The Giver Ending Analysis

For the first time,he heard something that he knew to be music.He heard people singing. Jonas wipes his eyes and still saw the lights and houses with all the pretty lights.

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.

When the Soviet Union was a powerful communist nation Joseph Stalin killed millions of innocent people. Communism is a political theory derived from Karl Marx, advocating class war and leading to a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and is paid according to their abilities and needs. Some of the communist countries throughout history were China, Soviet Union, Cuba, North Korea, Laos and Vietnam. Through Western point of view communism is thought of as negative because the U.S especially hates communism and will go all out to stop the spreading of it like the Vietnam war. The Giver was directed by Phillip Noyce and was made in 2014, The Giver is about a society in which everything is basically the same like

Jonas chills out on the bed and waits for the memory of snow. All of a sudden, he's very cold. He can no longer feel the old man's hands on his back. He feels something like pinpricks on his skin, and sticks out his tongue to catch the falling white things. Part of him, he feels, is still lying on the bed in the Annex. But the other part is somewhere else, sitting on a hard surface with a rope in his hands. All of a sudden, he knows that he is surrounded by snow and that he's sitting on a sled. He then races downhill, fast at first, until the snow piles up and the runners come to a standstill. Then he opens his eyes and is back in the room with the old man. The old man says that was tiring for him, but that he feels lightened because

Simon accidentally drops Joe of a cliff and he has no way to get up. Simon is stuck in a seat he made in the snow. If he moves they will both get pulled down the crevasse. He falls out of the seat and has to cut the rope.

For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. Looking at the house with the colorful lights and people singing on the inside Jonas approached. He politely knocked on the door and a very familiar man answered the door. The man in the doorway was The Giver. Jonas was happy to see him again.

In The Giver, Jonas’ world is turned upside down when he is chosen to be the next receiver of his community. The ceremony of twelves is the last ceremony of the day. Jonas waited anxiously for his name to be called; he never hears it. The chief elder has made a mistake. Jonas now has to learn that everything he has been taught was not always the same and it ages him years.

Then before his eyes he could see the house with people waiting on them. It was a miracle

“Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo”

Buck shows his admiration by saving Thortons life in the river, pulling a one thousand pound sled, and shows he loves him by biting his hand. Thorton gets thrown out of a raft, Buck jumps into save him and Pete ties buck to a rope as Buck launches himself toward John. While at a mining meeting Thorton bets Buck could pull a one thousand pound sled even though he doesn't think he can. Once Buck pulls the sled for one hundred meters John falls to his knees.

In the novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the topic of life occurs throughout the story. Jonas lives in a community based on conformity and sameness. Jonas is chosen as the receiver of memory. As he is trained he learns that change is needed in the community. At the end of the book, Jonas tries to go elsewhere to return the memories back to the community. In The Giver, the author uses the characters, plot, and conflict to develop the theme that life can not be taken for granted.

In Loris Lowry’s book “The giver”, the community Jonas live in appears to be a utopian society, which is a perfect world without any pain or sadness, but in reality, it is a dystopian world due to the creation of harsh restraints. Through the control of the elders, the people living in the community lose their ability to control and understand the world. They are unable to express their thinking, choose their life and are even restricted from building connections with other people. The author shows that the beautiful appearance of the community creates an illusion of freedom, however this does not translate into any real decisions in a world full of lies.

Stuck in the middle of a blizzard, Simon has to lower Joe, who’s broken his leg, down the mountain with a waist-attached rope. This goes well until Joe slips off the cliff face and is left hanging in midair, off the mountain. However, Simon just thinks it’s just taking him a long time to make his way down; it’s much different than that. As Joe puts it, “there was at least 100 feet of air below my feet!” For hours, Joe tries his best to climb back up the rope using a Prusik knot. But Simon has just about run out of patience. So, in a sudden move, he cuts the rope, causing Joe to plummet to his doom. This can show a lot about how humans react to things. Despite Simon not knowing Joe’s situation, he willingly cuts the rope without further investigation. He didn’t know whether Joe’s leg was just stuck, or whether he might’ve just had another injury. Either way, he

When he woke up he could feel his arm in so much pain. Even more than when he fell off his house before. At first he thought it was broken but it wasn't. He had broken bones before. So he probably just tore his muscle. He wanted to get from the mountain. But his arm was in to much pain. So then he tried to sit up, but his arm was in to much pain to handle. It started to rain, and he had a glimpse of what seemed like a bear cave. So he got up and went to it.

He slips off the edge, while falling at great speed down a giant slope. How could everyone watch as the boy plunges downward with no reaction, as if he wasn't defying human possibility? How can he do this with such grace and coordination as the chilling wind and the snow hit his face?