Loneliness In The Giver

Also they will never experience the weather and nature and so many other things that we have in our world that make us so happy and so in love. Without these things this will most likely make the people who live in the community very depressed and sad. This is shown here when Jonas experiences true happiness, love and family, “ ‘What did you perceive?’ The Giver asked. ‘Warmth,’ Jonás replied, ‘and happiness. And-let me think. Family. That it was a celebration of some sort, a holiday. And something else — I can’t quite get the word for it’... ‘They were called Grandparents’ ”(Lowry 123). In this moment Jonas experiences warmth, family and love. He sees the new true meaning of happiness because he is able to compare it to the pain and loss he went through before. Mostly all of the people who live in The Giver community cannot experience happiness like this. They can not compare the happiness and warmth they (don’t) experience to the pain and loss that they (don’t) experience.

One theme for The Giver is the importance of human connection. The author, Lois Lowry, portrays this theme by depicting a society without human connection. Jonas learns through the memories The Giver transmits about love and immediately longs to experience it in his everyday life. Jonas first started creating bonds with The Giver. They are the only ones who truly understand each other. The Giver has said that he felt love for Jonas. This is why he sent Jonas Elsewhere because he could not bear to see Jonas go through what he had. Jonas also feels this way towards Gabriel. Ever since Gabriel started to stay at his family’s lives, he started to create a bond between them. He felt the same way for Gabriel as The Giver had when he took Gabriel

During his training, Jonas starts to feel pain, which is something that the rest of his community has never felt before. He understands that this is what the community is trying to protect them from. Jonas starts to feel separate and more informed than the rest. On page 110 it reads “They have never known pain he thought. The realization made him feel desperately lonely, and he rubbed his throbbing leg”. Realizing he would never be able to share his experiences and relate to the other twelves and his family makes him feel very isolated from the rest of the community. He also feels like everyone else would benefit from having the memories so they could experience feelings and being able to choose and after sharing this with The Giver, they

The theme conveyed through the Giver is that individuality should be valued. The story takes place in a utopian society where everything is the same. There are no choices, no color, and no love in the Community of Sameness. The novel starts out a month before the Ceremony of Twelve, where the 12 year olds each get assigned a job. Jonas gets the assignment of the Receiver of Memory, and he soon finds out that lying is permitted, and receives several memories of the past without sameness, with pain too. He has the ability to see beyond, and finds out that he and the Giver are the only people in the Community that have the ability to see, as well as hear beyond. Similar to the phenomenon of an apple changing quality and his friend Fiona’s hair doing the same

The community in The Giver is that the people don’t have things that normal people like us do. That is because in the community of Jonas, there are a lot of rules for the people to stay safe but the people doesn’t know the memories from “Elsewhere” and they are never curious about the world that is outside their community. They are used to following rules, and doing the same thing everyday. They do have manners but they don’t know about the education they deserve, and they are all just like robots. The way that family life works in that community is that they are chosen in family units and they don’t have the feeling of love in their family. The people in the community don’t know what love is and they don’t have feelings that normal families have. In The Giver,

To start, Ponyboy, Jonas, and Brian all have to overcome hardships in their life. When ponyboy, [the main character in the book] was little, his parents passed away in a car crash. He and his brothers, Dally and Sodapop, had to learn to take care of themselves after this devastation occurred. Ponyboy explains how his parent's death affected him and his brothers:“Since Mom and Dad were killed in an auto wreck, the three of us get to stay together only as long as we behave. So Soda and I stay out of trouble as much as we can, and we’re careful not to get caught when we can’t”

The community, according to the Giver, went to the idea of sameness a while ago. It involved the lack of weather (no snow), and the entire community is in black and white. Jonas thinks that the idea of sameness is unfair. Thanks to the memory of the rainbow and him not taking the pill, Jonas can see colors unlike his friends. He says to the Giver that things should be different, but the Giver thinks the idea is good because there will be no conflict. Because of Sameness,....

Some character I feel were needed to be put in the movie that were also in the book because those few characters added well to the scene and really made the book interesting. Johnny´s mother didn't make it to the movie. As I said in the lasted question Johnny´s mother was in the scene where she cused at Ponyboy and Dally and that scene added well to the book. Johnny mother in a way seemed to care about Johnny but never really showed it in their house. That sadly made Johnny not want to see his mother when he was in the hospital. Another character that wasn´t really needed in the movie was Sodapop's horse named Micky Mouse which Soda loved with all his heart but sadly Micky Mouse was sold by the ranch who owned him and Micky Mouse had to leave.

Isolation is a very sad thing. There are two ways it can go. Either someone can just deal with its and be lonely and sad, or that person can make it into a positive thing. In the Giver, Jonas is getting very isolated with his community, first Jonas refuse to go back to the annex room, then he stop taking the pills, then the game of war, and last he knows about release. Jonas refuse to go to the annex room because he doesn't want any more memories of pain.

But perhaps it was only an echo. Sitting there in the sled looking upon the people in his Christmas memory but this time it wasn’t a memory it was real life. His parents & grandparents were was standing there in the night holding candles singing carols of old. He got out and they hugged him as if they got back from a trip far away and finally returned. All the sudden the parents grabbed Gabe while the grandparents grabbed Joneses hand and they walked to their house that was just around the corner. At that moment neither Gabe or Jonas were cold or scared of these people. In fact they forgot they lived in the community. They felt as if those were their real family members. On the way to the house they asked where the two went and why they didn’t

Imagine living in a place where at the age of twelve you were assigned an occupation by a group of elders and had no choice of that occupation. Imagine a world in which you cannot choose that special person to be your spouse, where you cannot have your own children and are to take care of someone else’s children. Visualize a world where everyone is the same, except you. In The Giver by Louis Lowery, Jonas is different in ways he cannot change. His alienation reveals the surrounding society’s assumptions and moral values about individuality, memory, and emotions -in order to achieve sameness?

In The Giver the community cannot have emotions, they can have feelings, but not emotions because they are suppressed by the pills. Before Jonas became the receiver of memory, he thinks he knows what emotions are because he has never experienced emotions, in fact, none of the community members except the Giver have not had emotions. After Jonas becomes the Receiver of Memory and learns

In The Giver, Lois Lowry shows that the community has a lack of emotion and colour (both symbolically and literally.) As Jonas receives more and more memories, he sees what real emotions are, for example: Happiness and Sadness. Therefore, their free will to feel emotion has been taken just so that there would be no passion, in which there would protectiveness, which would lead to fighting and chaos. The citizens have lost their free will to express themselves because individuality is supposedly rude and

The theme the author seems to be attempting to convey through the story is that "Individuals should be cherished". The book shows that while unification can result in a peaceful and an altogether more understanding community, it can also restrict individuality. Individuality and order cannot be separated and are deeply tied together. Without unique attributes that make each person diverse from anyone else, a plain and almost boring society is formed. With everyone following regulations and laws, people have the same opinions and thoughts as their neighbors. This would result in a setting like that of The Giver's. With no different thoughts, citizens of such a population would eventually grow blind to events like Release. Alternately, having

People tend to seek out literature with which they can connect to. Perhaps that is why J.D. Salinger’s Catcher in The Rye is still relevant to many readers, especially teens, today, because the experiences and feelings that Holden has resemble that of teens today.