Argumentative Essay On The Giver

Have you ever wanted to live in a world the could be considered “perfect” or made up your own little world in you head in which everyone is the same, hunger is never an issue, equality exists, no crimes, or conflicts, and best of all, no bad memories? In Lois Lowry's book, The Giver, Jonas and his family, along with the rest of their community, they live in a utopia like society where everyone has the same rules, there are no important choices they have to make, there’s no war, pain or conflict, and everyone is assigned a role they have to play out it the community. Jonas was given the honor to be the next Receiver of Memories and is to be trained by the Giver. The Giver is the only one who has memories of true pain and pleasure of life and he must give the all to Jonas so The Giver can retire his position and Jonas can …show more content…
It would be difficult to understand something bad happening without the bad memories, people would be overreacting to anything bad that happens to them. Jonas must endure both bad and painful memories throughout his training, if he were to be released then all of his memories, good and bad, would be given to the community and they would have to live with them. “The Giver tells Jonas about the old Receiver-in-training, Rosemary, and how after five weeks of training she requested for release, which is now against the rules for a Receiver because the memories were released to the community. Everyone had to deal with the painful memories” (Lowry 142-143). Had Rosemary never asked to be released, Jonas wouldn’t be the new Receiver and Rosemary would be and there would be no rule against requesting for release as a Receiver. She wasn’t ready or couldn’t handle all the painful memories she had been given in her 5 weeks of training. When Rosemary was released and the memories were given to the community, the elders had to get rid of the memories so those memories were lost