The Giver Community

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.

In the Giver, the community that Jonas lives in is free of violence, poverty, prejudices, pain, and feelings; but they have no freedom. The society trades their choices to be free of violence. The people don’t know any better. I believe that living in a society that has no freedom and no pain is not better than a society where the people have freedom and pain.

While The Giver has many themes, or the underlying message, one that stood out was the importance of freedom of choice. In the suppressive society that the book sets in, they lacked any and all choices that we have as a birthright. Freedom of choice is something that we don’t normally think about since it has come natural to us. The book, however, gives us a community that not only suppresses the freedom of choice but also lies to its people so they don’t know any different.

A point Lowry makes in The Giver is about not having a choice surrounding your job, spouse, clothing, and much more. This was a primary reason why Jonas left. “‘Well…’ Jonas had to stop and think it through. ‘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?’ He looked down at himself, at the colorless fabric of his clothing. ‘But it’s all the same, always’” (Lowry 123). Jonas and the Giver are discussing how it is unfair no one can see color or have a preference for what colors they want stuff to be. At first, Jonas believes choices could bring on unforgivable decisions, but

Throughout history, we see how humans often don’t persevere and don’t continue if something isn’t easy. This theme appears throughout The Giver. Jonas often has to sacrifice what he has in order to obtain something. The community also makes sacrifices but these sacrifices are not necessarily the best sacrifices. For example, the community gave up differences so everything could be the same.

In “The Giver”, a boy named Jonah lives in a place where everything is “perfect” and nothing could every go wrong. This place is known as “the community”. This place is a boxed in village where pain, starvation,battles, and depression do not exist. The community’s members understand much less then they may think. All truths and concepts are defined and described much differently by the members of the community.

First, being less controlling would have made the giver community more positive. An example is “What’s the matter? Asher asked uneasily. Is something wrong? He moves away from Jonas’s hands. It was extremely rude for one citizen to touch another out of family units” This is one of many rules, these rules made a small gesture into something that may offend someone else. If the Giver community was less controlling people in the community might not be so sensitive to a simple

When citizens turn twelve in The Giver, they are given their assignments. They do not get to choose this assignment, but instead are watched since childhood by the Elders. So even when Jonas was worried about his friend Asher and his assignment, his mother can assure him by saying that “The Elders know Asher,” and that, “They’ll find the right Assignment for him” (Lowry, 17). The youth today, on the other hand, gets to decide that for themselves and when they’re eighteen, not twelve. The world of The Giver takes that liberty away from their children. To top it of they are stuck with that job until they reach the house of the old. No switching. “If you don't fit in you can apply for Elsewhere and be released” (Lowry,48). This freedom is just another thing Jonas’ society considered

To begin with, Jonas lives in a world where everything seems to be perfect. Jonas’s community doesn’t get pain, suffering, or violence, but what they do have is no freedom, choice, or individuality; it’s called Sameness. The Giver gives Jonas memories of sadness, happiness, and love. As Jonas takes on the training, he soon wants to make the world better, and changes it back to the perfect place (to him), like it was in the past. In the book, The Giver the main character, Jonas influences me in many ways. They are being open minded, see what the world can become, being determined, seek the past as you seek the future, being courageous, proving a point, and taking something good and making it better. The community doesn’t get to feel any of

Imagine not being able to choose freely, to not be able to pick what color shirt you want to wear in the morning. Well in Lois Lowry’s The Giver people don’t have the right to choose what shirt or pair of pants they want to wear. They have no rights, no power, and no freedom. The committee of elders in the community have taken everything away from them to have a “utopian” society.

Imagine if nobody in the world knew affection, and we were all mindless robots going about our day. We were all oblivious to the concept of caring and love. Everyone except you. You knew love, but were not loved. Well, that is exactly how Jonas felt in Lois Lowry’s classic novel The Giver. In this seemingly perfect utopia, everybody follows the same rules. They never make bad choices, because there are no choices. Family is basically just a unit of people who live together. It is a community deprived of all human emotion.

The Giver is a community based off of many rules. Each rule is made for a reason and has many roles. Just like the community, we have to follow rules to. If there wasn't any rules, the world would be in complete chaos.

Jonas’s community has no choices. In the community everybody is assigned spouses and jobs. They also have something called sameness. That means everything is the same. The climate, weather, and color are all the same. They talk about all of this at a ceremony. That is how they’re community has no choices.

In this fashion, choices are eliminated, yet no one knows of a better life, and that’s the underlying problem. It’s only through the character of Jonas that we can see a member of this society try to change the community for the better. The character of Jonas in The Giver is very unique, because unlike typical heroes or main characters, he is a twelve year old boy who is assigned the job of Receiver of Memory. From there he meets with the titular character, The Giver, who transfers him memories of the past, both good and bad (Lowry 100). As he gathers these memories, he begins to understand concepts of death and love, and yearns to share these concepts and express feelings, although his community does not allow it, for he is given a list of rules to follow (Lowry 86). Another instance of sameness is the generalization of language, known in this book as “precision of language” (Lowry 160). This form of controlling language takes out words such as “love,” for the sake of it being “a very generalized word so meaningless that it’s become almost obsolete” (Lowry 160). Without having the freedom to choose what to say, the ability to express yourself becomes lost by conforming to this generalized

Imagine a world without any pain, any complexities, and everything that makes life bitter. But imagine that world where they sacrifice color, common holidays, freedom, music, and the true meaning of life to make life safe and easy. In The Giver, a book written by Lois Lowry, Jonas is the one person who stopped all of this and gave all those painful and amusing memories back to the people in the community by leaving the community. Jonas did the right thing due to the fact that the community needs to know all the memories that the Giver transferred to Jonas to deal with the meaning of life, since Gabriel was going to be released, Jonas saved his life, and after Jonas escaped, the community will know how much better and worse life can be.