The Giver In The Teenager : Chapter 1 Of The Giver

The man said with a smile.Gabe and Jonas feasted on the christmas roast and cookies they have never eaten such things like this so sweet and elegant. Then they both layed down on a couch, next to two older people then the man introduced us. The man says

In The Giver, everyone is equal. There is only equality. If you were to compare the society of The Giver to our own society, there is a big difference. Their society is almost perfect there is no poverty or wars. Our society is very far from perfect. In The Giver, there is freedom, but not freedom of choice. This is the difference between our society and theirs. In The Giver, people are equal, there is no discrimination of any kind; in our society we have discrimination of all sorts like racism, sexism, and ageism.

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

“’Memories are forever”’ (Lowry). People make new memories every day without even realizing it. Some good some bad, that’s just the way of life, but in The Giver nobody knows what happened before them. People barley remember what their childhood was like, they don’t understand the importance of memory and that memories are forever. Aspects of life, rules, and prosperities between our world and Jonas’ world are very different yet have some similarities. Things that are crucial to the characters in The Giver are not as meaningful to the people in our world.

     This book is about a boy names Jonas. Jonas lives in a futuristic society where there is no pain, fear, war, and hatred. There is also no prejudice, since everyone looks and acts basically the same, there is very little competition. They have also eliminated choice.

“You have made a terrible mistake.” The Chief Elder uttered in shock, her tongue cutting short of a hiss.

Lord, Elyse. "Overview of The Giver." Novels for Students. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Literature Resource Center. Web. 27 Mar. 2016. Elyse Lord is one of the many critics who describe “The Giver” as terrifying but offering “hope and a constructive view” of the Utopian world in the book. She explains that other critics praise the book with many awards such as the Newberry Medal. Lord goes on to reason that the story is favored by different readers for its complexity, symbolism, metaphors, ambiguous ending, and can be compared similarly to classic science fiction like “Brave New World” and “Fahrenheit 451.” Contradicting this statement, Lord says that ‘librarians’, ‘educators’, and ‘students’ debate “The Giver” to be censored from public schools around the world because of its graphic scenes and ideas of infanticide and euthanasia. This includes the time Jonas witnessed his father murder a baby and throw it down a trash chute in cold blood. This is ironical compared to the language, emotion, and behaviors being censored in Jonas’s ‘Utopian’ society. Lord argues this through Anna Cerbasi of Port Saint Lucie, Florida, who asked the school board to remove a book that was about a family murdering their child for crying at night and called the book inappropriate for the sixth grade. Lord raises the question of who is to “decide which books are appropriate for which children,” and argues that it cannot be answered with not one but the many books integrated in school curricula that compose

Jonas is an eleven year old boy who lives in a community where everything is the same. Jonas has a flashback seeing a jet fly over the community, and everyone was frightened. The speaker comes on and tells everyone that a pilot in training was lost, and was to be released. Jonas says that being released was an “Overwhelming statement of failure.” Jonas' family has to tell their feelings every evening. His sister Lily talks about a visiting group of sevens’ who went to the school who had not obeyed the rules. She implied that they behaved like animals. Jonas’ father, who is a nurturer, tells them about a baby boy who doesn't seem to be growing and developing, as he should. He then states that the baby may be released. Lily wants to

The Giver, by Lois Lowry takes place in a world of no color, no emotion, and no memory. It has nothing but the present. This is a world where the public strives for Sameness, meaning that everything is hand-picked for you instead. Your job, your partner, your children, and whether you live or if you’re released. In many people’s eyes, this is a utopia, it’s the perfect world.

The poem, "Dulce Et Decorum Est", and chapter 15 of "The Giver" develops many underlying themes and imagery. A theme developed through the two writings is related to lightning bolts. Also, the imagery used in the two writings is very harsh-seeming to develop the theme.

In The Giver, by Lois Lowry, a contrast and contradiction moment appeared when The Giver said that he was in love with Rosemary. This is something that I don’t think he would have done any other time because love isn’t something you feel in this community. In the text it states, “... The Giver explained. ‘ I love her.’” This shows how The Giver did feel strong feelings for her, but because of this it pained him to give her sad memories or painful ones because he didn’t want to hurt her.

“ What is your name ,” Jonas asked. “My name is Rosemary and welcome to Elsewhere. Elsewhere is amazing. You are going to love it.” “ Is this Elsewhere ? Just your house ,” Jonas asked. “Oh no ,” laughed Rosemary, “ There is a whole village behind my house . You just can not see it because it is covered in snow .” “Oh I did not notice that nor did I see any lights.”

Through her Newbery award-winning novel, The Giver, Lois Lowry demonstrates the incalculable value of making decisions, by creating a dystopian society that does not know the meaning of choice. The ability to make choices is generally taken for granted in modern day society. Since the beginning of our society, people have pushed beyond the confines of not having choices by starting revolutions. During the 1700s, the American colonies led a revolution against the tyrannical mother country of Great Britain. Had the American colonists stayed submissive to British rule, the USA would not exist today. Another memorable instance occurred during the Roaring Twenties when strong-willed women like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton declared

Chapter 14 of The Giver tells how the giver is transmitting more and more memories every day to Jonas. The Giver transmits the memory of another ride on a sled, only this time the sled loses control and Jonas experiences pain and nausea from a badly broken leg. The pain lingers after the experience is over, but the Giver is not allowed to give him relief-of-pain, Over the next days, the Giver transmits more and more painful memories, always ending the day with a memory of pleasure. Jonas wonders why the whole community cannot share the pain of these important memories, and the Giver tells him that this is the reason the position of Receiver is so honored—the community does not want to be burdened and pained by memories. Jonas wants to change

Imagine a world without love or color. Jonas the protagonist in The Giver he ran away and left comparing his community to our society. In our society we aloud to love whoever we want and we free to love. In jonas society love is a word that is prohibited no longer said for example abandoned no longer mentioned because they don't know what it means.