In The Giver What Does The Novel Suggest About Making Choices

Life is a matter of choices, and every choice you make makes you. – John C. Maxwell. In the novel The Giver, Lois Lowry shows the reader how choices in life are important, and should be made by us, not for us. Lowry uses characters such as Jonas and the giver to illustrate how choices should be made by us. She uses other characters such as Jonas's father to reflect how people are often blinded by the standards of society and do not realize they can actually make their own choices. With these characters, The Giver illustrates how choices are often made for us by figures of authority.

The giver follows the life of a young boy named Jonas. In the future, society is different from now, emotions, colour, pain, and liberty are all things of the past, in this alleged dystopian novel. Thorough explanation of this is left out in the novel, what we know is some war or tragedy due to all the emotions, opinions, cultures etc. led to great measures being taken. Thus eliminating all feelings both good and bad, which in turn dehumanized the whole population almost making them in to living robots, just so that the chance of another catastrophe is narrowed down to almost zero. Liberty is merely an illusion in this novel since no choices are made by the people only by the “elders” who aren't explained a lot either

     This book is about a boy names Jonas. Jonas lives in a futuristic society where there is no pain, fear, war, and hatred. There is also no prejudice, since everyone looks and acts basically the same, there is very little competition. They have also eliminated choice.

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.

The setting of The Giver takes place in a fictional community known as the “Sameness”. Life here is supposed to be "perfect" because there is no pain or suffering. They don’t have to take

In the novel, The Giver, the author Lois Lowry presents a community where choices are limited to what the community leaders allow. The author believes that control over choices can secure one’s safety and allow the individual to be content with their situation. Some individuals will revolt against the community in an attempt to gain something better.

The Giver strives to be a utopian society but the still can’t be perfect. The Giver is a book with the main character being Jonas, Jonas has no last name; however, no one else had the last name in their society. The Giver is a Dystopian because they get their memories erased, they are all equal, and they get assigned jobs when they are 12.

In the novel The Giver, Jonas make choices that leads to consequences. Although some readers may believe that the choices you make does not affect your future, Jonas experiences shows that choices can affect your aftermath. Jonas experiences develops a theme over the course of The Giver by teaching the readers that choices can lead to a positive or negative aftermath.

The Giver is about a young boy of twelve named Jonas who lives in a utopian/dystopian future in which everything is “perfect” and controlled by something called “Sameness.” There is no color, no music, no anything that creates individuality. When Jonas is chosen to receive the memories of the past from a person called the Giver, he begins to see what society has lost and learns dark secrets about what officials do to keep it that way. At the end of the novel, Jonas runs away with an unusual child named Gabriel, who is marked for death, in an attempt to share his newly found memories with the world and find the place called “Elsewhere.” “The majority of the bans on this book are because of children issues instead of grown up ones.

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

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 Imagine a black and white world with no love. In the book, The Giver, by Louis Lowry, the protagonist, Jonas, disagrees with this dystopian way of life. Modern day society and Jonas’s society have close to nothing in common. Jonas’s society is emotionless, experiences Sameness, and has no freedom of choice, while modern day society revolves around emotions, individuality, and freedom.

Imagine you lived in a world with no pain, color, love, sunshine, memories,and have every aspect of your life controlled by a group of elders.Well in Lois Lowry’s The Giver for 11 year old (soon to be twelve) Jonas this is his average everyday life.In Jonas’s eyes, he lives in a utopian community.Jonas lives like this until he is selected as receiver and has some unexpected experiences. This leads Jonas to being able to see color,memories,pain,and love. These experiences makes Jonas realize that the community must change for the better.Jonas changes throughout The Giver and as a result, tries to change the community.

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.