Quotes From The Giver By Louis Lowry

The Giver is written from the point of view of Jonas. At the beginning of the book Jonas is an eleven-year-old boy living in a futuristic society that got rid of all sorrow, pain, fear, hate and war. Everyone looks and acts almost the same. Everyone is polite and there is no competition. Also the community is not allowed any kind of choices from the moment they were born to the moment they are released. For example, at the age of nine you are given a bike and are not allowed to ride a bike before that age. Also at the age of

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

One of the traits jonah shares with mrs. Hodge is the ability to think under pressure. Mr. Hodge shows this trait when he was trapped by the kids in the cave he was calm in saying “ you can come to the future it is better and you don’t have to be split from your family members.” pg. 268 This actually made jonah think twice about his decision. Jonah has this trait also when he was trapped in the cave except, when mr. Hodge had the control. He was tied up and any normal kid would have gave up but not him. He knew he had soe allies on the inside of their group so he asked “can I please speak with only one person maybe her” pg. 278 she was his allie.

Imagine a world with no feelings, no color, no choice; a world where individuality and freedom are exchanged for security and sameness. This type of world is a reality for Jonas, the protagonist in Lois Lowry’s The Giver. After being assigned the next Receiver of Memories in the community, where he has the capacity to see beyond. As he begins his works, he gains wisdom and through that wisdom, learned that protecting the community from the memories, their lives lacked understanding and feelings. Jonas goes on an archetypal hero’s journey and chooses to risk everything to restore memories and wisdom to everyone in the community. Throughout this novel, Jonas is represented as a hero considering he demonstrates integrity despite living in a

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.

In the novel “The Giver,” written by Lois Lowry, Jonas is a boy who follows the rules, spends time with friends and family, goes to school, and at the Twelves Ceremony is given the job as the Receiver of Memory. At the end of the novel, Jonas learns information that makes him leave the community to save the people he loves. As Jonas becomes older, he acknowledges that he is different from his family and the people surrounded by him. Once Jonas got his assignment as the Receiver of Memory, his maturity became inconsistent throughout the novel.

In The Giver the authorities aim at achieving “Sameness” which means all people must be equal and the same. Lois Lowry describes a world of “sameness” where the lack of differences allows all members of the community to have predetermined roles and to follow an enforced set of rules. The Elders depict sameness in a way that makes it sound absolutely necessary, and without it, the whole world may fall apart. In the community of The Giver people accept everything as it is because they do not know any difference: “Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time … we relinquished sunshine and did away with difference” (Lowry, Giver 95). This sameness is terrifying and further imposes conformity on all people. So the community of The Giver is a uniformed society. People wear the same clothes; eat the same food; their houses are the same; and most of them look the same as well. By the age of ten, they all have the same short hair style: “females lost their braids at Ten, and males, too, relinquished their long childish hair took on the more manly style which exposed their ears” (Lowry, Giver 46). In The Giver the purpose of sameness is to protect people from wrong choices and to achieve safety for them.

“Jonas has not been assigned,” She informed the crowd, and his heart sank. Then she went on. “Jonas has been selected.” The quote pertained to this story due to the significance that Jonas had differentiated from his peers that had their differences acknowledged by the Elders themselves, each with their own desires within a career. The quote influenced Jonas his decisions within the chapters beyond the quote within the story, nevertheless brought Jonas his viewpoint of the situation and his decision into escaping from the community with Gabe to journey off Elsewhere. For example, Gabe had been planned for release the same day Jonas had escaped from the community, due to Jonas’ significant viewpoints he couldn’t bare the loss of Gabe, especially since he would be the only few to discover the true meaning behind being “released.” In the end of “The Giver,” Jonas and Gabriel had hallucinated while freezing to death because of the wild berries, the memories, and the physical limits of his human body.

If you make a mistake, you should be responsible and learn from it. In The Giver, Jonas’ world has no choice. The privilege to make decisions was taken away “to protect people from wrong choices.” There, they believe it’s definitely not safe” to let people choose things for themselves. They are scared that people won’t learn from their mistakes. This fact is so significant in our world. We all make mistakes, but we all need to learn from them to grow. If you happen to make the wrong choice and suffer the consequences, you most likely won’t make the same mistake again. For instance, if you ride your bike over a jump that’s too large for you, you could fall off and get injured, which no one wants. Then next time, you might think twice about attempting that jump again. Making a wrong choice is not a “failure” as long as you be responsible and learn from

Jonas and Gabriel face off with Mother Nature in The Giver by Lois Lowry, and the author clearly shows throughout the story that Gabriel and Jonas die. First, in the book, the quotes lead us to think that Jonas and Gabriel passed. Here's an example: “Jonas felt himself losing consciousness and with his whole being willed himself to stay upright atop the sled.” Pg. 179, paragraph 4.This quote shows Jonas is getting weak. Secondly, the author wrote a quote that gives this passage a grim feeling.

In The Giver, Jonas is never given any choice until he discovers that he doesn’t need permission to do everything. The Elders decide everything for him. Jonas’s choices in the beginning are follow the rules or get released. It is not until he receives more of the memories that he starts thinking for himself and making choices. For example, Jonas decides that he is going to try to show everyone about what he can see that no one else can. He also decides that he wants to know what happens during a release. This demonstrates curiosity, but Jonas asked to see it was a choice. A choice that he most likely would not have made before he started his training. He also decided to run away, to try to find the strange “Elsewhere.” This took a number of hours and quite a bit of

It might not have been the author's intent for religious allegory but it is still present. In the book, The Giver can be seen as God and The receiver can be seen as a prophet. The receiver can be seen as someone that God has chosen to receive the gospel and tell others the news of the Lord. Just like Jonas, Jonah was chosen to go to the corrupted city of Nineveh. Jonas’s community can be seen as perfect but colorless and bland. Jonas lives in a place called "the community" where supplies are brought in by cargo plane. The community is highly controlled. From the day of birth it is decided by “The Elders” already what role an individual plays in society. This was caused as a result of man which is just like the Garden of Eden which was corrupt due to man making it’s own choice instead of adhering to God’s choice. In December there is an induction ceremony called ceremony of Twelve, where the Elders who have been observing the kids gets a profession based on their strengths and weaknesses. For example Jonas father, got a job as Nurturer since he is good with kids. This is the same idea that God assigns us a certain job to do. He also chooses certains people to be leaders. Just as Jonas was chosen to get the most important job as receiver, Jonah was chosen apart from the rest to tell people the word of God.In the Giver, community members aren’t allowed to ask questions that would be rude and

In the book The Giver Jonas has a really complicated relationships with his father. It all started when his father told him about release but lied about it. Jonas thought that the people getting released would go to a happy place, but actually his father kills them with a shot then dumps them in the garbage. The Giver showed Jonas a video about the truth of the release because his father told him a lie. Jonas was very displeased when he found out what his dad does at a release and could not get pass the thought that his dad was a liar. Jonas can trust the giver because the Giver has never lied to Jonas and his dad has. This related in Jonas to have trust issues with other people.

To begin, the elders set apart Jonas and give him the prestigious job of “Receiver of Memory.”

In the book The Giver Jonas and the community have little choices they can make. In America we have lots of choices like how long your hair is, what you are going to wear to school and what color we want to wear. In Jonas’ community they cant even do that. Jonas left the community because he yearned for the freedom of choice. “If every things the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things”(PG97). Jonas wants to be able to pick his own tunic and job, but in the giver community he cant. He wants to pick his own spouse. Jonas is tired of sameness