The Giver Attitude Analysis
Attitude Lois Lowry, the Author of “The Giver” wrote the book in a serious attitude. This science fiction story is presented in a direct way. Like other science fiction novels, the reader must accept the world in the novel to understand the issues and the ideas Lowry is trying to say. Lowry got the inspiration to write this book by her father who was losing his memory. Due to this she is on the line of approving the topics. Needing to tell her father that he sister passed away and watching him morn made her think about a society where no one needed to go through this pain. Which for people like her father would be good but also a world with good must always have bad in it, so there would be some type of consequence, eventually. At the end
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Jonas and Gabriel find a sled, the same sled that Jonas saw in his very first memory. They take this sled down into a little village, it seems like it is Christmas, they finally reached Elsewhere, or they have died due to hypothermia and starvation. The story ends here leaving the reader with many questions. Leaving the story like this makes the reader want to go back and continue reading, to find out more and have their questions answered. The reader is given the choice of being optimistic, Jonas and Gabriel make it to Elsewhere or not to be and believe that they die. Fortunately, with this story even if Jonas and Gabriel do die it can still be a good ending. Maybe Jonas didn’t succeed in making it Elsewhere but he was the only one who actually did something. He also was able to realise all the memories back to the community, just like him and The Giver had planned. This leaves the reader with some kind of comfort. This ties with the themes because Jonas has the choice to leave society the way it is or for him to decide to run away and try to find a better life, or at least die trying. Also the choice of taking Gabriel with him versus letting him die. The choices that Jonas makes ties with the theme of the individual. These choices shape Jonas into being who he is and the way he looks at the community, helping him make his way to Elsewhere. The second theme that this connects to is the importance of memory. Jonas realises how important it is to have
Jonas and Gabriel find a sled, the same sled that Jonas saw in his very first memory. They take this sled down into a little village, it seems like it is Christmas, they finally reached Elsewhere, or they have died due to hypothermia and starvation. The story ends here leaving the reader with many questions. Leaving the story like this makes the reader want to go back and continue reading, to find out more and have their questions answered. The reader is given the choice of being optimistic, Jonas and Gabriel make it to Elsewhere or not to be and believe that they die. Fortunately, with this story even if Jonas and Gabriel do die it can still be a good ending. Maybe Jonas didn’t succeed in making it Elsewhere but he was the only one who actually did something. He also was able to realise all the memories back to the community, just like him and The Giver had planned. This leaves the reader with some kind of comfort. This ties with the themes because Jonas has the choice to leave society the way it is or for him to decide to run away and try to find a better life, or at least die trying. Also the choice of taking Gabriel with him versus letting him die. The choices that Jonas makes ties with the theme of the individual. These choices shape Jonas into being who he is and the way he looks at the community, helping him make his way to Elsewhere. The second theme that this connects to is the importance of memory. Jonas realises how important it is to have