Finally, the long-awaited movie adaptation of the Giver is here. However, no movie adaptation stays completely true to its source material, and the Giver is no different. The Giver movie sustained some massive changes to its characters and plot, not all of which were good.…
Lois Lowry's The Giver introduces the reader to the perception of a perfect society based on sameness. The story revolves around young boy named Jonas living in a "perfect" world called The Community where there is no pain, war, or fear. The weather and every citizens emotions are under control. To everyone living there, the community might seem like the perfect place to "live", but they never get to experience what it truly is to live. The creators of Jonas's community created a society based on their idea of a utopia, when in reality it is not perfect at all. Specifically, the ideas of no freedoms, no diversity, and no pleasure are examples of dystopian characteristics.…
1. Jonas: Jonas is an upstander. Before his Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas didn’t put much thought into Releases. Yet after becoming a Receiver of Memory, Jonas gets memories about colors, music, death, love, pain, family, war and much much more. When Jonas sees his first Release, he realizes that his community is messed up and needs help. Jonas understands that people in his community have no understanding of love, death, family, etc. Jonas sees a situation, and takes a personal risk to go away so that his memories flee him and go into the people of the community. Jonas knows that outside his town he might not survive, but he still decides to change the situation. Thus, Jonas is an upstander.…
While there are many themes that are present in "The Giver" and "Harrison Bergeron", one theme stands out. That theme is, memories are important and if they're lost, they can cause pain.…
Just imagine a world where everything was the same all the time. Every day, the weather as plain and ordinary as the clothes you wear. This is the world perceived in The Giver. The Giver is a story of a boy named Jonas living in a dystopian society where everything is the same; the people, the homes, the weather. Though they have eliminated all fear, pain, war, and hatred, they have also eliminated choice. But when Jonas is chosen as Receiver, he must fight to bring choice, passion, joy, and love back to the hearts of his community. This type of society differs from modern society. The culture of current-day varies from the novel’s as well as its structure and values.…
Imagine a world that no one can see color, can't feel feelings, or doesn’t know what snow is. In the "Giver" made by Lois Lowry, this is true. For the elders, they think that the memories are bad because memories can cause war, famine, sadness, and more. But they are wrong. Memories also contain love, friendship, happiness, courage, and knowledge. When the Elders locked all of the memories into one person everyone lost color except for that one person. They wanted everything to be predictable so they removed many things like hills, animals and other things that are unpredictable so this way everything is sameness. What if every day was the same, wake up, eat, go to work/school, go home, eat, sleep. Life is about not knowing what will happen. That’s why it's better to be fully aware than to be happy and ignorant…
The theme of freedom is examined in both texts, the giver, and Harrison Bergeron. The giver shows us that freedom is critical to learning and to happiness. We see the consequences of sacrificing freedom for perfect equality. For example, Jonas is selected and forced to become the receiver of memory. He receives a range of memory from the giver and this enables him to question the structure of his community and ultimately the lack of freedom. In comparison to Harrison Bergeron, we see a different way in which the authorities restrict freedom. George has been given an ‘ear radio' that eject uncomfortable sounds every time he has critical thoughts. In both texts, their freedom of choice has been taken away from them.…
The book Giver was a awesome book and in this essay I will be telling you why I think Lois Lowry wrote this book. the giver there is a lot of information that was included from her own personal life. She said in article that her dad has memory loss so she has to remind her dad some memories that happen a while ago and that is like the giver trying pulling back memories to give to Jonas.…
Jonas’ community appears to be a utopia, but, in reality, it is a dystopia. The people seem perfectly content to live in an isolated wreck—in a government run by a select few—in which a group of Elders enforces the rules. In Jonas’ community, there is no poverty, starvation, unemployment, lack of housing, or discrimination; everything is perfectly planned to eliminate any problems. However, as the book progresses and Jonas gains insight into what the people have willingly given up—their freedoms and individualities—for the so-called common good of the community, it becomes more and more obvious that the community is a horrible place in which to live. You as a reader can relate to the disbelief and horror that Jonas feels when he realizes that his community is a society based on the false ideas of goodness. As Jonas comes to understand the importance of memory, freedom, individuality, and even color, he can no longer stand by and watch the people in his community continue to live under such horrible restrictions.…
Ever wonder what it would be if there were community’s where rules have to be followed or we get released or killed. Jonas knows then rebels against all of the rules and leaves the community with a little kid that was going to get released. The main character, Jonas, changes when he stops following the rules and starts receiving memories in the book The Giver by: Lois Lowlry.…
In the book “The Giver” Jonas has realized that living in his Utopian society has been all dandy until he learned what really goes on. He has had to live with out feelings and emotions for all his life. Jonas's decisions may have affected the community but what he did what was right. Him leaving was the right thing to do. The decisions and emotions that Jonas and the other characters had during the book I chose a detail to go along with the emotion to match with the archetypal step.…
In The Giver, Lois Lowry made the reader believe that the main character Jonas, sadly died. Jonas hadn't eaten in days so he most likely had no energy to make it to Elsewhere because he couldn't walk straight as it shows in the book. “He didn't make it very far before he stumbles and fell forward.” This shows Jonas slowly losing the strength to live because he was falling and couldn't walk. Then when he sees the sled he gets on it but he begins feeling faint which also means he is starting to die. “Jonas felt himself losing consciousness and with his whole being willed himself to stay upright atop the sled…” And finally the last sign that shows he didn't make it was that all his memories flashed by and instead of feeling freezing cold he felt…
How the book tries to warn us about the importance of right of choice, feelings and memories.…
I will be giving my interpretation of the book “The Giver” by Lois Lowry. This book is set in a society that at first seems to be a utopian society but the further you read on it gradually appears to be more and more dystopian. So this book is about a boy named Jonas going through his twelfth year of his life. Jonas is soon selected to be the “Receiver of Memory” he is to be given the past memories of the time before sameness, or before the society became a utopia. As the story progresses Jonas soon realizes that this perfect world he lived in, isn’t so perfect after all. I absolutely loved this book. This book is riveting, thought provoking, and so perfect for triggering discussions. The ending is deliberately ambiguous leaving the readers to decide what they want to believe.…
“If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up and decide things.”(Jonas) “It’s the choosing that’s mordant, isn’t it?”(Giver). In the Newbery award winning novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a future dystopian. In this society everything is the same and no one sees colors, feels pain, or make decisions for themselves. The idea of “sameness” is totally unfair. When you don’t get to have any choices, feelings, or personalities, it just takes the human out of humanity.…