Hope In Lois Lowry's The Giver

The main theme shown in The Giver is the idea that good cannot exist without evil, and evil cannot exist without good, thus making reaching a perfect society impossible. It does not matter how amazing an experience is, unless you have something bad to compare it with you can never taste the true meaning of that moment. The members of Jonas’s community cannot appreciate the joys in their lives because they have never felt sadness. Correspondingly, they also do not feel grief because they have never appreciated the true wonders of life. Throughout the novel, Lois Lowry uses multiple literary devices to conjure these thoughts into the readers mind.

    The story in The Giver by Lois Lowry takes place in a community that is not normal. People cannot see color, it is an offense for somebody to touch others, and the community assigns people jobs and children. This unnamed community shown through Jonas’ eye, the main character in this novel, is a perfect society. There is no war, crime, and hunger. Most readers might take it for granted that the community in The Giver differs from the real society. However, there are several affinities between the society in present day and that in this fiction: estrangement of elderly people, suffering of surrogate mothers, and wanting of euthanasia.

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.

Imagine a world with no feelings, no color, no choice; a world where individuality and freedom are exchanged for security and sameness. This type of world is a reality for Jonas, the protagonist in Lois Lowry’s The Giver. After being assigned the next Receiver of Memories in the community, where he has the capacity to see beyond. As he begins his works, he gains wisdom and through that wisdom, learned that protecting the community from the memories, their lives lacked understanding and feelings. Jonas goes on an archetypal hero’s journey and chooses to risk everything to restore memories and wisdom to everyone in the community. Throughout this novel, Jonas is represented as a hero considering he demonstrates integrity despite living in a

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

In today’s society there are many authors who write dystopian novels. They write these novels to give knowledge and to tell how our world is very different from dystopian life. Lois Lowry shows readers how people can suffer in dystopian society. In The Giver, Jonas’ community appears to be a utopia, but in reality it is a dystopia because everyone is under the illusion that there is freedom, dehumanization, and their strict regulations.

The novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is an everlasting story that shows the importance of individuality. This novel is about a young boy named Jonas who was elected as the Receiver of Memories, a person who is given the memories from the world that existed before their current society, Sameness. In this society there is no individualism. People can not choose who to marry, or what they want to do for a living. Over time Jonas becomes more and more wise, and realizes that the supposedly perfect community actually has some very dark and negative aspects. The author, Lois Lowry is a 76-year-old writer who focuses her writing on helping struggling teenagers become individuals. Lowry had a very tragic childhood. After both of her parents were

Imagine a society where there is no individualism or creativity and all life choices are predetermined from the moment one is born. The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, tells about such a society from the viewpoint of an eleven-year-old named Jonas. In his world, there are countless laws to ensure everyone’s equality, prevent war, and to keep the people from feeling pain. Sadly though, they withhold the joyous experiences of life. The Elders or the government of the society gave one person the authority to hold all the memories to protect the citizens. This person is the Giver. When chosen to be the next Giver, Jonas embarks on a journey to release the memories to everyone. He wanted people to live a true and free life. This novel is the quintessential example of a book providing the reader freedom and values. Similar to Malcolm X’s liberation that he speaks about in “A Homemade Education,” The Giver has provided me, not only with more knowledge but the desire for independence. Malcolm X understood books were powerful tools that provided a whole new world to readers through deliverance and self-growth. The Giver is an influential novel that has played a significant role in my self-development. It has shaped my attitudes and beliefs towards obstacles in society by realizing that the world presented in The Giver, is comparable to the real world.

28 Mar. 2016. Ilene Cooper’s “Another Look at: Lois Lowry’s Giver quartet” criticizes the ambiguous ending of Lois Lowry’s “The Giver” by comparing it to Lowry’s ‘Giver quartet.’ Cooper describes the ending of the book as unsatisfying because it increases the tension and then leaves the reader without an ending that leaves the reader wanting closure. Cooper differentiates between her and Lowry in that she was a pessimist who thought Jonas and Gabriel in “The Giver” died while Lowry was an optimist who ““thought the boys were still alive.” ” Cooper identifies that the ambiguous ending allows “children to think about and discuss their own hopes, dreams, and fears, juxtaposed against the story of a boy who must grapple with the security of sameness versus the knowledge that with happiness comes the possibility of pain.”

The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is an amazing book. It presents a society that tries to create a perfect world of harmony and peace. Unfortunately, individuality is lost from the people and their emotions are restricted. They are all living in a world of ignorance created by the author and continue to do so willingly. In doing so, Lois Lowry portrays a dystopian world, instead of a perfect one, by creating a society where individuality is lost and emotions are not important. Some people think this world is perfect and could work in modern life, while others can clearly see how this is nothing but a controlling dystopia that would ultimately fail.

Through our society we are all raised up to be independent and unique individuals such as being ourselves and expressing who each of us are to the world. However, in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, everyone is raised to count on one another and everyone must look and act the same. Our society differs from Jonas’s in many ways, such as the family units, birthdays, and the way we each learn about our past.

The Giver is a children’s book that conveys its overall important messages about society to the reader through the inclusion of hefty topics like suicide, infanticide, and euthanasia. The memories that a writer carries are one of their most important aspects. Without experiencing moments themselves and acquiring the feelings to go along, a writer will not be able to convey emotions and reactions accurately. For this reason exactly is Lois Lowry such an acclaimed and celebrated writer.

In the novel The Giver, Lois Lowry insists that individual needs including choice, emotion, and diversity surpasse the needs of a community’s perfection involving sameness, organization, and “equality”. The Giver is an engaging book that truly drives you to wonder what is more important, individual or community needs? Lowry has Jonas flee his community because of the lack of individuality.

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.

The Giver by Lois Lowry is an adventure through a messed up “perfect” town where nobody has any freedom of choice, nobody can see in color, and nobody has any recollection/memory of the past. Readers learn about a boy named Jonas who gets a special job holding the memories for the community. The first theme is, “It’s not always good to be perfect.” The second theme is, “As you grow, the more responsible you become.” In this book, there are three main characters, Jonas, Gabe ( a new child a.k.a. a baby ), and the Giver. Throughout the book, the themes are shown when Jonas sees his dad kill a new child over not being the right weight and also as Jonas gets his new job.