Similarities Between The Giver And Pleasantville

After reading The Giver, it can be understood that our world and their community has many differences, but there are also some similarities.

Lowis Lowry, author of The Giver, and Gary Ross, director of Pleasantville, both present a world that lives in conformity. This however is shown to have exceptions. These exceptions in life is what allows us to live a more colourful life than to just exist. They are experienced through individuality, memory, and many diverse experiences, that allows us to change. What follows is an analytical analysis that highlights the similarities and differences in which the characters learn to overcome many boundaries and do certain actions that is purely not about fitting in.

In the book "The Giver" Jonas demonstrates courage in his willingness to continue to become a receiver even after feeling the terrifying memories of pain and suffering. When he received the memory of the war and starvation they hurt Jonas and after

The book also talks about how different memories can change someone. Jonas reacted strongly when he realised how much he would prefer a life where he could make his own choices, using past memories and experiences to make the right decisions. Another situation involving Jonas was when the Giver had transmitted a memory of love to Jonas. He went back home and ask his parents ‘‘Do you love me?’’ (Lowry 162). His

Having memories is an significant part of life. Memories benefit everyone learn from immoral things that have happened in the past and relate to them. Memories also help us relate to the feelings, fellow humans experience throughout their day-to-day lives. When Jonas becomes the Receiver, he starts to comprehend what feelings actually are. The Giver had been transmitting the feelings to Jonas throughout his teaching, and he in detail transmits one that has to do with the feeling love. When Jonas finally grasps what love is from his memory about Christmas and family, he goes home to ask his parents if they love him. His mom declares they do not use such “meaningless” words, they use real words and “take pride” in his presence. When Jonas goes to training one day in the office, the Giver is hunched over recalling a painful memory from the past, and Jonas decides to stay and take the memory from

Jonas is an eleven year old boy who lives in a “community” that takes place in the future in which everyone lives a basic lifestyle where nobody experiences any hardship nor the colorful wonders of the world. Jonas was assigned the job of the Receiver of Memory at the Ceremony of Twelve because he was able to “see beyond.” He trained with the old Receiver,

The Giver is an exceptional book with many themes to would be great for everyone, but one key theme is the value of the individual. The narrator, Lois Lowry, points out that when people are unable to experience pain, their individuality is lowered. Memories are so vital because many of them include pain. What is painful to one person might not be painful to another. People can learn from memories and gain wisdom from remembering past experiences in life. The Elders in the society and The Giver decided sameness is key, instead of having differences. As being The Giver, he must deal with all the pain that comes with memoires. “Please,” as he gasped, take some of the pain”… Jonas braced himself and entered the memory which was torturing The Giver”

The Giver teaches us about the importance of memory. For example, the Giver tells Jonas he holds onto memories of past generations to advise the Committee of Elders. The Giver states, “Only when they are faced with something that they have not experienced before. Then they call upon me to use the memories to advise them.” (130).

“Jonas became the receive of memory) , the giver is going to give Jonas some good and painful memories”. In our modern society everyone has their own memories

One of the most significant themes in The Giver is the importance of memory, in Jonas’s society pain is something that needs to be forgotten. To do that they gave all their memories up to one person.

Jonas lives in a community, described as if it is perfect and without chaos. Everything is in order with meals delivered to each family unit and a job assigned to every one. All citizens have their own rules to follow. Jonas lives in a standard family unit, with two parents and a little sister, Lily. On the ceremony of the Twelves, Jonas was chosen to become the next Receiver of Memory, a job with the most high honor. Since the society needs to be in absolute order, they don’t want to know the pain and the suffering and all the negative memories. Therefore, a Receiver of Memory is necessary for the society because he holds all the memory, and obtains wisdom. Jonas is confused at first, then amazed at the new world of knowledge that’s transmitted to him through The Giver. But as the training proceeds,

In The Giver, the Receiver of memory is supposedly the most important job in the community, but is the job really all that it is said to be? Being the Receiver comes with honor, but with it comes terrible pain and loneliness. Being the next receiver means that Jonas has to experience all the pain meant for the entire community all by himself. When Jonas is playing a game of war with friends one day, he gets distressed and tries to explain all the horrible things about war to them. That's when he realized, “ they have never known the pain”(Lowry 105) Jonas realizes that he alone knows these feelings that no one else gets, and it turns him into an angry bitter person rather than the kind quiet kid that he once was. In addition to the pain,

Many teens have started to love dystopian novels. Teens have taken a particular interest in the book The Giver. During The Giver Jonas, the main character, is selected to a very special, honorable, but painful position as the Receiver of Memory. Jonas was not quite expecting this. He soon learns that his job is rather quite pleasant. After a year or so of pleasant memories the Giver (Jonas's mentor) starts transmitting painful memories into Jonas's mind. One day Jonas went to where he received his memories but this day was different jonas had found the Giver laying on the ground in agony. Jonas helped the Giver by taking this terrible memory of war. Soon this makes Jonas turn against the rules and escape the community.

In The Giver, Lowry conveyed that memory is connected to humanity by showing that memories contain all the deep, positive emotions that make humans human, and that in Jonas’s society, the memories need to be spread so that humanity can be spread across the Community. When Jonas and the Giver are making the plans for Jonas to run away, the Giver stays behind to help the community process the emotions that come from the memories, because they know that they need to share them with the people who have lived emotionless lives. After Jonas suggests that they both go, he is reminded that they cannot, as one of them must stay behind because they need to use the good memories to take care of the people, and thinks, “of course they needed to care. It

The giver was suffering, feeling pain, he transmitted the memory to Jonas. It was a sunny day, Jonas saw a man riding a scared horse across the big field. The horse that carried the men fall, letting the man crush into the ground. The men was begging for water, using a gray uniform that was full of blood, Jonas eyes cached the men bones. The men died to the sound of canons and animals dying. Now Jonas had the memory of warfare, letting Jonas shocked