The Transference Of Memory In The Giver
What is a memory? A memory is something remembered by a person. It is a remembrance or reoccurrence in a person’s mind of a past event. People have many memories from childhood and many from adulthood. Some of the memories are bad ones which are: a breakup, a death of a family member, a wreck, a wrong doing, a tragedy, etc. But, even though people have a lot of bad memories, there are many good memories that people have. These memories include: good times with a family member who has passed, a family reunion, a hug, a first kiss, a game winning shot or touchdown, a time a mother sung, etc. Memories are an important part of daily life. They are in a way what makes someone them. Memories play a great role in how a person is presented or how a
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In the story The Giver it talks about how the Giver’s memories are transferred to Jonas which begins to make him see things in a new light. According research, “the transference of memory is the point at which Lowry's novel moves from science fiction into fantasy (53), and in fact, almost nothing related to memory in The Giver can be explained scientifically, from the Giver's loss of a memory once he has given it to Jonas, to the way memories apparently exist as place bound entities independent of individual consciousness (so when Jonas leaves his community, the memories remain behind and become collective memories).”(Hanson). This, points to the fact that once the Giver gave his memories to Jonas he lost his memories. But they were vivid to Jonas as if he had lived for himself, and therefore the Giver began to cease to be. These memories are full of emotion and sensations that one would feel if they had been there themselves. In a sense, it was as if the entire Giver’s nerves and cells that had been transferred and they were not just distant memories, so in a way it was like a brain transfer or transfusion. But, there is no way that there could be that transformation because of the sensitivity of nerves. This means that Jonas’ brain would have to be replaced with the Giver’s brain with all of Jonas’ nerves still intact, but with a few of the nerves from the Giver to feel the sensations and all of the feelings that the Giver
In the story The Giver it talks about how the Giver’s memories are transferred to Jonas which begins to make him see things in a new light. According research, “the transference of memory is the point at which Lowry's novel moves from science fiction into fantasy (53), and in fact, almost nothing related to memory in The Giver can be explained scientifically, from the Giver's loss of a memory once he has given it to Jonas, to the way memories apparently exist as place bound entities independent of individual consciousness (so when Jonas leaves his community, the memories remain behind and become collective memories).”(Hanson). This, points to the fact that once the Giver gave his memories to Jonas he lost his memories. But they were vivid to Jonas as if he had lived for himself, and therefore the Giver began to cease to be. These memories are full of emotion and sensations that one would feel if they had been there themselves. In a sense, it was as if the entire Giver’s nerves and cells that had been transferred and they were not just distant memories, so in a way it was like a brain transfer or transfusion. But, there is no way that there could be that transformation because of the sensitivity of nerves. This means that Jonas’ brain would have to be replaced with the Giver’s brain with all of Jonas’ nerves still intact, but with a few of the nerves from the Giver to feel the sensations and all of the feelings that the Giver