The society of “The Giver” was much like ours at one time, but they decided to get rid of all the pain, fear, hatred, and war this type of society is called futuristic. Everyone is given a job at the age of twelve, they continue school during their training with the job they were given by the Chief Elders, and the Chief Elders takes careful time to decide who gets what job. Every child receives a job that best fit them.
Lois Lowry was inspired to write “The Giver” with her fascination with memory. She’s always liked the concept of how memory works, and what there is to learn from it. Lowry’s book was published in 1993. Lowry has won countless awards for her writings. “The Giver” Lowry received Newbery Medals.
Jonas is the main character of the book. He is an eleven at the beginning of the book and in December at the ceremony is turning twelve, where he then receives his job as the Receiver of Memory. Jonas’s father is a Nurturer. He and the other Nurturers are in charge of the new children during their earliest life. His mother was a prominent position at the Department of Justice. Lily is Jonas’s younger sister, Lily was a seven and turning eight in December. When Lily turns eight she received the identifying jacket this one with smaller buttons, and it would have pockets to show she was mature enough to keep up with her own things. Asher and Fiona were Jonas’s friends. Asher received the assignment of Assistant Director of Recreation. Fiona was given the important assignment of Caretaker of the Old. Gabriel was a newchild that Jonas’s father would bring home and take care of through the night because he would become restless. He had pale eyes like Jonas. Almost every citizen had dark eyes with only a couple of them having pal...
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...r met her goal for this book and the ones she’s wrote, she left it for everyone to have their opinion on how the book ended. I was but wasn’t suitably worn on how it ended. I didn’t think Jonas would do what he did but he was also willing to save him from anything that would harm him. This was a fantastic book, I read it in high school and have wanted to reread and this gave me the opportunity to reread. I would recommend this book to anyone who would like to read about different society. Even for someone not interested in
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Utopian societies they should read “The Giver” and take a look at a different society and realize how well our Country really is. Though this book doesn’t have a real sequel to it. Lois Lowry has written books along the same lines as “The Giver” and they have been put into a Quartet. I may end up reading them because she’s a fabulous writer.
The Giver: A novel that revolves around an eleven year old. Jonas grows up in an arranged environment where everything is planned and nothing is incompatible. Given a special job Jonas and the Giver create a plan to change the way their world is organized.
In the end, Jonas, with the help of The Giver, escapes from the community with an infant new-child at risk of being killed (released) and seeks out a life full of feeling and love. While he does get away, we don't know exactly w...
Jonas decides to leave and change the lives of his people so that they can experience the truth. “The Giver rubbed Jonas’s hunched shoulders… We’ll make a plan” (155). Their plan involves leaving sameness and heading to Elsewhere, where Jonas knows the memories can be released to the people. He has a connection with Gabe, a special child who has experienced the memories, unlike the rest of the community. Jonas has a strong love for Gabe, and he longs to give him a better life. “We’re almost there, Gabriel” (178). Even with a sprained ankle, Jonas keeps pushing forward because he wants everyone to experience what The Giver has given him. He wants them to have a life where the truth is exposed. His determination allows him to make a change for a greater future in his community. This proves that Jonas has the strength to change his community for the
Throughout the history of the world, there has been many societies. All these societies had similar structures and ideas, but they all are different by their own special traditions and ways of life. Similarly, both our society and the society in The Giver share similar ideas, but they are different in certain areas. For example, they both celebrate birthdays and have family units, but they have their own way of doing so. Based on the celebration of birthdays and the formation of family units, our society is better than the society in The Giver by Lois Lowry.
He starts to believe that a world of sameness where no one can decide or make choices for themselves is boring. Lois Lowry is warning readers that living in a world of sameness is not something to create as it is boring and dull, but if the world follows conformity and does not value diversity and difference enough, society could become that of Jonas’s. When he turns twelve, his job for the rest of his life is decided as the Receiver. His job is to receive all the memories the previous Receiver has held on to. While this is beneficial for Jonas as he is able to leave the society and his job of the Receiver behind and get freedom, the community is left without someone to take the memories from The Giver.
