Imagine a world without love.In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, the protagonist Jonas begins to be frightened but then figures out that frightened is not the word, and then experiences pain he undergoes a journey where he figures out how life was before him.In modern day society people have emotions and they are not forced to take pills to stop them. While Jonas’s society is emotionless, they experiences freedom to choose,and does not have the sameness, modern day society is free to love,celebrates individuality, and has the freedom to choose. One difference between Jonas’s society and modern day society is the lack of love. When Jonas asked his father if he loved him, his father responds “you of all people, precision of language please” (lowry 159).
The word love issued so little in Jonas’s community that is has become nearly absolute unlike modern …show more content…
For instance, in Jonas’s society they cannot choose what they want to wear they all wear the same clothes everyday, they cannot eat what they want nor cook what they want. we wear anything unless we are going to school which there is a dress code. in the society that we live in we can go to stores and buy food and clothes. Finally, the society in the book “The Giver” they share sameness everyone has the same birthday, they are put in groups by age, and they are assigned kids that are not their kids.In modern day society we have different birthday most people are the same age but birthdays are not the same. Everyone goes about their own business. In conclusion, jonas’s society and modern day society do not have nothing in common and jonas’s journey was very hard he went through very bad pain, he tried to give others memories, and at the end he had to escape with his adopted brother because his little brother Gabriel was about to get released. How does Jonas’s society make you
The word love issued so little in Jonas’s community that is has become nearly absolute unlike modern …show more content…
For instance, in Jonas’s society they cannot choose what they want to wear they all wear the same clothes everyday, they cannot eat what they want nor cook what they want. we wear anything unless we are going to school which there is a dress code. in the society that we live in we can go to stores and buy food and clothes. Finally, the society in the book “The Giver” they share sameness everyone has the same birthday, they are put in groups by age, and they are assigned kids that are not their kids.In modern day society we have different birthday most people are the same age but birthdays are not the same. Everyone goes about their own business. In conclusion, jonas’s society and modern day society do not have nothing in common and jonas’s journey was very hard he went through very bad pain, he tried to give others memories, and at the end he had to escape with his adopted brother because his little brother Gabriel was about to get released. How does Jonas’s society make you