Free Will In Lois Lowry's The Giver

“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

Throughout the novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas made choices that led to a positive and negative aftermath. The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a boy and his family unit in a community where everything is about sameness and perfection. Jonas’ experiences develop a theme over the course of The Giver by teaching the reader that choices can lead to a positive and negative aftermath. Although some readers may believe that choices do not affect your future, Jonas’ experiences show that some choices can lead to an unfortunate consequence. Occasionally people create choices that can be poor by choice, since they do things without thinking.

Could you imagine your world in which everything was predetermined for you, and you didn’t have a choice? This is the reality in The Giver by Lois Lowry, the main character Jonas faces these problems and many others as he completes his adventure. Although some may think this to be devastating, this is normal in his society. In the dystopian society conveyed in the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, there are many similarities and differences to our modern day societies.

Lois Lowry’s The Giver is set in a futuristic, dichotomous society, one that is both utopian and dystopian. In response to the overwhelming destruction and chaos in the world, the Elders have attempted to create and maintain a peaceful and orderly utopia, but this security comes at a price. The citizens of the community have sacrificed their individuality and freedom. Although most adult members have some knowledge of the hypocrisies involved, they choose to perpetuate the deception, allowing the community, as a whole, to continue on blissful ignorance. When young Jonas is confronted with all the truths of the present and all the memories of the past, he must choose for himself

The Giver describes a society in search of perfection, which is a recurring theme in literature. Somebody in Jonas’s society decided that eliminating or limiting choices and feeling, among other things, would ultimately create a perfect place in which to live. By eliminating and/or limiting choices and feelings, the creators were able to implement Sameness, which would then provide a conflict-less environment in which to exist.

The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a twelve year old boy, Jonas, living in a utopian society. This story follows Jonas on his way to find out the truth about his Community, and what secrets lie in the past. The society where Jonas lives knows nothing of the real world, and only know of their perfect reality. In the novel The Giver, the most significant theme is control because in the society there is no freedom of knowledge, freedom of love, or freedom to do what they please, which amounts to uttermost control.

Jonas lives with his parents and one sister. His parents were allowed to have only two children, a boy and a girl. It was one of the many community rules that couldn’t be broken.

The Giver, a novel written by Lois Lowry, follows a young boy named Jonas during his journey into becoming the community 's new Receiver of Memory. Throughout his adventure, Jonas has to make many choices along the way that impact him and the others around him. For example, the biggest turning point in the story is about a choice that Jonas makes. The people of the community take pills everyday to control their “stirrings” which are just uncontrollable emotions that a person feels. One day, after months of training, Jonas decides not to take the pill. On page 129 Lois Lowry writes, “Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away” (129). From the quote the reader can infer that something during his training has compelled him to not take the “necessary” pill. This choice will affect the people around Jonas, as well as Jonas himself. Without control over his emotions, Jonas is more likely to lash out on his peers and experience certain emotions that he does not know how to process. This choice reveals the fact that Jonas is starting to become aware of the truths about his community. Another example of the choice was when Jonas

President Ronald Reagan once said that,”Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in our bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected and passed down for them to do the same.” President Reagan would have been miserable living in the world as it is portrayed in “The Giver” by Lois Lowry. In the book there has been a utopian community built for people so that they have no freedom and no individual thoughts. Everyone is exactly the same. Everyone takes a daily pill which eliminates any memories, pain or stress. The protagonist named Jonas is chosen to receive all the worlds memories and figures out that everyone he loves has no feelings or independence. He decides to risk everything

“It's choice - not chance - that determines your destiny. ”-Jean Nidetch. Without choice in one's life, they will never be able to influence what happens in their own life. In The Giver, the entire community of sameness has the power of choice taken away from them, this is the future.

“When we live without faith, when we live without hope … when we live without love, we only exist.” would living people in this world be able to live with no emotion doing whatever the Elders told them would they follow through or would they figure out? here's the thing they wouldn't find out they wouldn't know they wouldn't react because they couldn't they wouldn't know. In The Giver Jonas learns that he is different from everyone else besides the Giver so when the Giver teaches Jonas and gives him memories he isolates them by going to the annex room; Also Jonas learns that without knowledge of the past he can't help with choices of the future.

Him and his trainer “The Giver” then make a plan to bring life to the community ending in a scene open to interpretation. But the life in community before Jonas was impure, A life without flavor or was choice, a life not worth living. To not have the freedom of color, love and opportunity would be unbearable.

However, unlike Veronica Roth, Louis Lowry places her story in a different setting to portray the prominence a choice can have. Try to envision a world where everybody is the same and there is no choice or freedom, that is story of The Giver. Louis Lowry eliminated choice out of the Jonas’s world. Some people might wonder, if there is no choice, how can The Giver even talk about importance of choice? Well, Louis Lowry made the protagonist, Jonas, to realize the true happiness and significance of choice throughout the book.

In The Giver, Lois Lowry utilizes tone, shift, and imagery to depict the giver’s self-destruction and suffering for the greater good of the community. The elders dismiss his advice as a feeble grab for power because they lack the experience they need to recognize the bleak future they will face without changing their actions. The complacency they show when confronted with this dismal truth only furthers the givers need to release the memories to Jonas who can in turn release them to the community.

The Giver is a novel by Louis Lowry in this story the freedom of choice is taken away, they have also taken away feelings. That would be horrible because we have the freedom of choice and we are able to have feelings but if we didn't it would be very different for us because we have always had the freedom of choice. In our society we have the freedom of choice they don't. We have been making choices for a very long time we would not be in America if Columbus did not make the choice to set sail to look for India or people might not have the rights we have now if the presidents did not make the constitution. In the Giver they have made choices but it's all been made for them they can't choose the clothes they where, the family they live with, or the job they have. In the Giver they have been striped of their freedom of choice and they have also been brainwashed to the point of not even having empathy or love. They have this thing called releasing which is a code word for lethal injection. They release people when they get to old witch is supposedly a happy time of a long life lived or a sad time when a baby is not healthy or if a mother has twins they see witch one is heavier than they kill the lighter one. My first rationale is the freedom of choice the freedom of choice is a very taken for granted in America because we have had it for so long that we sometimes don't even think about making choices and we just make them without thinking and sometimes we make wrong choices but