Character Analysis Of Quotes From 'The Giver'

A New Start A “The Giver” Fanfiction ©️ Lois Lowry- Owner of all rights to original book. No profit will be made from this work Using his final strength and a special knowledge that was deep inside him, Jonas found the sled that was waiting for them at the top of the hill. Numbly his hand fumbled for the rope. He settled himself on the sled and hugged Gabe close.

My first reason on why I think the giver is a dystopia because they don’t get to choose their jobs. They have ceremony every year and when you turn twelve they get assigned a job. People will get assigned a job that they might not like, but there is a chance that they could get a job they like. For example on page 60“ in a firm, commanding voice she announced, ‘Jonas has been selected to be our next Receiver Of Memory”. Jonas was nervous at first about his job because the chief elder has described his job as painful and that the pain was “ indescribable.” Later he then just wants to be a regular child instead of being the Reciever.

The world is not all sunshine and lollipops. Jonas true change to being in the initiating stage was when he started gaining the memories of color on page 97. he talked about how he had no choice in the matter of anything.

Lord, Elyse. "Overview of The Giver." Novels for Students. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Literature Resource Center. Web. 27 Mar. 2016. Elyse Lord is one of the many critics who describe “The Giver” as terrifying but offering “hope and a constructive view” of the Utopian world in the book. She explains that other critics praise the book with many awards such as the Newberry Medal. Lord goes on to reason that the story is favored by different readers for its complexity, symbolism, metaphors, ambiguous ending, and can be compared similarly to classic science fiction like “Brave New World” and “Fahrenheit 451.” Contradicting this statement, Lord says that ‘librarians’, ‘educators’, and ‘students’ debate “The Giver” to be censored from public schools around the world because of its graphic scenes and ideas of infanticide and euthanasia. This includes the time Jonas witnessed his father murder a baby and throw it down a trash chute in cold blood. This is ironical compared to the language, emotion, and behaviors being censored in Jonas’s ‘Utopian’ society. Lord argues this through Anna Cerbasi of Port Saint Lucie, Florida, who asked the school board to remove a book that was about a family murdering their child for crying at night and called the book inappropriate for the sixth grade. Lord raises the question of who is to “decide which books are appropriate for which children,” and argues that it cannot be answered with not one but the many books integrated in school curricula that compose

In Lois Lowry’s “The Giver,” Jonas chose to leave safety of his home and venture out for freedom, but his courage was sadly not rewarded as he unfortunately didn't make it to Elsewhere. The author clearly states that, “Jonas felt himself losing consciousness and with his whole being willed himself to stay upright...” The Author goes even as far to say, “He forced his eyes open as they went downward, downward, sliding, and all at once he could see lights.” The first quote clearly shows that Jonas was drifting towards death. Then he seems to see lights flash on as he passes on to another place.

In the novel The Giver, the people in the community believe that precision of language is a vital component of life. In fact, language is often distorted and twisted. They distort language as a way to discretely and cleverly control the community. The community proposes different terms to conceal the real meaning and what is actually happening. Through the use of language, the elders make disturbing and mournful situations seem less meaningful in order to make life seem more normal.

From Jonas’ point of view, bravery is defined as the ability to volunteer to do something in order to help the life/lives of someone or a group of people. He believes that bravery is sacrificing your life in order to save others. For example, on page 118, it states, “I’ll come back tomorrow, sir,’ he said quickly. Then he hesitated. ‘Unless, maybe there’s something I can do to help.’ The Giver looked up at him, his face contorted with suffering. ‘Please,’ he gasped, ‘take some of the pain.’.......The hands came, and the pain came with them and through them. Jonas braced himself and entered the memory which was torturing The Giver.” This quote proves how to Jonas, bravery and courage is when you unexpectedly volunteer to do something painful or dangerous in order to reduce the pain and danger of someone else. In this quote, Jonas volunteered to take some of The Giver’s burden away from him. Here, he was being brave. According to page 143, it also states, “And he, Jonas, would never have done it-never have requested release, no matter how difficult

In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry there is an example of words of the wiser that shows the theme of love and the mood of joy of having family alongside you. This can be seen in two examples in The Giver.

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.

Ponder this thought…. A world where jobs are assigned to people, there are no colors, there is no weather, and rules after rules after rules. It would be impossible to live in a place like this. I would not want to live in the society from The Giver. The Giver society is a tough place to live, therefore I would not want to. In this society, people don’t have the freedom of choice, they don’t have normal, everyday objects, and there is extremely strict rules. Overall, this society is not the place for me.

In The Giver their life is different from our life. The book and the movie are similar because the community takes the morning medication for their stirrings. The community also don't see color. The book and the movie are different because Asher is a drone pilot. It includes Jonas kissing Fiona. There is a variety of diffrences and similarities between the movie and the book “ The Giver ”.

I would not want to live in the society from The Giver. A: There are many verbal rules you are constantly reminded about. ””I accept your apology” She replied automatically” (Lowry 85).

The book The Giver by Lois Lowry takes place in a very futuristic society where there's no pain, war, concern or hate. Their society has eliminated memory all at once. Jonas, the eleven year old protagonist of the book, he is intelligent and sensitive. He has weird powers of perception that he does not perceive. Jonas is chosen to be the new receiver of memory once he turns twelve. Even before Jonas starts his coaching to become the receiver, he's thoughtful and has abundant concern for his family and friends. When he begins his coaching, Jonas’s universe becomes more advanced. His new awareness of lovely colors, robust emotions, and suffering makes him terribly addicted to the globe around him and also the happiness of individuals he loves. Jonas experiences emotional growth as a result of the memories he receives from the Giver, however that very same emotional growth makes him feel anxious and angry.

In the futuristic novel, The Giver by Louis Lowry, many of our choices are taken away, leaving us with “Sameness” in which everyone and everything has no color and no choice, everyone is created to be “perfect.” Jonas a young boy is chosen as “The Receiver” in which he learns about leadership and commitment. He also has to make a number of choices to be considered a good leader. In the following paragraphs we will be exploring the things mentioned and comparing and contrasting how the right and wrong choice is determined in our society and in the novel The Giver.

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.