The Giver Essay
In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry Jonas, the main character, finds himself trapped in a very bleak dreary world in which everything is the same. Jonas quickly begins to figure out through memories he receives from the Giver that Those who don’t feel sorrow cannot know true joy, without memories, knowledge is useless, and those who never take risks never grow.
One of the major evident themes in the novel The Giver was without knowing true sorrow, one couldn’t know true joy. For example, Jonas describes the ceremony of loss; in which the community murmurs the name of the lost person throughout the entire day softer and softer, less and less frequently until,“the little Four seemed to just fade away gradually from everyone’s …show more content…
For example, Near the very beginning of the story Jonas takes the risk of stealing an apple from the recreation center after seeing something weird happen with the apple while playing catch with Asher, “following the apple through the air with his eyes… the apple had changed” (Lowry 30). Jonas attempted to try and figure out what was different about the apple and why it seemed to change. If Jonas had been like others in his community then he would not have expressed any interest in the apple and just shrugged it off, instead he remembered the apple until he was able to later receive the knowledge from the Giver that he was just beginning to see the color red. Additionally, Jonas takes yet another risk later in the novel where he makes the decision to stop taking the pills, that control his emotions, “Something within him… told him to throw the pill away” (Lowry 162). Jonas took the risk to get the full experience of the memories. As a result Jonas grew emotionally. Jonas took many risks throughout the giver causing him to grow exponentially, him stealing the apple and him throwing away the pills were just two
In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry Jonas, the main character, finds himself trapped in a very bleak dreary world in which everything is the same. Jonas quickly begins to figure out through memories he receives from the Giver that Those who don’t feel sorrow cannot know true joy, without memories, knowledge is useless, and those who never take risks never grow.
One of the major evident themes in the novel The Giver was without knowing true sorrow, one couldn’t know true joy. For example, Jonas describes the ceremony of loss; in which the community murmurs the name of the lost person throughout the entire day softer and softer, less and less frequently until,“the little Four seemed to just fade away gradually from everyone’s …show more content…
For example, Near the very beginning of the story Jonas takes the risk of stealing an apple from the recreation center after seeing something weird happen with the apple while playing catch with Asher, “following the apple through the air with his eyes… the apple had changed” (Lowry 30). Jonas attempted to try and figure out what was different about the apple and why it seemed to change. If Jonas had been like others in his community then he would not have expressed any interest in the apple and just shrugged it off, instead he remembered the apple until he was able to later receive the knowledge from the Giver that he was just beginning to see the color red. Additionally, Jonas takes yet another risk later in the novel where he makes the decision to stop taking the pills, that control his emotions, “Something within him… told him to throw the pill away” (Lowry 162). Jonas took the risk to get the full experience of the memories. As a result Jonas grew emotionally. Jonas took many risks throughout the giver causing him to grow exponentially, him stealing the apple and him throwing away the pills were just two