The Giver Response

The Giver by Lois Lowry is full of many twists and turns. The government in “The Giver” is controlled by the Chief Elder and The Committee of Elders. Their type of punishment is “Release.” “Release” is really another word for punishment by death. After they have been “Released,” they throw them away in the garbage. It is inhumane for someone to do that to another. It saddens me to think that someone would do that.

The giver follows the life of a young boy named Jonas. In the future, society is different from now, emotions, colour, pain, and liberty are all things of the past, in this alleged dystopian novel. Thorough explanation of this is left out in the novel, what we know is some war or tragedy due to all the emotions, opinions, cultures etc. led to great measures being taken. Thus eliminating all feelings both good and bad, which in turn dehumanized the whole population almost making them in to living robots, just so that the chance of another catastrophe is narrowed down to almost zero. Liberty is merely an illusion in this novel since no choices are made by the people only by the “elders” who aren't explained a lot either

Jonas receives memories of color, something that is absent from his community. He realizes how absent his community really is. Jonas hurts inside to tell people in his community what they are missing. The only person that he can really open up to is The Giver. They grew really close, and it became like a grandfather, grandchild relationship.

Equality, the harsh rules, and the secrecy negatively impact society in The Giver and proves that if equality is wrongly understood, it can have a bad impact on society. The impacts are shown clearly in many ways throughout the beginning of the novel in the society. The citizens all have to go through a day when they are “a 12” when they get chosen for their jobs in the future. The protagonist named Jonas is chosen to a very special job named the receiver. The point of this job is to receive the memories of the past to keep them from being released to the society around. There are many painful memories and happy ones. In one of his first happy memories, Jonas sees his first-ever glimpse of color and starts to have different thoughts about the black and white world around him. He reacts to the memory and says “‘But I want them!’” Jonas said angrily. “‘It isn’t fair that nothing has color!’” (Lowry 122). After this and

The novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is an everlasting story that shows the importance of individuality. This novel is about a young boy named Jonas who was elected as the Receiver of Memories, a person who is given the memories from the world that existed before their current society, Sameness. In this society there is no individualism. People can not choose who to marry, or what they want to do for a living. Over time Jonas becomes more and more wise, and realizes that the supposedly perfect community actually has some very dark and negative aspects. The author, Lois Lowry is a 76-year-old writer who focuses her writing on helping struggling teenagers become individuals. Lowry had a very tragic childhood. After both of her parents were

The theme conveyed through the Giver is that individuality should be valued. The story takes place in a utopian society where everything is the same. There are no choices, no color, and no love in the Community of Sameness. The novel starts out a month before the Ceremony of Twelve, where the 12 year olds each get assigned a job. Jonas gets the assignment of the Receiver of Memory, and he soon finds out that lying is permitted, and receives several memories of the past without sameness, with pain too. He has the ability to see beyond, and finds out that he and the Giver are the only people in the Community that have the ability to see, as well as hear beyond. Similar to the phenomenon of an apple changing quality and his friend Fiona’s hair doing the same

The Giver is able to teach Jonas about the world and this impacts Jonas’s choices and develops the theme that choice is an important part of individuality. Jonas is beginning to see glimpses of color and he continues to learn about them. He is angry that the community took away color, but he cannot quite explain why. “He looked down,... at the colorless fabric of his clothing. ‘But it’s all the same, always.’

In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas is a boy who lives in a world of no color no feeling all shades. When Jonas turns twelve he was not assigned but selected to be the new receiver, after his first day of training he felt different. The author Lowry writes about how being unique and individual is a good thing. Jonas learns this lesson when he feels different, he sees beyond what others can see, and is selected as the receiver and feels separate.

In the novel “The Giver” a young boy named Jonas, finds out his community is not what he thinks after his ceremony. Jonas experiences develop a theme over the course of “The Giver” by teaching the reader sameness is not always the best option. Although some readers may believe that sameness can be the best option, Jonas experiences show that individuality is better.

'The Giver,' written by Louis Lowry, is a novel told in a perspective of a 12 year old boy by the name Jonas. Jonas and his family live in an 'utopian' society. Jonas shows us how the community he lives in, is flawed in multiple ways. 'The Giver,' transmits memories of the past generation including memories of love, joy, emotions, colour,

Before I give my response on how I liked The Giver, I would like to give a quick summary over The Giver. The Giver is about a Eleven year-old boy named Jonas who lives in a Community that is isolated from almost everything. Everyone in the Community is assigned a certain role to do. At the 12-years-old Ceremony, they are assigned to the job that they will do for the rest of their life. When the day finally comes for all of the Elevens to become a Twelve and to be assigned their job, Jonas is assigned a job that not many people get, the next Receiver of Memory.

The Giver by Lois Lowry is a science fiction novel, about an eleven-year-old boy named Jonas who lives in a futuristic Utopian town where there is no diversity, and no difference everything is the same. In the town Jonas lives in there are no emotions or memories of the past.The negative side effects of this town with no emotions or awareness is they can not feel joy or love, the people can not feel the best parts of life.Lois Lowry is warning her readers that although being like everyone else seems appealing and like it is a good thing, it is the diversity and difference in life that makes it so great, not the dullness of everyone being the same.

Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, offers a thought provoking, well written story, because it changes the perspective of anyone who dares to read it to. Lowry places her novel, at some point in the future when mankind has gone away with changes and choices in life. She forces readers appreciate, or at least re-think the world they live in today. Her novel presents a fully human created environment where people have successfully blocked out conflict, grief, and individuality. Each person follows the same routine every day. Failure comply with standards, to be different, means death. Jonas, the main character, finds himself trapped in this world.

The message of how differences in an individual has the power to go against a whole civilization of similarity is cleverly portrayed by Lowry using a range of techniques. By going against the grain of society in the novel, Jonas was able to ultimately save his community and restore memories of the past life, one with emotions, pain and most importantly difference. “The biggest challenge in life is to be yourself in a world that is trying to make you like everyone else”. The Giver is a fictional novel by Louis Lowry that revolves around a boy named Jonas growing up in a utopian world, a world without pain, suffering or violence. The author uses various techniques to convey to the audience how differences in an individual has the power to rebel or go against a whole civilisation of similarity.

In the book The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the setting is in a community of citizens. There are many communities led by a group of elders. In the community the citizens have their jobs chosen for them. It would be a good thing so that way everyone would have a job. If I were to try to guess what my job would be I think it would be the recreational director.