that something in his society is wrong until he is chosen to be the next Receiver for his community. This is very different from our modern day society. While Jonas’s society is emotionless, experiences sameness, and doesn’t have the freedom to choose, modern day society is free to love and celebrates individuality.…
The major theme in The Giver is the importance/need of memory because without memories the people didn’t have pain and without pain there is no pleasure. In the movie there seemed more pleasurable moments. The previous receiver had to keep all the painful memories from the lives of the Community. To do that they had to give up the happy memories. Not only did this lead them to forget all the pain there had been throughout human history, it also stopped them from doing activities or having relationships.…
One of the most important themes that Jonas learns is the importance of memories. For instance, when Jonas told The Giver about what his instructors taught him how about the brain works, The Giver remarked, ¨without the memories itś all meaningless. They gave that burden to me¨(133). By saying this The Giver taught Jonas that without the memories of their past knowledge is useless because they cannot learn from their mistakes.…
The two novels, The Giver and 1984 have similarities in character settings and they are both dystopian worlds created by the authors. However, the main themes delivered by the two authors are different. Although there are many similarities in the two stories, there is also a difference. The messages the both authors want to tell the readers through the stories are different.…