The Giver Short Story

4.) Since there are so many rules which the residents in The Giver have to obey, there are no arguments or fights. This is because when choices are not in the hands of themselves they have nothing to fight about. Thus, a peaceful, safe and joyous community is made.

In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, the receivers are the only people who have feelings and memories. The elders are the people who choose what the best is for their people in the community and sometimes they go to the receiver for help on making the right decisions. The people from the community do not see color, or have freedom on making a decision for them. There is no love, feelings, and grandparents. Jonas is assigned to be the next receiver of the community; He was trained by the giver, who transfers memories of the pain and pleasures of life, who also shows him the truth and reality that is hidden to the community. Jonas’s community does not represent the ideal of society because there are no choices or distinctions between men

     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.

The setting of The Giver takes place in a fictional community known as the “Sameness”. Life here is supposed to be "perfect" because there is no pain or suffering. They don’t have to take

But the Giver stopped talking as Jonas walked away. There was nothing the Giver could do. He just had to give Jonas some time, so he walked into the kitchen and got some food for Jonas and Gabriel. Jonas was sitting on the couch, frazzled when the Giver walked in with a platter of apple slices, two cups of water, and a small bowl of tiny cookies for Gabriel. Gabriel still hasn’t moved at all. Not one bit, but Jonas was too preoccupied hating himself for what he had done. For what he had done to his friends and a whole community.

“‘I couldn’t quite get the word for the whole feeling of it, the feeling that was so strong in the room.’ ‘Love,’ The Giver told him” (Page 125). This shows words of the wiser because The Giver explains that love is what completes the feeling of family, and how great it feels. In the life that they are living, Jonas’ parents can’t say if they love him. They are unable to understand what that word means because they are in such a black and white world, where everything is the same. This next example shows us how Jonas wants to let other people

Mary Radmacher once said, “courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow. ”In The Giver jonas gets selected to be the Receiver Of Memory. So the community don’t have to feel the pain, just jonas.

In The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas’s community is oblivious to lf their world is a Dystopia or a Utopia. The community is a Dystopia. According to the passage “Utopias and Dystopias”,a Dystopia is a Utopia which things have gone wrong.An Utopian society is a place we can only dream about. Jonas community is no dream they are completely controlled. Jonas society is ruled by the Chief Elder. The Giver describes three different ideals including lack of knowledge, sameness,and complete control.

The Giver is it a utopia or not? A community that has solved hunger, poverty, and weather , how could it not? The Giver by Lois Lowry makes you wonder this while reading it. The book is about a boy named Jonas who is chosen to become the new Receiver of memory.

The Giver by Lois Lowry is a science fiction novel about a boy named Jonas. He lives in a society where Sameness is valued. Due to the Sameness, the citizens are assigned their jobs. Jonas is chosen as the Receiver; therefore, he holds memories he received from the Giver and advises the community on occasion. Jonas realizes how terrible his community is after receiving memories.

Leydi Valdes 5/6 Embedded Assessment 2.1 Our modern day society is far from a perfect society. However Jonas’ society has various rules. That makes it much more dangerous than a modern day society. Modern day society and the society in The Giver have many differences including precision of language, can’t pick job or spouse, and books were not available.

Through Jonas’ discovery of the hidden truth in The Giver by Lois Lowry, his character begins to change which develops an internal conflict where Jonas struggles with he is told to be true. Jonas seems more intelligent and perceptive than many of his peers, and he thinks more seriously than they do about life. Jonas also begins to think about his purpose in the society and the strict rules that prevent many aspects. Things about the community that used to be mildly perplexing or troubling are now intensely frustrating or depressing, and Jonas’s inherent concern for others and desire for justice makes him learn to make changes in the community. When Jonas was chosen as the receiver at the ceremony, his life had drastically changed as he earns great honor.

In the book The Giver Jonas has a really complicated relationships with his father. It all started when his father told him about release but lied about it. Jonas thought that the people getting released would go to a happy place, but actually his father kills them with a shot then dumps them in the garbage. The Giver showed Jonas a video about the truth of the release because his father told him a lie. Jonas was very displeased when he found out what his dad does at a release and could not get pass the thought that his dad was a liar. Jonas can trust the giver because the Giver has never lied to Jonas and his dad has. This related in Jonas to have trust issues with other people.

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

The giver is a fictional novel authorised by Louis Lowry dedicated to informing readers about the devastating impact of extreme conformity on a community. As we progress throughout the book we start to realise and learn all these new things about the giver's community, such as creating and trying to maintain a perfect community, that comes beyond our abilities, while the givers society is having a huge impact on the individuality and individual choices on the members of the community. We learn that the inhabitants of the society had a hard time handling all the different memories, in a sudden event. All hints and evidence to these statements above are hidden and presented throughout the book.