Could The Giver Happen In Real Life?

In the book The Giver, by Lois Lowry, everyone who Jonas knows lives in the community, and nowhere else. The community is an organized society with brainwashed people. Virtually all of the people that live in the community know nothing about the past or anything else, beside the rules and the occupations in the community that they have been following for generations. Only the Giver and the Receiver of Memory know of the past and emotions and the secrets. Jonas is the Receiver in Training, and he acquires these memories and emotions from the Give. These memories are the memories that the people in the community don’t have, the memories that have been rid of and kept in the Receiver of Memory for generations. The Giver also reveals that the

In the book, The Giver ,Lois Lowry conveyed the idea that memory is connected to humanity by showing the reader that without memories people’s lives would be meaningless, dull, and boring due to their inability to change and be individuals. A few weeks after Jonas becomes the new Receiver, he and the Giver are in the Annex when the Giver decides to tell Jonas about the true importance of memory and that without memory people live dull, boring lives due to their lack of ability to be individuals. The Giver explains to Jonas about how people need memories because that is what makes them human, “It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless” (105). Humans can’t feel emotions and value life if they don’t remember

If the citizens in the community were to hold their own memories, it would make The Giver and Jonas receive less stress. They would not have to worry about keeping the pain, joy, melancholy, memories that they get to experience each day a secret. The Giver and Jonas would be able to share what they learn and they would be able to teach others as well. “ The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” (p.193). The Giver and Jonas would not be the only ones who get to see color and feel love and emotions. They would be able to talk to people about what they discovered or what had happened in their memories. The Giver and Jonas would not be alone.

The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a dystopian narrative about a boy who lives in a “utopia” where there is order and, everything is controlled. He alone must contain memories of the past. Unfortunately, many of these memories are traumatic and disturbing. Jonas can do nothing beyond withstanding the pain. Because that is how it had always been in the community. As often paraphrased by the Giver, who is the one giving Jonas the memories, "And back and back and back.”(62) This quote shows how there is nothing that The Giver or Jonas can do apart from accept tradition.

Memories can be very valuable. Whatever happens, the memories will never be forgotten. “Memories are forever.” - The Giver. In this science fiction novel, Giver, Lois Lowry demonstrates that even though Jonas world was perfect, he knew something was missing. Everyone in the story was polite to Jonas. Once the Giver gave him lots of memories of love, happiness, and kindness, he knew how to bring back memories to the people. In the beginning of Giver, Jonas had a sickening feeling that something terrible is gonna happen. This perspective changed Jonas during the novel. The message of the novel, The Giver, is memories can bring you back to the old days. Memories can be unique in different types of ways.

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.

In The Giver, they get their memories erased. They erase their memories from things like snow, hills, and color. The memory of color (red) The Giver claims “you’re beginning to see the color red” (94). The only reason Jonas is able to see red is because he receives the memories because he is the Receiver of Memories; however, no one else gets those memories which make it a dystopian society.

The book The Giver had many significant meanings and symbols that make a person evaluate how precious life really is. One would like to erase a particularly unpleasant memory, but if one could accomplish that then life would have no meaning. If a person only had pleasant memories and did not know what an unpleasant situation feels like, it would be living with no significance. Like in the book, The Giver, people live in an isolated community with no choices, no pain or true happiness. The protagonist, Jonas, becomes the receiver and realizes that there is more Elsewhere, and does not understand how the community can live with no true feelings. Memories are extremely significant in an individual’s life because it gives a person feeling and emotions of happiness, excitement, fear, and many other mindsets that will allow a person to know who they really are deep inside. The community in The Giver does not have true emotions and feelings; furthermore, their life is precisely robotic where people are not aware of many important things in life. In The Giver, Lois Lowry designs a vague setting in a community of people that have no pain or feelings to make a statement that life today would be boring and with no meaning without memories; in addition, Lowry contains many symbols in the book to show why memories are important in a person 's life.

