“The Giver” is a movie about a world created to be perfect, all people in the community are treated equal in all aspects regardless of differences and abilities. The elders had eliminated all differences so everyone is happy, there is no pain, sadness, wars or unhappy truths of the "Real" world. However, a teen by the Jonas is able to see what others can’t see; The Elder’s call him the “Receiver”. The Receiver’s job is to receive the memories of all the unhappy painful memories of the real world from the “Giver”. The citizens of the community have to always use precision language. They are constantly apologizing and saying "I accept your apology" to each other. Their lives are dictated by a strict set of rules, which is governed by a committee …show more content…
Jonas is scared about the ceremony. Because he knows he’s different and not sure where he fits in the community Asher and Fiona are excited to see what their jobs will be and here purpose. They all volunteered at the nurturing center. Where Jonas father works as a doctor, where babies were kept before being assigned a family. Fiona would like for her job to be at the nature center. Asher wants to fly drones; and he is a more free spirit. At the nurturing center, Fiona is able to sooth his little brother Gabriel will soon be assigned to his family. Everyone has a curfew everyone and assigned dwellings. When they have dinner as a family they discuss their feelings for the day. Jonas is careful speaking of the words he uses because certain feelings of fear and love are forbidden. He asks his parents about how they felt before being assigned a job in the community. And parents reinsure him that the Elders know best, and know where he belongs. Everyone is selected for their assigned duties, but Jonas is skipped over. The chief Elder apologizes for the misunderstanding, announces that Jonas is selected for the position of receiver. Jonas's qualities which qualify him to be The Receiver is his intelligence, integrity, courage. The elder tells him there will be pain something he had never experienced before. And id told that he is strong enough to deal with
The newchild climbed up to Jonas, and grabbed his ears with his chubby hands. The girl picked him up and Gabe squealed and began to play with her hair. As Jonas closed his eyes, he saw ghostly figures. With his abilities, he saw Rosemary, the twin, Larissa, Caleb, and much more. Then the scene changed. He saw the community. Green grass, blue skies, he knew that the memories had
Imagine a community that you live took away your personal rights; the things that you know and even the way that you think. This is happening to a boy named Jonas not only him but also the inhabitants of Jonas’s community. In the book The Giver Jonas and his community is living with no personal rights. I believe that the inhabitants of Jonas’s community and Jonas should be given personal rights. The community should be given personal rights because they can learn from their mistakes, to have memory and to have emotions. Those are the reasons why I believe that the community should be given personal rights.
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
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.
The main character is Jonas. He is very special and different because he can see beyond. Jonas notices that his family is not emotionally attached to him. The families are not related and the kids are assigned to the parents. When the kids are assigned to family units, they are called by their number not names. In this passage they stands for the children. (50) “They were arranged by original numbers, the numbers they had been given at birth.” So in this community instead of calling a child just by their name, they can also get labeled by a number. Kids here cannot even have individuality because kids are just a number.
In an early discussion with the Giver, Jonas concludes that "`We really have to protect people from wrong choices... [It's] much safer'" (99). However, it is with the progression of his training as Receiver of Memories that Jonas learns the impact of the sacrifices his community makes. After receiving a memory of a family celebrating together, Jonas speculates with the Giver about the emotional potential of the situation. He contemplates "`The family in the memory seemed... complete...
... choice. This made me think in a different perspective and showed me the ups and downs of this society. Lois Lowry shows the importance of individuality, choices and memory in a perspective that really helped me understand how we take some things for granted.
The day arrived for the Ceremony of Twelve, which Jonas had been waiting for. As Jonas watched his friends receive their assignments, he realized that he was skipped over. Although he knew that he got skipped over, he waited until the end of ceremony in order to show respect. Therefore, he is a good role model to his community. Later, at the end of the ceremony, the Elders explained that Jonas has been selected as the Receiver. “In a firm, commanding voice she announced, Jonas has been selected to be our next Receiver of Memory (pg 60).” “He has shown all of the qualities that a Receiver must have (pg 62).” The Elders believed that Jonas had the qualities for the task, which includes intelligence, integrity, courage, wisdom, and the capacity to see beyond. As a Receiver, he had rules to follow: he could ask any questions, he was not allowed to discuss his trainings to family and friends, he was not allowed to share his dreams, he could not apply medication to training injuries, he could not ask to be released, and he can
The Giver presents a community that appears to be perfect on the surface. Jonas's community is free of warfare, pain, sorrow and other bitterness we suffer in our society. The world seems to be secure and undergoes little conflict. Such a community seems flawless and is the idealistic society that we longed to live in. However, through Jonas's training, the imperfections of the Utopian community are revealed.
It had knocked on the door, Jonas checked out who it was. It was Fiona, “Oh my gosh, Jonas, you’re alive!” exclaimed Fiona. “What happened to Gabe, is he ok, why are you crying.”
As Jonas receives these memories, he ponders how their community would be different if they could make more choices. For example, after the Giver transmits Jonas a memory of family, Jonas thinks how crazy it is that they have generations and he says about his community, “‘What if they were allowed to choose their own mate?’”...”’Or what if’”...”’they could choose their own jobs?’” (124). Jonas then thinks if people should make these choices, and things that could go wrong if they did. For instance, while he is thinking about how crazy these choices are, he says, “‘I can’t even imagine it. We really have to protect people from wrong choices’”(124). People in his Community don’t choose their own spouse, the Community leaders assign them a spouse and children if they want. Jonas’s Community is brain-washed into not having opinions or choices. Although they have no divorce and wrong choices, Jonas would rather have choices and a real
Though fighting with starvation and loneliness, Jonas and Gabriel find the place, known as “elsewhere.” While modern society is similar in some ways to Jonas’s society, the differences with emotions, jobs, and laws/rules reveal the concept of choice. Firstly, emotions in a society reveals how human interaction affects their daily lives. The whole community takes pills, that neutralizes their emotions.
The movie starts when Jonas and his best friends, Asher and Fiona, are graduating from childhood and are founding what part they will take in the community. Jonas feels lost because he feels that he is different. He saw things differently, but he never said anything, because he was never wanting to be different in this perfect world. He felt scared that he does not belong in his community.
The purpose of this book was to show us a possible version of a "Utopia".