The Giver
The Giver
The Giver is a novel written by Lois Lowry. She is an American writer who has won numerous awards in her years, notably a Newbery award for the giver in 1993. The novel explores different themes of life. Freedom. Everything is supervised and controlled by what Lowry describes as ‘Elders’. The thought of having any freedom is non-existent in the community as the ‘elders’ will decide who your spouse will be, the job you will be doing for the community & generally the lives of people living within the area.
The people in Jonas’s community have no individual identity. Nobody leaves the area in which they live and ultimately everybody is similar to everyone else. This made me think, do ‘we’ as a collective society have our own identity? There is a term used in the novel a few times, ‘released’. To be ‘released’ is a huge deal only old people, sick children to people who ‘break rules’ of the community get released. Is being ‘released’ the equivalent of thinking different in our society? The ‘elders’ can also be compared to being the government which control everything. Disobey the government and you may be ‘released’. The Giver has taught me that individualism a good thing to have. The colour of our skin, eyes & hair allows us to be different and that a ‘perfect’ world can turn out to be the worst place ever.
Jonas realizes that the community have never felt any emotions. The memories which he obtains by the Giver are times before the community was made. There was love, music, emotions, colour & sex. This had an impact of being because emotions and feelings are important and should always be treasured. Due to the pills given to stop the ‘stirrings’ is one reason why
The Giver is a novel written by Lois Lowry. She is an American writer who has won numerous awards in her years, notably a Newbery award for the giver in 1993. The novel explores different themes of life. Freedom. Everything is supervised and controlled by what Lowry describes as ‘Elders’. The thought of having any freedom is non-existent in the community as the ‘elders’ will decide who your spouse will be, the job you will be doing for the community & generally the lives of people living within the area.
The people in Jonas’s community have no individual identity. Nobody leaves the area in which they live and ultimately everybody is similar to everyone else. This made me think, do ‘we’ as a collective society have our own identity? There is a term used in the novel a few times, ‘released’. To be ‘released’ is a huge deal only old people, sick children to people who ‘break rules’ of the community get released. Is being ‘released’ the equivalent of thinking different in our society? The ‘elders’ can also be compared to being the government which control everything. Disobey the government and you may be ‘released’. The Giver has taught me that individualism a good thing to have. The colour of our skin, eyes & hair allows us to be different and that a ‘perfect’ world can turn out to be the worst place ever.
Jonas realizes that the community have never felt any emotions. The memories which he obtains by the Giver are times before the community was made. There was love, music, emotions, colour & sex. This had an impact of being because emotions and feelings are important and should always be treasured. Due to the pills given to stop the ‘stirrings’ is one reason why