I chose to analyze the movie “The Giver.” This film shows off how some people who have higher power than others tend to control more than the lower class. The giver was written by a woman named Lois Lowry. This novel was published in 1994. Lowry wanted to write a novel that took place in a utopia, where everything is perfect. When she was a young girl she lived in Japan. She remembers riding her bike around and knowing everything was foreign to her. The novel “The Giver” was partially based off her life in a foreign country. Lois Lowry first had the idea to write The Giver when her father began suffering from memory loss. She saw the pain he went through when she had to remind him that his other daughter had passed away years ago. This gave her the idea to create the setting of “The Giver”. Her father could not control his memory due to Alzheimers. This made Lowry think about what life would be like if people did not have control of …show more content…
Since the high council believes that people should only know good and what they believe others should know, they give injections to all the community to take away any recollection of their history. His job is to know things about Humanities past that others are not allowed to know. He meets up with a man who has the title of The Giver who shares all he knows with Jonas by vivid memories that they can exchange by touching each other’s wrist. As Jonas continues with the teachings of becoming the receiver of knowledge, he starts to realize how corrupt the “perfect” society he lived in actually is. The Giver and Jonas devised a plan to change the community. the Giver will stay in the community to help deal with the memories that will return to the sanctuary, once Jonas goes through the border that keeps the memories away from their society. Eventually, they find their way to a world full of colors, animals and
Imagine living life with no knowledge of color, memories, death, or even love. Jonas and The Giver are the only two people who have feelings and know of things no one else knows about. In the book, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the author has the community not have any knowledge of most things that exist. Knowledge has the power to change anything.
Jonas receives memories of color, something that is absent from his community. He realizes how absent his community really is. Jonas hurts inside to tell people in his community what they are missing. The only person that he can really open up to is The Giver. They grew really close, and it became like a grandfather, grandchild relationship.
In the story, the wise old man is the Giver. The Giver’s mind is filled with good and bad memories. He is in charge of holding the memories from the community to avoid pain or suffering. He is the only one that is allowed to break certain rules. His power cannot be “given” to anyone except for a special person selected by the Elders. Jonas is that special person, he is the “receiver of memory”. So, the giver’s mission is to “give” Jonas the power of receiving all the memories. Also, he must share all his knowledge with Jonas so he can become the new “giver” in the community.
The novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is an everlasting story that shows the importance of individuality. This novel is about a young boy named Jonas who was elected as the Receiver of Memories, a person who is given the memories from the world that existed before their current society, Sameness. In this society there is no individualism. People can not choose who to marry, or what they want to do for a living. Over time Jonas becomes more and more wise, and realizes that the supposedly perfect community actually has some very dark and negative aspects. The author, Lois Lowry is a 76-year-old writer who focuses her writing on helping struggling teenagers become individuals. Lowry had a very tragic childhood. After both of her parents were
The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is an amazing book. It presents a society that tries to create a perfect world of harmony and peace. Unfortunately, individuality is lost from the people and their emotions are restricted. They are all living in a world of ignorance created by the author and continue to do so willingly. In doing so, Lois Lowry portrays a dystopian world, instead of a perfect one, by creating a society where individuality is lost and emotions are not important. Some people think this world is perfect and could work in modern life, while others can clearly see how this is nothing but a controlling dystopia that would ultimately fail.
He and the Giver wanted the community to hold the memories and then there wouldn’t be sameness. So the Giver and Jonas make a plan for Jonas to escape the community, When Jonas escapes the memories given to him go to the community. The Giver would help the community get over it this time, but by the time there could be a new receiver the Giver would die and he would be with his daughter. To conclude this paper in the end of “The Giver” Jonas leaves the community.
The Giver is an example of beautiful writing because it makes the reader reconsider the concept of equality, realize how much they value individuality and certain freedoms, and lastly, it paints a picture of a utopia where equality and peace comes at a cost of individuality and certain freedoms. The Giver by Lois Lowry makes its audience reconsider what they think total equality looks like as well as peace. The book makes them look deeper into this concept and consider the costs it would take to make it come true as well
Some of the significant themes that Lois Lowry deals with in this novel include the importance of memory and individual, the value of freedom to make choices and the relationship
Jonas is chosen as the next receiver of memories. The Giver, (which was the last receiver) gives Jonas some of the memories from the past. Jonas’ community is all the same. No one can see color, make their own choices, or have any feelings. As Jonas receives memories, he realizes the community should have these feelings.
Choice, emotion, none of that was allowed. Given his assignment at twelve years old, he was chosen to be the Receiver of Memory. The Giver begins to transmit memories to Jonas, who has the knowledge to see beyond. For the first time, Jonas begins to understand the pain and begins to realize he does not like his community. The members of the communities undoubtedly follow the rules.
Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, offers a thought provoking, well written story, because it changes the perspective of anyone who dares to read it to. Lowry places her novel, at some point in the future when mankind has gone away with changes and choices in life. She forces readers appreciate, or at least re-think the world they live in today. Her novel presents a fully human created environment where people have successfully blocked out conflict, grief, and individuality. Each person follows the same routine every day. Failure comply with standards, to be different, means death. Jonas, the main character, finds himself trapped in this world.
To start off, Lois Lowry is a very talented writer, and do you know what I like about her… is that she wrote The Giver to make a difference, Lois didn't write for money. She use the beautiful gift she was blessed with to show people how important it is to cherish your memories.
The Giver is the story of a society with no color and little emotion, everyone is the same except for a certain few. There are some people that can see colors, feel true love, and have memories of a world that is in every meaning of the word, different. However, these people are kept somewhat secret, because if the world could know of such "difference", it would be chaos. However, while they are kept somewhat of a secret, they are also held at a very high status, and it is an honor to be chosen to be the next Giver. This story follows a young boy named Jonas, who has been chosen to be the new giver, and his experience going under training to become the new Giver. He finds it extremely frightening as his eyes begin to open to all
Imagine a society where everyone is the same. They are given numbers as identities. In our society everyone is different and has their own style. This causes many problems in their society. In The Giver, Lois Lowry creates a society where everyone is the same, and this way of thinking both creates and solves problems.
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