Examples Of The Giver In The Giver

In the novel The Giver, the everyday life for the characters is like that.There are no colors instead everything is in gray, Nobody has emotions even the word "love" is considered an insult and as for choices, A group of people called the elders, make all the decisions for everyone.Soon Jonas discovers a darker side to his community. I think the question has many elements to it, that lets us further understand the novel and characters, I think Jonas made the right decision by leaving the community because it helped Jonas find a better life and it let the community experience feelings.

Imagine living your life with no feelings, no choices, and no individuality; that is what it is like living in Jonas’ community. Visualize being only one of a few that knows what the world used to be like with joy, excitement, sadness, and fear; but you cannot change anything. All you can do is receive more memories of freedom, love, war, and happiness. Would that not haunt you? You can just watch the people of the community and know moat of humanity has been stropped of them like a band aid on a cut after it has healed, and only a scar is left; but the skin will never be the same.

With Jonas’s job as being The Giver, truth is a very important aspect. Being The Giver, he learns about the real, and whole truth. The Giver is the one who keeps all of the memories of truth. Without it there would be no reason to have a Giver. Another way that the truth works in the role Jonas was given would be that if Jonas leaves the community, all of the memories that he had received would be then distributed to the people of the community. When The Giver and Jonas come up with the idea that everyone not knowing the truth is wrong, they send Jonas away so that everyone receives the memories. There are many ways in which the truth works in the role that Jonas receives, such as when the Chief Elders ask The Giver for advice when they are in times of trouble. Here is a great example of what I mean, “And when I am called to The Committee of Elders, I appear before them, to give them counsel and advice”(Lowry 130) The truth is used in many other ways in Jonas’s job as well, and these are only a

Jonas is feeling things that no one in his community has ever felt before. He is beginning to understand that others are missing out on important emotions. He knows that The Giver has already given away most of the memories, and in order to stop the process, he must make a sacrifice in order for his community to be aware of what they are missing. This proves that he is conscious of the fact that his community is not perfect, and the act of staging an accident is a noble, selfless thing to do; something that his perfect peers would not understand. When talking about the harms of banning books and by quoting Lois Lowry, Jennifer Kendall states, “The world portrayed in The Giver is a world where choice has been taken away. It is a frightening world” (Kendall). Kendall makes the point that the Utopian society is not something that people strive for. As a middle-schooled child, it is easy to see that life is not perfect. I feel as if Lowry does a great job in showing the reader that Jonas does understand that his community is not perfect, and he goes to great links to stop the perfection. While there may seem to

Jonas has to learn more about death and pain than he already has. Death was something that wasn’t talked about in the community. The community “releases” members when they are old or if there is a set of twins or something wrong with a baby. Release is something celebrated within the community. Jonas had no idea that what release really means is to murder someone. He watches the release of a baby boy who was part of a set of twins born into the community. His father is the one performing this release because his father is a nurturer. This knowledge left Jonas devastated and in shock that his father could do something so terrible. He leaves the Giver’s and tells him that he can no longer continue receiving the memories. He takes a few days and collects himself. Fiona, his childhood friend talks him into to going back. Love is another emotion new to Jonas. He falls in love with Fiona. Falling in love is a big step that usually happens in adulthood. Another thing Jonas does that proves his progression in maturity is he decides to leave the community. When you grow up, you leave your mom and dad’s house which is how I connected this part of Jonas’ life with that of a real life

You wouldn’t want to be lied to, would you? The Giver by Lois Lowry is set in the future and is about an 11 year old boy named Jonas who is anticipating his job assignment. Jonas faces many hardships in his community which include lies, loss, friendship, and a man called The Giver. I think that deception is a main theme in The Giver, because the people in the community are being lied to all day, everyday about very important things in their daily lives.

The future can mean various meanings to other individuals. It could mean flying cars, hovering skateboards, or robots taking over the world. However, one author believes that the future might be what is called..”sameness”. Published in 1993, the author Louis Lowry written the Newberry prized novel,The Giver, has given a vision of what the 21st century might become.

(This is just my body paragraph) The system that the society prides itself most on is the system of Sameness. Sameness was originally intended to bring about order by eliminating differences between citizens of the society. In the beginning of The Giver, Jonas notes that after Asher shows up tardy to a class, he “...remained standing to make his public apology, as was required” (Lowry 3). The fact that a public apology was required shows that citizens take Sameness very seriously.

Would you wonder how it would feel if everything was the same? The book The Giver by Lois Lowry is about sameness. Samnessess is where everything is the same. There is no color, elections, hunger, and many more. Also the elders made so many rules becauses they want a perfect utopia and no problems.

In The Giver, by Lois Lowry, main character Jonas is assigned to be the receiver of memory in a utopian world with no weather, pain, color, feeling, or choice. As the receiver of memory, Jonas has to take in all of the pain and beauty that once lived in the world before “Sameness” is introduced, such as cold, war, and even christmas memories. When child Gabriel is in danger of death due to lack of growth, Jonas decides to run away with the child. Jonas and his teacher, also known as the previous receiver of memory or the Giver organize a plan for Jonas’s escape over the sameness border, carrying Gabe along the way, and setting free all memories back to the community, destroying sameness.

The Giver by Louis Lowry has seemed to be dissatisfying to some people because of it’s ending. You see, Jonas had ran away from the community that he had grown up in to release all the memories from himself to the people in the community. But the ending had left people on a serious cliffhanger that left people wondering what had truly happened. Some people liked it, so they could make out the end for themselves and decide what had happened. Others didn’t like the ending, wanting to know the “Correct way” of how the book ends. You see, Jonas had left his community to go to Elsewhere. You must understand how incredibly weak both he and Gabriel had been to understand how important it was for him when he saw those

Jonas decides to leave the community and return the memories The giver society was just. They got food, protection and there was equality.       First, the way no way ever left of anything shows that The Giver society is just. When the children were seven got a new jacket and when they were nine got a bicycle. ( Lowry 40-41)

By departing from the community, Jonas changed his community’s future since now the people in it can experience all the memories he left. This change is essential because the people in

Not only is he considerate toward Jonas, The Giver addresses the society’s problem at the end as well. When he and Jonas decide on the plan to escape to Elsewhere, the Giver knows that the people would be defenseless against their own inexperience and that he has to stay behind to help them deal with the exceeding amount of memories. The Giver states how he doesn’t want the Rosemary incident (this time being more severe since Jonas has a year’s worth of recollections) to happen again. The Giver had already served as Receiver of Memory for decades in the community by enduring the grief that accompanied the memories, yet he still dismisses Jonas’s offer to avoid the society’s imminent problems by running away. This further confirms that the

Towards the ending of the book, Jonas actually gets to Elsewhere, and to the place where he “belongs”, though the reader is not told whether or not Jonas dies when he gets there. However, Jonas does realize that his emotionless community is not “something real”, and this motivates his journey Elsewhere. The Giver also believes that there is a place like this: with Rosemary, his former student who decided to release herself. And (of course) by releasing himself, he can do just that. This is all very similar to some of the lines in Linkin Park’s