The Giver Theme

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A world without color, no inequalities just sameness all around. This is what the Community is like in the book The Giver written by Lois Lowry a fictional novel. In the book The Giver a group of people are separated from the rest of the world. And there is a boy named Jonas who gets chosen to be the next receiver of memory since only a selected few people now the past due to the danger that the memories bring. Jonas then goes through physical and mental challenges as he tries to free from the Community of the Giver. I believe that the central theme of the book The Giver is the importance of memory. The theme, importance of memory, emerges at the beginning of the story by the citizens of the community not knowing what color, animals, and love is. Supporting my theme it states in the text of The book The Giver page 11 paragraph 6 that "Animals Jonas suggested. He laughed. "That's right," Lily said, laughing too. "Like …show more content…

It states in chapter 13 that “my role is now to escape the community.” This relates to the topic the theme importance of memory because once jonas has the importance of memory Jonas knows the right decisions and choices to make. Such as running away from the Community to have freedom. Sure Jonas may have escaped due to the Giver telling him to but if he didn’t have the memeriors he needed it would have said no and stayed in the community because he would have classified it as breaking the rules. The theme of The Giver by Lois Lowry is importance of memory. This theme appears in the novel when the main character Jonas gets chosen as the new receiver of memory. He starts of with receiving memories of love, snow, colors, etc. Jonas gets memory of war and hunger and realizes that the community is restricting their freedom and through the importance of memory Jonas decides to run away. This leads me to conclude that the theme is importance of

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