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The Giver Quote Analysis

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In The Giver, the author Lois Lowry is trying to convey the theme that things are not always as they seem/appear. To start off, towards the beginning of the book, the theme is hinted at when Jonas receives his assignment information and a set of rules. To his dismay the last rule is that he is allowed to lie and Jonas is then left wondering if anyone else had received the same rules. “What if they had all been instructed: You may lie?.....Now empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness--and promised answers--he could conceivably ask someone…. ‘Do you lie?’. But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received were true” (Lowry 89-90). In this quote, the author is trying to to tell the readers that in the society, no one may really know what is going on. …show more content…

Additionally, in the middle of the book, Jonas is upset when he sees Asher playing with a group of kids, a game, that he himself had played in the past. However, after training to be the next receiver, Jonas only then sees the true meaning behind the game. “It was a game he had often played with the other children...He had never recognized it before as a game of war...In his mind, Jonas saw again the face of the boy who had lain dying on a field and had begged him for water” (Lowry 167). As Jonas receives more memories, he begins to realize deeper meanings and is unable able to overlook events so easily. He himself sees the true significance and is frustrated when everyone else is deceived, only seeing what is on the outside. Near the end of the book, Jonas and the Giver watch a newborn child being released by Jonas’s

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