...people do in life. Just like Jonas and the expierences of changes he goes through in his society. At the beginning of the story the protagonist is nervous, but happy, because weird, awkward things started to happen. One thing about jonas is that he can't see color. Jonas has no experiences on knowing ways of doing things. He also doesn't know what feelings and memories are. The world he lives in is pretty weird because if they do something bad they only get a second chance and after that there's no...
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...sadness, happiness, jealousy, pain, or love. Some might think that this would be a perfect society, but as proven in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry everything isn’t as perfect as it seems. In the book Jonas, the boy who was chosen to be the next Receiver, experiences a society that is different from his own. With the help of The Giver, the man who trains Jonas, he learns that “sameness” isn’t exactly perfect. The Community controls emotions in an effort to create a painless society; the result, however, is a society absent of true emotion. Once someone in the Community begins to develop feelings for someone they are given pills to control the emotions that they are experiencing. The...
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...Before Jonas was The Receiver of Memory, he thought his community was perfect, but then, he found out secrets that were being kept from him and everyone else in his community. When Jonas became The Receiver of Memory his whole world changed right before his eyes. In the novel The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the author shows that being individually different is a good thing. She does this through Jonas seeing colors and seeing everyone in his community different in their own special way. Having the job The Receiver of Memory, is very difficult, because what Jonas believed what was true about his community was wrong, which scared him. Jonas had always believed that everyone is the same and that everyone always told the truth. "How could someone not fit in? The community was so meticulously ordered, the choices so carefully made (pg. 48)." This was what Jonas thought until he became...
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...leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away.” Pascal Mercier once said. Jonas in The Giver, by Lois Lowry, leaves so many memories when he says his farewell to the community, but it is for the best. Jonas makes the correct decision by leaving because it benefits the citizens, Gabriel, as well as the Giver. Jonas is right to leave the community so the residents can continue on in a more sincere life. When Rosemary, the “failed Receiver,” was released, the community experienced all memories transferred to her, giving them a sense of reality. Unfortunately, the truth was taken back by the council. The moment Jonas leaves, so many thoughts are scattered, and too many to capture. Although there is some pain and sorrow, citizens are able to be more prepared in threatening situations. Jonas, when leaving the community, is able to see the bright colors and weather of the outside world, and best of all, hear music. Everyone in the community is able to experience colors, the elements, and culture, all things crucial to an enjoyable life. The...
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...The Giver Essay Imagine living in a community lacking color, emotions, and differences, or where choices are banned. Imagine being tricked into believing you’re living in a perfect world, but really, your community is hiding both life changing secrets and terrifying truths from all its people. In The Giver by Lois Lowry, the characters have to take on these problems and limitations. The setting is takes place in a community that the characters believe to be a utopian society but is actually a dystopian society. The community is run by a council and the Chief Elder who make all the decisions. The main character, Jonas, is an eleven year old boy who undergoes a series of changes after he is selected to be the Receiver of Memory during the Ceremony...
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...Author: Lois Lowry Book Title: The Giver Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Copyright: 1993 Approximate Age Level: 7th -8th grade Genre: Soft Science Fiction Plot Summary with introduction of main characters: The book The Giver is a story about a boy named Jonas. Jonas lives an average life with a mom, a dad, and a sister. Jonas' family has the privileged to take care of a young child named Gabriel only because he wasn't doing as well as he should be. In this community they pick the jobs you are supposed to do at the age of 12. Most kids get chosen to be a doctor or a road cleaner but Jonas got chosen to be the most important job there is, he was chosen to be the Giver. When you are the Giver you get to be privileged with every memory there has ever been. Some memories are hard on Jonas, like war. The previous Giver feels bad about giving Jonas bad memories but he feels it is needed in order to properly do his job. Some memories are good, like love. Jonas is given some rules to use as a Giver. He is allowed to ask anything from anyone, he is allowed to lie, and he is also not allowed to take any medicine unless he needs it for an injury or illness. In the community Jonas lives in they make you take medicine so you don't go through the stages of puberty. But, because Jonas is the Giver he doesn't have to take this medicine. Jonas begins to wonder why everyone in the community talks about release and what it actually is. Jonas requests a video of the latest release...
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...they really live in a perfect world? Jonas and his own community lived in a "utopia." When Jonas was selected to be the Receiver of memory, everything changed. He came to know that his world hadn't always been the way it was. Things were different, there was diversity and there were variations. Jonas learns things that he would have never known. Some things were joyful, while other things were painful. But the most important thing is that Jonas and the Giver learned that they are more than capable to make a difference for difference. In the book The Giver by Lois...
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...The Giver imagine a world like The Giver where everything was orderly and perfect. Where there was always food for everyone to eat, everyone dressed the same, and nobody had feelings. In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry Jonas, the main character had courage, he took many risks that could have got him into trouble, and he figured out what feelings are. Jonas had courage to overcome many obstacles. For example, when Jonas was escaping from the Community on his bike, he fell and his knees ”were scraped and raw” (Lowry 214). Then he instantly popped up and continued forward. Jonas kept going forward because he was so determined to save Gabe, and get out of the town. Questions were against the rules his whole childhood until he became the receiver. For instance, It was really hard for Jonas to be brave enough to ask. At first Jonas was apprehensive about asking the Giver questions “Jonas looked self consciously into the pale eyes... sir I apologize” (Lowry 95). Since Jonas was courageous, he overcame many obstacles by being courageous....
