The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the citizens attempted to create utopian society. Jonas a member of the community was Chosen to be a receiver of memory. Jonas started to train and receive memories of the past. He learns about the outside world. Jonas decides to leave the community and return the memories The giver society was just. They got food, protection and there was equality. First, the way no way ever left of anything shows that The Giver society is just. When the children were seven got a new jacket and when they were nine got a bicycle. ( Lowry 40-41) Everyone was treated the same, no matter what they looked like or where they came from. No one was ever left behind even if they are not normal.
Second, the way The Giver society protects
What is The Giver you may ask? The Giver is a 1993 American young adult dystopian novel by Lois Lowry. The Giver takes place in an advanced society which seems to be a utopian but ends up being a dystopian as the story ends. There's a 12-year-old boy named Jonas. Their communities eliminated pain and strife by converting everyone to become so called “equal", they also removed emotional feelings like love. Jonas is selected to become the Receiver of Memory which is the person who stores all the past memories of the time before everyone was equal. There may be times where one must receive the wisdom gained from history to help the community's decision making. Jonas has trouble with concepts of all the new emotions and things introduced to him:
This will then give all of his memories to the community around him. Jonas doesn’t know what is out beyond the community. He decides to do this because even though they get ad memories like pain and war, they are overshadowed by the heartfelt memories of Christmas and sledding. This is just also to take pressure of the Giver, someone he liked and wanted to make the world a better place for because he has been suffering from the painful
The novel The Giver by Lois Lowry illustrates a dystopian society hi lighting the limitations of individuality and suppression of cultural memory in order to prevent any potential destruction that warrants deviation from the totalitarian state of mind with the society depends on. The dependence on the elaborately regulate system however causes the burden of beneficial and detrimental knowledge to the rest on one person's shoulders. Through sociological analysis I will analyze the effects of this reliance on the Giver’s ability to retain such crucial information on a singular causes the detrimental affect triggered not by the inability of the Giver but rather by the society’s unwillingness to change. It can be observed that dystopian societies are ambivalent in nature, situated in utopian text; however, in Lowry's novel the world is engineered where the utopia goes wrong due to its extinction of the aesthetic and personal choices. In “The Utopian the Function of memory in Lois Lowry’s the giver, the author analyzes the ambiguity between the dystopian aspect and the utopian aspect of the society created in the novel (Hanson).
Jonas is feeling things that no one in his community has ever felt before. He is beginning to understand that others are missing out on important emotions. He knows that The Giver has already given away most of the memories, and in order to stop the process, he must make a sacrifice in order for his community to be aware of what they are missing. This proves that he is conscious of the fact that his community is not perfect, and the act of staging an accident is a noble, selfless thing to do; something that his perfect peers would not understand. When talking about the harms of banning books and by quoting Lois Lowry, Jennifer Kendall states, “The world portrayed in The Giver is a world where choice has been taken away. It is a frightening world” (Kendall). Kendall makes the point that the Utopian society is not something that people strive for. As a middle-schooled child, it is easy to see that life is not perfect. I feel as if Lowry does a great job in showing the reader that Jonas does understand that his community is not perfect, and he goes to great links to stop the perfection. While there may seem to
Equality seems to be very good to have and it seems like everyone should have it, but is it really that good? Surely everyone should have it, but how much equality should be? “The Giver” and “Harrison Bergeron” both show examples of utopia and equality but both don’t work out. Our world wouldn’t be a better place if everyone are lifted up onto the same level, because although equality is very important and good, complete equality will be a bad thing, and complete equality is something that would never happen in our world. Equality is quite important for the majority of us, it is also good for society and the world.
Accordingly to the community in The Giver, citizens have lost their diversity which prevents being same.Riding the same bikes,wearing the same clothes,and speaking the same language,even the same words, can’t be acceptable for our world.In this community,no one has a private life,no one has a right to lie,and even all the doors are unlocked except The Giver’s door.In the beginning of the novel,the reader influences about the perfection of the community,but throughout the story,Lowry shows that the community which is based on Perfection is not perfect at all.Actually,it’s a community which is based on strict rules just to prevent people from feelings,colors,and all the values which a human must have tasted at least once during their life times.Diversity is a very important value for humans,and a community can’t be perfect without it.
Jonas makes a journey and breaks the barrier letting all those components back into the society. Jonas goes through a long, dangerous journey to make a better tomorrow for his society. By choosing to save his community, Jonas jeopardized his life because if the Elders caught him he would have been released, which means prosecuted. In his community there is no love and passion. After the Giver gives Jonas the memory of love he is confused about why his community does not have it.
Jonas wants to make things change in his community. He wants everyone to be able to choose what color they want to wear, want to do, who they have a family with, what they are allowed to get, and wants the release process to change. The most important thing that Jonas wants to change is that he wants everyone to have their own feelings. Jonas demands these changes to The Giver. Then they start working on a plan for Jonas to escape the community. Jonas leaving the community is the only way for the community to be free because as he leaves the community the memories will be returned to everyone so they have to deal with all feelings. Jonas’s plan is to have The Giver transmit memories of courage, and strength to him over the span of two weeks so he won’t give up. At midnight on the night before the Ceremony, Jonas will slip out of his house with an extra set of clothing, which he will hide by the riverbank next to his bicycle. The next day, the Giver will order a vehicle for a visit to another community, hide Jonas in the storage area, and give him a head start on his journey to Elsewhere. The Giver will tell the community that Jonas has been lost in the river, they will perform the Ceremony of Loss, and he will help them bear Jonas’s memories. Jonas then finds out that Gabriel is scheduled for release, so he decides to take him with him. After they set out Jonas is forced to use all his memories of warmth to keep them warm.
Jonas receives memories of color, something that is absent from his community. He realizes how absent his community really is. Jonas hurts inside to tell people in his community what they are missing. The only person that he can really open up to is The Giver. They grew really close, and it became like a grandfather, grandchild relationship.
In “The Giver” by Lois Lowry Jonas had found out that his whole life was a lie. The “perfect” community was just an act of sameness and power. When Jonas was picked to be the Receiver of Memory he didn’t realize that he would uncover the truth that would of shaped their community that was, so perfect. This lead to unpredicted moves made by Jonas and the Giver that ended in Jonas making a move that would make a difference in both his community and his life. Overall without the truth telling memories no one can learn from mistakes that everyone makes on constant basis.
In my opinion, Jonas left the community because of the memories and the reality presented to him by The Giver. After realizing the truth, he wanted to alter the perspectives of the citizens in the community by releasing his memories, he believed that the way people lived without any knowledge of the world surrounding them was wrong, and wished to live a more meaningful life when he left.
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.
For example, the Elders release people to nowhere in which they got sent to die. In fact, the Giver population will never grow or never dwell because everyone has one boy and one girl. In conclusion, economic equality, rationing, and population control effect the Giver and portrayed
“’Memories are forever”’ (Lowry). People make new memories every day without even realizing it. Some good some bad, that’s just the way of life, but in The Giver nobody knows what happened before them. People barley remember what their childhood was like, they don’t understand the importance of memory and that memories are forever. Aspects of life, rules, and prosperities between our world and Jonas’ world are very different yet have some similarities. Things that are crucial to the characters in The Giver are not as meaningful to the people in our world.
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.