Jonas's Society In The Giver By Lois Lowry

“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

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.

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.

Jonas accepting his society because he's unaware of emotions of the other people in his community. Jonas follows the rule of having the share your feelings everyday. Not telling

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

We really have to protect people from wrong choices,”(Lowry, page 99)In chapter 13, Jonas and The Giver discuss the options they have in their society. Jonas begins to get distracted by the idea of certain privileges that we happen to have in our current state of society. He begins to think out loud, and laugh at the fantasies he has created. In Jonas’ society they have little to no options. You cannot choose your spouse, job or many other simple luxuries we possess today.

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.

In “The Giver,” there are many utopian aspects, but one of the most influential is the aspects of family and how they’re put together. Some evidence of this can be found in this quote. “Two children-one male and one female-to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules (Lowry, 8).” This quote shows how people don’t have choice in how their families are laid out.

In Jonas’ Community in The Giver, each age group has its own ceremony every December in which new traditions or routines are given and old ones are taken. For example, at the end of chapter two, Mother tells Lily that when Lily becomes an eight, her comfort object will be taken away. The comfort object is later described as what we might call a stuffed animal, or a plush. Near the beginning of chapter two, Father tells about when he was younger, and reveals that kids get a bicycle when they become a nine. I think that this characteristic of the community is good and bad.

Jonas’s community that is displayed in The Giver is an dystopia. An dystopia is fictional perfect world where things have gone wrong. There are many examples that prove that Jonas’s society is an dystopia. Some of the examples are lack of knowledge, sameness, and complete control.

Family life in the book The Giver is very different compared to family life in our society. Lois Lowry does a good job making the families in the book seem very perfect. In The Giver, Lois Lowry shows how drastically different families are and how they interact compared to the way that we interact, but there are many differences to our society’s family life which is better because we are free to have our own kids, marry the spouse of our choice, and be able to run our families the way we want to. Marriage in the society where Jonas lives is another difference between the two societies.

Man and woman, night and day, and the sun and the moon are all alike in some ways, yet different in many others. The dystopian society of the The Giver and modern day society are the same way. While The Giver and modern day society do have some similarities, they also have many differences. While reading The Giver there was not much to find that compared to modern day society, however in the story it was very noticeable that the citizens in the society of The Giver view their elders with a higher respect and acknowledge their wisdom just as we do in our society today. Jonas’ mother is one of the many citizens who believes that the elders “ have probably the most important job in the community” (Lowry 35) because the elders advise them when

Our world is a dystopian society, with war and poverty. But that isn’t true for Jonas’ community in The Giver by Lois Lowry. Jonas’ community is one with a stable food supply, safety and without discrimination. All of those things come at a cost. Individuality, color, and emotions are all taken away to simplify and to make all the citizens the same.

There are many oppositions and similarities that go along with our modern day society and Jonas', an example of a difference in our two

In The Giver Jonas’ community the government is very strict about children and who is allowed to give birth to them. In the community you have to be assigned the job of birth mother to be allowed to get pregnant. The women that are pregnant carry the baby, give birth and then do not get to see the baby. In simpler words the birth mothers have babies for others and the child then gets assigned to a family. It’s horrible that the birth mothers don’t get to see the child because in our society that is one of the most exhilarating parts of life for the mother and father. Also, in Jonas’ community if the child is “different” or “not like the others” than they are released to Elsewhere. In our world it doesn’t matter what the child looks like or