Release In The Giver

For the first time,he heard something that he knew to be music.He heard people singing. Jonas wipes his eyes and still saw the lights and houses with all the pretty lights.

Measures are always being taken to ensure the safety of the people which makes the society in which Jonas lives very safe. These measures are what makes the community a safe place to live in. In the Giver written by Lois Lowry the society that is being shown is taking safety to another level.

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.

In this situation, Jonas witnesses an event that forces him to understand that life may involve suffering and fear. Seeing this memory compelled Jonas to be wiser with his actions because he too may experience much pain throughout his life, thus, causing his gain of maturity. In addition, according to Jonas when he experiences his father “release” a young newborn child, “the newchild, no longer crying, moved his arms and legs in a jerking motion. Then he went limp. His head fell to the side, his eyes half open” (Lowry 187).

Jonas has to learn more about death and pain than he already has. Death was something that wasn’t talked about in the community. The community “releases” members when they are old or if there is a set of twins or something wrong with a baby. Release is something celebrated within the community. Jonas had no idea that what release really means is to murder someone. He watches the release of a baby boy who was part of a set of twins born into the community. His father is the one performing this release because his father is a nurturer. This knowledge left Jonas devastated and in shock that his father could do something so terrible. He leaves the Giver’s and tells him that he can no longer continue receiving the memories. He takes a few days and collects himself. Fiona, his childhood friend talks him into to going back. Love is another emotion new to Jonas. He falls in love with Fiona. Falling in love is a big step that usually happens in adulthood. Another thing Jonas does that proves his progression in maturity is he decides to leave the community. When you grow up, you leave your mom and dad’s house which is how I connected this part of Jonas’ life with that of a real life

The poem, "Dulce Et Decorum Est", and chapter 15 of "The Giver" develops many underlying themes and imagery. A theme developed through the two writings is related to lightning bolts. Also, the imagery used in the two writings is very harsh-seeming to develop the theme.

The themes of suffering and death, outline the author and director’s sociological perspective on manipulation and are developed through the techniques of juxtaposition, symbols, camera angles and sound effects. Lowry uses juxtaposition when associating a cruel act with a normalised blameless deed as Jonas is granted the opportunity to witness the “release” of a child. “…the new child, no longer crying, moved his arms and legs in a jerking motion. Then he went limp. His head fell to the side, his eyes half-open. Then he was still” (Chapter 19). Lowry uses subtle yet effective language to describe the death of the child; however, the incorporation of laughter and happiness expressed through Jonas’ father contrasts with the reality of the

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When some of the babies are not perfect they would take their lives if they are not developing fast enough. Jonas finally found that out when he was watching his dad in his memories of him not knowing that he was killing a baby. The people never knew what they were actually doing, they thought they were just releasing the babies somewhere else and helping them. Since they lived in a universe where there is no such thing as pain, sadness, or death. For example if a woman had a set of twins, one of the would only be aloud to survive. Jonas finally had a feeling about death, something horrible and deceiving at all times.

In the story, Jonas is reacting to his father killing the child. He is angry and sad at his father. The book says, “He killed it! My father killed it!”(188). This is important because this shows how the community needs change because they kill innocent children. Jonas reacting showed that emotions help people care about others.

Jonas’s community is a dystopia because the community kills all citizens before natural death. While Jonas is doing his training for becoming the new receiver, he wants to know more about release. So, the Giver showed him the video of his father releasing the a newborn. Jonas then finds out that release is actually the death of the person, not sending them to elsewhere, away from the

Have you ever wondered what life would be like without feelings? Jonas is a 12 year old boy in a dystopian futuristic society. Jonas learns about the memories of the past before the sameness and really starts to wonder if life would have been better with memories. The person who helps Jonas throughout the book is known as The Giver. He is very respected throughout the community.

At the Ceremony of Twelves, the children get their job; they are given a specific job that fits their actions and by where they had spent most of their volunteer hours. Everything is chosen for you, you can’t make a choice that’s important by yourself, and someone else is to choose for you. The Release of the Old and the Release of some of the unfortunate infants may seem very benign but it isn’t. Other folk believe Release to Elsewhere would nice but what they think is wrong. The workers actually use a syringe and inject fluids into the innocent elder, infant, or voluntary victim to kill them. Jonas’ father had to Release the innocent twin brother because he was identical but was smaller than his sibling. Jonas believes that the people that Release others have no feelings; that they have no regard that they are killing an innocent life just because they were born that way or that they were getting too old.

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I have accomplished one thing during National Novel Writing month and that is completing a novel in November 2011 entitled The Autumn Jones E-Files. Read the excerpt below about the book: