The Giver By Lois Lowry: The Dead And The Gone

This novel is about a community where each person is the same. Everybody in this community go by certain rules and if they do not follow those rules they are punished. Everyone is to act the same in this book. Every person is assigned a job when they become a twelve and they are to work at the job until they go to the house of the old. This book is explained by Lois Lowry the author is explaining a whole different world than ours in this world he describes a person called the giver who is the receiver who hands off the job to Jonas one of the main characters who asks the receiver about all his memories and about what his job will be like. Jones had become the receiver. the giver gives him training and tells him what memories were like, the giver tells him why were like giver tells him why were like.

The Giver is a dystopia novel written by Lois Lowry. In the story, the community lacks color, freedom and love. Jonas, the main character of the story, is selected to be a receiver of memories. Through instructions by the giver, Jonas learns the truth and secret of the society. In the story, Jonas seems to represent readers’ feelings or thoughts, so we can learn about ourselves by focusing on his behavior and words. In "The Giver," Lois Lowry shows us that we cannot achieve true happiness unless we are not respected as individuals, and freedom, knowledges and feelings are important factors for this.

The Giver, by Lois Lowry is about a young boy named Jonas who is growing up in a utopian society. In The Giver they have no memories of anything that has pain even involved which meant that the community had to get rid of some joyful things also. Jonas, the receiver, and The Giver himself are the only two that know the memories. The author, Lois Lowry, was given the Newbery medal in 1994. In her acceptance speech of the medal she stated things in her life that influenced her book, The Giver. Many of the events in Lois Lowry’s life had really influenced many of the big events in The Giver.

Elvis Presley once said, “Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain 't goin ' away.” Plato’s The Allegory of the Cave relates to this quote by focusing on the truths of reality that humans do not comprehend. We think that we understand what we are seeing in our world, but we really just perceive shadows of the true forms of the things that make up the world. We are ignorant about the true nature of reality. The novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry also involves these concepts. The main character, Jonas, lives in a community of conformity and conflict. When he begins to spend time and train with The Giver, an old man who is the only keeper of the community 's memories, Jonas discovers the unsafe truths of his community 's secret past. Once Jonas discovers the reality about his community, it constantly pesters him until he makes an important decision. Jonas realizes that he must escape from his world in order to make a long needed change for his community. As the prisoner from The Allegory of the Cave seeks knowledge outside of the cave, Jonas from The Giver discovers dark and deadly truths of his community’s secret past that will change his life forever.

In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, Jonas, the protagonist and the only person who really evolves throughout the plot, experiences internal conflict because after learning about the past through the Giver, he wants to change the current world he lives in but is afraid of the consequences if he does so. The Giver focuses on Jonas and his journey towards freedom and becoming wiser.

In some distant future of humanity there lies a community in which its members live a “life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. [a] life without color, pain, or past.” Exemplifying the aimlessness of human intellect that Nietzsche explains, this dull community is the main setting of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. This community is a supposed utopia where feelings, history, and even color are kept from its members in order to ensure peace and “sameness.” Although this fictitious piece may exaggerate some aspects, many elements in The Giver exemplify Nietzsche’s theories on truth and communication.

Jonas had a normal life until it was flipped on its head. The main character, Jonas, lives in a dystopian society where he is treated the same as everybody. There is one exception, however, The Giver. The Giver is able to remember the past, Jonas was selected by the chief elders to receive the memories of the past. As, the novel The Giver, by Lois Lowry, goes on Jonas shows profound changes. The many events in the novel shape Jonas to be vastly different from most others in the society.

The Giver by Lois Lowry illustrates how the enforcement of a totalitarian government system inhibits those it seeks to govern as well as demonstrates the difference between the philosophically based political concepts of the realist and idealist point of view. As the American writer, Charlie Reese once stated, "We... are not really free if we can 't control our own government and its policies. And we will never do that if we remain ignorant". One can interpret from this statement that a government that holds complete power over society and offers only limited information to the governed is unjust.

Would you like to live in a society where anger, greed, hate and pain are eliminated? A society where differences are nonexistent and the feelings of envy and jealousy are extinct? It sounds wonderful, but what does this society cost its citizens? Lois Lowry wrote The Giver, and when it adapted into the film, it is directed by Phillip Noyce. The film takes place in a society that has eliminated the differences within people. They have little emotion, cannot see colors, and have no memory of all the past events like war, pain, animals, and emotions. They are all assigned jobs at a young age and Jonas is assigned as the receiver of memory. He keeps all the memories of the past to provide wisdom for the future. Once the current receiver of memory (the giver) gives him all of these memories and emotions he realizes that keeping all of these things from the community is wrong. He sees his father releasing (killing) babies and his father did not realize he was killing them. Jonas’ family was caring for a child that was not mature enough to be in the nurturing center and is eventually scheduled to be released. Jonas took the baby out of the community, crossed the boundary and restores all the emotions and memories to the entire population. Is a perfect, predictable, systematic society worth sacrificing personal choice and emotional individuality? No, emotions and personal choices give our lives purpose, drives us to become more; these things make us human.

In the 1993 novel The Giver, written by author Lois Lowry, and the 2014 movie The Giver, directed by Phillip Noyce, the themes of Memory and the Past, Rules and Order are evident throughout. Throughout this essay, I will discuss the importance of both themes and how through the book and movie.

The Giver is a book about a boy named Jonas. Jonas is just one of the many people in his community full of sameness. In this community there is no pain, no choices, no color, no uphill or downhill, and no true, deep feelings. Every choice is made for you in this community; it is a comfortable, easy life. When Jonas turns twelve, it is time for his job, like every other twelve year old, to be assigned to him.

In this essay, I am going to report about the book The Giver by Lois Lowry. Jonas, a twelve-year-old boy, is the main character of the book. The book describes a seemingly indestructible society, with absolute order and rules. Jonas happens to be chosen as the next Receiver of Memory on his twelve year old ceremony. After receiving part of the memories from the The Giver and discovering the truth behind this “perfect” community, he decides to escape in hope for restoring his community back to normal by leaving his memories behind for the community.

Lois Lowry wrote The Giver in 1993, which won the John Newberry Medal. She developed many themes in her writing. One of the themes are things aren't always as they appear. Character, setting, and plot all help this theme evolve. Character show the way Jonas feelings for the community change thus changing his character.

In the story The Giver by Lois Lowry Jonas shows and learns three major themes that show a lot about him throughout the novel. What do these themes show about him and what are they? The first theme Jonas had experienced Those who do not feel sorrow cannot feel joy. He learned this at first when the giver had told him about his lost daughter.

Lois Lowry’s book The Giver Jonas is showing that his life isn’t as pure and innocent as he’s known growing up.