THEMES ANALYSIS of THE GIVER The Importance of Memory This story developed from the author’s understanding of the importance of memory, an understanding which came from her observation of someone who no longer had their memory. When one has no memory they cannot remember painful episodes in their life. Some people with memories of horrors, […]
Dystopia in The Giver Somewhere in the near future lies a world without freedom, emotion, or love. The Giver by Lois Lowry is a dystopian book that brings up a lot of questions about where society is going today. Lowry brings readers into a world in which people make no choices for themselves, and are […]
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Get startedThis Book is made aware that not only are choices limited, but also that the people have not experienced true feelings, enjoyed individual differences and cannot even see color!. Jonas seems to be just any ordinary young boy, Jonas who lives in a futuristic society which has tried to relieve its citizens of choices to […]
In the dystopian literature novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the main character, Jonas, lives in a society where people have been robbed of all their choices and their emotions. Everyone looks similar and is manipulated to act similarly. Sameness is one of the most valued features of the community. Citizens are released if they […]
Lois Lowry’s The Giver provides the reader with many examples regarding Jonas’ coming of age within a society where the expectation is that rules passed down to a new generation will be followed. He is introduced as an 11 year old boy who matures emotionally, morally and spiritually throughout the novel. Jonas is initially depicted […]
The Giverr’s continued/alternate ending Jonas felt the uncomfortable plastic sled come to a stop, his hands nearly frozen around the icy rope that he gripped until his knuckles faded white. His eyes followed up to the brown cabin ahead of him, colorful lights lining the home, twinkling like bright stars, a soft sound, a piano, […]
In the dystopian literature novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the main character, Jonas, lives in a society where people have been robbed of all their choices and their emotions. Everyone looks similar and is manipulated to act similarly. Sameness is one of the most valued features of the community. Citizens are released if they […]
Imagine a place where there is colorlessness, no choice; a place where there is only uniformity and dullness. The author has created such an obscure place in the The Giver. We do not know the exact location or time period, however since it is fiction we usually think of it as being set some time […]
Jonas is an eleven-year-old that lives in a world without feelings, color, and choice. Citizens can also apply to spouses and children. When their children are grown, family units dissolve and adults live together with Childless Adults until they are too old to function in society. Then they spend their last years being cared for […]
Pain affects more Americans than diabetes, heart disease and cancer combined according to nih.gov. In the book The Giver, people have never experienced pain. In the community, there is no color, past, or pain. But a boy named Jonas can experience all of those things. The community should have pain, because it helps with growth, […]
The Giver by: Lois Lowry shows a supposed utopian society in the future, where the main character Jonas comes to learn the truth about his society and its inner workings. The Giver is full of different sociological concepts like functionalism, conflict theory, and symbolic interactionism. Functionalism Functionalism can be defined as a society that is […]
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. This quote by Marcel Proust speaks of discovering whatr’s right in front of you by seeing it differently, with new eyes. In The Giver, Jonas, the main character goes through the same thing when discovering his Capacity to See […]
Imagine living in a world designed to be free of conflicts and hunger? When fragments of memories are taken out from oner’s consciousness, how does one think and feel? When life is devoid of colors, will there be genuine happiness can be drawn out of sheer blandness? What is family when love is strange and […]
Some say perfection is the key to life, but not everyoner’s perfect is the same. The Giver portrays Sameness as a utopian society, perfect world. It has removed war, prejudice, racism, and poverty. All things that we would like to extinguish from our known society. Because of this no one would feel incapacitate which is […]
This community is perfectly planned out, a place in what seems to be perfect community, In this community from the age of one your life is already planned out. Your childhood will last until the age of 12, this when you receive your job assignments. You will work with no worries about difficult, no choices, […]
The Giver Argumentative Essay Could anyone ever imagine living in a community where everything is decided for them? Their family, their spouse, and even their job. Thatr’s the kind of life that Jonas has been living, and so has the rest of his community. But as he has just been selected to be the next […]
In The Giver, the author Lois Lowry illustrates that the most powerful way for a government to control or manipulate its people is by censoring their knowledge which eliminates their ability to question ideas or make their own choices surrounding the information is hidden from them. Restricting information takes away the power for people to […]
The Giver is the thrill-seeking book where everything is meant to be ‘perfect’. In the story, there are rules that make the community ideal and certain ages your put to know or your given items for that age. I think the Giver is dystopian. I think the giver is dystopian because you receive bicycles at age 9, having to tell your feelings, being assigned a job at age 12, getting married by submitting an application, when you fight your expected to work it out, and having laborers. There are mistakes and errors that happen good or bad and that’s what makes up life.
The Giver is Dystopian. Every person in the world makes mistakes and that’s life. You can learn something whenever you want to. ‘The children all received their bicycles at nine; they were not allowed to ride bicycles before then.’ (Page 17) I think this rule is very corrupt. You should be able to learn to ride a bike whenever you desire to. ‘Jonas sighed. This evening he almost would have preferred to keep his feelings hidden. But it was, of course, against the rules.’ (Page 12) You shouldn’t be forced to share your feelings. If you want to keep them private, you should be able to. Also, in The Giver, you are assigned to a job at age 12. I think this is very valid. At age 12 characteristics and traits can change. You could maybe lose interest in one of the activities you’re doing or just not like it in general. These are reasons why I think The Giver community is strange.
In The Giver, you get married by an application form. I don’t really think this makes the community ‘Utopian.’ In Marriage, you love and support each other. There may be fights but that’s life and things happen. In The Giver, if you fight, you’re expected to work things out no matter what. Also, what’s kind of absurd is that there are Laborers. These Laborers make the babies but what kind of shocks me is that while you’re married, you’re not allowed to make babies with someone you’re married to. I don’t really think that makes the Community in the Giver utopian or should anyways. These are reasons I think the Utopian world is Dystopian.
There are ups and downs in The Giver and it’s a very interesting book that was phenomenal to read. To me, The Giver doesn’t seem utopian because mistakes are meant to be made and you can’t have a perfect world because nothing is perfect.
