Emotions In The Giver By Lois Lowry

This novel is about a community where each person is the same. Everybody in this community go by certain rules and if they do not follow those rules they are punished. Everyone is to act the same in this book. Every person is assigned a job when they become a twelve and they are to work at the job until they go to the house of the old. This book is explained by Lois Lowry the author is explaining a whole different world than ours in this world he describes a person called the giver who is the receiver who hands off the job to Jonas one of the main characters who asks the receiver about all his memories and about what his job will be like. Jones had become the receiver. the giver gives him training and tells him what memories were like, the giver tells him why were like giver tells him why were like.

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

A book named The Giver by Lois Lowry published in 1993 teaches many life lessons that everyone needs to learn in some point in their life. In this novel it is about a twelve year old boy named Jonas who realizes his perfect society isn’t so perfect. When he was picked for the New Receiver of Memories he learned things that were hidden from the people of the community. The more Jonas learns about the past the more he wants to change how the community sees the world. In The Giver, the author uses an image of a utopia, the people in the community, and The Giver to develop the theme that emotions are needed in life.

Newberry Medalist, Lois Lowry, reflects her fascination with the stages of life into her many novels that depict young adults coping with the challenges that come with growing up. And like many recognized authors Lowry has been asked again and again, “Where did you get this idea?” For each novel written by Lowry the inspiration arises from diverse occasions from her life. In The Giver Lowry explores the new territory of a fantasy realm of society that is free from pain, disorder, and overpopulation; but in a world without love, color, and memories the perfect society turns to dystopia. (Novels for Students) As an explanation for the origins of The Giver Lois Lowry, in her Newberry Medal acceptance speech, compares her inspiration for the novel to the river Jonas looks into, seeing the world differently for the first time. Her ideas started as a mere spring, trickling in from a glacier; and each of the tributaries came from memories, coming together to make the flowing current of the river. (Lowry)

The Giver by Lois Lowry tells us that you should always do the right thing at any cost. Jonas is a twelve year old boy living in a seemingly perfect society. He is worried about what assignment, or job he will be chosen for. During the ceremony of twelve, Jonas is skipped over, but in a twist of events, he gets the most important job of all; the Reciever of Memory. During the training, Jonas watches a video of his father releasing a child, which is murder. Angry and shocked, Jonas, with the help of The Giver, devises a plan to run away to “elsewhere.” Jonas and a newchild, whose life has been threatened, end up going through cold and starvation just to get there, but in the end, it was worth it.

Jonas is a kid when he received his assignment from the Elder, learns most of the truths he thought to be true were false. This is Jonas and his assignment is receiver of memories. He later learned so many trues that is community knows to be false that he gives all his memories away. He leaves his community to find a better life. The secrecy of the elders control and lying to the citizens about their assignments are seen in the Giver‘s job, what release really is, and their being a place beyond Jonas’ little community.

Henry David Thoreau, an American abolitionist once said, “Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.” What Thoreau is claiming is that the people who are following the laws are the ones who are slaves while the individuals who rebel are the ones creating freedom and liberty. With the exercise of disobedience, progress is made in the society which could not have happened without the destruction of order. Disobedience should not be deemed as an act of wrongdoing but a necessity required to push forward.

In my novel The Giver, there are three points that move the story along and makes Jonas develop as a character. One of these points is that the community cannot feel feelings. Another of these points is the release. The last point is that the community is clueless and do not know what they were doing. These points make Jonas stronger and moves the story along.

A perfect world is something all people long for. No war, no hate, and no jaundiced emotions. In fact, there are no true feelings in this world, in all except for Jonas. In the novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas experience of knowing and feeling emotions his district is unaware of isolates him both emotionally and physically.

As I grow older, I often ponder about the big decisions I will have to make sometime in my adult life. I often worry that I might make the wrong choice which I am sure will happen at some point. Having someone make those choices for me would definitely make my life easier in many ways, but after reading The Giver by Lois Lowry my views have changed. The Giver led me to see that in reality a life without decision and choice would lead to a life that could not be lived to the fullest.

In The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas grows up in a community of sameness, but soon later Jonas’s innocence is lost. As the Receiver of Memory, Jonas gets introduced to both pleasure and true pain. First, Jonas gets the memory of warfare and raw pain, which proves to be very painful and nothing Jonas has ever experienced. Next, the Giver gives Jonas the memory of love, which is a totally new concept to Jonas. Lastly, Jonas is shocked at the true meaning and act of release, this makes Jonas want to change the way things are run in the community. Jonas gets these memories as the Receiver of Memory but it soon makes him lose his innocence and see the world as it really is.

Do you think that it’s fair to be given a job even if you don’t like it? The main character Jonas, in The Giver by Lois Lowry, lives in an isolated community where all choices have been eliminated. One choice in Jonas’s community that has been eliminated is a person’s ability to choose their own career. Jonas was picked to be the Receiver of Memory, which is an important position in the community. Jonas’s assignment as the Receiver of Memory is an important position within the community, yet Jonas feels his job is more of a punishment than an honor.

A dystopian society is one that is distinguished by characteristics such as the government, environment, or dehumanization in extreme conditions. This is the opposite of a utopia, which is supposedly perfect, yet quixotic. Dystopian and utopian societies portrayed in literature usually have controlling governments and limits on freedom. In The Giver by Lois Lowry, the limitation of freedom comes in the form of having no memories. The people living in the community do not remember anything from the past.

A world without memories of suffering, disease, or hardships, but also color, emotions, and freedom is hard to imagine. However, Jonas lived in a community like this. People thought with those things eliminated life is simple and perfect. Jonas becomes the Receiver and acquires the memories from the past of war and death but also love and joy. He learns the truth about his community and realizes it isn’t so perfect after all.

In the novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry, the author makes it clear through the main character Jonas that freedom and safety need to find an equal balance. Lowry shows the importance of deep emotions and family through Jonas. Jonas becomes the new receiver of memory and learns about the past. He also learned about the way it was when people knew what love was. Jonas’ father releases newborn children because they don’t weight the correct amount of weight or they don’t sleep well through the night. Release is a nice way of saying kill; the people of the community don’t know what kill means. They don’t have the freedom to expand their vocabulary. Lois Lowry makes it clear that safety has a negative side and you need that you need freedom to