The Giver Effects On Society

Without memory, the daily life of people in Jonas’s community is extremely different from the life of a person in a normal world. For example, unlike this world, death is not tragic because life in this community is not really experienced and embraced. Also, what would be some of most cherished moments in a normal person’s life such as birth, new career, marriage, graduation, and birthdays are just treated as if they were absolutely nothing at all. They are just normal everyday activities in Jonas’s world.

Jonas is the protagonist of the novel and a third-person narrator tells the entire story from Jonas perception of things. He is intelligent, curious, caring, and his thought process is very mature for being 11-13 years old. A good quote portraying both his matureness and his intellect is “If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things”(97). This is also one of the first signs that he is displeased with the community. Another quote showing his courage and curiosity is "It hurt a lot," Jonas said, "but I'm glad you gave it to me. It was interesting. And now I understand better. What it meant, that there would be

Jonas’ community appears to be a utopia, but, in reality, it is a dystopia. The people seem perfectly content to live in an isolated wreck—in a government run by a select few—in which a group of Elders enforces the rules. In Jonas’ community, there is no poverty, starvation, unemployment, lack of housing, or discrimination; everything is perfectly planned to eliminate any problems. However, as the book progresses and Jonas gains insight into what the people have willingly given up—their freedoms and individualities—for the so-called common good of the community, it becomes more and more obvious that the community is a horrible place in which to live. You as a reader can relate to the disbelief and horror that Jonas feels when he realizes

In our world, we can decided what we wear like and how we act. Some of us have long hair, others have short, and a portion of us have none at all. Other physical features may be eye color, hair color, height, or weight. Internal differences may be likes and dislikes; the people in Jonas’ community are just the opposite. They follow a strict set of rules and cannot see or realize any differences. This sameness has been enforced by the Committee of Elders for a while. It is like they live in a one-way mirror; but Jonas can see differences and so can the Giver. They can see color while others just see shades of gray. They can see how the community has changed and how it is being controlled. So this one-way mirror has a secret second side and Jonas can now see through it. This begins to get frusterating to Jonas because he is confused about his

Jonas is very mature at the beginning of the novel. For example, he volunteers at many places, plays games, goes to school every day, shares his dreams and feelings, and most importantly follows the rules.

Jonas discovers what is really beyond his community, beyond all the rules and policies they have to follow; he decides to leave and give all of his memories to the rest of the community so they would know about what they have not seen or experienced before. Jonas discovers that the community has decided too many things for everyone. He realizes Sameness is not right, that it cannot last any longer. He thinks of all the what-ifs. What if the Elders choose a wrong spouse? What if the Elders choose the wrong job for someone?

Jonas accepting his society because he's unaware of emotions of the other people in his community. Jonas follows the rule of having the share your feelings everyday. Not telling

Imagine having everything you wished for. You would live in a perfect world. But every world has imperfections and you come across to realizing...a perfect world doesn’t exist. Within time, you come from an illusion to reality. You choose your journey and it starts here. The community is a separate environment from the world and has many rules to live by. The rules can vary to be severe consequences. It includes sameness, no memories, and family unit regulations. The kids end their childhood at the age of 12 by receiving their life assignment. The main character, Jonas is chosen to be the receiver of memory. He is reliable to hold everyone's feelings, hopes, and devotions. In The Giver the author Lois Lowry uses the theme of change to reveal that growing up in “the community” is a non-stressful and organized environment but Jonas finds the real world a whole different place when he receives memories about strong feelings and hardships, intellects the word “love”, and how important it is to be an individual.

Jonas starts out with a very low understanding of what it means to be mature. He has no knowledge of pain, love, or any other emotion. He proves this by acting like a normal child. He plays with his friends after volunteer hours. He attends school on a regular basis. Jonas is a stickler for the rules. He has been told that it is wrong to not follow rules and that there

Originally, it only starts with him merely not taking his pills, which holds back his emotions. However, after the twin event, he and the Giver devises a plan for him to leave and expose emotions, memories, and color to the community once more. Jonas wants to have the Giver come with him, but the Giver refuses, stating that "it will be desperately hard for them," (page 156 - PDF) and that they panicked when it happened years ago with the previous Receiver, Rosemary. Jonas eventually caves in though and agrees to go off on his own. During the beginning of his escape, he does many things against the rules. "First, he had left his dwelling at night. ... Second, he had robbed the community of food... Third, he had stolen his father's bicycle. ... [fourth,] he had taken Gabriel, too," (pages 165 and 166 in the PDF) and he also decided to leave the community itself. All of these things were so that he could leave and defy the Elders’ choice to have a safe and dull

This means that he is getting more aware of his surroundings because he can now see more and he can understand what everything looks like around him. This is making Jonas more aware because he is able to see what the life of the community used to look like before the took away color. The third and final evidence is stated on page 111; it shows on the final reason on why Jonas is changing. Finally, on page 111 is says this, “He wondered, though, if he should confess to the Giver that he had given a memory away… That he had this power frighted him. He decided not to tell. “ This evidence is showing us that he is becoming braver and independent. I know this because earlier on in the novel he would tell his parents every thing, but now that he is becoming more independent he can make his own choices about what he thinks and feels. In the Novel, The Giver, there is a very dynamic character named Jonas. He is getting braver, more independent, wiser, older, and aware. This is how Jonas is making through his metamorphosis, and even someone who has a lot of rules in his daily life is still able to change in such a strict

One day, it was time for Jonas to get a job. He was really nervous. His friends went with him and they sat together. When it was Jonas’ number they skipped him. He was getting so nervous that he thought he was not going to get a job. When Jonas’ name got called to be Receiver. He was going to work with an old man. When they met Jonas loved this man, he could show Jonas fun things that kids do, like us! The old man could also show Jonas pain. Jonas wanted to be different from the other people in his town. It couldn’t be that way.if you were different you were released, if there were twins then the one that weighed the most got cleaned and got a new home.if you were the one that weighed the least then you were released.

This book can offer many important life lessons about maturing and nonconformity. The reader can learn about growing up by looking at Jonas’s character development. At first he was scared to accept the new responsibilities of being the receiver of memory, but he slowly gets used to it and eventually risks his life to save the

The giver is a fictional novel authorised by Louis Lowry dedicated to informing readers about the devastating impact of extreme conformity on a community. As we progress throughout the book we start to realise and learn all these new things about the giver's community, such as creating and trying to maintain a perfect community, that comes beyond our abilities, while the givers society is having a huge impact on the individuality and individual choices on the members of the community. We learn that the inhabitants of the society had a hard time handling all the different memories, in a sudden event. All hints and evidence to these statements above are hidden and presented throughout the book.

Another factor in The Giver that is unlike our society is how many rules there are in Jonas’ community compared to our world. We have rules in our society, but the community has an abundance of them. Some rules we have are no littering, have to be sixteen to drive a car, have to be eighteen to vote, or no trespassing. However in the book some rules are no animals/pets allowed, girls have to wear ribbons in their hair, no bragging,no riding other peoples bikes, and no planes can fly over the community. There was a point in the book where a plane did fly over the community and the government was not very pleased.