Symbolism In The Giver

Imagine a life with no choice, variety, and emotions. In the Giver they don't give you that. Sameness is bad because it prevents people from experiencing choice, variety, and emotions.

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Truman, a middle aged man living in a TV show he doesn’t know about. Jonas, a young boy who lives in a community where everyone is the same. Truman is from “The Truman show” and Jonas is from “The Giver.” Both Movie and book have a lot in common, but also a lot different. Both of them have symbols and biblical allusions to see throughout as you read or watch.

In the novel The Giver, the people in the community believe that precision of language is a vital component of life. In fact, language is often distorted and twisted. They distort language as a way to discretely and cleverly control the community. The community proposes different terms to conceal the real meaning and what is actually happening. Through the use of language, the elders make disturbing and mournful situations seem less meaningful in order to make life seem more normal.

The novel The Giver by Lois Lowry illustrates a dystopian society hi lighting the limitations of individuality and suppression of cultural memory in order to prevent any potential destruction that warrants deviation from the totalitarian state of mind with the society depends on. The dependence on the elaborately regulate system however causes the burden of beneficial and detrimental knowledge to the rest on one person's shoulders. Through sociological analysis I will analyze the effects of this reliance on the Giver’s ability to retain such crucial information on a singular causes the detrimental affect triggered not by the inability of the Giver but rather by the society’s unwillingness to change. It can be observed that dystopian societies are ambivalent in nature, situated in utopian text; however, in Lowry's novel the world is engineered where the utopia goes wrong due to its extinction of the aesthetic and personal choices. In “The Utopian the Function of memory in Lois Lowry’s the giver, the author analyzes the ambiguity between the dystopian aspect and the utopian aspect of the society created in the novel (Hanson).

Jonas agrees with everything and they start off with a good memory first, the giver asks Jonas to take his tunic off and lay down on the loft, Jonas does what he is told and the giver lays his hands on Jonas bare back and he starts to give Jonas the memory of sledding. Jonas enjoyed sledding and the thrill of going so fast down the hill and the breeze on his face. The next day, Jonas wakes up and goes to his school. After school Jonas heads back to the giver and they repeat what happened yesterday, but the memory was different.

What if there was a world without memory, choice, or emotion? Could a world truly exist in those conditions? In Lois Lowry’s Newbery Award winning novel The Giver, the main character, Jonas, lives in a world exactly as described. In his community, nobody at all can remember anything, choose, or feel any emotion. All of these things are banned is because his community wanted everything to run smoothly. They wanted a community without hate, war, or conflict. While reading Lois Lowry’s The Giver, one can see these themes portrayed many times throughout the novel.

In the novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the topic of life occurs throughout the story. Jonas lives in a community based on conformity and sameness. Jonas is chosen as the receiver of memory. As he is trained he learns that change is needed in the community. At the end of the book, Jonas tries to go elsewhere to return the memories back to the community. In The Giver, the author uses the characters, plot, and conflict to develop the theme that life can not be taken for granted.

The first memory the Giver transfers to Jonas, the main character, is one memory of going down a hill of snow on a sled. The sled also shows up at the end of the story during his escape from the old community to the new community where emotion and color existed and not just in dreams. The sled

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Hook: Imagine living in a perfect society and hearing all of the jobs that the people would get, but if someone got the Receiver of Memory, they would receive a lot of the pain from the memories. Jonas’s assignment as the next Receiver of Memory is a punishment. The job as a Receiver of Memory caused a lot of pain. Jonas feels separate and different from his fellow peers when he became the Receiver of Memory. When The Giver became a little older, age showed a lot more when The Giver became the Receiver of Memory than if he had a regular job.

Many people wish that they lived in a “better world”, but what exactly is a perfect or better world. In the book The Giver, a boy named Jonas lives in a society that to its citizens it portrays as a perfect world, where everyone seems equal. Along his life, Jonas discovers new faults to this “perfect society”. Including the government controlling everything to the point that the community cannot see color because they have no memory of it. “Everything had a shape and size, the way things still do, but they also had a quality called color” (Lowry 94).

Imagine a world without love or color. Jonas the protagonist in The Giver he ran away and left comparing his community to our society. In our society we aloud to love whoever we want and we free to love. In jonas society love is a word that is prohibited no longer said for example abandoned no longer mentioned because they don't know what it means.

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