The Giver By Lois Lowry: An Analysis

In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, the receivers are the only people who have feelings and memories. The elders are the people who choose what the best is for their people in the community and sometimes they go to the receiver for help on making the right decisions. The people from the community do not see color, or have freedom on making a decision for them. There is no love, feelings, and grandparents. Jonas is assigned to be the next receiver of the community; He was trained by the giver, who transfers memories of the pain and pleasures of life, who also shows him the truth and reality that is hidden to the community. Jonas’s community does not represent the ideal of society because there are no choices or distinctions between men

“Color.” It’s all around us, we see it every day of our lives, everything has color, but the people in Jonas’ community didn’t know this. They had no clue what color was or that it even existed. Their society was hue less, hopeless, and everything was the same until the new receiver of memory changed that for everyone. In our world choice is a big part of our everyday lives we make many choices a day, do I want this or that, green or blue, this shirt or that shirt? But in The Giver choices were made for them, what they wear, how they act, what they say, what they eat, and what they do for a living. Imagine all that stuff being chosen for you. Everyone would be dressed the same, act the same,

He accepts the role and begins training with The Giver. As time goes by, and he has received numerous memories, he starts to realise how cruel his society is. (SIP-A) In one of his later memories, we see The Giver pass on the memory of a rainbow. Jonas starts to learn about colors and vibrance. (STEWE-1) Jonas is first given the memory of a rainbow. “Days went by, and weeks. Jonas learned, through the memories, the names of colors; and now he began to see them all, in his ordinary life (though he knew it was ordinary no longer, and would never be again)” (Lowry 97). He felt good about what he was seeing, for a good amount of time at the least. (STEWE-2) But, Jonas starts to change his mind, and wonder why people don’t have color. He realizes that people can make choices without having the government do it for them. “‘If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! A blue tunic, or a red one?’” (Lowry 97). Yes, Jonas does agree with The Giver after the fact that decisions can be dangerous. But, Jonas still likes the thought of decisions and colors. (SIP-B) The main reason Jonas decided to flee from his society, is the way that they handled releases. His father had been lying about the process for all of Jonas’s life. (STEWE-1) Jonas asks The Giver about release because of the release his father was doing that

The setting of The Giver takes place in a fictional community known as the “Sameness”. Life here is supposed to be "perfect" because there is no pain or suffering. They don’t have to take

Everyone has choices in life, and these choices are what define us. Sometimes they can affect not only the decision maker, but it can affect others too, whether it is just a few people or it is millions of people. This is why a choice

This symbolises how Jonas is finally separating from the caged community and is branching out by wanting to be able to choose something for once. The community has always engrained the idea of needing

He describes, “back in the time of the memories, everything had a shape and size, the way things still do, but they also had a quality called color.” (Lowery 94) Jonas cannot understand why he is beginning to see the color of red, although the Giver says there are a lot of colors. The Giver tells Jonas, “When you mentioned Fiona’s hair, it was the clue that told me you were probably beginning to see the red.” (Lowery 94) “Jonas looked at her. She was so lovely. For a fleeting instant he thought he would like nothing better than to ride peacefully along the river path, laughing and talking with his gentle female friend.” (Lowery 135) Jonas secretly likes Fiona. Jonas’s special emotion that he didn’t understand makes Jonas see red that represents love. So, the color of red symbolizes love. Now that he sees colors, he can experience all kinds of emotions.

Another reason I believe in personal freedom and choice is I believe in the family unit and all that family means, unlike in “The Giver” where family is not truly a family. Jonas desires love, but his family does not understand love. In my family my parents show me love everyday in every action that they make. My mom and dad always listen about my day and give advice if I ask for it. They always say,”I love you.” In “The Giver”, they banned those words.

In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, the thought of choice proves to impact the main character's decisions in many ways. Jonas is a twelve year old boy who has been living in an utopia his whole life. All he has ever known has been inside the community, and he loves his community and thinks everything is perfect. When he meets The Giver, all of that changes, and he learns that there are emotions, color, pain, and that there is more than just his community. His feelings about his community change and he wants others to feel with him and know what he now knows.

What if a whole community had the absence of color, expect for one twelve-year-old child? According to the novel The Giver written by Lois Lowry, Jonas, the twelve-year-old child, lives in a seemingly ideal, but colorless, community of conformity and contentment. Not until he is assigned, and given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory, as he starts to understand the dark, and complicated secrets behind his community. He begins to recognize various ways in which his community needs color to be more free and happy. Within, the novel Lois Lowry, mentioned a lot of themes that were contributed to Jonas’ ability to see color, and the absence of color in his community. One of the themes that was expressed within the novel was, the

In the book the giver states that the reason why there is no color is because that would let the people in the village have their own choices. The giver tells Jonas that way back when he was a receiver there was still no color. There is no color because of the choices people can make. If they choose wrong someone might be hated on. In the people’s eyes everyone is equal. That’s why there is no color. In the book the Giver also says he’s the only one who can hear music. If someone doesn’t like someone’s music they can be teased or hated on. They want everyone to be equal so nothing that can let them has their own choices. So yes everyone in this book is equal so no fights. Also yes, everyone thinks they are the same so no choices. Each kid in

People in monarchy's almost always do not have options and most people there are negative. In The Giver, Jonas thinks it is not fair that people do not have choice and that the community rules over the people. When some people do not have choices that person may feel like they are not living their own life and that they are living someone else's life instead. The second point was that choices can affect people negatively because it feels like someone is ruling over

The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a community where its goal is to make their citizens the same. As a result, the community controls/limits what their citizens have and do. But, the people of the world we live in today have the power to choose and value our differences. Their world greatly differs from ours in several ways.

Why did the colors disappear?” This is referring to the community generations before that decided to discard the use of color to make everyone(everything) equally. They didn't want anyone to be unique or idiosyncratic When Jonas found this out he was astonished. Also according toin chapter 12 it also states that he fiercely screams “ We shouldn't have!” This shows to prove that Jonas is disagreeing with the way things are.

In the book The Giver Jonas and the community have little choices they can make. In America we have lots of choices like how long your hair is, what you are going to wear to school and what color we want to wear. In Jonas’ community they cant even do that. Jonas left the community because he yearned for the freedom of choice. “If every things the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things”(PG97). Jonas wants to be able to pick his own tunic and job, but in the giver community he cant. He wants to pick his own spouse. Jonas is tired of sameness