Themes Of The Giver By Lois Lowry

The book the giver by lois lowry is about a future society with strict rules . The main character johans become a receiver and gets memories of the past he can't handle these memories so he runs away from the community . The theme of this story is that memory is a important part of life and this theme is shown all throughout the book. This theme could also relate to the real world because memory are important to people like memories of your family and special times. People also use memoires so they don't repeat mistakes or do the same thing twice.But there is also pain in memory that's why the community took away memories.

In the giver people have no memories of the past which impacts the main character of the story and other characters

in the story because memories are a important part of life. People not having memories from the past means they can repeat mistakes. They also have no true happiness because they have given up there memory so they would not feel pain. These dreams make Jonas realizes that he must escape from their world to protect himself and those he loves.

Some people would say the theme of the giver is the relationship between pain and pleasure . This theme is the idea that you can't have pleasure without pain like when the giver gives jonas the memory of pain opens him to the idea of love. The theme the relationship between pain and pleasure don't work as the
main theme of the book because the book revolves around the mayan charter jonah's and these memories he gets. The theme that memory is important part life fits better because memory affects the main character and other crucial characters in the book .

In conclusion the main theme of the giver is that memory is important to and also memory is important and these themes are shown all throughout the book. Now do you the theme of the giver is that is memory is important or do you think that there is a another theme to this book.