He is very mature, responsible, and shows competence throughout the story. Jonas is very smart and when someone is being immature, he tries his best to help them learn from their mistakes. As the new receiver he shows much maturity, and is very prepared for adult life, has grown up. According to the text it states, “Don’t play it anymore,” Jonas pleaded…….. “Asher,” Jonas said. He was trying to speak carefully and with kindness, to say exactly what he wanted to say. “You had no way of knowing this. I didn’t know it myself until recently. But it’s a cruel game. In the past, there have” (134). Jonas knows that, war games are not appropriate, because he is one of the only twelves who know what war was really like. He knows this because the Giver showed him that memory. Jonas is trying to explain to Asher and help him understand why it is a bad game to play, but Asher does not care to listen. The text also states, “Once again, there was just a moment when things weren’t quite the same, weren’t quite as they had always been through the long friendship. Perhaps he had imagined it. Things couldn’t change, with Asher” (66). Jonas is happy for Asher that he got the recreation job, but now things were not the same anymore. They both got different jobs, and now Jonas is realizing that he is different from everyone else. Even though things are hard for him right now, he is not acting like a child and throwing a fit.
The story in The Giver by Lois Lowry takes place in a community that is not normal. People cannot see color, it is an offense for somebody to touch others, and the community assigns people jobs and children. This unnamed community shown through Jonas’ eye, the main character in this novel, is a perfect society. There is no war, crime, and hunger. Most readers might take it for granted that the community in The Giver differs from the real society. However, there are several affinities between the society in present day and that in this fiction: estrangement of elderly people, suffering of surrogate mothers, and wanting of euthanasia.
Jonas is also very determined, committing to a task fully when he believes in it and willing to risk his own life for the sake of the people he loves. Although as a result of his training Jonas possesses more wisdom than almost anyone else in his community, he is still very young and knows little about life in the community itself.
Set in a community with no climate, emotions, choices, or memories Lois Lowry tells the tale of Jonas in The Giver. Jonas is selected to be the receiver of memory, which means the memories of generations past, before the community was created, will all be transferred to him to hold. As Jonas receives memories his concept of the world around him drastically changes. Jonas starts out as twelve-year-old boy with perceptions different from those around him, he then begins to see the community for what it really is, and he makes a plan to change it.
Evelyn Sanchez (esanchez47@student.cccd.edu) Professor Leighton English 143, Final Essay 21 May 21, 2014 What the heck happened to Jonas? Topic #2. The Giver is actually one of my all-time favorite books, so I’ve looked into why she left the book so inconclusive in the past. The Giver is basically about a boy named Jonas who lives in a perfect society. He lives in a household with his two parents and his little sister Lilly.
Lowry writes The Giver in the dystopian genre to convey a worst-case scenario as to how modern society functions. A dystopia is an “illusion of a perfect society” under some form of control which makes criticism about a “societal norm” (Wright). Characteristics of a dystopian include restricted freedoms, society is under constant surveillance, and the citizens live in a dehumanized state and conform to uniform expectations (Wright). In The Giver, the community functions as a dystopian because everyone in the community conforms to the same rules and expectations. One would think that a community living with set rules and expectations would be better off, but in reality, it only limits what life has to offer. Instead, the community in the novel is a dystopian disguised as a utopian, and this is proven to the audience by the protagonist, Jonas. Jonas is just a norma...
In the book, The Giver, Jonas is portrayed as a kind, curious and rebellious individual with a keen sense of awareness. The beginning chapters revealed Jonas as a very naive and compliant person, similar to everyone else in his community. Instances, when he was a child and got reprimanded for small misunderstandings, made him like this. However, throughout the book, Jonas has grown into an independent and determined person, someone who wants to make a change. Jonas finds new strengths in his character which forms him into someone spectacular and distinctive.
Lowry, L. (1993). The giver. New York, NY: Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers a division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Groups, Inc.
The society in The Giver by Lois Lowry is fairly broken and messed up. Everyone inside the community thinks that everything is under control and they like living that way, because they don’t know any other way to live. To them they live in the perfect world, a utopia. To everyone outside of the community it is a dystopia. They are controlled immensely. There are a few reasons why the community is a dystopia, they have no choice or freedom, and they don’t know what color, music, real emotion, and feelings are.
One literary element that is cleverly written into the novel is irony. Jonas’ life is supposedly perfect, in an environment with everyone’s life controlled and documented by the Elders. The weather, the marriages, the child selection, the population, and the education are decided by the Elders. Even the career is provided for them; each December at the Ceremony of 12, the new recruits receive the career that they will continue with for the rest of their working adult life’s’. The job Jonas receives is the most difficult one, the Receiver, who has the duty of containing all of the intense experiences of life. Ironically, Jonas doesn’t enjoy this; he instead feels that the job is too painful for him. Yet the Elders’ decisions, although chosen w...