Should The Giver Die

Jonas cried. A man comes out of his house rushing to save the starving children and offers them food and shelter they kindly accept. Jonas and the man have small talk for a few minutes,

“He forced his eyes open as they went downward, downward , sliding, and all at once he could see, lights, and he recognized them now. He knew they were shining through the window of rooms that they were the red, blue, and yellow lights that twinkled from trees. ”The meaning of this quote is that Jonas is hallucinating and he is about to die, but has remembered the first memory he received, and so he is thinking it is real and that there is people, a house, lights, and music. Actually, Jonas is dying from hypothermia. It pertains to the story because last memory he remembered is the first one the giver gave him, and also shows that even though Jonas has died all the memories he received are now gone and the people have the memories know.

First of all, I believe The Giver is a dystopia because you have no choices. In document E it states,” If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices!” This is significant because in Jonas’s society you have no choices. In document F it states that,” And Gabriel? For Gabriel there would have been no life at all. So there had not really been a choice.” This is significant because if Jonas stayed in the community Gabriel would have died and Jonas could not live with that.

Can the society in The Giver be considered an utopia or dystopia? Lois Lowry, the author of The Giver got her idea in 1992 when she went to go visit her father. She then discovered that her father was losing his memory, but her mother wasn’t. This then made Lowry questions if live would be easier if all the painful memories disappeared. Is The Giver's community an Utopia or Dystopia? The Giver’s community is a dystopia because there is limited freedom, people of the community are oblivious to what is happening around them, and the Committee of Elders are abusing their power.

What happened to my parents and lily. He wondered what happened to them. Did they miss Jonas? Did they truly care about Jonas?

In Lois Lowry’s “The Giver,” Jonas chose to leave safety of his home and venture out for freedom, but his courage was sadly not rewarded as he unfortunately didn't make it to Elsewhere. The author clearly states that, “Jonas felt himself losing consciousness and with his whole being willed himself to stay upright...” The Author goes even as far to say, “He forced his eyes open as they went downward, downward, sliding, and all at once he could see lights.” The first quote clearly shows that Jonas was drifting towards death. Then he seems to see lights flash on as he passes on to another place.

In the novel The Giver, the everyday life for the characters is like that.There are no colors instead everything is in gray, Nobody has emotions even the word "love" is considered an insult and as for choices, A group of people called the elders, make all the decisions for everyone.Soon Jonas discovers a darker side to his community. I think the question has many elements to it, that lets us further understand the novel and characters, I think Jonas made the right decision by leaving the community because it helped Jonas find a better life and it let the community experience feelings.

When Jonas and the Giver decided on their plan for escape to Elsewhere they knew that Jonas could,“ never return… It was the terrifying part" (194). This quote shows just how little the people of the Community know about Elsewhere. It also points out how reluctant Jonas was to leave the Community. Once Jonas leaves the community he faces many challenges. The most terrifying one was the planes, “when the planes came he wished that he could have received the [memories of] courage" (211). Jonas was afraid of the planes because he knew that if the planes captured him he would be killed. The planes searching for Jonas also signify how important the Receiver of Memory’s job is to the Community. Although Jonas was afraid, his fear that the Community would stay the same, was the only emotion that kept him going on his long journey to

Depending on what you do, you get 1 of the 10 endings, The giver is like this because Jonas is an outsider and usually doesn't listen to the speaker, This results in a certain outcome, which happens to be dying. In reality if

The book The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a kid name Jonas trying to live in a so called perfect union. Jonas experience develops a theme over the course The Giver by teaching the reader for every action there is a consequence. Although some readers may believe that for every actions there’s not a consequence, Jonas’ experience shows that once Jonas leaves the community he suffers from starvation and also pain.

Choices are extremely controlled so that the government only has power, everyone isn't able to experience emotions such as grief and love. And release means getting executed and tossed in a box. The giver is very different from our world, but what if it isn't as different as we think? Jonas grew up for twelve years thinking no one would ever lie to him, but it turns out the person he trusted most did. His father turned out to be a murderer and liar, but what if he wasn't the only one?

Imagine a needle going three inches into your arm, then everything goes black. In the novel “The Giver” Euthanasia is promoted as good, but the author sees it differently. I believe that the author does not promote euthanasia but the story does. The author expresses her feelings through the main character Jonas in my opinion.

One person is isolated from their town to find the New World, a dimension that has a different government. When searching for the New World, you could find new unpredictable problems and surprises, like in “The Giver”. In “The Giver”, from page 170 to 178, Jonas and Gabriel was in situations, that they both experienced new problems, like rain, hunger, and snow, that slowed them down along the way. In page 178 to 179, Jonas and Gabriel found the other community, with amazing surprises, like lights and music. You always need to prepare and store items, before living in a new society, like in both “The Giver” and “I Am Currency”. In “The Giver”, The Giver taught Jonas most of his ideas, thoughts about life, and food for Jonas to search the other

Have you ever considered what happens to a person when they change? In the book 'The Giver', Jonas is similar in a few ways at the end of the book from the start. But why does this matter? When a person goes through difficult experiences, they are still the same in a lot of ways.

Throughout the novel Giver, Jonas was questioning his society and community. Jonas accepting his society because he's unaware of the emotions of the other people in his community. Jonas starts to question his community when Jonas starts to feel emotions from getting memories. Jonas became to reject his society because he finds out what his community actually is. In the beginning of the novel, Jonas accepts his society's rules but once he starts to feel the memories of the past Jonas questions, and if they purposely took that out for the rest of the community.