Examples Of What Truly Happened In The Giver

You wouldn’t want to be lied to, would you? The Giver by Lois Lowry is set in the future and is about an 11 year old boy named Jonas who is anticipating his job assignment. Jonas faces many hardships in his community which include lies, loss, friendship, and a man called The Giver. I think that deception is a main theme in The Giver, because the people in the community are being lied to all day, everyday about very important things in their daily lives.

Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, offers a thought provoking, well written story, because it changes the perspective of anyone who dares to read it to. Lowry places her novel, at some point in the future when mankind has gone away with changes and choices in life. She forces readers appreciate, or at least re-think the world they live in today. Her novel presents a fully human created environment where people have successfully blocked out conflict, grief, and individuality. Each person follows the same routine every day. Failure comply with standards, to be different, means death. Jonas, the main character, finds himself trapped in this world.

Jonas finally reached the summit of the hill. Feeling the warmth of happiness to have the feeling of being so close, he continued on strong and excited again. His family unit, friends, and Giver came to mind.

Lord, Elyse. "Overview of The Giver." Novels for Students. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Literature Resource Center. Web. 27 Mar. 2016. Elyse Lord is one of the many critics who describe “The Giver” as terrifying but offering “hope and a constructive view” of the Utopian world in the book. She explains that other critics praise the book with many awards such as the Newberry Medal. Lord goes on to reason that the story is favored by different readers for its complexity, symbolism, metaphors, ambiguous ending, and can be compared similarly to classic science fiction like “Brave New World” and “Fahrenheit 451.” Contradicting this statement, Lord says that ‘librarians’, ‘educators’, and ‘students’ debate “The Giver” to be censored from public schools around the world because of its graphic scenes and ideas of infanticide and euthanasia. This includes the time Jonas witnessed his father murder a baby and throw it down a trash chute in cold blood. This is ironical compared to the language, emotion, and behaviors being censored in Jonas’s ‘Utopian’ society. Lord argues this through Anna Cerbasi of Port Saint Lucie, Florida, who asked the school board to remove a book that was about a family murdering their child for crying at night and called the book inappropriate for the sixth grade. Lord raises the question of who is to “decide which books are appropriate for which children,” and argues that it cannot be answered with not one but the many books integrated in school curricula that compose

In The Giver, Jonas’ world is turned upside down when he is chosen to be the next receiver of his community. The ceremony of twelves is the last ceremony of the day. Jonas waited anxiously for his name to be called; he never hears it. The chief elder has made a mistake. Jonas now has to learn that everything he has been taught was not always the same and it ages him years.

As shown multiple times in the book The Giver, the main conflict was man v. self. The main character that had this war throughout the whole book was Jonas, the upcoming Receiver. The conflict that Jonas had to go through was the pressure and apprehensiveness of making tough and hard decisions. Additionally, he had to figure out how he felt about particular situations in the book because sometimes it would induce many types of emotion like fear, surprise, disgust, and anger. Figuring out your emotions and making tough decisions is a very hard thing to do, so imagine being in Jonas’s shoes. I chose a storm to represent the main conflict because it is the symbol that represents the confusion and flurry of emotions one would feel during an internal

Lois Lowry ended her novel, The Giver, with quite an ambiguous ending, leaving her readers to interpret the ending themselves. The novel takes place in a utopian society where everything is perfect and equal. Everyone is the same except for the main character, Jonas. At the end, he runs away to look for Elsewhere because he wants to experience happiness and get away from the community. In the novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the correct interpretation of the ending is that Jonas's vision of the village is only a hallucination that he experiences as he and Gabriel freeze to death in the snow in the middle of nowhere.

"All knowledge hurts." — Cassandra Clare (City of Bones, The Mortal Instruments, #1) Knowledge may hurt, if the truth is discovered, but the knowledge and truth can give wisdom among other traits, but in the novel, The Giver wisdom gives honor. Knowledge can also change the way one may feel towards something. The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a novel which portrays the notion that knowledge can change someone's opinion. Knowledge may change your likes, dislikes, and fears.

In The Giver by Lois Lowry the main character Jonas is chosen to be The Receiver of Memory but he soon realises that the community he is a part of is not as perfect as it seems. Throughout The Giver Lowry stresses that people must not blindly obey the rules that have been placed for them to follow. In doing this Lowry also addresses many moral and ethical issues such as: Lying, whether euthanasia is acceptable and whether sameness is more important than having a choice. Through Jonas, Lowry questions these moral and ethical issues to warn us not to blindly obey, but to think and have an opinion.

The book The Giver portrays a society that is perfect in every way, but the deeper into the book the more the author portrays that it is far from perfect. There are many immoral events that take place in this book and at first it can be deceiving to the reader because it seems like such a perfect community, even at the beginning of the book it seemed like it was a great system and it would work well in today's society. The further into the book, the more it explains the meaning of release and the main character realizes how morally wrong it is.

Have you ever wanted to live in a perfect world, where there is no hurt or pain? Well in the book “The Giver” Jonas thought that living in a perfect world would be easy and fun, not knowing that it was many consequences living in such a perfect world. In our society today we have laws that we have to abide by but not quite strict laws that Jonas had. In Jonas world they were pretty much controlled by the government they didn’t have a say so in things in life. They were forced to learn independence at the age of seven.

The Giver's plot line can be summed up relatively easily. In the beginning, Jonas is serene and content with his life and he has adherence. But as he spends more time with the Giver, he becomes sad and mad at the changes of his world. In the end, Jonas leaves the community. But what about the similarities of the beginning and end of the book?

The book The Giver is a very interesting book, but not everything is what it seems. This community is a dystopia. It is strict, controlling, and mysterious. This book will leave you seriously thinking.

I think that the world of the giver would be a dystopia because everything in there world is not perfect. For example, they kill babies if they don’t achieve a certain level of health or weight. Another example is they can’t choose anything for themselves or they can’t make any decisions on their own. My last example is that they don’t have any pain, illness, or even any feelings. My first reason why it’s a dystopia, they kill babies if their not healthy enough.

In The Giver, by Lois Lowry, we are introduced to a society that is very strict. Their rules are strict, just like how they have a daily pill to take so they remain emotionless. If you break one of the community’s rules, you get released which means being sent out of their community to elsewhere. A dystopia is an unfavorable society to live in.