Giver Vs Society

“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,

Jonas discovers what is really beyond his community, beyond all the rules and policies they have to follow; he decides to leave and give all of his memories to the rest of the community so they would know about what they have not seen or experienced before. Jonas discovers that the community has decided too many things for everyone. He realizes Sameness is not right, that it cannot last any longer. He thinks of all the what-ifs. What if the Elders choose a wrong spouse? What if the Elders choose the wrong job for someone?

Can you imagine not having any emotions or not being able to express your feelings to one another? In Lois Lowry’s book, The Giver, Jonas and his utopian community don’t have any memories or emotions. When Jonas was chosen to be the receiver, at the ceremony of twelves, he receives all the memories that none of the community will understand. The Giver transfers memories to Jonas like color, love, and pain. Throughout receiving memories, Jonas starts to question the people that don’t have these things, and this is where the theme “Life without emotions is not a life worth living” comes into play.

What would happen if you lived in a world with no emotion, no emotion, and no choice? This is exactly the case in The Giver. When a boy, Jonas, who lives in a futuristic community starts to receive memories from the Giver he realizes there are so many beautiful yet terrible things inside and outside of the community. He dosen’t know another way to save the community from sameness except to release his memories to the community, good and bad. Three things that could have been done to the community to avoid this is adding the arts, emotions, and weather.

Life decisions are what shapes you to who you are. If you were told who to marry, how many children to have, where to live, and what job to have really isn’t living is it? In a world of sameness, everything stays the same and does not change. In The Giver, the story is told through a black and white image, that is until Jonas discovers colors. The receiver and the giver have a hard time connecting with the rest of the community due to being able to see what others cannot. “He found that he was often angry, now: irrationally angry at his groupmates, that they were satisfied with their lives which had none of the vibrance his own was taking on (Lowry, 99).” Jonas starts to get frustrated over the fact that no one else cares about being all the

Jonas’s Mother says “You know the rules. Two children--one male, one female-- to each family unit. It was clearly written in the rules” (11). The excess of rules takes away each family units individuality by making them all similar so they can maintain order and balance. As it is, the rules also take away freedom.

In the book The Giver, our society and Jonas’s differ in terms of the family units. On page 8, Jonas’s mother tells Lily about the kids in the family units as, “Two children – one male, one female – to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules.” This quote explains how the parents are only allowed to have one male and one female – no more, no less. This differs from our society because our family unit can consist of many more or less than two children and the parents do not have to have one of each gender in the family. Also, in the quote, mother said, “to each family unit”, which makes it sound like the children are given to the parents, which is exactly right. The mothers of the family units in Jonas’s society are not allowed to give birth. Instead, there are birthmothers who give birth to the children and those children

(MIP-1) Jonas accepts what his society is, up until he had the Ceremony of the Twelves. Jonas doesn't question the rules of his society. (STEWE-1) Jonas would always follow what he was supposed to due, “But now, with Twelve coming….”

What if a whole community had the absence of color, expect for one twelve-year-old child? According to the novel The Giver written by Lois Lowry, Jonas, the twelve-year-old child, lives in a seemingly ideal, but colorless, community of conformity and contentment. Not until he is assigned, and given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory, as he starts to understand the dark, and complicated secrets behind his community. He begins to recognize various ways in which his community needs color to be more free and happy. Within, the novel Lois Lowry, mentioned a lot of themes that were contributed to Jonas’ ability to see color, and the absence of color in his community. One of the themes that was expressed within the novel was, the

Imagine a world without color and love. Jonas, protagonist, in The Giver, his world was meant to be a utopia but it turned into a dystopian society. Comparing jonas’s society to modern day society they are two very different places. Jonas’s world has no love, they experience sameness, and do not experience freedom of choice; modern day society has freedom of love, a variety of weather, and we celebrate individual choices. First of all, Jonas’s society does not experience love, while modern day society does.

Individuals are responsible for changing society. If a person wants something to change and that change will not happen if they are just sitting around then they are going to change it themselves. Society would not be how it is today if we did not have people that wanted to change how society was.

Families are people who are brought together because they may share common interests, there may be love, and a special bond. These thing do not apply for families in Jonas's society. In contrast, during the evening telling of feelings, Jonas's mother said “...you know the rules. Two children, one male and one female to each family unit”(Lowry 8). In the same

The community that Jonas lives in, they don’t have freedom of choice. They have lived with the community’s rituals and rules as long as they can remember. Therefore, nobody finds it strange when their spouse, children, and jobs are chosen for them. Everything is created so everyone has a fair job, and no one is more successful than the other. On page 97 in The Giver, “‘If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices!’” Jonas says when he found out about why colors were taken from the community.

The family life in Jonas’s society is very different from our family life. In our society a man and a woman can have as many kids as they want, whenever they want, but in his women are not allowed to produce unless they are chosen to be a birth mother and even when you are chosen you’re only allowed to have up to 3 children and no, you can not keep them. They are given to family units in need of another child. One boy and one girl.

In the book The Giver, it tells the story of a perfect world. Everyone there is happy and feels no pain. As the story progresses, the society appears more and more dystopian as the main goal of the society is revealed, which is sameness.() The community is constantly observed and controlled by every aspect in their lives. The committee assigns jobs, housing, husbands, wives, and children. If found breaking any of these laws, people are “released”, an indirect term for murdering. When Jonas is 12 years old, he 's chosen to be the community 's Receiver of Memory. Once he enters into training with an old man called 'The Giver ', he begins to receive memories of the real world that the rest of the community is hidden from. As the giver begins to show Jonas the important memories, he learns not only of love and family, but also of pain, war, and all the unhappy