The Giver Memory

When The Giver told Jonas “Welcome Receiver of Memory,” on page 75, it was just part of the story. But now it’s, loaded with symbolism in this sentence. All the people in the story don’t get to know the history of the past, but this sentence shows that there is history in the book and that someone is going to find out all about the history and memories. The Giver, by Lois Lowry, has a theme of memory/history and three examples in the story, are Jonas, animals, and elsewhere. In this essay you will find why these are representing memory/history.
First Jonas is an example because he, shows history and memory for lots of good reasons. In the story the Chief Elder said, “Jonas has been selected to be our next Receiver of Memory.” Meaning that
When you reach the part where there were dead soldiers and horses everywhere, this shows that there are animals in Jonas’s visions of the past. The elephant in the story was killed in the past. So in the future there aren’t elephants, and in the past there were. Elephants also are symbolised as wisdom and knowing, everyone in the book doesn’t have knowledge of the past. So it’s pretty funny that it was an elephant in the book. In the future of the book to when Jonas gets to know Gabe, everyone thinks Gabes stuffed animal is a hippo, but it’s really an elephant. These thoughts about elephants shows that the people in the Givers community don’t have knowledge over past animals. All in all animals were used to represent the past, because the majority of the people never knew about the animals from the
But they don’t have any memory of what society was like until the community was formed. However part of their community has been balanced through the help of someone with the memories and history of the world, this person is used as an adviser over the past. They get to learn more about the past through books. In The Giver Jonas and the Giver were the people who got to use the history of the world. That’s how Jonas gets to represent history and memories. Animals get to represent history and memories in The Giver because there aren’t animals in the present time set in the book. So whenever they are talked about they are from history. Elsewhere shows history and memory because in the story elsewhere was equivalent to death, and death was a word used in the past so it means a past word. People in the story also get to remember people in their lifetime that got sent to elsewhere, so they had memories of the past elsewheres. All in all Jonas, animals, and Elsewhere all represented history and memory in the story The