The Giver Compared To Today

The main theme shown in The Giver is the idea that good cannot exist without evil, and evil cannot exist without good, thus making reaching a perfect society impossible. It does not matter how amazing an experience is, unless you have something bad to compare it with you can never taste the true meaning of that moment. The members of Jonas’s community cannot appreciate the joys in their lives because they have never felt sadness. Correspondingly, they also do not feel grief because they have never appreciated the true wonders of life. Throughout the novel, Lois Lowry uses multiple literary devices to conjure these thoughts into the readers mind.

First, The Giver’s community is a dystopia because there is limited freedom. I know this because in the Document E it says, “Oh,” Jonas was silent for a minute. “Oh, I

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.

The Giver teaches the lesson of being unrealistically pleasant and conflict-free can take a dramatic toll on one’s life. Although a society that has no mental or physical trouble is satisfactory, a society that takes away freedom and choice is the greatest trouble society can bring. Officials should not determine others’ lives because people have the capability to make their own decisions on who they want to be. Controlling someone life like a puppet can cause an outbreak of insubordinate

In The Giver, the theme is that while differences can be frightening and isolating, they are necessary to form a lasting society. Though in their childhood, all of the citizens in Jonas’s society are taught to fit into the societal expectations and act exactly the same as one another, which makes them view difference as a bad thing, but then, at the Ceremony of Twelves, the Elders start encouraging the differences between them. As though she hasn’t suppressed their individual traits since they before learned to walk, the Chief Elder announces, “today we honor your differences. They have determined your future,” (52). This shows that without different, individual traits, there would be no way to select jobs or houses, and no consumer market

The Giver represents a life that may seem unrealistic to many who do not believe such policies exist today. Society pays little attention to what is presented as unrealistic policies, which are in actuality are active. The policies shown in The Giver are better described as governmental and social policies consisting of drug abuse, death penalty arranged marriage and euthanasia. It may seem as though these topics are rare in the real world but they do exist.

Imagine, being given all the elements to success in your community and not having to compete with other citizens. Most would think this sounds ideal, although if you explore this idea deeper, you would find a community cannot thrive. An illustration of this thought is the community of The Giver. When all are given a job, it is not as efficient without citizens’ effort to earn it. In The Giver, the society is not as successful as it potentially could be, since it does not use competition or human drive in its citizens.

The theme the author seems to be attempting to convey through the story is that "Individuals should be cherished". The book shows that while unification can result in a peaceful and an altogether more understanding community, it can also restrict individuality. Individuality and order cannot be separated and are deeply tied together. Without unique attributes that make each person diverse from anyone else, a plain and almost boring society is formed. With everyone following regulations and laws, people have the same opinions and thoughts as their neighbors. This would result in a setting like that of The Giver's. With no different thoughts, citizens of such a population would eventually grow blind to events like Release. Alternately, having

I think The Giver is a dystopian society. A dystopian society is a place where people’s environment is controlled, there is a disaster happening, and the people can live a plain and boring life. On page two it states, “NEEDLESS TO SAY HE WILL BE RELEASED,the voice had said, followed by silence”. This quote represents a dystopian society because it shows that the rules are very strict and the punishment for breaking them is death. It is also a grim statement to say that someone will be released.

Man and woman, night and day, and the sun and the moon are all alike in some ways, yet different in many others. The dystopian society of the The Giver and modern day society are the same way. While The Giver and modern day society do have some similarities, they also have many differences. While reading The Giver there was not much to find that compared to modern day society, however in the story it was very noticeable that the citizens in the society of The Giver view their elders with a higher respect and acknowledge their wisdom just as we do in our society today. Jonas’ mother is one of the many citizens who believes that the elders “ have probably the most important job in the community” (Lowry 35) because the elders advise them when

The Giver and our world are similar and different for example, The giver community works differently, and in our world we can have our own spouse- the freedom of love.

Birthdays are a celebration of one’s birth. In Jonas’s society birthdays are drastically different from birthdays in our society. Birthdays are celebrated only in December rather than celebrated all throughout the year like in modern society. “Each December, all new children born in previous years turn one” (Lowry 11). Also, after the Ceremony of Twelve no more birthdays are celebrated. The Ceremony of Twelve is a ceremony that

A society where “no one goes hungry, and there's always food waiting on their plates” (Lowry 173). They have extra food because they know how much food is needed, their population is controlled. People in the community are “only allowed to own two children, one boy and one girl” (Lowry 8). Unlike The Giver, in our society things like world hunger do exist. People in our society are allowed to have as many children they can or want, and the genders

As jonas was growing he would understand that there was something happening within the city . Well the kids went to school the elders in the community would evaluate the children throughout the school years to figure out where they were gonna be put into society. Once you reached the age of twelve you were given a job that you had to work for the rest of your life until there was an opening for another job. Then you had to talk to the elders because it was up to them If you are able to change their work life. If they were pleased with your choice you’d remain in the same position.

In the novel “The Giver” people are given jobs by The Council of Elders. But also, the council decides when a person is ready to nurture a child and the council also decide what child they will get. The society shown in this work shows that even though no one can do whatever whenever they want, everyone still lives in sync and in total peace. To achieve something even close to “utopia” in the world today, human must give up all their prize possession and be willing to come together and live in a new world order of