Is The Giver Right Or Wrong

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.

“We don't dare to let people to make choices of their own.”In The Giver they decided things like their jobs,spouses,and children, whereas in our society we decided these things on own.The society in The Giver has many differences and few similarities with modern day society.

The result is, as praised by Jonas’ family unit, that the decisions the Elders make are never incorrect or unsuitable. They seem omniscient, and this strengthens their claim to power, their right to make decisions for the whole community as they are excellent at it. As has been shown above, the novel contains various forms of oppression. In order for “people” to express their individuality and humanity, freedom of choice is essential. Dehumanization is observed in The Giver’s society, and life within the communities becomes deformed, manipulated, and far from being a utopia. Infact, due to all the dehumanization, fear, surveillance and inequality shown in this society, it now strongly resembles dystopian one.

Imagine waking up one day, and all your choices are stripped away from you. You can no longer choice blue or red, up or down, one or two. Everything has been picked out for you whether you like it or not. The community in the Giver is a utopian society. All members have a clear-cut set of rules they must follow. The rules were made to get rid of pain and fix society’s problems. On the occasion of when the truth is revealed Jonas, a unique boy, questions society, and its motives. Personal choice is one of the most important things, even in the event that it may cause pain or suffering. Individuals within the community should have a right to pick their spouse, have their own children, and pick their careers.

Without choices, the people are missing out on important life lessons that can help you in life. People can learn from mistakes, they can learn from consequences. "Asher ran through the standard apology phrase rapidly, still catching his breath." (3) One of the rules in The Giver’s society is that you must apologize each time you break one of them. If someone is given the choice to apologize, they will understand why they apologize and realize their mistake. If they are forced to do it, it becomes worthless and doesn't mean anything. "Two children-one male, one female-to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules." (8) Another rule in The Giver’s society is that there is a limit on how many children you can have. In our society, if you want a another child you have the freedom to have another child. Without choices, there are no mistakes and no experiences of consequences. Without these crucial building blocks of society, there is no learning and no self

The Giver, a dystopian futuristic novel written by young adult author Lois Lowry won the 1994 Newbery Medal, and sold more than 12 million copies since its publication, according to USA Today, (McClurg). This literary masterpiece presents the reader with an unusual society that has eliminated pain, fear, war, emotion, and diversity. But as Jonas discovers the previous world, and uncovers many shocking secrets of his society, he finds himself living in an environment filled with vile practices that he can no longer tolerate. Jonas emphasizes the importance of reacting to unlawful orders or inhumane practices. "If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so,” (Thomas Jefferson). We should

In the futuristic novel, The Giver by Louis Lowry, many of our choices are taken away, leaving us with “Sameness” in which everyone and everything has no color and no choice, everyone is created to be “perfect.” Jonas a young boy is chosen as “The Receiver” in which he learns about leadership and commitment. He also has to make a number of choices to be considered a good leader. In the following paragraphs we will be exploring the things mentioned and comparing and contrasting how the right and wrong choice is determined in our society and in the novel The Giver.

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.

Jonas lives in a world of Sameness. In his community, life has been changed to be a place without color, choice, feelings, love, or inequality - a “perfect” world to all. No one ever complains: this is how the community runs, and has been running for as long as citizens can remember. At age 12, Jonas is assigned his life work as the Receiver of Memory and joins a mysterious old man named the Giver. The Giver uses his knowledge help the community make the right choices in times of crisis. He shares his memories about when life had the things that make life amazing - the color, the love, the feelings, the passion. Jonas is amazed and decides his world desperately is in need of change. The problem is, he doesn’t know how to fix his choreographed world to the place he envisions when Sameness is all anyone has ever known. Therefore, Jonas and the Giver make a plan to release memories to the people of the land and give them the wonders they’ve never known. Jonas runs away with the baby he loves, Gabriel, from the

No killing. No confusion. No hunger. No racism. Can there be such a world? In the novel, The Giver, Lois Lowry explains a utopian society, a society that is striving to be perfect. But a perfect society isn't realistic, and eventually takes a turn, leaving Jonas to make important decisions. He goes through many challenges of what feeling really is. Throughout the story jonas exhibits the characteristics of serious, curious, and honest.

The Giver, written in 1993 by Lois Lowry, is a very widely debated book. Lois Lowry, originally Lois Ann Hammersberg, was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on March 20, 1937. When she became 19, she married a naval officer named Donald Lowry. She had four children, two daughters and two sons, before Lowry divorced her husband for a time. Lowry published many popular books throughout her life, including The Giver, Number the Stars, and the many novels about Anastasia Krupnik.

You are about to experience a brief compare and contrast paper between reality and a fantasy. In which our world is no long a mass chaos but everyone is equal to each other. I am going to compare the book to the movie. Many things are different and most are the same, but i'm going to point of the differences today between the movie and the book.

H- Jonas had conflict with the society he was living in. Jonas had problems when he was going to train to be the new Giver of the communtiy. In the begining, Jonas thought that his community was a safe and good place to be a part of. Jonas had problems with his training because he was learning the trust about the community, and he didn't like it. The main character Jonas was on his way to the Giver when he seen a color he never saw before the color red on a girl named Fiona's hair.

Would you want someone to take the freedom you deserve away from you? Most likely not, but because of the rules made in some places, people have no idea what the real world is like. People only get to experience a limited amount of what really is in the real world. In the science fiction novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas tries to find Elsewhere because he is tired of living in a community with so many restrictions. During his journey, he faces many difficulties and experiences many problems he did not know existed. Sameness is a disadvantage because it requires people to follow the rules even when they think they are not right to and because it does not let people choose their decisions for themselves.

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.