The Giver Dialectical Journal

The First edition of the giver was written in 1993, Lois Lowry lived in Honolulu, Hawaii. Lois ended up graduating from New york City High school. She then spent two years at Brown University before dropping out to get married. The giver was seen as controversial by some for its violent themes sexual content and depiction of infanticide and euthanasia. Others however praised this book. People believe that she wrote this for children to let children know the future is in their hands. The giver was meant for children. No Lois didn’t intend to use stereotypes or show prejudice although some might take it that way. I could not find where the book was published.

How is a human suppose to love? Love is just a statement, a word, a word is just a sound. When you really love something, in loves you back in whatever way it has to love. But what if that love isn't good enough? Doesn’t meet your standards? "‘What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.’ I didn't think that this was true, […] but it was like every other thought and belief of Finny's: it should have been true. So I didn't argue” (Knowles 111).  That is just life, love is something that is always there and needs to be accepted in anyway it can.

Those men claim that the past world was an awful place; “their world didn’t allow them to take things easily, didn’t allow them to be sane, virtuous, happy. What, with mothers and lovers, ...-they were forced to feel strongly. And feeling strongly (and strongly, what was more, in solitude, in hopelessly individual isolation), how could they be stable?”(30) Yes, how could a society in which people have free will and the right to not have things be taken away from them, and time away from the noise of constant brainwashing be stable? The only path to happiness in the Brave New World is conditioning, “that is the secret of happiness and virtue-liking what you’ve got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.”(13) The Director believes that when he says “‘everybody’s happy nowadays’’(61) to children starting at the age of five, that his test tubes will grow into happy individuals. However their happiness is completely reliant on soma, sex and Synthetic music machines- a recipe too demanding to be

When individuals visit an entirely different place that is unlike their initial perception of the idealistic society, they experience internal and external conflict as their own values are contradictory with those of the civilized society. When John first arrives at the Brave New World, he is amazed and bewildered by the unexpected, unforeseen aspects of the civilized society. However, this admiration quickly dissipates as he realizes that his own values and ideologies contradict with those of the civilized society. The civilized society strictly prohibits monogamous relationships, viviparous reproduction, suppresses high art and potentially detrimental science discoveries that may negatively affect the progression of stability. Instead, it encourages promiscuity, ongoing consumerism and the establishment of utilitarianism as all these factors support stability and security. On the other hand, John later highly loathes these policies as he believes that everyone, regardless of their caste or

Freedom expressed through actions of Individuality Quotation: “But I don’t want comfort. I want God, I want poverty, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin” (240). Analysis: Aldous Huxley tells a story of protagonist John the Savage where he is like a fish out of water. He is so individualized that he reacts and responds differently than the plethora of soma-infested youths.

Jonas explains the governing lifestyle in the novel as he says, “The life where nothing is unexpected or inconvenient or unusual. The life without color, pain, or past.” (Lowry 167.) Even though having a life without excitement and change can avoid conflict, it’s not an enjoyable lifestyle to live. “The main function of the brutality and oppression rather, was to radically change human behavior, to transform normal human beings with their selfish concerns into willing servants of their rulers.” says Bryan Caplan in “The Totalitarian

Another important fact is that people in the World State doesn't have values as now we do. The concept of family doesn't exist, they consider this word as obscene as the same as "father" and "mother". In our world family is the most important aspect for most people and we demonstrate love and support to them all the time. Marriage was another value that people doesn't had and they seem it as horrible, for example when John propose Lenina to married him she said, " 'what horrible idea!' "(174). This shows how the idea of getting married with somebody was seen as something really bad, which for us is beautiful. Also, people were not allowed to feel emotions, because emotions are seen as a risk of loosing stability in their community. If they feel some kind of emotions they have to take soma to forget them. Is like if somebody have to take drugs all the time in order to be happy.

Reader Response: The Receiver’s and The Giver’s Isolated Life and It’s Effects On The Community “The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient.

In the movie “The Giver,” Jonas lives in a rigidly controlled society where individual identity has become extinct. The Committee of Elders that oversee the society governs with a strict set of laws that aid in eliminating free will and choice from human beings. Jonas’s “community” appears to be an idealistic utopia absent of human suffering, hunger, disease, war and emotions. However, the utopian society is isolated from Elsewhere, which represents every other place in the world that rejects conformism and embraces individualism.

Contemporary society advocates that without love, happiness is impossible. Webester’s Dictionary defines happiness as, “ a state of well being or contentment.” Three types of love which are necessary for contentment are; familial love, romantic love and friendship. In John Irving’s, The Cider House Rules, Melony’s bitterness prevents her from developing these forms of love vital for true happiness. Her hostility towards others prevents her from developing familial love. Intense animosity and contempt ruin Melony’s romantic relationships. Her bitterness leads to social isolation and the development of true friendships become impossible.

How are our real community and Jonas's community similar and different? Both Jonas and up have school and jobs. Some of the things that we have that they don’t are freedoms and reality. Some things that they have that we don’t have that they do are that they have leaders that can tell them exactly what to do whenever they want, they also have complete equality. To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia. -Michael Novak

Since there are no choices because of Sameness, the members of the community will not make mistakes. For example, the community eradicates the need for a divorce. Sometimes people get married, have problems, and then get a divorce because they do not like their partner. People in Jonas’s community need to apply for a spouse and then are

Some examples why this society is not perfect are you can't touch people outside your dwelling and, you can't bring food outside your dwelling. You have to take a shot to have no feelings, and you can't be independent. Jonas did these things. And Jonas believed everyone should be independent. This made Jonas different, he knows that his society is wrong because he knows the real world is independent and it is better to be different then to be the same.

Love is without a doubt one of the most powerful emotions in the world. Most people in the world who have experienced this emotion know that with love, almost anything is possible. ¡§When in Love, the greater is his/her capacity for suffering, or anything else in that matter¡¨ (Miguel de Unamuno, The Tragic Sense of Life). The governments in both Brave New World and 1984 understand that eliminating love and loyalty is important in their continual process of domination over their societies. In Sir Thomas More¡¦s Utopia, his Utopian society understands the importance of love and loyalty. There is a huge contrast between the way love is treated in Utopia, and Brave New World & 1984. In

/The language they use—deceptively clear. /And their little celebrations, rituals, the elaborate mutual routines.” (Lines 17-20). This example helps promote “True Love” by displaying the loneliness that disbelievers have when they see a couple in love.