Lie In The Giver

The giver, a novel written by Lois Lowry, about a boy named Jonas living in a strict community with no holidays and everything is under control like weather or sunshine. Tells the tale about his life and how he finds out about life other than his community. In this community you can’t lie but when Jonas finds out about someone lying, it adds more than you might think to the book.

Jonas’s dad is lying about how he release’s people. Jonas’s dad seems to be a nice guy, he doesn’t look like someone who would do anything bad. Because he says things like, “that’s right, Jonas Bonas.”(71) or “than I wave goodbye, he said in his sweet special voice that he used when he spoke to the new children.”(71) it makes him seem like a good guy. However, he does some things that if any normal person did, they would be devastated and couldn’t go on. “His father began very carefully to direct the needle into the top of the new child's forehead, puncturing the place where the fragile skin pulsed.” (149) “the new child no longer crying, moved his …show more content…
When Jonas turns 12 and gets his instructions for his job it says, “You may lie”(68) when he first reads this you may think, does everyone get to lie when they get a job? And has he been lied to before? Jonas starts to think this when he finds out that his dad lies. We know that he knows that his dad lies when he says, “Mother and Father making their costmary comments (and lies, Jonas knew) about the day.”(164) and “His father smiled and lied easily, too, about his busy and pleasant day the day before.”(158) Jonas’s dads lie adds a sense of confusion and wonder to the book and adds to the setting of their weird and strict community.

In the Giver, written by Lois Lowry, even something as simple as a lie from someone, can change the way of the book. It adds more wonder, confusion, and thinking. But if something like a lie can change a book than what else