Comparing The Giver And The Flowers

The Giver and the Flowers are both books that involve the main character to lose his or her’s innocence. The Giver is where Jonas learns memories, and the flowers are where Myop learns the reality of the world. Overall the two stories were based on the main character learning what reality is. The Giver takes place in a dystopian community. In this community, everyone is the same and there are many restrictions. In this story, Jonas was selected to be the Receiver of Memories. The reason Jonas was chosen is that he had the ability to see beyond and he had the traits to become the receiver. As the receiver, Jonas has to keep hold the memories of what the world the world one was. If there is no receiver, the entire community will have to face the painful memories of reality. These memories all take Jonas’s innocence because he was once part of the conformed community. Some memories are shocking, especially war, where Jonas learns death. Because of that, he also learns that releasing is where you kill someone.
Myop is enjoying a summer when she starts to go am the area behind her house. While she heads there, she is picking flowers. While she is collecting flowers, she steps into a skull but is unfazed by the dead person corpse. But then Myop picks up a flower and sees the rotten noose around the roots. She looks around and sees other rotting remains of a noose hanging over a tree branch. When she looks at this she drops in flowers, and the text states “ And then summer was over”. This is the part when Myop realizes that people kill themselves. That realization takes away Myops