The Giver Themes

“’Memories are forever”’ (Lowry). People make new memories every day without even realizing it. Some good some bad, that’s just the way of life, but in The Giver nobody knows what happened before them. People barley remember what their childhood was like, they don’t understand the importance of memory and that memories are forever. Aspects of life, rules, and prosperities between our world and Jonas’ world are very different yet have some similarities. Things that are crucial to the characters in The Giver are not as meaningful to the people in our world.

Hook: Imagine living in a perfect society and hearing all of the jobs that the people would get, but if someone got the Receiver of Memory, they would receive a lot of the pain from the memories. Jonas’s assignment as the next Receiver of Memory is a punishment. The job as a Receiver of Memory caused a lot of pain. Jonas feels separate and different from his fellow peers when he became the Receiver of Memory. When The Giver became a little older, age showed a lot more when The Giver became the Receiver of Memory than if he had a regular job.

The Giver describes a society in search of perfection, which is a recurring theme in literature. Somebody in Jonas’s society decided that eliminating or limiting choices and feeling, among other things, would ultimately create a perfect place in which to live. By eliminating and/or limiting choices and feelings, the creators were able to implement Sameness, which would then provide a conflict-less environment in which to exist.

Imagine being trapped in a community and everyone is the exact same. Imagine feeling not special in anyway. Everybody wears the same clothes, rides the same bike, the weather is always sunny behind clouds, and there is no color. Well Jonas had to live in the society for many years until his world was turned upside down. In The Giver, the Giver is the receiver of memory for the community. The receiver of memory is in charge of the memories of the past that the community doesn’t know about. The ceremony of 12 is when the people of 12 is given there jobs picked out by the elders. The elders are the main committee of the community, they make the decisions. Jonas was then given the one of the highest job of the community, Reciever of memory. The job was rare and only chosen once the old receiver is about ready to pass. The receiver of memory passes the memories of the past that he got from the previous receiver of memory. The Giver is the receiver of memory he gave Jonas memories he never knew about. He transferred them by putting his hand on Jonas’s back and transferring them. When his memory was gone and in the new receiver the memory would vanish from his memory and transfer into the new receiver's memory. Until the new receiver passes the memories on. In The Giver, By Lois Lowry, The theme of, sameness means everything being the same and nothing being different is supported by these symbols: No Color, Bikes, and the weather.

Together, Jonas and The Giver devise a plan to bring back all of the things and memories people had before Sameness. The Giver is a very complicated and difficult story. There are many themes a reader can take away from this book,

The theme of The Giver by Lois is growing up is a challenge for everyone because Jonas struggles throughout the story when he is faced with adult problems and how to become more mature. In The Giver, Lois Lowry writes, “His childhood, his friendships, his carefree sense of security -- all of those seemed to be slipping away.” As Jonas becomes older and matures, his friends and childhood memories are starting to fade away as he becomes an adult. This supports that the theme is growing up is a challenge for everyone, because at one point in our lives, we all have trouble growing up and taking on more responsibility. According to The Giver by

In the book The Giver, each dwelling owns three reference books. The books include a dictionary, a book of rules, and the committee volumes with descriptions of every office, factory, building, and committee. I don’t think I could ever imagine living in a community with only three books. Books provide knowledge, creativity, visual thinking, and stories from our past and future. These three books are the books I would miss the most and are some of my favorite books.

Throughout the novel, Jonas is faced with the obstacle of having to choose between his community and the lifestyle he is acclimated to and the truth The Giver has shown him. As Jonas begins to learn the beauty and pain of how the world use to be, Jonas sees and experiences even more conflicting matters in his not so perfect utopia. In the end, because of his contrempts, Jonas is able to make his decision to escape The Community and succeeds. Personally, I believe that this was the The Giver’s intentions in the first place: to put Jonas in those contradictory and challenging situations in the hopes that he would succeed in liberating the

In the novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the topic of life occurs throughout the story. Jonas lives in a community based on conformity and sameness. Jonas is chosen as the receiver of memory. As he is trained he learns that change is needed in the community. At the end of the book, Jonas tries to go elsewhere to return the memories back to the community. In The Giver, the author uses the characters, plot, and conflict to develop the theme that life can not be taken for granted.

In both texts, the main plot is revolved around an ‘overcontrolling’ society where everyone is expected and must behave the same way. However, further into the plot, Jonas begins to come to terms with the harsh reality of his society and that they’ve attempted to transform everyone into being ultimately similar and ‘predictable’ so that there may be no conflict. Although, Jonas more importantly notices the fact that the ‘Committee’ has ‘terminated real emotion’ so that people can’t be ‘different’ or unique, and because ‘everything is the same’ no one can ‘wake up in the morning and decide things’ for themselves. Jonas discovers more and more after he accumulates time spent with ‘The Giver,’ that without ‘sameness,’ ‘there could be love’ and many other emotions, and the freedom to make your own

After reading the giver, I had many thought and questions about the world inside the book. With many questions in my head, as I read by I noticed that the author wanted to tell us important things. I thought the most thing she wanted to tell about was “what is really for people?” in other words, what we should do for the people for a good world and life?

The Giver by Lois Lowry is a great novel that has a lot of good themes. An example of one is freedom versus security. In the Giver, Jonas’s community is deprived of having normal things that we have so they can have a very safe community. Some examples in the community of things the citizens have to give up for a safe community are diversity/color, choosing things (examples are children, spouse, and job), and weather. There are still many more things that they had to give up, but that was the jst of it.

“Being different is a talent. You illuminate what makes you special in the sea of sameness around you” -unknown. The message this quote is trying to bring into perspective is that being unique isn’t bad and it causes you become more and more special and beautiful. This saying pertains to The Giver because Jonas was different in a sea of sameness. In the end of “The Giver,” Jonas and Gabriel circle back to their community because he didn’t know where he was going, plus you see the memories Jonas released into the community in this destination, also it’s unlikely that the things he’s seeing are memories.

There are multiple themes in The Giver, the significance of memory to human life, relationships, the importance of an individual, pleasure, and pain. Without these themes, we wouldn’t be able to understand the concept of the book. We learn things like strong emotions help us on a deeper level. The most important theme in The Giver is the importance of memory to human life.

The Giver Theme How much bravery would it take to leave home and go into the unknown. In Lois Lowry's book The Giver Jonas has to make that decision to help change his community. Lois Lowry explores theme in The Giver by making Jones brave and thoughtful which is good to live by. Jonas learns how to be brave by receiving the memories form The Giver which help him learn to make choices.