Analysis Of The Giver By Lois Lowry

Jonas was given the memories of things people don't want to know and wish didn't exist. He was given the memories of pain, of fighting, and of fear. “But you will be faced, now, with pain of imagnitude that none of us should comprehend, because it is beyond our experience. The receiver himself is not able to describe it, only to remind us of what we will face, and how to manage; you will need immense courage. We cannot prepare you for that"(79). In the beginning Jonas thought he had an understanding of the word frightened, and the feeling that comes with it. Yet, throughout the book, Jonas experiences the true meaning of what fear entails. "Frightened meant that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen"(1). This quote gives the impression of Jonas's opinion of fear. It resembles how this feeling can consume our every thought and its' overall, overwhelming

“’Memories are forever”’ (Lowry). People make new memories every day without even realizing it. Some good some bad, that’s just the way of life, but in The Giver nobody knows what happened before them. People barley remember what their childhood was like, they don’t understand the importance of memory and that memories are forever. Aspects of life, rules, and prosperities between our world and Jonas’ world are very different yet have some similarities. Things that are crucial to the characters in The Giver are not as meaningful to the people in our world.

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.

Jonas discovers what is really beyond his community, beyond all the rules and policies they have to follow; he decides to leave and give all of his memories to the rest of the community so they would know about what they have not seen or experienced before. Jonas discovers that the community has decided too many things for everyone. He realizes Sameness is not right, that it cannot last any longer. He thinks of all the what-ifs. What if the Elders choose a wrong spouse? What if the Elders choose the wrong job for someone?

The setting of The Giver takes place in a fictional community known as the “Sameness”. Life here is supposed to be "perfect" because there is no pain or suffering. They don’t have to take

It is very boring. Everyone wears the same clothes, people can't choose their own job, or even their own family. “All of it was new to him. After life of sameness and predictability, he was awed by the surprises that lay beyond each curve on the road.” (pg. 216) This demonstrates how surprised Jonas was when he saw places where not everything in society was the same and restricted. For once he wasn't locked up in a cage with everything being the same. It was probably great to see real life for the first time. It seems similar, or even more eye-opening, to how people would react if they had been in jail for 60 years and had just gotten released. It shows how much of a dystopia this community is when Jonas sees life from a different

The dystopian novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a boy called Jonas becoming the new Receiver-of-Memories. Throughout the novel, the protagonist, Jonas matures as knowledge is gained, and begins to understand the deepest, and darkest secrets of the community he lives in that is seemly 'perfect'. The author has successfully analysed a variety of social issues present in today's modern world in the novel. Some issues implied are: lack of individuality which allows for easy control, the abandonment of emotions and the importance of memories.

From beginning to the end of the novel, Jonas proves he is a serious person. Lowry writes, “He didn't often do volunteer ours with his friend because Asher frequently fooled around and made serious work a little difficult.” (Lowry, 26) Here Jonas does not want to participate in work that requires to be mature with Asher. This is important because it shows that Jonas is very focused and can't

President Ronald Reagan once said that,”Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in our bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected and passed down for them to do the same.” President Reagan would have been miserable living in the world as it is portrayed in “The Giver” by Lois Lowry. In the book there has been a utopian community built for people so that they have no freedom and no individual thoughts. Everyone is exactly the same. Everyone takes a daily pill which eliminates any memories, pain or stress. The protagonist named Jonas is chosen to receive all the worlds memories and figures out that everyone he loves has no feelings or independence. He decides to risk everything

In the novel, The Giver, Lois Lowry also presented that Jonas’ ability to see color conjointly contributed to the theme in the novel, which was the importance of color, by proving that since Jonas can see color he can see the attractiveness in life. For example, in the novel, it indicates, “There would be a glimpse of green ----- the landscaped lawn around the Central Plaza; a bush on the river bank. The bright trucked in from the agricultural fields beyond the community boundary ------ seen in an instant, flash of brilliant color, but gone again, returning to their flat and hue less shade.” This explains what beauty Jonas sees in most of his daily life, and to him he would prefer those colors that he sees for a brief moment than the

Experiences humans have had in the past affect the choices they make. What if our memories never affected our future choices? In The Giver, Lois Lowry shows us a society where all memory of the past has been taken away in order to create peace and order. The community assigns one person to hold all the memories of the past. In The Giver, things begin to change when Jonas receives his first memory.

The community is stripped of individuality, freedom, and choice, things we need to live and things one cannot simply take away, because that is not equality. In the novel, Jonas eventually gets fed up with the sameness and intrigued by what he sees in the memories Jonas says, “‘What if we could hold things up that are bright red and bright yellow, and choose instead of sameness?’”(98) As Jonas receives more and more memories, it begins to feel real to him, receiving the memories is a guilty pleasure for Jonas. As he wakes up to reality he wants to experience freedom the way he does in the memories.

Jonas is considered to be the more perceptive and intelligent than his peer, additionally he enjoys the freedom of going to a variety of different volunteer center, with this we can infer that he enjoys learning and experiencing new things. He is considered to also have “the capacity to see beyond” and that sets him apart from every other twelve-year olds, he has an ability to see color unlike many other citizens who see the world as black and white. Ironically, his qualities of why he was chosen as the receiver of memories actually led him to a path where he must share all of his memories with the citizens of the

If you are given a choice to save a loved one would you? Jonas did. Because Jonas knows what release is so he is able to save Gabe from it. Jonas’ father doesn’t know what release means so he can’t make an informed choice. “We really have to protect people from wrong choices” (pg 99). Jonas is protecting his father. People need knowledge to make informed choices. People may not always make the right choice but they can try to fix their mistakes and they can realize that what they did is wrong and not be ignorant. “He had made the wrong one: the choice to leave. And now he was starving”(pg172). Jonas knew that if he didn’t save Gabe he would die so he only cared about Gabe. Jonas made the decision to leave and now he is facing the consequences. Lowry shows that every decision has an outcome.

Jonas society is a utopian society because everything and everyone is the same. How are people suppose to see the differences in life if they can't see no color. On the other hand if you wanted to pick a color to wear they could not because no one can see color(Lowry 120).we relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with differences.Jonas replied ¨we shouldn't have!¨he