Feelings And Ideas In The Giver By Lois Lowry

Think about how different our world would be if people picked who we married, who our kids would be, and what our jobs would be at the age of twelve. The Giver is a story about an old man who is the receiver of the community's memories, Jonas finds out about the dangerous truths about his community's secret past. Now that he has the knowledge, Jonas realizes that he must escape from their world to protect himself and those he loves. Lois Lowry wrote The Giver because she wanted her audience to think about how much different it would be compared to our world and she wanted us to be drawn to all the emotions that Jonas and The Giver went through knowing everything that they did. In The Giver, feeling & emotion is the most important theme for understanding the author’s message because of the stirrings, colors, and Fiona. The first reason why stirrings is important for understanding the author’s message is because they have dreams but in the story they are called stirrings which aren’t allowed. Jonas has stirrings, but his parents told him that everyone gets them, but you have to take pills so they go away. Jonas were about a girl named Fiona and that he wanted to bathe her like he did with the old. You weren’t allowed to see anyone’s nakedness unless it was the newchild or the old. He didn’t want …show more content…
This is obvious because of Jonas stirrings and how they medicate you to get rid of them, how the community can’t see colors, and Jonas feelings for Fiona. The Giver forces us to consider how they can’t express themselves and how they have everything decided for them. Considering this is important because if we couldn’t express ourselves then why be human? Feelings and emotions make us who we are, not robots. Also we can learn for getting hurt or failure and all the emotions that go with it. But since they don’t have that their emotionless