The Giver, A Life without Memories
Without memories, life is meaningless. This quote is true to the story because it explains the story of the community. They are living in a society with no feelings, no danger, and no excitement. Their feelings are taken away with pills and their life is ended with a shot. The community in The Giver by Lois Lowry, is different from ours today, the planet knows about pain, and memories, they don't.
The community Jonas lives in is numb, they can’t feel. They have no pain, and no love. As an example to the story, Jonas’ dad killed a baby and said, “bye-bye, little guy” and put the body, which was in a container, in a chute and gave it a shove.(Page 188) The community also has pills to get rid of the stirrings, which are feelings for another person. They also have pain pills, which get …show more content…
Sameness is when the community makes it to where everything and everyone is fair, no one is higher level than another person. Having no real feelings in the community means they can’t feel true happiness, and no true sadness. The receiver keeps the memories so that the community feels no pain, but not by choice. The receiver is “not assigned, but they are selected.”(Page 75) Therefore the receiver has no choice in the matter. Imagine living a life with no excitement, and with sameness.
So in conclusion the community has no real life, and are living in a world not worth living. The community needs the memories to feel, and to love, but they don’t have that, they are numb. They have pills for pain, the Giver, or receiver, for memories, and climate control, for no dangers. In The Giver the community Has no real life, because without memories life is meaningless. This quote is so true to the story because the community can’t feel, and their life isn’t worth
Without memories, life is meaningless. This quote is true to the story because it explains the story of the community. They are living in a society with no feelings, no danger, and no excitement. Their feelings are taken away with pills and their life is ended with a shot. The community in The Giver by Lois Lowry, is different from ours today, the planet knows about pain, and memories, they don't.
The community Jonas lives in is numb, they can’t feel. They have no pain, and no love. As an example to the story, Jonas’ dad killed a baby and said, “bye-bye, little guy” and put the body, which was in a container, in a chute and gave it a shove.(Page 188) The community also has pills to get rid of the stirrings, which are feelings for another person. They also have pain pills, which get …show more content…
Sameness is when the community makes it to where everything and everyone is fair, no one is higher level than another person. Having no real feelings in the community means they can’t feel true happiness, and no true sadness. The receiver keeps the memories so that the community feels no pain, but not by choice. The receiver is “not assigned, but they are selected.”(Page 75) Therefore the receiver has no choice in the matter. Imagine living a life with no excitement, and with sameness.
So in conclusion the community has no real life, and are living in a world not worth living. The community needs the memories to feel, and to love, but they don’t have that, they are numb. They have pills for pain, the Giver, or receiver, for memories, and climate control, for no dangers. In The Giver the community Has no real life, because without memories life is meaningless. This quote is so true to the story because the community can’t feel, and their life isn’t worth