The Giver By Lois Lowry: An Analysis

He walked around feeling carefree and enlightened. The bright yellov/ of the sun complementing the green ofthe trees so nicely. He had never felt this way, after all, some people see them just as colors, but not him. He associated these images with feelings. Then he looked down at another person. The feeling of happiness he had felt was slammed against a wall. He was remembering how she now feels. Empty. She can't see the vibrant trees or the blazing sun. This is how life is in the community. In the Giver by Lois Lowry, a boy named Jonas comes to realize that his o-vn community is failing, but for many more reasons than the dull reality. This is also due to release, loss of memory, and lack of choice because Jonas sees it unfair that

Although Jonas used to see this concept as completely fine, he has now learned the weight of is and with every choice comes consequences, whether they be good or bad. One piece of evidence to support this claim is when Jonas understan ds with choices come consequences, "Then, when he had the choice, he had made the wrong one: the choice to leave. And now he was starving."(Lowry, 173) in the moment Jonas believed he was making the right decision and that taking Gabriel would salvage them both. This concept made Jonas change in the way he viewed things and became more grateful. Jonas doesn't everthink so much about the choice circumstances because it's all he's ever known. Later he decides that choice is a crucial part of society that needs to be brought back. "If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I x'ant to wake up in the morning and decide things!" (Lo-vry, 97) Jonas's rant to the
Giver is an exhibition that Jonas is seeing so much clearer how the government is taking society's ways of choices away. Jonas wants to people to have the freedom to decide ifthey want to do this or that every