Symbols In 'The Giver'

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.

What is symbolism? Symbolism is representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning. In “The Outsiders” there are many symbols that represent different ideas of the characters and novel

Foster explains that almost anything can be symbolic in literature, and that there is more than likely never only one meaning of it. Chapter 11 in How to Read Literature like a Professor for Kids helped me better understand and discover a lot of things that were symbolic in The Giver. One of the many symbols is Gabriel. I have many theories of what Gabriel stands for, one of which being Jonas and him can share memories together. Also, because Gabriel a baby, and because he's in danger of soon being released, Gabriel in many ways exists outside the rigid control of the community. Jonas can't transmit memories to Lily because she's too ingrained in the "people shouldn't touch other people" saying of the community. Gabriel, however, is not; he's pure and free. An even bigger and more important reason to try and protect him. Because Gabriel hasn't yet come under the control of the community, he's also a symbol for a brighter future. When Jonas escapes with Gabriel (unless they die), we get the sense that there is hope for the rest of the world as

The Alchemist , by Paulo Coelho conforms to the idea that everything is a symbol and that the meanings for a symbol can vary depending on the person that is interpreting them. This book is filled with symbolism from the beginning to the end. Every object referenced in the book was significantly symbolic. In the beginning, the scene is set at a giant tree outside of a church, which clearly symbolizes the religious and personal growth that will occur to Santiago. Later, Santiago works at crystal shop trying to make money to go home. His job in the beginning was to clean all the crystal objects. Crystals symbolize clarity and he cleaning the crystal objects in order to make them clean, therefore, if this is connected to his personal journey, he is bringing clarity of the situation to himself and in the and decides to continue the journey rather than give up. One of the more debatable symbols in this book is the desert. To some it may symbolize the hardship and tragedy due to its climate, but to others it may be a journey with rewards at the end. Continuing through every page of the story,

The giver follows the life of a young boy named Jonas. In the future, society is different from now, emotions, colour, pain, and liberty are all things of the past, in this alleged dystopian novel. Thorough explanation of this is left out in the novel, what we know is some war or tragedy due to all the emotions, opinions, cultures etc. led to great measures being taken. Thus eliminating all feelings both good and bad, which in turn dehumanized the whole population almost making them in to living robots, just so that the chance of another catastrophe is narrowed down to almost zero. Liberty is merely an illusion in this novel since no choices are made by the people only by the “elders” who aren't explained a lot either

In the novel The Awakening by Kate Chopin, the theme of escape is presented by the use of three symbols. These three symbols include looking out windows, riding carriages, and the movement of swimming and boat riding. All of these symbols help Mrs. Pontellier realize that she wants an escape from her life. Edna feels inclined to escape throughout the novel and three symbols that prove this are windows, carriages, and movement.

Both Gabriel and Jonas could experience new obstacles and new hopes. Gabriel could grow up with real feelings. Jonas could also learn how to sense feelings, and additionally, he could go see and experience all of the different memories that he had received from the Giver. Both of them could grow up to be something important in an unsuppressed society, such as lawyers, peace advocates, and politicians. If they were still living in the Community, there would be absolutely no way for them to flourish as they could in Elsewhere.

Accepting the fact that something is a symbol is easy. However, finding out what it means or what it stands for. Symbols can interpret more than one thing, we can only discuss possible meanings and interpretations. Symbols are not only built on associations readers have, but also on emotional reactions which captures the reader emotionally. f it isn’t symbolism, its allegory, which stands for other things on a one-for-one basis that convey a certain message. The cave is a symbol of secrets and mysteries represents mainly by how the reader engages the story.

In the short story “The Possibility Of Evil” by Shirley Jackson the author uses several symbols to tell a story one of the symbols are Miss Strangeworth’s roses because it symbolizes her family and her life. She doesn’t give any of her beautiful roses away because they are so special to her. Her family has taken care of them for one hundred years. Another Symbol is the street’s name which is named “The Pleasant Street” it symbolizes the way she wants people in the town to be. She wants people to not be evil according to her. Another important symbol are her letters that symbolizes her duty to inform people about the things that are going on in a very negative and anonymous way. By using all these symbols, Shirley Jackson achieved to make this

The Giver knows that the burden of memory is too much for Jonas to bear, so he and Jonas plan Jonas’ escape. In the escape, The Giver plans to leave Jonas with memories of courage and strength so that he can make his journey to freedom. The plan changes when Jonas finds that Gabriel, an infant the family had been caring for was going to be “released” the next morning. Upon hearing the news, Jonas takes Gabriel and flees The Community. The book ends with Jonas hearing music, which symbolizes finding his

Throughout all of Christina Baker Kline’s Orphan Train Symbols are used to show a character’s true personality and to help get the reader emotionally invested in a character as well as revealing more about the characters past. Four examples of symbols in the novel are Vivian’s Claddagh, Molly’s turtle tattoo and necklace as well as Vivian’s attic.

In The Giver, Jonas escapes outside his home and into Elsewhere with a baby boy named Gabriel, whom he has given memories of a lost time when emotions were cherished, in the hope that he will grow up and carry on the legacy and beauty of the emotions. Likewise, Equality escapes his home with The Golden One into the Uncharted Forest, and they eventually have a son, who represents the hope Equality has that things are starting to change for the better. Both stories are also left on a cliffhanger of sorts, with a slightly scared, but pining desire for change and a new way of life. Both Jonas and Equality have an extremely strong will to change things beyond their past restrictions after learning things from the past, and represent mankind’s constant hunger for knowledge and

There are many symbols in the Giver like the sled and the color of red, Gabriel, an important character. Gabriel, a newchild, Jonas's father brings home to nurture. The newchildren represent hope for the society, but Gabriel is a symbol of family, as well as a symbol of hope, for Jonas. He notices that Gabriel has the same light-colored eyes as Jonas’s. Jonas is the only one who can calm Gabriel. Jonas takes care of Gabriel and begins to love Gabriel like a family, but it is not allowed in this society. “Father? Mother?” One day, Jonas asks, “Do you love me?” (Lowery

Throughout "The Kite Runner" by Khalid Hosseni, the kite is a major symbol. It has many deeper meanings, and causes character in the book to make decisions, good or bad. The kite is an important symbol that reveals happiness, guilt and redemption in Amir throughout the book.

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.