The Giver Rhetorical Analysis

The Giver teaches us that love is essential to life. Jonas and the Giver demonstrate again and again how important it is, even though it’s forbidden. The Giver demonstrates love when he declares, “‘I love you Jonas’ he said. ‘But I have another place to go. When my work here is done, I want to be with my daughter’”(202). The Giver is saying goodbye to Jonas, he is practically telling Jonas he is going to finish the things he needs to, then The Giver is going to ask to be released. He says he loves Jonas and you can tell Jonas loves him too. He loves his family even though they don’t know how to love or what love is. He also loves Gabe, Jonas saves him from being ‘released’. Jonas feels accepted, loved, and at home when the giver tells him he

Can you imagine not having any emotions or not being able to express your feelings to one another? In Lois Lowry’s book, The Giver, Jonas and his utopian community don’t have any memories or emotions. When Jonas was chosen to be the receiver, at the ceremony of twelves, he receives all the memories that none of the community will understand. The Giver transfers memories to Jonas like color, love, and pain. Throughout receiving memories, Jonas starts to question the people that don’t have these things, and this is where the theme “Life without emotions is not a life worth living” comes into play.

But I wasn't. I was almost a little angry at her, in the dream, because she wasn't taking me seriously....."Jonas tells his parents his strongest feeling; not understanding why his Mother responds that he must take a pill. Jonas does recall that in the Book of Rules there is a reference to them.Then, Jonas recall’s that a voice over the loudspeaker saying that stirrings must be reported so that treatment can begin. His mother tells Jonas that he must begin taking the pills for the Stirrings just as she and his father do. But, barely Jonas remembers that he enjoyed the stirrings and wanted to feel the Stirrings again.The "Stirrings" are sexual feelings that the Community wishes to control so that there is no trouble such as fighting among the males or jealousy among the girls. The society in which Jonas lives censors the thoughts and feelings of its inhabitants.This evidence supports my statement because the stirrings don’t let them feel the emotion of love.In my society we feel every emotion or feeling.The giver society has a rule of everyone being the same and no is different so there is no

Imagine you lived in a world with no pain, color, love, sunshine, memories,and have every aspect of your life controlled by a group of elders.Well in Lois Lowry’s The Giver for 11 year old (soon to be twelve) Jonas this is his average everyday life.In Jonas’s eyes, he lives in a utopian community.Jonas lives like this until he is selected as receiver and has some unexpected experiences. This leads Jonas to being able to see color,memories,pain,and love. These experiences makes Jonas realize that the community must change for the better.Jonas changes throughout The Giver and as a result, tries to change the community.

The novel uses an imposingly obvious lack of individuality in the surrounding and supporting characters, which gives the reader a feeling of repression and incompleteness within the story. Lowry uses this tone in order to trigger the mentality of the reader, propelling them into a higher level of thinking, and consequentially making subconscious connections to traumatic or impressing events that they hear about in everyday modern life. One case of this riveting manner of writing is when Jonas asks his parents if they love him, and they are insulted by his word choice. By offering up other, more specific words, such as “proud” or “appreciative”, they seem to be insinuating that the word “love” has become obsolete. This causes the reader to wonder if love itself is even acknowledged by this futuristic community. The reader might begin questioning how humanity declined so far as to feel the need to block out all emotions, even positive ones. Another time where Lowry’s writing style becomes apparent is when the Giver shows Jonas how Release actually works. When Jonas’s father

character (Jonas vs. the Giver) and Character vs. Society (Jonas vs. the society he lives in). In the Giver Jonas and the Giver have many conflicts. Jonas at times feels it's hard to show his emotions and feelings to the giver. The Giver also had conflict when he had to transfer bad memories with him. "The Giver looked away as if he could not bear to see what he had done to Jonas. 'Forgive me,' he said." In the book and more into it Jonas begins to dislike the community and society he lives in. Jonas doesn't agree with not being able to see color, people getting killed for no reason, no one being able to be different and make their own choices and not being able to love anyone. Another example is not being able to have the right to have a child unless told or marry who they tell you and are controlled by the government, people's getting released for no reason, no one being allowed to make choices, and most of all, only one person receiving pain. "It isn't fair that nothing has color!" "Not fair?" The giver looked at Jonas curiously. "Explain what you mean." "Well..." Jonas had to stop and think it through. "If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide

In The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Chapters seventeen through eighteen show that Jonas realizes that he now experiences a new depth of feelings such as curiosity and pain. In chapter seventeen, Jonas refuses to participate in a game with Fiona, Asher and the younger children because he recognized it as a war game. He tried to explain to his friends that the game was mocking a horrible reality, but they are only annoyed with Jonas. As a result, Jonas left his friends and trudged home thinking about the memories that the game brought back to him and he also realized that his friends and the children would never be able to understand his feelings of love, sadness, and hatred. For example, “ You ruined it, Asher said in an irritated voice ” ( Lowry 168).

The Giver and Jonas share some feelings. Here are a few of them. They felt frightened. “Frightened meant that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen.” that quote is important to my essay because because it describes a feeling. What makes it important is that it states the word feeling and describes what the feeling means. They both felt love. They also both felt anger and aggression. “It was a sound of rage and grief.” That quote is important to my essay because it talks about feelings. What makes that quote important is that it describes the feeling as not only a feeling, but a sound as well. Jonas had feelings, here are a few.

Jonas learns that those who don't take risks never grow. Jonas takes risks by not taking his stirring pills. He has not taken the pills, now for four weeks. The stirrings had returned, and he felt a little guilty and embarrassed about the pleasurable dreams that came to him as he slept (Lowry 130). Jonas also takes a hazard by giving gabriel memories of joy so he can fall asleep.

Three Themes of The Giver What would life be like without emotions? The main character, Jonas, in Lois Lowry’s The Giver lives in a community where nobody has sorrow, pain, anger, or hate. Unfortunately to gain control over these things Jonas’ society has had to give up joy, love, differences, color, and choices. During the story Jonas finds that those who don’t take risks don’t grow, without memories knowledge is useless, and love gives strength.

The Giver by Lois Lowry, shows us the importance of our emotions and freedom to our lives. The message is shown through Jonas’s journey and his perspectives. Jonas starts off as an obedient young boy that goes on to be a mature, wise young adult. He wonders whether war and pain are worth existing if it means love and joy can exist as well.

The Giver has a unique community where everyone is almost the same, and they do not get freedom of choice. The people in Jonas’ community do not get to experience things we have in our world, too.

The book called, “The Giver” is a novel created by Lois Lowry. The book describes at the beginning, the life of a twelve-year-old boy named, Jonas, who throughout the book becomes the main protagonist that allows the book to unravel completely. Jonas is very intelligent and perceptive when it comes to his others mates taking on life seriously, these qualities grant him the position of Receiver which in the book, is the most important job within the community. The book introduces many unusual concepts, concepts that involve feelings, balance, rules, decision-making and most importantly, life.

The ability to feel emotions is what gives each person an individual personality. In the novel, Jonas stops taking his pill and he begins to have “stirrings” for Fiona. This confuses him, but he slowly starts to realize that his feelings for her are real. In addition, the book reads, “There could be love, Jonas whispered”(Lowry 162). He is very optimistic and is now beginning to see what the world could be. As the memories of the world are passed onto him, he discovers that his society could be different. People could learn to love and have connections with each other. It’s almost as if this society is made up of robots. No one has control over themselves or anything

In, The Giver, the community controls emotions by giving people a pill to take every day. The pill controls hormones, or what the community calls “stirrings”. This is also how the community controls the population.