Essay On The Giver Community

“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

Also they will never experience the weather and nature and so many other things that we have in our world that make us so happy and so in love. Without these things this will most likely make the people who live in the community very depressed and sad. This is shown here when Jonas experiences true happiness, love and family, “ ‘What did you perceive?’ The Giver asked. ‘Warmth,’ Jonás replied, ‘and happiness. And-let me think. Family. That it was a celebration of some sort, a holiday. And something else — I can’t quite get the word for it’... ‘They were called Grandparents’ ”(Lowry 123). In this moment Jonas experiences warmth, family and love. He sees the new true meaning of happiness because he is able to compare it to the pain and loss he went through before. Mostly all of the people who live in The Giver community cannot experience happiness like this. They can not compare the happiness and warmth they (don’t) experience to the pain and loss that they (don’t) experience.

“Color.” It’s all around us, we see it every day of our lives, everything has color, but the people in Jonas’ community didn’t know this. They had no clue what color was or that it even existed. Their society was hue less, hopeless, and everything was the same until the new receiver of memory changed that for everyone. In our world choice is a big part of our everyday lives we make many choices a day, do I want this or that, green or blue, this shirt or that shirt? But in The Giver choices were made for them, what they wear, how they act, what they say, what they eat, and what they do for a living. Imagine all that stuff being chosen for you. Everyone would be dressed the same, act the same,

     This book is about a boy names Jonas. Jonas lives in a futuristic society where there is no pain, fear, war, and hatred. There is also no prejudice, since everyone looks and acts basically the same, there is very little competition. They have also eliminated choice.

A true utopia requires sacrifices many people cannot condone. This fact has been shown throughout The Giver. The community decides to sacrifice many things to come to Sameness. Pain, individuality and love are among many things that they have sacrificed (Lowry 124). These sacrifices made the community Jonas lived in seemingly perfect; there is no hunger, no war, no pain, no one will ever be alone. But, a perfect community is completely unrealistic. That is why they have The Giver, the person that knows all the imperfections of the society and help the society to achieve perfection.

“The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain or past” (Lowry 165). In this quote, the Giver expresses his dissatisfaction towards the black and white life of the community and the absence of actual living. One of the main reasons that citizens can’t see color is due to a daily injection that removes emotions and feelings. Colors bring about emotions in people and so the injection removes them. The injection can represent free will being taken away from the community. The absence of choice restrains people within the community from choosing their own jobs. Therefore the head leaders of the community assign them during a ceremony. Jonas is afraid of not being able to fit in an be a part of the community and thinks to himself, ”How could someone not fit in? The community was so meticulously ordered, the choices so carefully made” (Lowry 48). This interesting quote shows Jonas in the tight grips of a black and white life where his worries revolve around not being able to fit in with the sameness of the

The Giver is a 2014 film directed by Phillip Noyce. The film is solely based on a novel with the same name by Lois Lowry. It talks about a teen, Jonas, living in a society where none of them is different. Each individual in their society is equal. Labels like popular, losers, winners, and as such does not exist within their society. They have created the new definition of fairness.

Do you know anything about the community in the Giver? I know, because I read this book already, this book is really interesting because there are a lot of differences and Similarities. For example, in the novel they can have only 2 children in each family, it different from us because we aren't united by any rules about how many children to a family. There is the similarities and differences between the real world and the world describe in the giver in the areas of Family, Birth, and Home. There are many similarities and differences in families between the community in the novel and our community.

The community in The Giver is that the people don’t have things that normal people like us do. That is because in the community of Jonas, there are a lot of rules for the people to stay safe but the people doesn’t know the memories from “Elsewhere” and they are never curious about the world that is outside their community. They are used to following rules, and doing the same thing everyday. They do have manners but they don’t know about the education they deserve, and they are all just like robots. The way that family life works in that community is that they are chosen in family units and they don’t have the feeling of love in their family. The people in the community don’t know what love is and they don’t have feelings that normal families have. In The Giver,

How would it feel if this world didn’t let people have choices, didn’t let people share, or if they didn’t let people celebrate birthdays, holidays, or just celebrate anything? Well that’s what it was like for Jonas in The Giver. Jonas lives in the future in a community where The Giver is the only one who knows everything, but soon all that changed for Jonas. He became the the community 's new Receiver of Memory, and soon Jonas learns the terrible secrets of this “utopian” community. Later on as he learns some more about the community’s secrets he makes a plan to leave the community, and to take Gabe with him so he wouldn’t get released.(which means they die, but the community doesn’t understand that) In this book choices, sharing, and celebrations would have made The Giver community more positive.

The impeccable community "A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots"(Marcus Garvey). The book The Giver is about a community where there are no choices and the citizens live a colorless life where everything is under control. In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, knowledge does have the power to change a person's opinions, dreams, and fears because Jonas experiences this through the many tasks he takes on to be the receiver of memory. Jonas knowledge gained from the giver changes his own opinions and the way he views others. "Our people made that choice, the choice to go to sameness.

Lois Lowry’s The Giver is a book about a seemingly utopian society in the future. This idea of perfection was created by removing individuality and emotion from the lives of people in the community which contrasts to today’s society in the United States, where freedom is extremely important to citizens. The only people who know that these freedoms are possible are a boy from the community named Jonas and his mentor who goes by “the Giver.” Jonas’s job in the community is to receive memories about the experiences that the society has removed.

The community has created a utopian world by choosing who would live best with each other and they have even set up a whole family for you. The community in The Giver is perfect because there is nothing that can harm you and you don’t need to worry about things like what colour would go best with a dress or a pair of jeans because there is no colour and you don’t have to choose the clothes you wear because all of that is chosen for you. The community in the giver has taken away most of the pain you could experience in the different communities so nine out of ten times you will not get hurt or injured because you can’t really feel pain along with love and many other feelings. The community has created a safe place so there is no real chance to get hurt, there are no distractions from things like the sun or from bright colours and the sun can’t reflect off of a shiny object to make you fall off of your bike or to crash because there is no sun, since they have age limits on things like bikes, they make sure you are ready so you cannot fall off of a bike to get

The community wants to ensure the safety of their citizens by making a generation who can see no color, can hear no music, and can’t feel emotions, such as feeling sadness or love. “The same nondescript shade, about the same shade as his own tunic. ”(pg 24) This shows how people in the community don’t have the ability to see color.

In today’s society, one can see a divide among people, a world with disorder, and a world dominated by crime. Lois Lowry illustrates in her novel, The Giver, a world unlike any other, a world with no fear and disorder. A perfect society, or so it looks. As the readers go on they come to realize that an ideal society is nothing like it sounds. The readers take for granted our rights to chose what we want to do with our lives; if the audience lived like the people in the novel, our society would have no individual rights. This is a community, created by Lois Lowry, where no one has memories, feelings, or ambitions.