In “The Giver” by Lois Lowry, Jonas lives in a community which was made to be perfect. Jonas is soon told about the past and the truth about his community, and he then shortly disagrees on what had taken place. For him to solve and change what is about to take place, he must hold the truth about the real world that is given by the Giver.
This story made me realise how perfect their world is, and if ours will ever be as perfect as theirs.
The society that Jonas lives in is a Utopian Society where everything is perfect. They ruled out fear, pain, hunger, illness, conflict and hatred- the things that we want to eliminate in our own society. If I lived in a Utopian society, I would feel like being in a school everyday. I can’t even stand being …show more content…
It is revealed to him the belief of love and comfort as much as the memories of pleasure do. Evidence of this is seen when ” From the distance, Jonas could hear the thud of cannons. Overwhelmed by pain, he lay there in the fearsome stench for hours, listened to the men and animals die, and learned what warfare meant” . This event is important because it sums up the whole theme of the story. It’s the relationship between happiness and agony which is linked to the theme of memory. Since Jonas’s community doesn’t accept happiness they can never feel pain. Their life is basically boring and has a lack of diversity. Their life is not painful because they don’t enjoy life enough, death is not sad to them because their life is not treasured enough. The moral is that there can be no happiness without agony and no agony without happiness. Regardless of how entertaining an event is, you can’t damage the happiness it grants you, unless you have some memory of a moment when you have agonized.
In conclusion, the story “The Giver” is very ambivalent. I don’t think our world will ever be a Utopian Society as it’s almost impossible. The story helps people understand the theme, happiness and pain and how happiness can’t be given to you without pain, and pain can’t be given to you without
This story made me realise how perfect their world is, and if ours will ever be as perfect as theirs.
The society that Jonas lives in is a Utopian Society where everything is perfect. They ruled out fear, pain, hunger, illness, conflict and hatred- the things that we want to eliminate in our own society. If I lived in a Utopian society, I would feel like being in a school everyday. I can’t even stand being …show more content…
It is revealed to him the belief of love and comfort as much as the memories of pleasure do. Evidence of this is seen when ” From the distance, Jonas could hear the thud of cannons. Overwhelmed by pain, he lay there in the fearsome stench for hours, listened to the men and animals die, and learned what warfare meant” . This event is important because it sums up the whole theme of the story. It’s the relationship between happiness and agony which is linked to the theme of memory. Since Jonas’s community doesn’t accept happiness they can never feel pain. Their life is basically boring and has a lack of diversity. Their life is not painful because they don’t enjoy life enough, death is not sad to them because their life is not treasured enough. The moral is that there can be no happiness without agony and no agony without happiness. Regardless of how entertaining an event is, you can’t damage the happiness it grants you, unless you have some memory of a moment when you have agonized.
In conclusion, the story “The Giver” is very ambivalent. I don’t think our world will ever be a Utopian Society as it’s almost impossible. The story helps people understand the theme, happiness and pain and how happiness can’t be given to you without pain, and pain can’t be given to you without