The Giver

A Perfect World Full Of Mistakes Imagine being in a perfect world since birth , where no one endures pain, suffering, starvation, or the depth of emotions. Everyone is the same, happy, and equal so that order and peace may last forever. In The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas, a special young boy, resides in a perfect utopia where their lives are planned out for them. At the Ceremony of Twelve, the Twelves will part ways and start training for the assigned jobs where they will work until they enter…

Truth The Giver is a brilliant book that contains many themes. These themes can be used in your life to make you a more successful person. There was one certain theme that stood out the most in the book. Truth can be pleasurable and painful. Truth is a major component in the book. The value of truth is evident throughout the entire book. In the book, The Giver, certain information is retained from the citizens that results in the community being controlled. The lack of freedom for the…

The Giver is about a young boy named Jonas who lives in a society free of hatred, memories, or individuality as a person. At age twelve, each child gets assigned roles that they will receive training on to eventually become productive members of society. In the beginning of the book, Jonas has complete trust and respect for his parents until the Giver shows Jonas’ father killing the baby, and disposing of the body through a garbage chute. When Jonas sees this, he can’t but help lose trust in his…

the book The Giver doesn’t have, they don’t get to make their own decisions, everything is chosen for them so they all already just fit in. Everyone and everything is the same and that doesn’t ever change. In both human nature and literature, everyone wants to fit in and feel accepted by the more favored or well liked people. Fitting in just happens in The Giver community because they want everything to stay the same and everyone to be the same so there are no problems. In The Giver it says,…

Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, is about a boy named Jonas in a Utopian society of sameness. In this community, there is no pain struggle, or diversity. Choices for all are made by a group of elder citizens. There is no color, no weather, and no change. The absence of difference leads Jonas to question whether the lack of pain is worth inability to feel anything at all. Through her characters, Lowry warns readers that to conform is to lose choices, individuality, and ultimately, free will. This…

Never be Perfect Would a society that requires it citizens to be “burdened with sashweights and bags of birdshot” (Vonnegut 1) be a Utopian society? The Giver, a novel written by Lois Lowry, introduces Jonas, a Twelve, who lives in an idyllic community where everything is planned out. Jonas, as the Receiver of Memory, experiences the memories the Giver transmits to him. He discovers how wrong his community has been. The community failed when Jonas found out what the community had hidden from its…

Like Spreng said, Jonas uses the memories he receives from the Giver and applies what he learned to his perfect society. When Asher and his friends are playing the game of good guys and bad guys, Jonas recalls back to his memory of warfare. “In his mind, Jonas saw again the face of the boy who had lain dying on a field…

“Let me out please, if this is The Giver or anyone in the community that found out about my escape I’m really sorry now just please I’ll do anything just let me-”, Jonas squealed as someone rapidly pulled him out of the dirty sack into what seemed like a plane. “Where am I”, Jonas was speechless as he glanced around at what he was being transported with but was more speechless when he realised who dragged him out, it was The Giver. “Hello Jonas, it’s time I tell you everything…

Imagine a life of sameness where nobody feels emotions, sees colors, or has memories of the past. In the book The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the main character, Jonas, becomes the Receiver, after a fail with the previous one, and begins to have memories transported into his mind. The community has no memories and only the Giver and Receiver share this heavy responsibility. The job of Receiver is a major role in the community because this person advises the Committee of Elders using memories from the…

Giver’s room. He walked toward The Giver who was sitting on the chair waiting for Jonas. As he was walking the books caught his attention again, and he suddenly stopped and just stared in awe with the memory of his first time seeing all these books playing like a movie in his head. He looked in awe as he saw all the walls covered with so many books that they reached all the way up to the ceiling. He still wondered if there were so many rules in the community. The Giver then stood up, walked up…