The Giver was a very compulsive and noteworthy novel written by Lois Lowry, which had won a John Newbery Medal in 1994. It is the first book of a quartet, but each novel isn’t a continuation of the previous stories. The various genres for The Giver include young adult fiction, utopian and dystopian fiction and the infamous, science fiction. It’s setting takes places in an imaginary world in an unspecified year or time where pain, physical and emotional, doesn’t exist. Almost every person has no memory of everything that may cause pain, some objects or emotions that bring happiness and joy. And even, color. However, there is only one person who still contains these thoughts, the Receiver of Memories, who has become bitterly old and in dire
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However, one principal feature that differentiates him from everybody else would be his unusual eyes. Jonas’s eyes not only are much more dull and pale than the norm, but he sees beyond life than just “Sameness”. This is how the community lives: everybody was born to do the same thing everyday and assigned a specific job once reaching the age of twelve. One doesn’t choose who they want to be, because suffering isn’t the only thing missing from this futuristic society; there is also choice. Unexpectedly, the year Jonas “becomes a twelve”, (the same as twelve years of age), he forcefully is selected to become the “fresh” Receiver of Memories. Yet, this job comes with a lot of difficulty and painfulness along with prestige and …show more content…
Younger children go to school and participate in part-time jobs as community service. Each family contains a father, mother, son and daughter; all being selected by the head council. Since they watch over everyone’s daily life and interests, they find “compatible matches” and a family is created. During the morning, the family confabulates about their dreams and feelings, while at night, they discuss their day. This unspecified year happens to be the one in which the “odd-one-out”, Jonas and his eleven year old companions turn into twelves. When December comes, the Ceremony of Twelves is held where each representative find out what job they receive. Various ones include birth-mother, nurturer, caregivers, food collectors and many others which are essential in this mechanical civilization. However, when the occupations ae being orderly assigned, Jonas is
However, one principal feature that differentiates him from everybody else would be his unusual eyes. Jonas’s eyes not only are much more dull and pale than the norm, but he sees beyond life than just “Sameness”. This is how the community lives: everybody was born to do the same thing everyday and assigned a specific job once reaching the age of twelve. One doesn’t choose who they want to be, because suffering isn’t the only thing missing from this futuristic society; there is also choice. Unexpectedly, the year Jonas “becomes a twelve”, (the same as twelve years of age), he forcefully is selected to become the “fresh” Receiver of Memories. Yet, this job comes with a lot of difficulty and painfulness along with prestige and …show more content…
Younger children go to school and participate in part-time jobs as community service. Each family contains a father, mother, son and daughter; all being selected by the head council. Since they watch over everyone’s daily life and interests, they find “compatible matches” and a family is created. During the morning, the family confabulates about their dreams and feelings, while at night, they discuss their day. This unspecified year happens to be the one in which the “odd-one-out”, Jonas and his eleven year old companions turn into twelves. When December comes, the Ceremony of Twelves is held where each representative find out what job they receive. Various ones include birth-mother, nurturer, caregivers, food collectors and many others which are essential in this mechanical civilization. However, when the occupations ae being orderly assigned, Jonas is