Thematic Essay On The Book The Giver

“’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.

     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

The Community is a horrible place compared to our country. Read more to find out why. A utopia is a world or place that is perfect in every way, and a dystopia is a world or place that has major flaws and is horrible. (The Giver) is a dystopian society and that is because they kill the smallest of any one twin, also they have drugs that keep them from hitting puberty. The Community in (the Giver) and our society are similar and different because parts of the world and the Community have people that make decisions in society, and MOST of the nations do not kill twins like the Community does.

The dystopian novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a boy called Jonas becoming the new Receiver-of-Memories. Throughout the novel, the protagonist, Jonas matures as knowledge is gained, and begins to understand the deepest, and darkest secrets of the community he lives in that is seemly 'perfect'. The author has successfully analysed a variety of social issues present in today's modern world in the novel. Some issues implied are: lack of individuality which allows for easy control, the abandonment of emotions and the importance of memories.

Lord, Elyse. "Overview of The Giver." Novels for Students. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Literature Resource Center. Web. 27 Mar. 2016. Elyse Lord is one of the many critics who describe “The Giver” as terrifying but offering “hope and a constructive view” of the Utopian world in the book. She explains that other critics praise the book with many awards such as the Newberry Medal. Lord goes on to reason that the story is favored by different readers for its complexity, symbolism, metaphors, ambiguous ending, and can be compared similarly to classic science fiction like “Brave New World” and “Fahrenheit 451.” Contradicting this statement, Lord says that ‘librarians’, ‘educators’, and ‘students’ debate “The Giver” to be censored from public schools around the world because of its graphic scenes and ideas of infanticide and euthanasia. This includes the time Jonas witnessed his father murder a baby and throw it down a trash chute in cold blood. This is ironical compared to the language, emotion, and behaviors being censored in Jonas’s ‘Utopian’ society. Lord argues this through Anna Cerbasi of Port Saint Lucie, Florida, who asked the school board to remove a book that was about a family murdering their child for crying at night and called the book inappropriate for the sixth grade. Lord raises the question of who is to “decide which books are appropriate for which children,” and argues that it cannot be answered with not one but the many books integrated in school curricula that compose

What would happen if you lived in a world with no emotion, no emotion, and no choice? This is exactly the case in The Giver. When a boy, Jonas, who lives in a futuristic community starts to receive memories from the Giver he realizes there are so many beautiful yet terrible things inside and outside of the community. He dosen’t know another way to save the community from sameness except to release his memories to the community, good and bad. Three things that could have been done to the community to avoid this is adding the arts, emotions, and weather.

Jonas does not feel true emotion until the middle of the book, when he learns about love. Through love he discovers what it truly means to be human, and he wants it for himself. Babies do not have the wisdom and emotions that you have when you are grown up. That comes from experience and memories. When Jonas sees love for the first time, he says “I liked the feeling of love,' Jonas confessed.

What if people couldn’t remember love, pain, or regret? If humans cannot remember love or physical pain, they might as well never experienced it. The novel The Giver is all about giving and receiving memories. As a perfect community, everything is under control, there is no individuality there are no choices. The ceremony of release, The ceremony of twelve,and family units are all things we find irregular.

“What happened ten years ago?” Jonas asked. The main character in Lois Lowry novel, The Giver is Jonas, who lives in a Dystopian Society. The problem he forces is that he realizes that the community is hiding many secrets such as what release truly is. During the course of the story Jonas became conscious of what his community is doing to his life. Jonas inherited many different types traits, learning many life lessons and enduring horrible secrets from the community. He thoroughly shows that he was proud of what he is accomplishing such as becoming receiver, sympathetic toward the cruel tactics of releasing the innocent or the guilty, and curious to know how his life is going to change after being presented with his job in the society.

A standout amongst the most imperative topics in ‘The Giver’ is the essentialness of memory and the danger it postures against reality. At some point before ‘sameness’ the past Elders decided to eliminate all pain from their lives. To do so, the Elders had to give up the memories of their society’s collective experiences. Not only did this enable the community as a whole to forget all of the pain that had been suffered throughout human history, it also prevented members of society from wanting to engage in activities that could have potentially led to conflict and suffering. In doing so this also forced the Elders to eliminate nostalgia for the things the community gave up in order to live in

The Giver is a movie and a book about a boy named Jonas and how he becomes the receiver and brings memories to his community. Basically, the community is a place Jonas lives in and it’s been created in the ruins. The community a debris and is idiosyncratic from all the sameness and precision of language. The community is this futuristic place that has erased love, hatred, sadness, and other emotions. The only thing community has is sameness. The chief elder has eliminated all the memories from the citizens. The reason the chief elder diminished the memories is that chief elder believes that, if the memories and emotions would be announced to the community there would be diversity. Chief is apprehensive so she doesn't want any diversity, and opinions because she thinks if there are diversity and opinion then there'll be war. The chief would rather keep things simpler than having war, racism, hunting, pollution and other problems started by opinions and memories. The citizens of the community take pills or a needle and what the needle/pills do is they restrain the citizens from having or showing any emotions. Further, in the book/movie Jonas stops to the pills/needle and then unsurprisingly starts to have emotions and what they call to see beyond. Jonas starts to discover more things the giver teaches him. Jonas then has exulansis.

The Giver is a morally driven and thought-provoking story about a young boy called Jonas who lives in a society free of crime, sadness, pain, death, music, color and love. The story follows Jonas as he receives the memories of the past, good and bad, from the current Receiver, who is called the Giver. The Giver transfers memories by placing his hands on Jonas 's forearms. The first memory he receives is of a thrilling sled ride, which he will remake in the end of the movie. Jonas discovers the dangerous truths of his community 's secret past. Armed with the power of knowledge, which he knew about from memories (Ways of Knowledge), Jonas realizes that he must release all the memories to the community to allow them to feel

The Giver is a movie and a book about a boy named Jonas and how he becomes the receiver and brings memories to his community. Basically, the community is a place Jonas lives in and it’s been created in the ruins. The community a debris and is idiosyncratic from all the sameness and precision of language. The community is this futuristic place that has erased love, hatred, sadness, and other emotions. The only thing community has is sameness. The chief elder has eliminated all the memories from the citizens. The reason the chief elder diminish the memories is that chief elder believes that, if the memories and emotions would be announced to the community there would be diversity. Chief is apprehensive so she doesn't want any diversity, and opinions because she thinks if there are diversity and opinion then there'll be war. The chief would rather keep things simpler than having war, racism, hunting, pollution and other problems started by opinions and memories. The citizens of the community take pills or a needle and what the needle/pills do is they restrain the citizens from having or showing any emotions. Further, in the book/movie Jonas stops to the pills/needle and then unsurprisingly starts to have emotions and what they call to see beyond. Jonas starts to discover more things the giver teaches him. Jonas then has exulansis.