Throughout the movie, it’s obvious that memories are a soul theme. First off, the memories of the people are removed and erased. Memories of war, love, music, excitement, sadness, and the happiness are all removed. There are only two memory fulfilled people, the Giver, who gives the memories to the chosen one, and, the only other person with memories who is also the main character, Jonas. Memories are a sacred and important aspect of life. The loss of memories is a very extreme adversity. The deletion of memories is also used as a controlling agent. The government can use this memory loss to control its people and put false information into their minds. The Giver’s society removed memories to eliminate pain from every person’s life. Today, memories are not erased by the government, but by a disease, Alzheimer's or another form of dementia. These diseases change a person. People with memory loss have no grasp of pain, physical or emotional. It is as if the person has never felt pain. As known already the Giver removes memories, which also puts a censorship over everyone. Without the ability of remembering how they felt towards an certain subject, they can't put forth their opinion or thoughts. Along with that words are largely censored, a example of words that are censored are words that have emotion to them. The word love is forbidden to say since it has emotion to it. Also inappropriate words are restricted to be said, to keep unintentional lies to be said. Besides words being censored, knowledge and info are controlled too. In reality we have multiple ways of receiving info or knowledge without it being handled by the government. In the giver the only way you receive any info at all is coming straight from the government. Who are also

Some people have effects when it comes to memories, according to “The Giver” by Lois Lowry, the story talks about a boy who lives in a community where everything is perfect. But Jonas doesn’t like the way his community works. So he tries to go Elsewhere to change the people in his utopia. On the other hand, we have “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson talks about a community that does a tradition every year where they pick a ticket from the lottery. Both “The Giver” and “The Lottery” have to do with having good and bad memories and how they affect our lives.

In the community, many memories are made and remembered, but that was a long time ago. Now, they store most of the memories away from the citizen’s reach. There are many reasons why the memories that are stored in the Giver’s mind is away from the citizens, but it will always remain that way forever. The Giver’s memories is isolated from the people in the community because it could cause them physical pain if they hear such disastrous memories and memories that are very painful, physically and mentally.

In the story 1,000 Year-Old-Ghost by Laura Chow Reere, she shows how the removal of bad memories from the consciusness can have a negative result, because event thoughh there are potential memories, they are important in one’s life to live. In the story the character, Katie is teach by her grandma to pickle her memories, so she can erase them from her memories. Her gradma, also been doing the same thing and has pickle many memories that hurt her like the ones from her husband which die. So katies mom tells both her daughter and mom: “ I know Popo think this is the best, but memories are important even when they are painful, Im concerned about you,”she said. “Both of you.”

In the novel, The Giver written by Lois Lowry, Jonas, The Receiver, carries the memories of the world. Jonas quickly realizes that holding the memories is quite the burden to bead. People in the community should be able to own their own memories because the community would become a better place, Jonas and The Giver would have less stress, and citizens would become stronger.

Imagine living in a world where you have no memories of pain, love, happiness, family, color, etc. Wouldn’t that be horrible? In the novel The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas, the protagonist in the story, is chosen to be the new receiver who possesses the memories that The Giver grants to him. Jonas is required to experience things that our society today is used to and he can’t tell anybody about anything that transpires in his training. Jonas proves that he is a dynamic character as his point of view of the society changes as he finds out secrets about what the community is really hiding and makes the all important decision to try and change it all...but can he succeed?

Lois Lowry’s “The Giver” takes place in the future in a utopia, a so called “perfect place” isolated in the middle of nowhere. There is no poverty, sickness, war in this place. But everything isn’t as it seems in this place. The main protagonist in this story is a boy named Jonas. Jonas lives with his mom and dad and a younger sister named lily. Jonas’s mother has a very important job in the department of justice. As the story progresses the entire domineer of the book changes, suddenly things aren’t as they seem. At a meeting Jonas finds out that he has been selected to become one of the next to receive their memory back, which is one of the highest positions. For nobody had any recollection of what was there before the establishment in the