The Giver Research Paper

What draws a contrast between the two are the regulations instructing the limitations that must be put into put in order for the community to function. In The Giver, the point of the severe authority is to safeguard the community. The Elders made restrictions to attain a perfect society, bare of all antagonism. Memories are kept from the civilian as a defensive control so none of them has to undergo any sort anguish and hardship. As Jonas

Community life in The Giver is very organized. The society made the choice to go to Sameness where everything is the same for everyone. The community doesn’t suffer pain, hunger and other things. There are no conflicts between the community. The society also chose to go to Sameness to prevent from making the wrong choices. People can’t make their own decisions as almost everything is made by the Committee of Elders. The feelings of the society are controlled. There are many rules the community has to follow to maintain the society as they want to. Many of these things are that way because of the choice the people made. In The Giver, privacy, family life, and selecting jobs are important features of their community life.

This shows that no one is truly delightful because they don’t know what feelings are and they don't feel the feeling because they don’t know what the feeling is.This is true because in the text it says,”Precision of language, please (p 127 Lowry).” This shows that people in The Giver don’t know certain words so they might not know what feelings mean so they can’t be horrible, delightful or anything and they can’t feel feelings. This also shows that people use great grammar but they don’t have a big vocabulary so they use the words they can use for talking. Moreover, his father doesn’t know what he has done and Jonas is getting very angry over it and his feelings are getting raged because of his dad. Because in the text it says,” He killed it! My father killed it!” (Lowry p. 150). This shows people have used equality wrongly so horrible things happen just like this and they don’t know what they've done. This is a problem because Jonas now might not forgive/ like his father because he is furious about what his father did because he did something wrong and he thinks he did nothing wrong. This shows that people who know the truth feel horrible about the people who are released. In conclusion, equality is greatly misunderstood in The Giver, and lots of things turn out horrible and they are not truly delightful because they

His father tells him Gabriel is to be released soon, so he decides to leave the Community and release all of the memories which he has received to the members of the Community so that they can see the error of their ways. “The Giver” is similar to Brave New World in that members of both the World State and the Community seem to be completely unaffected by death and everyone is constantly delusionally happy. In addition, both societies emerged from some sort of horrific, world-shattering event. The main difference between the novel and the movie is that in “The Giver”, the protagonist managed to spread individuality to his world by releasing the memories to the Community, while at the end of Brave New World, John the Savage ends up killing himself. A major theme in both the movie and the novel is the importance of individuality. In both cases, only the individualistic character is able to see the fault in their worlds. Personally, my favorite parts of the movie were the montages of happy memories that Jonas received, because they created a sense of vitality that made me feel very

The community that Lowry creates in The Giver stresses precision of language. Precise language, however, in this community, is not precise at all but rather is a language in which the meanings of words are intentionally unclear. For example, each family unit participates in the "telling of feelings" every evening. This sharing is ironic because the people don 't have any feelings. They gave up their feelings when they chose Sameness. Another word that is ironic and not precise is "Nurturer." Jonas ' father, a Nurturer, is supposed to be a caretaker of infants. He does care for infants, but he also kills them.

Jack Carroll once said ”Perhaps the greatest utopia would be if we could all realize that no utopia is possible;no place to run, no place to hide, just take care of business here and now” People throughout the ages have attempted a utopian society but they have all ended in crumbles. In the Novel The Giver our society has a lot of differences in which split our society from being anywhere near theres . The society in The Giver and ours there are a lot of rules. In our society there are rules also such as, someone killing, which would result into punishment or in the worst case death.

The society in The Giver is based on sameness, which in order to achieve sameness individualism is discouraged, and rules and discipline matter most.

Most of what we cherish in our lives is freedom, would we give up freedom to live in a perfect world? In The Giver, genetics, sameness, and surveillance are some characteristics that make up Utopia. Personally, I would rather have freedom, not be watched or for my body to be genetically modified. Why should we live in Utopia, only to have a tedious life ahead of us when we could have a diverse world full of unique events and experiences.

1- Setting A: The Giver is set in a futuristic, dystopian world. The world in the novel is planned and prepared. B: The Giver has a fantasy setting. It appears to be idealistic community at first, but then it is obvious that it has money disadvantages.

Although, in this novel, the society may appear extremely different than our modern society, there are also lots of similarities. The main difference is families are chosen for you in jonas’ society but in our society, we decided who we want to marry and how many children we have. The second contrast between our two societies is in jonas’ society, People are released instead of dying naturally. However, Jonas’ society and our society are similar in some ways also. For example, our society and Jonas’ society are both ruled by some sort of government.

In the novel "The Giver" there are many differences between our community and Jonas's, on the other hand there aren't many similarities. Jonas's community is very ordered and strict. One of the first major differences is, the citizens do not get to make their own decisions. Another major difference between our community and Jonas's is, their community is all the same. If you do something "different" you will be released, or killed. The final reason is, the citizens of the community do not have feelings. These reasons are stated many times throughout the story.

In The Giver, rules are negatively portrayed so that freedom, choice and individuality are stolen from the people. The people of the “community” aren’t even aware that they have lost their freedom. To the people, rules are a great thing, because it makes life predictable and manageable. It’s this lack of freedom that worries the readers the most.

The rules in the world of the giver are much more strict than our world because one of the rules are you can’t have a bike until age 9.In our world we can have a bike at any age that we want.The other parts in the story that sucks for jonas because he is a memory receiver and a lot of the memory’s

The theme of The Giver is that the the deprivation of rights’ consequences. If people are not allowed to make decisions for themselves, they will never get to experience the joy of life. The Community of Elders in the book did not allow people to make their own decisions, because they thought it would harm people. For the better of the community, the Community of Elders assigned each person a job based on what they were good at. For example, Lily was good at being the Speaker, but she didn’t want to be assigned that job; she wanted to be a Birthmother or a Nurturer. Although a person may be good at a certain task, that does not mean that they want to do that task. Also, people should not be killed based on how they are growing. Even if the

The Giver; written by Lois Lowry is a very compelling and well written novel that challenges the way humans view the general aspects of life. The novel, a work of contemporary fiction is about a boy named Jonas who lives in a utopian community; free of crime, pain and sadness. Jonas’ community has eliminated choice, and so everything in his community has been choosen for them. Citizens are assigned a role in the community at the age of twelve depending on their abilities and interests. In the beginning of the book Jonas is very anxious about the upcoming Ceremony of twelve because he does not know what role he will be assigned. Later on Jonas stands apart from the rest of the community when