What would you do if you were put in Jonas’s situation? This one of the many questions we find ourselves asking in the book the Giver, a dystopian novel by Lois Lowry. Not all books have to be non-fiction, and just because a book is realistic-fiction or a dystopian novel, does not mean it doesn’t have a point. There are so many instances in the Giver that we ask ourselves questions we might not think about while reading non-fiction.
Who said that only non-fiction books can have a point? Realistic-fiction and fiction books can be just as useful as a book about Walt Disney. On the bottom of 194, the Giver talks about changing the community and his plan with Jonas. “If you get away, if you get beyond, if you get to Elsewhere, it will mean that …show more content…
That is what is so great about fiction books, there is so much room for questions and possibilities. Fiction books can raise so many questions in your head or within a group reading a book together. On 123, Jonas talks about how he wants colour and choice. “ ‘Well . . .’ Jonas had to stop and think it through. ‘If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! A blue tunic, or a red one?”(123) But the community made the choice to get rid of colour, which erases choice and jealousy. The community makes the same choice with love to rid of hate, and joy to rid of pain. The community makes the choice to rid of so many good things in life to drown out the bad ones. Would we get rid of happy memories to throw away the bad ones? Next, on the last two pages of the book, anyone can ask themselves, what just happened? “For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he had heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo.”(224-225) We can argue in our heads or with other people about what happened to Jonas. Dead, alive, or in a coma, this is a question that a fiction book raises. Finally, fiction books can raise more important questions than ‘what just
Who said that only non-fiction books can have a point? Realistic-fiction and fiction books can be just as useful as a book about Walt Disney. On the bottom of 194, the Giver talks about changing the community and his plan with Jonas. “If you get away, if you get beyond, if you get to Elsewhere, it will mean that …show more content…
That is what is so great about fiction books, there is so much room for questions and possibilities. Fiction books can raise so many questions in your head or within a group reading a book together. On 123, Jonas talks about how he wants colour and choice. “ ‘Well . . .’ Jonas had to stop and think it through. ‘If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! A blue tunic, or a red one?”(123) But the community made the choice to get rid of colour, which erases choice and jealousy. The community makes the same choice with love to rid of hate, and joy to rid of pain. The community makes the choice to rid of so many good things in life to drown out the bad ones. Would we get rid of happy memories to throw away the bad ones? Next, on the last two pages of the book, anyone can ask themselves, what just happened? “For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he had heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo.”(224-225) We can argue in our heads or with other people about what happened to Jonas. Dead, alive, or in a coma, this is a question that a fiction book raises. Finally, fiction books can raise more important questions than ‘what just