The Importance Of Memory In The Giver

Imagine that all of society is now like the child who woke up with no memory. Now not only the child is confused, but all of society. This event would easily take place without the existence of memory. Memory is so crucial that without memory, all of society would wake up with no intelligence. Memory is significant to society because it gives society hope for the future, keeps society from repeating past mistakes and provides remembrance for people and previous

If the citizens in the community were to hold their own memories, it would make The Giver and Jonas receive less stress. They would not have to worry about keeping the pain, joy, melancholy, memories that they get to experience each day a secret. The Giver and Jonas would be able to share what they learn and they would be able to teach others as well. “ The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” (p.193). The Giver and Jonas would not be the only ones who get to see color and feel love and emotions. They would be able to talk to people about what they discovered or what had happened in their memories. The Giver and Jonas would not be alone.

Remembering the past is important, your past is how you got to where you are now. The past has helped shape who you are today. Although you can help change your future, the past is unchanged you can never change the past, the past is something that will always be with you, and it’s part of who you are. When you can’t remember the past you will have a hard time preparing for the future. Remembering is important for Jews, and non-Jews because when you stop remembering your past you start to lose your identity, and can’t learn from yours, or others mistakes.

Memories can be very valuable. Whatever happens, the memories will never be forgotten. “Memories are forever.” - The Giver. In this science fiction novel, Giver, Lois Lowry demonstrates that even though Jonas world was perfect, he knew something was missing. Everyone in the story was polite to Jonas. Once the Giver gave him lots of memories of love, happiness, and kindness, he knew how to bring back memories to the people. In the beginning of Giver, Jonas had a sickening feeling that something terrible is gonna happen. This perspective changed Jonas during the novel. The message of the novel, The Giver, is memories can bring you back to the old days. Memories can be unique in different types of ways.

This Lack of Memories is not only about memories, but also what lays beyond elsewhere. Some memories are about elsewhere, and what had happened there in the past that the Elders needed to eliminate to make it a utopian society. The Elders eliminated pain, suffering, color, choices, race, religion, fighting, and most importantly, death and war. With all the memories of the pain, suffering, death, and war, people would be influenced with the bad, and would be tortured. This suffering of the people from the bad memories would lead to a dystopian society. When the past Receiver had failed, the memories that Rosemary (the past Receiver) had received during her training were released to the whole community. “Everyone had access to memories,” the Giver explains and describes the memories being released to their community (104). “It was chaos,” explains the Giver. “They really suffered for a while. Finally it subsided as the memories were assimilated. But it certainly made them aware of how they need a Receiver to contain all that pain,” (104). When the people in the community are introduced to the memories, it proves to everyone that the society needs a Receiver and that they can not handle the pain and

Do you consider yourself to have a great memory or do you consider yourself to have a bad memory? Can you remember more than four phone numbers and more than three immediate family members birthdays without using any technology? If you cannot answer those simple questions than maybe you should reconsider on working on your memorization side of your brain. Joshua Foer, the author of The End of Remembering, and Paulo Freire, author of The “Banking” Concept of Education, both write about how important memory is in the world today. In Foer’s passage he states that before paper, books, and modern technology people were expected to remember any piece of information that was given to them. Now people rely on anything that could record information so they would not have to remember it or worry about forgetting. He believes that technology is running our memory. However in Freire’s passage he states that memorizing decontextualizes and is unrelated to present conditions, but memory can concrete conditions of our daily lives. The importance of memory and its functions in the world today is that it lets a person find self-identity, prevents shallow base of knowledge, and sets values.

They both are important to human, and can not lack. “Memory saved the Besht, and if anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.” It is one effect of memory, the effect of memory are remembering past thing to avoid past war and injustice happened again. This way can effective reduce the war and injustice happened, because when we remember past war was tragic, and lead to lots of family and children lack their father or brother. So only the memory can lead people recalled the bad side of war, preventing the war happened again.

Some people think there is no reason to know about the past, their excuses are “Oh, well it already happened, there’s nothing we can do about it” or “They’re already dead so it doesn’t really matter anyways”. But it really does matter, without learning what happened in the past we will make the same mistakes over and over again. Why do you think we have to learn about all the wars and what caused them? It’s so that everyone knows what mistakes were made so that it doesn’t happen again or what could happen when everyone isn’t treated equally. We basically learn lessons without having to suffer through mistakes that people in the past have made. It has to do with something like when we make really big mistakes, sometimes it haunts us forever and we want to make sure we never make the same mistake again. Without learning about the past, more people would still think certain things are okay.

“If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.” (144) This is a quote that the Giver said to Jonas and it means that whatever happens a person has they will never lose your memories no matter how sad they are they will always stick. Because people know that the memories they hold are very precious to you. Memories are very important because they make a person who they are. And losing those memories and without them people wouldn’t know who they are. And people can also look back when a person is older to all of those happy moments that they have had and they also teach them lessons like mistakes they have had in the past. With everyone knowing that they have memories they will most likely live a happy life but they aren’t all happy ones there may be sad, infuriating moments and those memories may make them a bad person sometimes like getting revenge on someone else. And Jonas community doesn’t have those happy memories about the happy life of the

Erasing the Past People focus way too much on the future. They focus too much on what they’re going to do next, however, nobody genuinely thinks about their decisions based on what has already happened in the past. Often times, we as a society either ignore the past or try to forget about the past so in essence, it becomes “erased” in a way. As time goes on, everyone interprets the past in their own way and they have their own points of view. After a while, everyone has their own different perspective on the past.

Memory is needed in order to form a sense of individuality. Without memory, civilizations would not be able to progress and expand. In the novel, Obasan, we get to see that based on memory, there's a spectrum that is formed. On one side, we have Uncle and Obasan who believe that the past remains there. On the other end is aunt Emily, she believes that only by discussing and expressing past events we can ensure that they never happen again and that these events mark a place in history.

out the book meg relizes some things she thinks dads not as great as she thought he was and most off all she relized induvituality. In The Giver, Jonas realizes that people should have there own memories. Not everyone should be the same. He asked the giver,Why do we have to hold the memories¨.

In “The Giver” by Lois Lowry, The Giver talks to Jonas about the previous Receiver, and about Release as well. The conversation between Jonas and The Giver help develop the theme of memories. As The Giver talks to Jonas about the previous Receiver Rosemary, and Release, he says, “Memories are forever.” As their conversation goes on, they come to a conclusion that if everyone in the community were to have the memories of the past, they’d hate it; that life in the community would be a disaster.

In the book, The Giver, the central theme is the significance of memory and its importance to human life. Imagine a world where you don’t have anything troubling. All your decisions are made for you, and you never have to worry about making the wrong decision. While that sounds nice at first, when you think about it you will never have any experiences or memories that will make your life unique.

If history in our present day world got erased, then it would be absolute chaos. People would not know about the consequences of everything. Excellent or atrocious in that case. Whenever people do not think about our actions, and before long we do something that we later on regret. When we think of our actions we usually consider the past. Jonas had no concept about the past until he was chosen for the Receiver of Memory. The Giver shows him the events of the past that causes Jonas think differently about everything that he ever knew. If our memories were pulled away from us, formerly we would feel the same way, if our memories had been taken confused and panicked is probably how we would feel if we were shown memories of the past. Memories are important to our society.