Examples Of Being Giver As Receiver Of Memory In The Giver

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

Hook: Imagine living in a perfect society and hearing all of the jobs that the people would get, but if someone got the Receiver of Memory, they would receive a lot of the pain from the memories. Jonas’s assignment as the next Receiver of Memory is a punishment. The job as a Receiver of Memory caused a lot of pain. Jonas feels separate and different from his fellow peers when he became the Receiver of Memory. When The Giver became a little older, age showed a lot more when The Giver became the Receiver of Memory than if he had a regular job.

With Jonas’s job as being The Giver, truth is a very important aspect. Being The Giver, he learns about the real, and whole truth. The Giver is the one who keeps all of the memories of truth. Without it there would be no reason to have a Giver. Another way that the truth works in the role Jonas was given would be that if Jonas leaves the community, all of the memories that he had received would be then distributed to the people of the community. When The Giver and Jonas come up with the idea that everyone not knowing the truth is wrong, they send Jonas away so that everyone receives the memories. There are many ways in which the truth works in the role that Jonas receives, such as when the Chief Elders ask The Giver for advice when they are in times of trouble. Here is a great example of what I mean, “And when I am called to The Committee of Elders, I appear before them, to give them counsel and advice”(Lowry 130) The truth is used in many other ways in Jonas’s job as well, and these are only a

What they have had taken away from them. If Jonas never left, the community would never be exposed to all the new concepts Jonas learned about. Pg. 146 “The Giver shook his head. Jonas, he said, the community has depended, all these generations, back and back and back, on a resident Receiver to hold the memories for them. I’ve tuned over many of them to you in the past year. And I can’t take them back. There’s no way for me to get them back if I have given them to you. So if you escape, once you are gone-and, Jonas, you know that you can never return-Jonas nodded solemnly. It was the terrifying part. Yes, he said, I know. But if you come with me-The Giver shook his head and made a gesture to silence him. He continued. If you get away, if you get beyond, if you get to elsewhere, it will mean that the community has to bear the burden themselves, of the memories you have been holding for them. When Jonas left, the all of his memories were released back into the community. Doing this, brought them many new memories of pain, death, love, color and more. Pg. 147 “There’s a little female with pale eyes. But she’s only a six. That’s correct. I know the one you mean. Her name is Katharine. But she’s too young. So they (referring to the community) will be forced to bear those memories.” By leaving the community, Jonas placed the burden of his memories onto the community. Doing this, hopefully showed the community all the things that had been taken away from them. “He pushed firmly again at the pedal with his foot and continued riding along the road. It was not safe to spend time looking back. He thought of the rules he had broken so far: enough that if he were caught, now, he would be condemned.” Even if Jonas broke numerous rules, leaving the community would still benefit everyone else, as it exposed them to brand new ideas they never knew about

In the novel “The Giver,” written by Lois Lowry, Jonas is a boy who follows the rules, spends time with friends and family, goes to school, and at the Twelves Ceremony is given the job as the Receiver of Memory. At the end of the novel, Jonas learns information that makes him leave the community to save the people he loves. As Jonas becomes older, he acknowledges that he is different from his family and the people surrounded by him. Once Jonas got his assignment as the Receiver of Memory, his maturity became inconsistent throughout the novel.

In the story, the wise old man is the Giver. The Giver’s mind is filled with good and bad memories. He is in charge of holding the memories from the community to avoid pain or suffering. He is the only one that is allowed to break certain rules. His power cannot be “given” to anyone except for a special person selected by the Elders. Jonas is that special person, he is the “receiver of memory”. So, the giver’s mission is to “give” Jonas the power of receiving all the memories. Also, he must share all his knowledge with Jonas so he can become the new “giver” in the community.

If you were given the chance to be Receiver of Memory and be able to lie, feel emotions, and have the highest honor of the community given to you, would you take it? In the book The Giver it’s a community where everything is the same no one can be better than anyone else know this might sound like a good idea but it's not. The book is based on a kid named Jonas, he is a 11 year old boy who doesn't know what to expect as a job for the ceremony of 12. In the ceremony of 12 you are given a job, you do not get to choose a job you are given one. The chief of elders is the one who gets to decide what job you get assigned. Jonas doesn't know what he wants to be he likes most of the jobs but he feels like they don't suit him very well. So they cheif of elders decided to assign the job of Receiver of Memory for Jonas. The Receiver of Memory is the person who hold all the memories of what the world used to be like before all the sameness.

In Jonas society, nobody knows any information about anything. The elders, who are in the Giver’s community, believe that no community members except for them and the Receiver of memory should know all the information. Even in the beginning of the training, Jonas thought that he had to protect people from wrong choices. But, the Giver agreed that it was safer. Jonas was getting mad about how the memories couldn't be shared with everyone, so he decided to run away on his bike with Gabe. They decided to make a plan to leave. The Receiver and Gabe left the community together. Life is full of color, even though life was remained in this society, it was not colorful. All the bad days and good days were very valuable to

At the start of the story Jonas is feeling nervous about the ceremony of twelve's, where the children are given their assignment. This is where for the first time in the children's life, they will be doing something different then every other person in the community. Jonas is given the very special occupation, which isn’t really an occupation at all, of Receiver of Memory. He is the only one that can have memories of what life was like before sameness. The memories are given to him by The Giver, who was the current Receiver of Memory. The Giver must transmit all memories of history (the good,

Despite the fact that he could be killed if he was caught. Jonas also wanted to release the memories into the community to make it a better place. Jonas looked to The Giver for advice, and The Giver was almost like a father to him. Jonas normally followed the rules of the community for what was right and what was wrong except when he ran away. Jonas learned that the rules of the community were harsh, once he had his knowledge he got from The Giver, he kind of made his own rules. The Giver shows lots of moral courage because he helped Jonas run away despite the potential consequences of getting released. Also the Giver took the risk of giving Jonas the memories when the previous receiver ran away because the memories were too much and then those memories were lost. The Giver has all the knowledge from the previous generations so he uses that to decide what is right and

Jonas lives in a perfect society where everyone is equal and there is no war, pain, or fear. Sounds great right? But not for long. When Jonas reaches the age of 12 he recieves his assignment or career, just like everybody else. But Jonas's assignment is different. Jonas is selected to be the reciever of memories. He will recieve the memories of what life used to be from the giver. He starts out with happy memories, but soon learns about war and pain. But it is hard for the giver too, to give memories to sombody else, when he knows the pain and suffering they bring. And he is still hurt by the memories he hasn't given yet. After awhile Jonas and the giver realize that life isn't the way it's supposed to be in the society, so they plan for Jonas to escape. When he does he brings along gabriel, an infant that his family has been taking care of, and that jonas has grown to love. And together they discover the wonders and fears of the real

As Jonas receives memories from the Giver, he realizes that knowledge is useless without them. For example, the Giver explains his role with the Committee of Elders, “‘...when they are

Jonas begins to learn about his society by asking questions. At the ceremony of the twelves he receives his job, as the Receiver of Memory. Stirrings start

reader and allows them to think about the past, present, and future---Memories. The author allowed

To begin, the elders set apart Jonas and give him the prestigious job of “Receiver of Memory.”