One of the most important things to someone is their own memories, something the Givers “utopian” world kept from the people. To be able to maintain a society where no is different from one another sacrifices had to be made. One of these sacrifices was that one will have to spend the rest of their lives without their memories. But according to the Giver himself “If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.” People need memories, memories keep us grounded, when life seems to be throwing punches, we have memories to get us through. Memories remind of us of our childhood, our mistakes as teens, our parents, our one on one conversations with the person we met on college campus while
