Argumentative Essay On The Giver

    The story in The Giver by Lois Lowry takes place in a community that is not normal. People cannot see color, it is an offense for somebody to touch others, and the community assigns people jobs and children. This unnamed community shown through Jonas’ eye, the main character in this novel, is a perfect society. There is no war, crime, and hunger. Most readers might take it for granted that the community in The Giver differs from the real society. However, there are several affinities between the society in present day and that in this fiction: estrangement of elderly people, suffering of surrogate mothers, and wanting of euthanasia.

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?

To most kids in our society, the changes in Jonas’s world would be difficult to accept because we in America value our freedom to choose and to voice our desires. Did the creator’s of Jonas’s community truly improve society as we know it today?

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

Many thanks to all those who have participated in today’s debate. It is a question worth asking. It is a question that deserves answers. Should the government be deciding our families? In effect, running our lives? We, the opposition team say, firmly, no. They should not. Even in the world of The Giver, in the supposed utopia of the Community, it is clear that families should not be decided and designed by the government.

This symbolises how Jonas is finally separating from the caged community and is branching out by wanting to be able to choose something for once. The community has always engrained the idea of needing

Have you ever imagined a community where there is no color, no emotions, no individuality, the government make decisions for you and everything is the same? That what it's in Jonas' community when they started sameness, there no color, everything was the same and citizens of the community had no rights, an exemplification of having rights in the community is , everyone in the community cannot choose their spouse. As a result, sameness, what Utopian society Jonas lives in is based on, has no real benefits to the community because there are no emotions, no individuality and no choices.

‘We might make wrong choices’” (98). Jonas is starting to catch on to the fact that there was once a world where you could choose whatever you wanted and was possible, that makes him want to be able to choose but he cant and has to live with that. I would not want to live without choices, it would drive me

In The Giver written by Lois Lowry, the community chooses to not have weapons and is safe. They protect many lives. Jonas starts talking about Caleb, a four who died by a river, and he says, “Loss of a child was very, very rare” (Lowry 44). By doing this, their community is being very safe and protective.

The Giver is it a utopia or not? A community that has solved hunger, poverty, and weather , how could it not? The Giver by Lois Lowry makes you wonder this while reading it. The book is about a boy named Jonas who is chosen to become the new Receiver of memory.

Wondrous poet Francesco Petrarch stated "Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety is the cure". Lois Lowry conveyed a more significant, powerful warning about the future in the film version of 'The Giver', due to its representation of knowledge of the past, significance of emotion and, deception of government confinement. A healthy vision of the future is not possible without any accurate knowledge of the past. In the film Jonas states "Without memories it's all meaningless."

I believe that it’s alright to wrong choices because making a different choice besides the right choice doesn’t mean it’s the end of the world, it only means that someone wants to pick what they think is right and if it’s wrong then they will learn from their mistakes so they could move on. Another reason why I wouldn’t want to live in Jonas’s community is due to the endless amount of rules that are necessary to be of what is a perfect community. A similar experience I had was before I had surgery and had to stay at a house that had so many rules my family was required to follow. Having a bunch of rules was strange and made me feel not at home because our house just gone with the flow in terms of rules compared to this house that we were staying at. On page 3, a Pilot-In-Training turns in the wrong direction and tries to turn back without getting caught. Unfortunately, it was already too late before they could avoid the loudspeakers announcing, “Needless to say, he will be released,” to everyone in Jonas’s community. Along with a mountain of rules, the penalties for breaking them are absolutely terrifying. I find this statement completely ridiculous because if someone accidently causes a

It’s the life they live. The one that was created for them.” Jonas, on the other hand, believes that there is a different lifestyle. One that's full of life and joy. The key term can be identified as the Importance of Identity.

Have you ever imagined our world having no emotions and feelings? Are you willing to live in a community without joy, tears, triumphs, failures, hatred, and love? In the motion picture "The Giver," a community was reorganized after a tragedy occurred on Earth. Memories of the past, including emotions, were all erased.

In the dystopian novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry, the story takes place in the future. The setting of the novel revolves around sameness. Same weather, same houses, same furniture, and even the same, flat landscape. There are no colors or animals, other than fish, in the small community. The government is strictly controlled by the Elders. They make decisions and control every aspect of the society, limiting emotions and choices. In The Giver, the setting and government creates sameness. There is no passion, excitement, or good or bad. This promotes a predictable, regulated, and calm society where individuality and diversity does not exist. Individuality and diversity are necessities because they add meaning to life.