Why The Giver: Does It Import To The World?

“Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen” (Lowry 103). Imagine a world with no control over who you marry, what your job is, what you wear, or what you get to eat for every meal. This is what it’s like in The Giver by Lois Lowry. The people live in a community that is severely more controlled than ours. We have the freedom to have a pet, have as many kids as you want, and say what you want. The people in The Giver do not have those freedoms. The people in the community don’t even know what love is. In our world love is each individual’s choice, but not in The Giver. In other words, they don’t get to experience the precious parts of life, such has having a wedding and giving birth to your child. No society is perfect, but citizens of every community have an

(AGG) Sometimes all you need to do is break away to find the truth. (BS-1) Jonas always followed the rules until he started to notice small issues.(BS-2) Jonas starts to receive memories and he begins to turn against the society.

1.) People are not allowed to go outside after the specified curfew, this can help prevent someone getting injured, kidnapped, and just ensure a higher level of security for the residents in the society.

Could you imagine your world in which everything was predetermined for you, and you didn’t have a choice? This is the reality in The Giver by Lois Lowry, the main character Jonas faces these problems and many others as he completes his adventure. Although some may think this to be devastating, this is normal in his society. In the dystopian society conveyed in the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, there are many similarities and differences to our modern day societies.

In today’s society there are many authors who write dystopian novels. They write these novels to give knowledge and to tell how our world is very different from dystopian life. Lois Lowry shows readers how people can suffer in dystopian society. In The Giver, Jonas’ community appears to be a utopia, but in reality it is a dystopia because everyone is under the illusion that there is freedom, dehumanization, and their strict regulations.

(MIP-1) In the very beginning of the book, we see Jonas accepting the society. He has no idea about anything outside his society yet. If he doesn’t know about it, he has no choice but to accept it. (SIP-A) In the beginning of the book, we see that the government, or Elders, are always watching over the society. Jonas just thinks of this as a reminder system, rather than a watch over the community so that they don’t mess up.(STEWE-1) Over the loudspeaker, the Elders called out to Lily, not mentioning her name, to re-tie her ribbons. “ATTENTION. THIS IS A REMINDER TO FEMALES UNDER NINE THAT HAIR RIBBONS ARE TO BE NEATLY TIED AT ALL TIMES. He turned toward Lily and noticed to his satisfaction that her ribbons were, as usual, undone and dangling”

Ordinary World “Who wants to be first tonight, for feelings?” Jonas’s father asked, at the conclusion of their evening meal. pg 5

The novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is an everlasting story that shows the importance of individuality. This novel is about a young boy named Jonas who was elected as the Receiver of Memories, a person who is given the memories from the world that existed before their current society, Sameness. In this society there is no individualism. People can not choose who to marry, or what they want to do for a living. Over time Jonas becomes more and more wise, and realizes that the supposedly perfect community actually has some very dark and negative aspects. The author, Lois Lowry is a 76-year-old writer who focuses her writing on helping struggling teenagers become individuals. Lowry had a very tragic childhood. After both of her parents were

1. Jonas is an upstander because he makes the decision to save Gabe's life and flee with him. Jonas risks his life to move to a new society where there are things like color hills and snow. He figures out that Gabe is going to be released in other ways get killed and decides to protect Gabe and give him a better future. Jonas realizes what release means after he watches his father release one of the twins on a screen with The Giver. He decides not to go home and stay and sleeps over with The Giver, upset at his father for what he did. On the journey, Jonas has to transfer memories of heat to Gabe and trying to hide from planes that pass by. At first, it is easy because he has tons of memory but as the journey goes on Jonas continues to risk his life trying to grasp those memories of warmth.

Rules are created to control and to manipulate the populace which they do not allow individualism which, if not allowed to do so there would be no will to go on, shackled to the own consciousness. These rules exist to disallow individualism so people would not have the will to fight onward and become how they are. The laws make everyone think that their life is to better their brothers and not themselves Equality 7-2521 says at the end of the book “I owe nothing to my brothers, nor do I gather debts from them. I ask none to live for me, nor do I live for any others. I cover no man’s soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.” (Rand 96). This is a change of thought from the beginning of the book when he got his life mandate. “We would accept our Life

In different literature, the Giver’s world and our world shows the relationship between family, rules, jobs, environment, and childhood. In The Giver (1993), Lois Lowry shows, how does the society lives and how they interact with it. Everything is decided for the community, so it is a very strictly society. Like, what to eat, what to do, and what assignment (job) the community members get. In contrast, our world, we choose our own path of living our life. We choose what to do and not to do, it all depends on our decision. Like buying foods (snack and candy) we like to eat, wear any clothes we want, and choose our own jobs that we want to work for. While over an unknown amount of years separated between these two worlds, they both shows

When did the protagonist start to change during the novel? The protagonist started to change right when he became the receiver of memory. His mentor is The Giver, the giver shows him things that other people in his community can not indicate, the protagonist had a purpose for this position. The protagonist name is Jonas, Jonas thinks being the receiver of memory is going to be easy, he doesn't know what he's going to grow through. Its an adventure he didn't know he was going on.

But from the perspective of the truth, it doesn’t matter whether society runs on a predefined set of rules, or whether each person chooses their own rules to follow! Because whoever creates the rule is basing it on a false view of reality! How can someone create rules about what’s right and what’s wrong when they have no idea where they are, what they are, or why they are here!

Have you ever heard the quote¨rules are rules¨,Well that's true because you have to live by some rules to survive and not go crazy and help your future self out a bit.I have rules to live by to help me get out of school and got to college and make a good job and just to not worry about what people have to say about me and not worrying about stuff.Living with rules can make your life a whole lot easier being able to look at a list of rules if you have a problem or need a explanation for what's happening and if you need help you can look at your ¨Rules¨ and be able to help yourself.

Suppose now that everyone did what most would call fine and moral, by following rules to the letter. Instantly crime would massively decrease and to a certain extent harmony would fall upon the earth. Who would not want this utopia to come? With every one following laws you might think this could solve all world problems; however, this country already has some absurd laws. We apparently have spent time making laws to prevent people from shooting a buffalo from the second story of a hotel, but these rulers neglect to enforce laws on companies who continually sell parts of unborn babies. If the only item holding people from doing the evil coming from their nature is a law, we should not leave the law making up to corrupt humans.