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...In “The Giver”, we are introduced to Jonas, the eleven-year-old protagonist of the story, as he struggles to find the right word to describe his feelings as he approaches an important milestone. He rejects “frightened” as too strong a word, recalling a time when he had really been frightened: a year ago, an unidentified aircraft flew over his community; it was a strange and unprecedented event, since Pilots were not allowed to fly over the community. As Jonas remembers the community reaction to the event, we learn more about the society in which he lives. It is extremely structured, with official orders transmitted through loudspeakers planted all around the community. As a punishment, the pilot was “released” from the community, the worst fate that can befall a citizen. Jonas decides he is apprehensive, not frightened (Jonas and his society value the use of precise and accurate language), about the important thing that is going to happen in December. Jonas thinks he lives in a perfect world. He lives in a highly ordered community where there is no pain, but he learns that there is a price to pay for this kind of life and discovers humanity’s long forgotten pains and joys. He finds out that he is living in a twisted messed up imperfect “utopia”. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the Community. When Jonas turns twelve, he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true...
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...#2 List the characters and describe them. Jonas- The twelve year old boy who becomes the new Receiver of Memory. Jonas is intelligent like most of his community, but his intelligence is greater and he does not understand it. Jonas has feelings that he cannot describe and also see things he cannot explain. When Jonas becomes the Receiver of Memory his life changes. With his new position in the community Jonas is exempt from the rules of the utopian society he is living in, which scares him. Even with this new great power Jonas possesses he continues to be a sensitive, kind, and humble boy. The Giver- The Giver who is the current Receiver of Memory before he transfers it to Jonas. The Giver and Jonas are alike in various aspects.Where Jonas is sensitive, the Giver is tough. Also he has an anger built up inside because he has held onto the memories for so many years and now at a very old age is finally able to transfer them to the new Receiver. The Giver is a wise old man who believes the memories being withheld from the community belong to them and they should know what happened in the past....
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...Arts Block 3 January 8, 2013 The Giver How powerful is love in any relationship? Without love in a relationship, the relationship is invalid. In the novel “The Giver” written by Lois Lowry, Jonas life was first surrounded by a no love and unemotional society. Throughout the story Jonas gains knowledge of those feelings that were once always secluded. One of my first examples, Jonas’ parents weren’t in a love filled relationship. In order to receive each other as a spouse, they had to fill out an application. The elders in the community chose them for each other by using their own wisdom of individuals’ compatibility. Needless to say, Jonas’ father and mother didn’t make the decision to be together, they were assigned to each other. They were to always lie to each other due to their assignments. In chapter 20, The Giver explains to Jonas that lying was what his parents were told to do and that it was how life was created for them. Therefore, they could never open up to each other in order to get to know and understand each other’s feelings. The concept of the word “love” was completely unknown in spousal relationships and left them nonplused about it. They never even told each other they loved each other. "You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly." - Sam Keen. Another one of my examples is Jonas and his father’s relationship also lacked love. In the novel there is no mention of Jonas and his father bonding together. They...
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...Can you imagine our world without feelings, diversity, and animals? “The Giver” takes place in a community that is in the future named The Giver community. Jonas is selected to be the receiver. When the Giver gave Jonas the memories he realized that his community is a horrible place. Jonas and the Giver plan an escape for Jonas. The Giver community needs feelings, diversity, and animals to make it more positive. Feelings would have been important to make the community more positive. “Love, the Giver told him. Jonas repeated it Love. It was a word and concept new to him.” Page 125. “Sobbing, he turned his head and vomited onto the frozen snow. Blood dripped from his face into the vomit.” Page 109. If everyone felt pain they would...
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...The relationship between Jonas and his family resembles a highly formal version of the traditional family unt. While the relationship between the Giver and Jonas is the more casual father-son relationship.There is a caring familiarity in both relationships, but the Giver-Jonas relationship has a more genuine and deeply involved emotional attachment. The idea of sameness has made emotional responses obsolete and unnecessary, this is not an ideal that i feel makes a good family. In the relationship between Jonas and his parents, there is a general caring of each other, but no true emotional attachment. It is more like an instructional or teaching environment. When he asks his parents if they love him, they correct him because the word love is...
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...THE GIVER Lois Lowry ← Plot Overview → The giver is written from the point of view of Jonas, an eleven-year-old boy living in a futuristic society that has eliminated all pain, fear, war, and hatred. There is no prejudice, since everyone looks and acts basically the same, and there is very little competition. Everyone is unfailingly polite. The society has also eliminated choice: at age twelve every member of the community is assigned a job based on his or her abilities and interests. Citizens can apply for and be assigned compatible spouses, and each couple is assigned exactly two children each. The children are born to Birthmothers, who never see them, and spend their first year in a Nurturing Center with other babies, or “newchildren,” born that year. When their children are grown, family units dissolve and adults live together with Childless Adults until they are too old to function in the society. Then they spend their last years being cared for in the House of the Old until they are finally “released” from the society. In the community, release is death, but it is never described that way; most people think that after release, flawed newchildren and joyful elderly people are welcomed into the vast expanse of Elsewhere that surrounds the communities. Citizens who break rules or fail to adapt properly to the society’s codes of behavior are also released, though in their cases it is an occasion of great shame. Everything is planned and organized so that life is as convenient...
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...Pain is something that we need to help us learn from our decisions. In the book The Giver it shows that very well. The Giver by Lois is a book about a futuristic world in which there exists no pain, no war, and very little emotion. In this utopia, everything is as nice as possible. When people become too old or brake rules, they are “released". Although they do not realize it, those who are released are actually killed. A boy named Jonas who is turning twelve and that’s when the citizens get a job but Jonas gets chosen to be the receiver of memories who holds all the memories of the world before along with all the pain so no one else has to. When he starts his training he meets the Giver who is the previous receiver who the gives him the...
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