Why Is The Giver Still Relevant Today

In view of this black and white 1950s civilization, unvarying is the key notion in their community. The citizens reinforce the idea of maintaining their view and ideologies on life and retain it that way. On the other hand, the modernized society is utterly different and is demonstrated with colour

In the story everyone is colorblind so no one can choose different colors and have no opinion, they also have the same bike and clothes. If you are a girl you have to wear a ribbon in your hair until you are nine and then once your ribbon gets taken out of your hair you get a jacket. For instance, “ ”Our people made the choice, the choice to go to sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with differences.” He thought for a moment. “We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others” “ (124). One of the problems with the community having sameness is that the newborn children could never experience sunshine or snow, but they never have to experience pain or starvation. They feel, wear, and look the same, the community will never feel different, but the only difference is their age and little accessories. For example ,“ It’s the way they live. It’s the life that was created for them. It’s the same life that you would have, if you had not been chosen as my successor” (192). Jonas and the community’s whole life has been controlled by elders. They have never been able to make their own choices without the elders. This represents how sameness appears to be the antagonist and how they can never be

Jonas starts to question why only the Giver and him have memories. “The Giver sighed,” he said. You're right," he said. But then everyone would be burdened and pained. They don't want to be that.

Jonas starts to question why only the Giver and him have memories. “The Giver sighed,” he said. You're right," he said. But then everyone would be burdened and pained. They don't want to be that.

Picture this. You are living in a world where you have no rights, no memories of the past, no emotions, and everyone is the same. This is exactly what happened in Craig Russel’s graphic adaptation of The Giver. The Giver is set in a dystopian world which refers to an extremely unfair or terrible fictional setting. The Giver portrays a setting where all memories of the world are kept away in one person, called the receiver of memory.

Imagine living a life without purpose, just living to survive till you die. Being the exact same as everybody else. This is exactly the case in The Giver by Lois Lowry. In The Giver by Lois Lowry, everything being the same is horrific because it completely deprived everyone of emotion, colors, and choices and there is absolutely nothing that makes anyone different from one another. One way everything being the same is horrific is they took away a lot of

Imagine living a life without purpose, just living to survive till you die. Being the exact same as everybody else. This is exactly the case in The Giver by Lois Lowry. In The Giver by Lois Lowry, everything being the same is horrific because it completely deprived everyone of emotion, colors, and choices and there is absolutely nothing that makes anyone different from one another. One way everything being the same is horrific is they took away a lot of

However, the community in The Giver cannot see much into the past and has only one person keep those memories, moreover, modern society is allowed to spread the memories of the past. In short, quoting The Giver, "... Receiver of Memory... our community has only one Receiver." (60)

First, the world would not be a better place if the government controlled people’s lives because there would be no emotions and people would have no knowledge of the past. If the government controlled our lives, it would trick us into thinking we had felt emotions, but really, we would not be feeling true emotions, because true emotions make people learn from them, and the citizens in The Giver did not learn from their emotions. However, the only people to learn from their emotions were the receivers. They held the pain, happiness, anger, jealousy, and everything in between from all of the memories and feelings they had to bear. “The worst part about holding the memories is not the pain.

In this fictional world, the government’s main goal is sameness. For that to happen there had to be some changes in the community and the people that lived there. This community, was meant to be an Utopian society, way different from our world, but as the time had passed. The perspective of looking at it changed in a dramatic way after more and more differences were found.

This situation is described in the novel I have read in the past, third grade to be exact. The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, tells the tale of a twelve year old boy, Jonas, and his journey to discover more about the world around him. The town he lives in, also known as “the Community” uses strict regulations and deprivation to maintain the peace. It is a utopia where there is no suffering, no war, and no hunger. However, what is the price for this peace? You have no memories of the past, no colors, no music, and no love. Everything in life is controlled by a group known as “the Committee of Elders.” They determine who you marry, who you receive as children, and what job you will be “assigned.” If these rules are broken or if you grow too old, you will be released

The only people in the community that have a true sense of what life used to be are the Receiver of memory and Receiver in training. While the lives of the citizens in “The Giver” might at first appear as horrible and inhumane, there are some benefits of living in the community. Foremost, the citizens of this community have no stress. Nearly every aspect of their lives is decided for them, leaving them with no worries of making wrong choices or decisions (Lowry, Lois). This culture’s people very seldom experience unpredicted events.

The theme the author seems to be attempting to convey through the story is that "Individuals should be cherished". The book shows that while unification can result in a peaceful and an altogether more understanding community, it can also restrict individuality. Individuality and order cannot be separated and are deeply tied together. Without unique attributes that make each person diverse from anyone else, a plain and almost boring society is formed. With everyone following regulations and laws, people have the same opinions and thoughts as their neighbors. This would result in a setting like that of The Giver's. With no different thoughts, citizens of such a population would eventually grow blind to events like Release. Alternately, having

Our modern day society has grown much from our “primitive” days, nevertheless we are still far from what we see as a perfect society. In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas’s community has attempted create a perfect society, but in reality has constructed a perilous and frightening place. Although these two societies may be pretty distinctive, they are actually still more similar than what meets the eye. If you begin to dig deeper you will find that factors like families, jobs, and laws can all be put into a perspective that evaluates both of their similarities and differences.

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.