Community In Lois Lowry's The Giver

“Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen” (Lowry 103). Imagine a world with no control over who you marry, what your job is, what you wear, or what you get to eat for every meal. This is what it’s like in The Giver by Lois Lowry. The people live in a community that is severely more controlled than ours. We have the freedom to have a pet, have as many kids as you want, and say what you want. The people in The Giver do not have those freedoms. The people in the community don’t even know what love is. In our world love is each individual’s choice, but not in The Giver. In other words, they don’t get to experience the precious parts of life, such has having a wedding and giving birth to your child. No society is perfect, but citizens of every community have an

    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.

In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, the receivers are the only people who have feelings and memories. The elders are the people who choose what the best is for their people in the community and sometimes they go to the receiver for help on making the right decisions. The people from the community do not see color, or have freedom on making a decision for them. There is no love, feelings, and grandparents. Jonas is assigned to be the next receiver of the community; He was trained by the giver, who transfers memories of the pain and pleasures of life, who also shows him the truth and reality that is hidden to the community. Jonas’s community does not represent the ideal of society because there are no choices or distinctions between men

The result is, as praised by Jonas’ family unit, that the decisions the Elders make are never incorrect or unsuitable. They seem omniscient, and this strengthens their claim to power, their right to make decisions for the whole community as they are excellent at it. As has been shown above, the novel contains various forms of oppression. In order for “people” to express their individuality and humanity, freedom of choice is essential. Dehumanization is observed in The Giver’s society, and life within the communities becomes deformed, manipulated, and far from being a utopia. Infact, due to all the dehumanization, fear, surveillance and inequality shown in this society, it now strongly resembles dystopian one.

What would it feel like living in a world which everyone is same and the life is monotone?In “The Giver”,written by Lois Lowry,there’s a community based on perfection and the citizens who have strict and ethic rules to prevent their community from becoming unethical and unequal.Lowry conveyed her ideas both with in advantages and disadvantages,and the diversity which citizens in the community have lost.

Throughout the novel Giver, Jonas was questioning his society and community. Jonas accepting his society because he's unaware of the emotions of the other people in his community. Jonas starts to question his community when Jonas starts to feel emotions from getting memories. Jonas became to reject his society because he finds out what his community actually is. In the beginning of the novel, Jonas accepts his society's rules but once he starts to feel the memories of the past Jonas questions, and if they purposely took that out for the rest of the community.

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

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.

Imagine living in a society where all emotion is suppressed and all knowledge of the outside world is not available to any person. How would that make a citizen feel? Well, of course they wouldn’t have the correct knowledge to understand how the feeling truly is, but those who are not ignorant would feel a starvation to know more about not only the outside world, but their own history. Within the novel The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, the reader is brought into a society where most emotions and knowledge are suppressed. As well as the fact that it isn’t very encouraged to have individuality.

While they didn’t have to deal with any of these problems and society today couldn’t imagine a life without these key factors to help with their decision making and everyday life, the people in The Giver have never had any of these things so they easily adapt to their way of life. Although living a life without color, or love, or even a real family seems harsh, a life without homeless people; or pain; or hunger introduces a new perspective about a complete different society, this society can be found in The Giver. While reading the novel the protagonist, Jonas, articulated throughout the book his questions he had about his society including “Or what if… they chose their own jobs?” (124) or in his thoughts he thought to himself “He killed it! My father killed it!”

The Giver delivers a motion picture of a dystopian culture that restricts their community from their freedom of choice. The social commentary found within this film can be identified as being having the freedom of choice taken by an authoritarian government and also how emotion takes a toll on many actions. For example, they’re stripped from their right quite subtly, in fact, the communities are unaware that there was once a society in which people chose to do what they did and were not told to do so or appointed. In the film, those whom were coming of age are appointed to certain jobs based on how they behaved in their childhood rather than choosing what they really wanted to be. A few other subtle restrictions include their curfew, what they are, what they wore, their family units, which they’re appointed too, and much more.

The giver is a fictional novel authorised by Louis Lowry dedicated to informing readers about the devastating impact of extreme conformity on a community. As we progress throughout the book we start to realise and learn all these new things about the giver's community, such as creating and trying to maintain a perfect community, that comes beyond our abilities, while the givers society is having a huge impact on the individuality and individual choices on the members of the community. We learn that the inhabitants of the society had a hard time handling all the different memories, in a sudden event. All hints and evidence to these statements above are hidden and presented throughout the book.

Lois Lowry portrays the community in her novel The Giver as a group of people whose choices are made for them. The community is not allowed to make their own choices or decisions. In the text, it states,”The community was so meticulously ordered, the choices so carefully made. ”(Lowry pg.48). If you do not follow the rules or choices that are given for you to follow they will release you or kick you out of the community.

In The Giver by Lois Lowry, the author paints a picture of an imperfect society by the way she describes the community. People in the society are completely clueless about memories, feelings, and colors. The receiver of the community’s memories gains all the knowledge of the past events that have happened, so no one can receive any memories, and thereby have sameness throughout the community. Life for these individuals is easy and controlled. When a person is a part of a community, having memories is a good thing, Experiencing pain is hurtful, and lack of knowledge can be harmful.

Imagine a world that is everything you could wish for; a utopian society. That is what the society in The Giver was thought to be by most. No choices lead to less freedom and more safety, while no feelings lead to a simple lifestyle. No one was truly an individual and was told what to do, at an exact time, in an exact location. In Lowry’s novel, The Giver, limiting choices and feelings caused their society to be a deterioration from our society today because taking away choices causes people to not be able to learn from their mistakes and not having feelings would result in a boring life.