The Giver: A Very Brief Summary

“’Memories are forever”’ (Lowry). People make new memories every day without even realizing it. Some good some bad, that’s just the way of life, but in The Giver nobody knows what happened before them. People barley remember what their childhood was like, they don’t understand the importance of memory and that memories are forever. Aspects of life, rules, and prosperities between our world and Jonas’ world are very different yet have some similarities. Things that are crucial to the characters in The Giver are not as meaningful to the people in our world.

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 book, The Giver ,Lois Lowry conveyed the idea that memory is connected to humanity by showing the reader that without memories people’s lives would be meaningless, dull, and boring due to their inability to change and be individuals. A few weeks after Jonas becomes the new Receiver, he and the Giver are in the Annex when the Giver decides to tell Jonas about the true importance of memory and that without memory people live dull, boring lives due to their lack of ability to be individuals. The Giver explains to Jonas about how people need memories because that is what makes them human, “It's just that... without the memories it's all meaningless” (105). Humans can’t feel emotions and value life if they don’t remember

In the beginning of the novel, The Giver, a character demonstrates that memories can be kept, not thrown away. This story starts off with Jonas being nervous on the ceremony of twelve. Jonas discovers colors he never saw before. This experience resulted in a big difference of a bond of colors in memories through the progression of the Giver giving memories to Jonas. Jonas heard his first negative memory. Memories are very valuable. On page 68 It gives rules.

The most memorable part of The Giver for me was the ceremony on pages 40-64. It was the most memorable part of the book because there was lots of joy, but there was also a sense of mystery and sadness. There was a lot of joy because at each ceremony you move up a level so it is a happy day. On page 51 there is a sense of mystery because Jonas got skipped when the twelves were being assigned their jobs. There is also a sense of mystery that his job is very important and he has no idea what he does for his job. The sad part of the ceremony was that Gabriel was not assigned to a family unit and had a high chance of getting released. This is the most memorable part of the book for me because there are so many layers to that part and it is the turning point in the book.

The Giver, is a science fiction novel by lois lowry. A young boy, jonas, realizes how little freedom he and everyone else has, after he is assigned to be the new receiver of memory during the ceremony of 12. Jonas and the giver come up with a plan to give the citizens of their community freedom. Freedom of opression leads to freedom, Lois Lowry demonstrates that the knowledge of opression leads to freedom through Characterization, flashback, and setting.

Being the receiver of memory was a very important job in the community, however the citizens have no idea what the receiver actually does. Before he even receives his first memory Jonas had already seen the color red in his friend Fiona’s hair, this could signify his feelings of love for her, “Red is associated with meanings of love, passion, and desire” (Bourn Web). The first sign of feelings for Jonas are only momentary, they are but a taste of the beauties life has to offer. While citizens have a very simple life with nothing to worry about, the receiver and giver of memory takes on a very emotional life filled with pain that also enables them to see color.

The Giver transmits memories from the past to Jonas. He starts receiving memories of events like war, famine and disease. After receiving these memories

The Giver, is partly about the lack of memories, and how they can impact a society. The society was in the control by a group of people, the Elders. The book mentioned that a process called sameness had taken place long time ago, to wipe away all differences, an attempt to make a perfect society. However, there were still many problems with the society, which needed to change.

In this novel, Jonas finds that memories are needed for a meaningful life, and Lois Lowry presents this through Jonas’ struggle to find a meaning to life without love and memories.

In the next painful memory conveyed in these chapters, Jonas breaks his leg while riding downhill on a sled and learns about physical pain: "He gasped. It was as if a hatchet lay lodged in his leg, slicing through each nerve with a hot blade. In his

"The Giver" centers around the main protagonist, Jonas, and his journey throughout his learning experiences as the new receiver of memory. In this sequence, Jonas has had many milestones, however, breaking the barrier of memory would be the most important to Jonas. The reason why breaking the barrier of memory was his most remarkable milestone is because it consists of Jonas achieving his goal to give the memories back to his fellow civilians. For starters, Jonas went through a long distance trying to reach the barrier in order for his community to regain back the memories of the past. Jonas' and Gabe's (an infant who was going to be released due to inadequate growing) escape to Elsewhere was frought with danger, as they the two were near

“If you were lost in a river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are Forever,” quoted by The Giver. Lois Lowry, the author of The Giver, wrote this for his audience to entertain them with the journey of Jonas’ life. With Jonas’s new job as the giver, he tells of the memories that he has to learn and obtain to share with the next receiver. Throughout the book there are many symbols to give a deeper meaning to the text including, the color red, Rosemary, and elsewhere. The theme of The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, is memories are forever and they will not die. Between memories from “back and back and back”, the memories not dying, and the job of The Receiver they truly are forever.

The Giver is a movie and a book about a boy named Jonas and how he becomes the receiver and brings memories to his community. Basically, the community is a place Jonas lives in and it’s been created in the ruins. The community a debris and is idiosyncratic from all the sameness and precision of language. The community is this futuristic place that has erased love, hatred, sadness, and other emotions. The only thing community has is sameness. The chief elder has eliminated all the memories from the citizens. The reason the chief elder diminished the memories is that chief elder believes that, if the memories and emotions would be announced to the community there would be diversity. Chief is apprehensive so she doesn't want any diversity, and opinions because she thinks if there are diversity and opinion then there'll be war. The chief would rather keep things simpler than having war, racism, hunting, pollution and other problems started by opinions and memories. The citizens of the community take pills or a needle and what the needle/pills do is they restrain the citizens from having or showing any emotions. Further, in the book/movie Jonas stops to the pills/needle and then unsurprisingly starts to have emotions and what they call to see beyond. Jonas starts to discover more things the giver teaches him. Jonas then has exulansis.

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