Symbolism on the Giver

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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.

Towards the beginning of the movie, when the Giver is first talking to Jonas in the study, the Giver compares the process of receiving memories to that of a sled. Firstly, sledding is an activity that is typically very thrilling. The Giver starts of by saying “It's like going downhill through snow on a sled. At first it's exhilarating: the speed; the sharp, clear air,” which Jonas has little to no reaction to. He does not know what a sled, runners, or even what snow is. The Giver tries to explain that Jonas’s training is going to be similar: breathtaking, painful, troublesome,when he says, “but then the snow accumulates, builds up on

In the novel, The Giver, receiving colors was a very important part of the story, but what did those colors represent to a boy who had never once seen them before? Love? Hate? Rebelion? Now it's time for you to see those colors in a whole new light… In the point of view of a 12 year old, an unexpecting 12 year old.

Jonas saw different color lights than the memory he saw. Jonas didn’t quite understand the memory, but he knew he liked it. He asks “Who were the old people?” (155) The Giver explains grandparents to him. Jonas also asks “ What was that feeling I couldn’t quite understand it?” (155) The Giver answers that it was love, and Jonas was remembering love, because he loved the community and his family. Jonas was making his way to death going down the hill and feeling no pain.. Jonas knew what the lights were and thought they were waiting there for him. Jonas wanted to see the memory in his head because he was perceiving love for everyone, as he was dying. But he couldn’t interpret the memory correctly because he was going brain dead, and actually dying. Jonas brain was going whack and becoming weaker so he was hallucinating or dreaming then he

When writing, authors can employ many literary devices. One of the many literary devices is symbolism. Symbolism sets the theme and makes the reader question. The symbols can help stress the theme of the story.

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

The three short stories “The Lottery”, “A&P”, and “The Swimmer” all have themes and symbols that correlate with one another making them share similar meanings. Symbolism is generally an object giving meaning that is much deeper and more significant than the object itself. Theme is defined as the central idea or subject of writing. The central idea in all of these stories is prejudice against a group in society and how that influences family prejudices.

Symbolism is when something stands for itself as well as something else. When symbols are used in stories they add another element to the story. Whether the symbol is emotional or physical. Symbolism gives readers more to enjoy and decipher while reading a narrative. Symbols also help readers decipher stories. The use of symbols in “The Necklace,” “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall,” and “The Lottery” by Guy de Maupassant, Katherine Anne Porter, and Shirley Jackson help readers understand the story.

You live in a world, where you have right to do almost anything. You have right to express your inner self, but what if you lived in a place where you had no emotions, no memories, no right to experience this nature, what if you were captivated, and you had no right to rebel, to go against such place. Well, such events occurred in Louis Lowry's utopian book called Giver, Jonas who lives in a community of conformity, where individuality isn't expressed. When Jonas gets the job as the Receiver, he then starts to spend time with Giver, was he sees memories, and also learns the dangerous truths of his community.

In the book, The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, themes are placed in the book to be subtle, but have a big effect on the outcome of the book. The theme that I’m going over is being and individual means knowing when to conform and when to rebel. In a simpler explanation, being your own person means knowing when to go with the community and act like the others or when to stand up against the community. This evolves over time in The Giver because Jonas, the main character, originally starts out to be a normal person, who is the same as everyone else in his community. In this community everyone needs to be the same because if everything isn’t the same people make decisions and some people make the wrong decisions that could be bad for the community. The theme of being and individual means knowing when to conform and when to rebel is shown throughout the book with the characters, the setting, and the plot.

In The Giver, Gabriel symbolize love. Jonas reveals this when he takes Gabriel with him to release the memories into the community. “ And he had taken Gabriel, too” (208). This is Jonas experiencing love for Gabriel. He wants Gabe to grow as a person and in a society that will except him. Jonas didn't want Gabriel to grow up in a world where everyone is the same. Jonas knew the world Gabe was to grow up in had he not taken him. A world of perfection in the people in The Giver was to take away pain and violence. Although pain and violence were gone, so is love and happiness. They created a world without emotion.

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).

The private talk with Jonas's parents helped him feel less apprehensive. Because it helped him feel calm. At first Jonas was nervous and excited at the same time. as Jonas tells his feelings he starts to feel less apprehensive.

The Giver is a morally driven and thought-provoking story about a young boy called Jonas who lives in a society free of crime, sadness, pain, death, music, color and love. The story follows Jonas as he receives the memories of the past, good and bad, from the current Receiver, who is called the Giver. The Giver transfers memories by placing his hands on Jonas 's forearms. The first memory he receives is of a thrilling sled ride, which he will remake in the end of the movie. Jonas discovers the dangerous truths of his community 's secret past. Armed with the power of knowledge, which he knew about from memories (Ways of Knowledge), Jonas realizes that he must release all the memories to the community to allow them to feel