Response To The Giver

The child isn't growing at a normal rate,which means that he will be "released" if he doesn't begin to grow the way he is supposed to. For Jonas Gabriel is a symbol of hope, and starting over. Because Gabe is just a baby and has not conformed to the rules of this society Jonas can show him the memories that he receives, and he does so because he feels that the baby could be a new beginning. All of the memories of the past that Jonas receives, show him how the society that he lives in is constricting to the people. He is genuinely scared of what could happen if he or Gabe stays where they are. This shows that although Jonas wouldn't want to break the rules, he feels the need to protect baby Gabe, and would go to any lengths necessary to do

In my opinion, Jonas left the community because of the memories and the reality presented to him by The Giver. After realizing the truth, he wanted to alter the perspectives of the citizens in the community by releasing his memories, he believed that the way people lived without any knowledge of the world surrounding them was wrong, and wished to live a more meaningful life when he left.

1. Jonas is an upstander because he makes the decision to save Gabe's life and flee with him. Jonas risks his life to move to a new society where there are things like color hills and snow. He figures out that Gabe is going to be released in other ways get killed and decides to protect Gabe and give him a better future. Jonas realizes what release means after he watches his father release one of the twins on a screen with The Giver. He decides not to go home and stay and sleeps over with The Giver, upset at his father for what he did. On the journey, Jonas has to transfer memories of heat to Gabe and trying to hide from planes that pass by. At first, it is easy because he has tons of memory but as the journey goes on Jonas continues to risk his life trying to grasp those memories of warmth.

So Jonas and, for now, the Giver are the only ones who must carry all these memories. But he doesn’t have a choice- he can’t apply

We see this when he sacrifices himself for the community: “‘If you get away,if you get beyond,if you get elsewhere,it will mean that the community has to bear the burden themselves, of the memories you had been holding for them”’(146). Jonas wants everyone to be able to see color and feel what he has felt. Therefore, Jonas sacrifices himself so that the community is able to see and feel what he had felt. In addition, one sees how he sacrifices himself so Gabe can survive: “For a fleeting second he felt that he wanted to keep it for himself, to let him bathe in sunlight, unburdened by anything or anyone else”(165). This conveys how in the freezing cold, rather than keeping the memory of sunlight to himself, he transferred the memory to Gabe.

Wondrous poet Francesco Petrarch stated "Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety is the cure". Lois Lowry conveyed a more significant, powerful warning about the future in the film version of 'The Giver', due to its representation of knowledge of the past, significance of emotion and, deception of government confinement. A healthy vision of the future is not possible without any accurate knowledge of the past. In the film Jonas states "Without memories it's all meaningless."

With the sound of music flowing through Jonas’s ears, Jonas sped down the hill; anticipating the reaction of the people waiting for him below. Somehow, Jonas knew this would work out. He knew that Gabe would survive, that he would have family and friends to love and that they would love him back. Jonas could feel someone helping through this. Maybe it was the Giver. All Jonas knew was that he could feel love in the air.

In the book The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the setting is in a community of citizens. There are many communities led by a group of elders. In the community the citizens have their jobs chosen for them. It would be a good thing so that way everyone would have a job. If I were to try to guess what my job would be I think it would be the recreational director.

Jonas felt something moving in his lap, and Gabe 's blond head popped up in front of him, his features fuzzy and his voice incoherent. Jonas tried to talk to him, to comfort him and tell him he was alright, but even his voice was unresponsive. The words were right there, caught in his throat, and it brought tears to his eyes that he could not let them out.

From that night forward, when he discovered that gabe could receive memories, Jonas starts giving him his thoughts to calm him down. He also discovers that the community changed the old way of life, and they became stricter. He also discovered that when they release they just kill the people. The higher people of the area lie by telling them that when they release people they put them elsewhere.

Imagine living a life with no knowledge of color, memories, death, or love. This is the community imagined by Lois Lowry in her book The Giver. The protagonist, Jonas and The Giver are the only two people who possess feelings and knowledge that the rest of the community has been robbed of. We learn that feelings and knowledge have the power to change everything. Knowledge has the power to change what anyone likes or dislikes.

Gabe was dead. Jonas finally accepted this. He never felt pain like this before, not even when the Giver gave him the most painful memories. His head ached from crying. His heart was broken. He took Gabe out of the community to prevent death. Now Jonas felt like his dad because he feels like he was accountable for Gabe’s death. “I brought him from death only for him to die,” sighed Gabe.

Would you rather be brainlessly happy or educated? The giver is a utopian novel based on a community called “The community”. The main character is Jonas, a twelve-year-old. Jonas is given what is perhaps the most important role in his community: The role of the receiver of memory. As thus, he is one of the very few people who know about not only the world outside, but the world before the community.

"For all the children to whom we entrust the future."- Lois Lowery. The Giver teaches us about our society. The novel The Giver is a boy names Jonas that is in a society were you are not allowed to get married or you can not see in color. This can cause depression, feelings of severe loss of hope or a sad and depressed state. In the world many people have been going threw depression. In the book there is a women that is the receiver of memories before Jonas and the giver gives here the memory of war. The very next day she asks the people who work for the nursery to give her a shot that would kill her. The Giver also brings up the topic of war. War has been going around our world since Pangea split into pieces and created the continents. War

“He killed it! My father killed it!”, were the words Jonas screamed after seeing the grim scene of his father killing a child. (Lowry 150) In Lois Lowry’s book, The Giver, readers are warped into a Utopia where everything is perfect, except for the one who has to bear the memories forever. As The Receiver, Jonas is tossed and turned into a handful of emotions along with the readers. After reading The Giver, it made me realize that I went through the journey with the characters, every step of the way. It made many emotions of frustration, hope, shock, and sorrow. How would you like to see one of a set of twins be killed, only because it weighed only slightly under six pounds?