Brief Summary Essay's 'The Giver'

The Community is a horrible place compared to our country. Read more to find out why. A utopia is a world or place that is perfect in every way, and a dystopia is a world or place that has major flaws and is horrible. (The Giver) is a dystopian society and that is because they kill the smallest of any one twin, also they have drugs that keep them from hitting puberty. The Community in (the Giver) and our society are similar and different because parts of the world and the Community have people that make decisions in society, and MOST of the nations do not kill twins like the Community does.

"All knowledge hurts." — Cassandra Clare (City of Bones, The Mortal Instruments, #1) Knowledge may hurt, if the truth is discovered, but the knowledge and truth can give wisdom among other traits, but in the novel, The Giver wisdom gives honor. Knowledge can also change the way one may feel towards something. The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a novel which portrays the notion that knowledge can change someone's opinion. Knowledge may change your likes, dislikes, and fears.

The village comes closest to being a utopian society. In the village, people called “Elders” decide to leave the modern world in exchange for a simpler lifestyle resembling the lives of people living in the 19th century. The Elders of the community all decided to leave the modern world because they were all dealing with grief that was caused by a violent crime.The Elders believe that if they leave the modern world and begin a new life resembling 19th century lifestyle, their problems will go away. They have no electricity, modern technology or medicine, they wore old-style clothing, and they talked very proper. In order to keep their citizens from crossing through the forest and going back into the modern world, the Elders tell them that these creatures lurk in the woods that will kill them if they go in there. They call the creatures “Those We Don’t Speak Of.” The Elders also tell their citizens that the color red attracts the creatures and the color yellow will keep you safe from them. In Sameness, the name of the society in the book The Giver, a group of people, also called Elders, pick out and

In the story, Jonas and the giver are the only people who have memories and secrets of the community. That is why the receiver is “Greatly honored” (85). People who do not know such secrets are only to live obeying a lot of rules. They may not know the meaning of their lives. According to the book, Jonas said “without the memories, it’s all meaningless” (133). Also, when Jonas asked “Why do you and I have to hold these memories” (139), the giver answered “It gives us wisdom” (140). We can widen our horizons by wisdom. Also, we need wisdom to choose and to be free. In addition, memories are the sources of feelings, which are the third factor of happiness, as we can see in this sentence, “he thought that the feelings came also from the memories” (164) or “they could not feel it back , without the memories” (170). Understanding the world we live in is to understand ourselves and relationships between us and the world, and it contribute to form our own

The novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is an everlasting story that shows the importance of individuality. This novel is about a young boy named Jonas who was elected as the Receiver of Memories, a person who is given the memories from the world that existed before their current society, Sameness. In this society there is no individualism. People can not choose who to marry, or what they want to do for a living. Over time Jonas becomes more and more wise, and realizes that the supposedly perfect community actually has some very dark and negative aspects. The author, Lois Lowry is a 76-year-old writer who focuses her writing on helping struggling teenagers become individuals. Lowry had a very tragic childhood. After both of her parents were

In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas lives in what he thought was a perfect world where no one makes their own choices and is assigned their job, family, and spouse. The community hates uniqueness and will go to extreme measures to make sure everyone is the same. To achieve this Sameness, emotions, color, and memories of the past have ceased to exist from their world, unless you are the Receiver. Jonas becomes the Receiver, who is given memories of the past from The Giver to help them gain knowledge. With this newfound wisdom, Jonas learns the power of memories through the joyful memories he receives, through the painful memories he receives, and through learning the truth about his community.

In The Giver, Lois Lowry utilizes tone, shift, and imagery to depict the giver’s self-destruction and suffering for the greater good of the community. The elders dismiss his advice as a feeble grab for power because they lack the experience they need to recognize the bleak future they will face without changing their actions. The complacency they show when confronted with this dismal truth only furthers the givers need to release the memories to Jonas who can in turn release them to the community.

     This book is about a boy names Jonas. Jonas lives in a futuristic society where there is no pain, fear, war, and hatred. There is also no prejudice, since everyone looks and acts basically the same, there is very little competition. They have also eliminated choice.

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

Jonas begins “The Giver” feeling uneasy about the upcoming ceremony of twelve, where he will receive the assignment that determines his vocation for the rest of his working life. That night, at the nightly sharing of feelings, after his sister, father, and mother discuss their emotions, his parents comfort him about his worries. They remind him that his life will change after the ceremony, but they reassure him that the committee of elders has been watching him closely and will give him an appropriate assignment.

The current Receiver of Memory, or The Giver, transmits the memories of the world to Jonas that only he possesses. These memories are given to Jonas so when The Giver is gone Jonas has all of the knowledge to advise and counsel the Committee of Elders whenever an unfamiliar problem presents itself. As Jonas starts to receive memories, he realizes there are many things the community has not experienced. He learns about color, nature, beauty, love, and family. However, he is also exposed to painful memories of loneliness, loss, war, poverty, and death. Many aspects of community life now seem frustrating and depressing to Jonas. He understands that the community was just trying to preserve their society as he said himself, “We really have to protect people from the wrong choices”, yet he sees how negative it is in the fact that it deadens the richness of life (99). This realization sparked a rebellion inside of Jonas and he wanted his community to be able to acquire memories, gain freedoms and

‘The giver’ by Lois Lowry is a fiction novel based on a boy named Jonas who lives in community where there is no pain, no fear and all the people who live in there are forced to follow very strict rules that prevent them from ever being harmed or being fearful of things that appear in the everyday life of a regular person in today’s society. Jonas is nervous leading up the ceremony of twelve in which him and all the other twelve-year-old in his community are given their assignments that they will do for the rest of their lives. Jonas is unsure of what his assignment will be unlike most of the other children of his age, as he spent his community hours in various places to various different tasks, since the other children completed their hours

The Giver by Lois Lowry is young adult fiction. The book is about a boy named Jonas who lives in a utopian society. He receives the job to become the Receiver. Along the way, he learns, experiences, and understands life in the past. Jonas learns the truth and soon comes to realizes what life is really like.

Scientific research has shown that the human brain starts to remember things from the womb twenty weeks after conception. In the giver, memories tend to be a main topic in terms of subject importance.

Imagine a world without love or color. Jonas the protagonist in The Giver he ran away and left comparing his community to our society. In our society we aloud to love whoever we want and we free to love. In jonas society love is a word that is prohibited no longer said for example abandoned no longer mentioned because they don't know what it means.