Figurative Language In The Giver

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.

The Giver teaches us that love is essential to life. Jonas and the Giver demonstrate again and again how important it is, even though it’s forbidden. The Giver demonstrates love when he declares, “‘I love you Jonas’ he said. ‘But I have another place to go. When my work here is done, I want to be with my daughter’”(202). The Giver is saying goodbye to Jonas, he is practically telling Jonas he is going to finish the things he needs to, then The Giver is going to ask to be released. He says he loves Jonas and you can tell Jonas loves him too. He loves his family even though they don’t know how to love or what love is. He also loves Gabe, Jonas saves him from being ‘released’. Jonas feels accepted, loved, and at home when the giver tells him he

Lois Lowry uses irony in The Giver to show how brainwashed The Giver’s society is. They have been told that many daily activities are completely ordinary, when what they are actually doing is not normal. Lowry uses irony to help the readers understand what The Giver’s society fails to notice. This helps the reader to understand what people believe in this community without having to experience this society for themselves. Lowry especially uses the use of ‘releasing’ to show what the people in this community do not understand. Irony is shown throughout this novel, which is helpful to understanding what people believe in this community.

The more Jonas learns that emotions are needed in life he starts to question the people he thought “loved” him. “Do you love me? There was an awkward silence for moment. Then Father gave a little chuckle. “Jonas. You, of all people. Precision of language, please!”... “Your father means that you used a very generalized word, so meaningless that it’s become almost obsolete,” his mother explained carefully.” (159-160). Now that Jonas knows that his family doesn't love or truly care about him he wants to bring back memories and emotions to the community. This conversation from the book states that because the community has no emotions even saying the word love is considered to have no

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

In the story “The Giver’’, people live in a community where no one questions the way the citizens live, but sometimes there might be some disagreements between them, like when Jomas’ little sister Lily and her mother disagreed about the assignment of being a birthmother. At first Lily wanted to get assigned as a birth mother when she became 12, but her mother though differently, in chapter 3, page 27 it states “Mother spoke very sharply. “Don’t say that.There’s very little honor in that Assignment””, it was shown that Lily’s mother didn't like that assignment. Even though Lily knew that her mother didn’t like Lily’s idea of being a birth mother, she defended herself and said, “...she told me that the Birthmothers get wonderful foods, and they

Nevertheless, the community featured in The Giver does not allow its citizens to feel love. The community sacrificed the feeling of love to spare its citizens the pain and warfare that comes along with it. Although this may seem like a good idea, the feeling of love is one that should not be taken away because it further isolates the only people in the community that can feel it. As conveyed in the novel, “Jonas trudged to the bench beside the Storehouse and sat down, overwhelmed with feelings of loss… He had felt such love for Asher and for Fiona. But they could not feel it back” (Lowry 135). Jonas feels alone because only he can feel love for the people in his life, but they will never feel that same love for him in response. Another event that further intensifies Jonas’s feeling of loss and confusion is when he asks his parents if they loved him, and they blatantly say that love is a meaningless word (Lowry 127). This deeply hurts Jonas because he knows what the feeling of love truly is and he does not believe that it is useless, as his parents do. Knowing that his parents do not “love” him as he loves them, Jonas is further isolated and misunderstood. These negative emotions that Jonas is feeling are not emotions that a citizen of a utopia should be feeling, considering that a utopia should be a happy place without any negative feeling. In addition, love is a feeling that is valued by the Giver, as the Giver’s

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).

The Newberry Medal winning book The Giver tells a story about a world with no memories. With no memories, the citizens in the community will not experience the small and big things in life. The leaders of the community are called the committee of elders. The committee of elders are hypocritical.

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

Our world has love, hate, passion, anger and fear. All our emotions change the way we act and how other people act, negatively or positively. In the book, The Giver, written by Lois Lowery, a perfect world is created where there are no emotions nor color. Could you give up emotions for a perfect society? The Giver makes readers ask the question what the perfect society is, providing symbolism, like a sled, color and an important character, Gabriel.

In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, the biggest flaw in Jonas’s community is their awful idea of hiding the past from the citizens to create an unreasonable world with no disappointments. They almost never admit that a mistake had been made, and they wiped away memories of the past, like war.

Jonas has an elaborate relationship with his Mom,Dad and his Sister(Lily). In the book The Giver Jonas likes his parents and has been with them for a long time, but when Jonas met the Giver he saw a different perspective of his parents and Lily. The reason Jonas has a new perspective of his parent is because , the Giver showed him how to have feelings and show love. When Jonas came home that day from training he asked his parents do you love me then his mom said Jonas better choice of word and then his dad explained why

The Giver shows us that love is an essential part to this world. The Giver shows Jonas the memory of pain and suffering and reacted in a way that made him upset, expressing love to Jonas as well as regret. Jonas was “no longer enjoying the freedom but instead, terrified…”(137). The Giver knows what Jonas is experiencing and regrets it although it is what he is told to do. The Giver took a liking to Jonas but couldn’t bare to watch him in pain. Jonas sacrificed his own comfort so the Giver could be relieved of these memories for himself. These same memories were given to the Giver because it was his job. The Giver of each generation feels love toward the new Receiver because the Giver knows what pain is like. Love is essential in this moment, especially for Jonas, because he needs a person to help him to start a new, more utopian society. People show love by sacrificing themselves for

Imagine a world without love or color. Jonas the protagonist in The Giver he ran away and left comparing his community to our society. In our society we aloud to love whoever we want and we free to love. In jonas society love is a word that is prohibited no longer said for example abandoned no longer mentioned because they don't know what it means.