Emotions In The Giver

A book named The Giver by Lois Lowry published in 1993 teaches many life lessons that everyone needs to learn in some point in their life. In this novel it is about a twelve year old boy named Jonas who realizes his perfect society isn’t so perfect. When he was picked for the New Receiver of Memories he learned things that were hidden from the people of the community. The more Jonas learns about the past the more he wants to change how the community sees the world. In The Giver, the author uses an image of a utopia, the people in the community, and The Giver to develop the theme that emotions are needed in life.

The setting in the Giver is this community where the people inside are not able to feel or to have a choice of their own. Could you ever imagine yourself living in a world where you couldn’t be able to feel and have a choice of your own? Well, I really couldn’t imagine myself in Jonas’s position. Jonas’s society is very different compared to our society. One thing which is different from our society than Jonas’s society is that we can have feelings.

Jonas’s community is perfectly made for everyone, and to make sure of that, the community has everything planned in advance for them. Their employment, their marriage, their children, even their death is scheduled in

In the novel, The Giver, people have been stripped of powerful and potent emotions such as love to match the strict guild lines of their community. Lowis Lowery illustrates through the Transition of Jonas, how human emotions are necessary to build a character with moral and ethical values and promote a life worth living fully. In Jonas community people do not understand emotion or pain because life is so controlled and predictable.

What would happen if you lived in a world with no emotion, no emotion, and no choice? This is exactly the case in The Giver. When a boy, Jonas, who lives in a futuristic community starts to receive memories from the Giver he realizes there are so many beautiful yet terrible things inside and outside of the community. He dosen’t know another way to save the community from sameness except to release his memories to the community, good and bad. Three things that could have been done to the community to avoid this is adding the arts, emotions, and weather.

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

The Giver, a novel written by Lois Lowry, follows a young boy named Jonas during his journey into becoming the community 's new Receiver of Memory. Throughout his adventure, Jonas has to make many choices along the way that impact him and the others around him. For example, the biggest turning point in the story is about a choice that Jonas makes. The people of the community take pills everyday to control their “stirrings” which are just uncontrollable emotions that a person feels. One day, after months of training, Jonas decides not to take the pill. On page 129 Lois Lowry writes, “Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away” (129). From the quote the reader can infer that something during his training has compelled him to not take the “necessary” pill. This choice will affect the people around Jonas, as well as Jonas himself. Without control over his emotions, Jonas is more likely to lash out on his peers and experience certain emotions that he does not know how to process. This choice reveals the fact that Jonas is starting to become aware of the truths about his community. Another example of the choice was when Jonas

Jonas lives in a world of Sameness. In his community, life has been changed to be a place without color, choice, feelings, love, or inequality - a “perfect” world to all. No one ever complains: this is how the community runs, and has been running for as long as citizens can remember. At age 12, Jonas is assigned his life work as the Receiver of Memory and joins a mysterious old man named the Giver. The Giver uses his knowledge help the community make the right choices in times of crisis. He shares his memories about when life had the things that make life amazing - the color, the love, the feelings, the passion. Jonas is amazed and decides his world desperately is in need of change. The problem is, he doesn’t know how to fix his choreographed world to the place he envisions when Sameness is all anyone has ever known. Therefore, Jonas and the Giver make a plan to release memories to the people of the land and give them the wonders they’ve never known. Jonas runs away with the baby he loves, Gabriel, from the

Imagine a world with no feelings, no color, no choice; a world where individuality and freedom are exchanged for security and sameness. This type of world is a reality for Jonas, the protagonist in Lois Lowry’s The Giver. After being assigned the next Receiver of Memories in the community, where he has the capacity to see beyond. As he begins his works, he gains wisdom and through that wisdom, learned that protecting the community from the memories, their lives lacked understanding and feelings. Jonas goes on an archetypal hero’s journey and chooses to risk everything to restore memories and wisdom to everyone in the community. Throughout this novel, Jonas is represented as a hero considering he demonstrates integrity despite living in a

Feelings Feelings in the book “The Giver” have an important role because in the community they are very precise on language. For example: when Jonas was in the memory of Christmas, Jonas sad that he was feeling warm and happy during the memory and after coming back to being in the Givers room, The Giver said that that feeling of warm and happiness was “love. ”Another feeling Jonas had, was when he watched the plane fly over the community before. Jonas was feeling worry because he had never seen a plane fly over the community. These feelings made Jonas sad and depressed or even feel pain after the memory.

You live in a world, where you have right to do almost anything. You have right to express your inner self, but what if you lived in a place where you had no emotions, no memories, no right to experience this nature, what if you were captivated, and you had no right to rebel, to go against such place. Well, such events occurred in Louis Lowry's utopian book called Giver, Jonas who lives in a community of conformity, where individuality isn't expressed. When Jonas gets the job as the Receiver, he then starts to spend time with Giver, was he sees memories, and also learns the dangerous truths of his community.

In the novel, “The Giver,” the writer, Lois Lowry, reflects many characteristic of Jonas’s society, some of which will be different to our society. For example, one aspect of Jonas’s community that is unlike to ours are rules and laws when it comes to sharing feeling at dinner and sharing dreams in the morning with the family. This contrast can be proven when the author writes in chapter 1 on page 5, “Nor did Jonas, tonight. His feelings were too complicated this evening, he wanted to share them but wasn’t eager to begin the process of sifting through his own complicated and his own emotions.” This quote prove that differences between the two societies.

Imagine living in a world with no individuality. Everyone would be limited to a degree of “sameness”. As a result, humans would lack the ability to love, to feel emotions, and to imagine. The world would essentially be filled with one shared mind; there would be no opinions, no choices, and no awareness that your mind was even being constrained what so ever. In her book “The Giver”, Louis Lowry exposes the dangers of the lack of individuality in a Utopian Society.

America is classified as a Utopia because of its successes in the past. Movies help portray the concepts of a Utopian and Dystopian world. The movie the giver shows a Utopian world free of poverty to help show what we may look like to other countries . The Hunger games however displays a dystopian world full of low income. This movie shows that we are fortunate to have a successful government.

In The Giver, memories are an essential source of strong feelings. These strong feelings are the key to unlocking wisdom. I agree and know this because I had a time when I had strong feelings, and the memories of this have affected me in several ways. I  can agree with the fact that  memories are a source of feelings, and that feelings are a source of wisdom. When you experience a powerful memory, you commonly will have a powerful feeling mixed, such as happiness or sadness.