Effects Of Society In The Giver

Without memory, the daily life of people in Jonas’s community is extremely different from the life of a person in a normal world. For example, unlike this world, death is not tragic because life in this community is not really experienced and embraced. Also, what would be some of most cherished moments in a normal person’s life such as birth, new career, marriage, graduation, and birthdays are just treated as if they were absolutely nothing at all. They are just normal everyday activities in Jonas’s world.

When Jonas is chosen to take the role of Receiver of Memories, he starts to learn how life

When The Giver trained Jonas, he first gave him a happy memory. The memory riding a sled in the snow. But almost right after that, Jonas is given the memory of getting a sunburn. It is not that bad, but then he got the memory of breaking bones, then war, then starvation. After

During his training, Jonas starts to feel pain, which is something that the rest of his community has never felt before. He understands that this is what the community is trying to protect them from. Jonas starts to feel separate and more informed than the rest. On page 110 it reads “They have never known pain he thought. The realization made him feel desperately lonely, and he rubbed his throbbing leg”. Realizing he would never be able to share his experiences and relate to the other twelves and his family makes him feel very isolated from the rest of the community. He also feels like everyone else would benefit from having the memories so they could experience feelings and being able to choose and after sharing this with The Giver, they

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

Another quote show Jonas feeling that say,” Jonas didn’t want the honor, he didn’t want the pain. He wanted his childhood back”(121). I believe that this quote shows the reader that Jonas never wanted to be the Receiver of Memory. Jonas never wanted to experience the moments and

He goes through intense difficulty, but the memories get him through it. He then gets to the top of a hill and there is a sled waiting for him. He sees houses and hears music. In John 3:16 it says “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” God sent his son to a sinful and wicked world for people that betrayed him and mocked him. Jonas feels for those in his community and truly has compassion on these people. The people don’t know what true love and compassion is. They do the same routine every day. When Jonas received the memories, he experienced feelings that he never had before. When he was in the memory of Christmas, he felt like he could feel the love in the room. Jonas’s community is so structured and orderly, that they have no idea what love in a family is.

To me this shows that no matter how painful, scarring, and threatening these memories may be you still have to experience and enjoy them, or at least learn something from them. I believe that when you neglect people of their memories and authentic emotions they aren’t really living. They are just existing, and that’s not fair to them. You could argue that it’s better for Jonas to carry and endure all memories because then he would be the only one suffering. I disagree with this argument because once Jonas starts receiving memories he realizes that he doesn’t want to live in a place where everybody is exactly the same and being different is considered shameful.

All of the Receiver of memories must realize if the some how get lost, or release, or killed, the memories go to the people and they have to suffer. So maybe Jonas’s community looks all perfect and the same on the outside but actually, some people are more important, or suffer more pain. The people who suffer the pain have no choice but to continue their job and to hide every feeling of pain from their community. So

Furthermore, the book includes many elusive lessons and forms of symbolism that are able to be applied in real life. For example, one of the first memories that Jonas receives is a sled ride. The sled is the color red, which symbolizes the newly rich and vivid feelings and experiences that Jonas goes through. The sled ride is exhilarating, yet painful as he falls hard in a different sled ride memory. This refers to the difference between pain and pleasure that we all experience in

The book also talks about how different memories can change someone. Jonas reacted strongly when he realised how much he would prefer a life where he could make his own choices, using past memories and experiences to make the right decisions. Another situation involving Jonas was when the Giver had transmitted a memory of love to Jonas. He went back home and ask his parents ‘‘Do you love me?’’ (Lowry 162). His

The memories begin to alter Jonas’s perspective and change his life. Lowry’s novel shows us that the memories we have experienced in the past have a direct impact on our future choices. One time we see where memories affect choices is when Jonas runs away with his younger brother Gabriel because the next morning Jonas’s dad was going to kill Gabriel.

These aren't quite recently any old individual recollections; rather, the old man is passing on to Jonas every one of the recollections of mankind, going route back. The recollections are from before their group was built up, back when there was shading and sex and love and music and feelings and slopes and snow and daylight, which are all remarkably missing from Jonas' reality. The main memory he gets is that of sledding down a slope in the snow. While Jonas gets the chance to encounter loads of fun things like Christmas and birthday parties, he likewise needs to manage the awful recollections, similar to sunburn, misfortune, demise, and

¨We know that they once felt things like pride, and sorrow, and - and love¨ (Lowry 154). All of these feelings are critical for human life. It means that everyone can experience the different emotions that will help people grow and understand more as a real person in Jonas’ community. As well as having the feelings of memories, meaning how they make people feel looking back on them as well as knowledge by experiencing them. Whether it's embarrassing, painful, happy, or sad the feelings of memory is one of the most important parts for a person's life.

Jonas experiences memories of pain and memories of happiness. He begins to experience feelings. He realizes that the rest of the town has no idea what pain feels like because they don’t have these memories. Jonas realizes this when he sees his dad kill a newborn child. He and the Giver make a plan. The plan consists of Jonas going to a place called elsewhere so then all of his memories will be released on the town in order for them to remember. He was supposed to meet The Giver at the Annex, but the plans change when Gabe is supposed to be killed. Jonas takes Gabe and goes on a very long journey, which ends on a hill covered in snow.