Memory In The Giver

“Color.” It’s all around us, we see it every day of our lives, everything has color, but the people in Jonas’ community didn’t know this. They had no clue what color was or that it even existed. Their society was hue less, hopeless, and everything was the same until the new receiver of memory changed that for everyone. In our world choice is a big part of our everyday lives we make many choices a day, do I want this or that, green or blue, this shirt or that shirt? But in The Giver choices were made for them, what they wear, how they act, what they say, what they eat, and what they do for a living. Imagine all that stuff being chosen for you. Everyone would be dressed the same, act the same,

Imagine that all of society is now like the child who woke up with no memory. Now not only the child is confused, but all of society. This event would easily take place without the existence of memory. Memory is so crucial that without memory, all of society would wake up with no intelligence. Memory is significant to society because it gives society hope for the future, keeps society from repeating past mistakes and provides remembrance for people and previous

If the citizens in the community were to hold their own memories, it would make The Giver and Jonas receive less stress. They would not have to worry about keeping the pain, joy, melancholy, memories that they get to experience each day a secret. The Giver and Jonas would be able to share what they learn and they would be able to teach others as well. “ The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” (p.193). The Giver and Jonas would not be the only ones who get to see color and feel love and emotions. They would be able to talk to people about what they discovered or what had happened in their memories. The Giver and Jonas would not be alone.

If you were given the chance to be Receiver of Memory and be able to lie, feel emotions, and have the highest honor of the community given to you, would you take it? In the book The Giver it’s a community where everything is the same no one can be better than anyone else know this might sound like a good idea but it's not. The book is based on a kid named Jonas, he is a 11 year old boy who doesn't know what to expect as a job for the ceremony of 12. In the ceremony of 12 you are given a job, you do not get to choose a job you are given one. The chief of elders is the one who gets to decide what job you get assigned. Jonas doesn't know what he wants to be he likes most of the jobs but he feels like they don't suit him very well. So they cheif of elders decided to assign the job of Receiver of Memory for Jonas. The Receiver of Memory is the person who hold all the memories of what the world used to be like before all the sameness.

The Giver knows that if he leaves all the memories will be released causing a ruckus in the society and all his memories of pain and death to be experienced by the people. He knows this will happen because when a receiver of memory(Rosemary) was released all of her memories were as well and the society was panicking and nothing was in control. But he is also preventing them from feelings and color and things like snow which is bad because then they don't know who the are basically they are like robots. They don't know that they are killing people when they get released that is all impossible due to the society. HE has the power to do so but doesn't keep all the good and bad memories for himself. And when Jonas comes and tells him all the things wrong he's like oh ya and helps Jonas escape causing him his life if anyone figures out he was

So now on he can remember what he did and he won't ever forget that he had done it because his conscience reminds

The Giver shows a video to Jonas and his opinion on his Father changes. “‘He killed it! My father killed it!’ Jonas said to himself, stunned at what he was realizing”’ (188). Jonas and The Giver were talking about what release really is and The Giver insisted on showing him a video of that morning’s release.

Memories can be very valuable. Whatever happens, the memories will never be forgotten. “Memories are forever.” - The Giver. In this science fiction novel, Giver, Lois Lowry demonstrates that even though Jonas world was perfect, he knew something was missing. Everyone in the story was polite to Jonas. Once the Giver gave him lots of memories of love, happiness, and kindness, he knew how to bring back memories to the people. In the beginning of Giver, Jonas had a sickening feeling that something terrible is gonna happen. This perspective changed Jonas during the novel. The message of the novel, The Giver, is memories can bring you back to the old days. Memories can be unique in different types of ways.

Do you remember learning about the Holocaust, Jim Crow Laws, or the Spanish Inquisition? For most of us, these events, and many more like them, have shaped our morals, beliefs, and way of life. Imagine having those past referrals withdrawn and no longer having navigation as to what has made us who we are. This is a reality for the citizens in the book, The Giver, as we observe many problems in their utopia from an overlying dilemma, withdrawal from the past. Living life without the knowledge of history deprives us of skill and identification, hinders our understanding of the future, and incites previous mistakes to recur.

Do you consider yourself to have a great memory or do you consider yourself to have a bad memory? Can you remember more than four phone numbers and more than three immediate family members birthdays without using any technology? If you cannot answer those simple questions than maybe you should reconsider on working on your memorization side of your brain. Joshua Foer, the author of The End of Remembering, and Paulo Freire, author of The “Banking” Concept of Education, both write about how important memory is in the world today. In Foer’s passage he states that before paper, books, and modern technology people were expected to remember any piece of information that was given to them. Now people rely on anything that could record information so they would not have to remember it or worry about forgetting. He believes that technology is running our memory. However in Freire’s passage he states that memorizing decontextualizes and is unrelated to present conditions, but memory can concrete conditions of our daily lives. The importance of memory and its functions in the world today is that it lets a person find self-identity, prevents shallow base of knowledge, and sets values.

Memory is needed in order to form a sense of individuality. Without memory, civilizations would not be able to progress and expand. In the novel, Obasan, we get to see that based on memory, there's a spectrum that is formed. On one side, we have Uncle and Obasan who believe that the past remains there. On the other end is aunt Emily, she believes that only by discussing and expressing past events we can ensure that they never happen again and that these events mark a place in history.

The article "Memory Matters” reviewed by Steven Dowshen and The Giver by Lois Lowry are two very different readings that can connect with each other in important ways. In the novel The Giver, Jonas is selected as the new Receiver of Memory in which a lot of what he starts to see, do, and think about deals with his brain and memories which is exactly the information the article "Memory Matters" contains. On Jonas's first training session him and the Giver discuss the process of receiving memories and how some bring happiness and other pain. He starts off with the memory of snow and  him sledding down the hill. In the article "Memory Matters", it states, "When an event happens, when you learn something, or when you meet someone, your brain determines

Memory – what it is, how it works, and how it might be manipulated – has long been a subject of curious fascination. Remembering, the mind-boggling ability in which the human brain can conjure up very specific, very lucid, long-gone episodes from any given point on the timeline of our lives, is an astounding feat. Yet, along with our brain’s ability of remembrance comes also the concept of forgetting: interruptions of memory or “an inability of consciousness to make present to itself what it wants” (Honold, 1994, p. 2). There is a very close relationship between remembering and forgetting; in fact, the two come hand-in-hand. A close reading of Joshua Foer’s essay, “The End of Remembering”, and Susan Griffin’s piece, “Our Secret”, directs us

The novel, The Giver, was a captivating piece of writing that had everyone hunched over in their desks with the book covering their faces. The main character, Jonas, was just a typical boy in a community filled with Sameness. When Jonas reached age 12, he got chosen to become the new Receiver, a job that required him to be given joyful, dismal, and painful memories of the past. A man named the Giver transmitted many of these memories into his mind. Once Jonas realized that the world was a better place when everyone could make their own choices and control their own feelings, he decided to make a run for it. He had taken a toddler named Gabriel with him on the escape because he couldn’t bear the thought of leaving him for dead. After many dreadful days they had finally reached a hill that seemed significant in a sort of way. While sliding down it they could hear voices of people singing

Memory is used as a tool to preserve past realities, but memory is never an absolute preservation.