Giver Vs Today

“We don't dare to let people to make choices of their own.”In The Giver they decided things like their jobs,spouses,and children, whereas in our society we decided these things on own.The society in The Giver has many differences and few similarities with modern day society.

Imagine waking up one day, and all your choices are stripped away from you. You can no longer choice blue or red, up or down, one or two. Everything has been picked out for you whether you like it or not. The community in the Giver is a utopian society. All members have a clear-cut set of rules they must follow. The rules were made to get rid of pain and fix society’s problems. On the occasion of when the truth is revealed Jonas, a unique boy, questions society, and its motives. Personal choice is one of the most important things, even in the event that it may cause pain or suffering. Individuals within the community should have a right to pick their spouse, have their own children, and pick their careers.

In the novel “The Giver,” written by Lois Lowry, Jonas is a boy who follows the rules, spends time with friends and family, goes to school, and at the Twelves Ceremony is given the job as the Receiver of Memory. At the end of the novel, Jonas learns information that makes him leave the community to save the people he loves. As Jonas becomes older, he acknowledges that he is different from his family and the people surrounded by him. Once Jonas got his assignment as the Receiver of Memory, his maturity became inconsistent throughout the novel.

Lois Lowry’s The Giver is set in a futuristic, dichotomous society, one that is both utopian and dystopian. In response to the overwhelming destruction and chaos in the world, the Elders have attempted to create and maintain a peaceful and orderly utopia, but this security comes at a price. The citizens of the community have sacrificed their individuality and freedom. Although most adult members have some knowledge of the hypocrisies involved, they choose to perpetuate the deception, allowing the community, as a whole, to continue on blissful ignorance. When young Jonas is confronted with all the truths of the present and all the memories of the past, he must choose for himself

The book The Giver had many significant meanings and symbols that make a person evaluate how precious life really is. One would like to erase a particularly unpleasant memory, but if one could accomplish that then life would have no meaning. If a person only had pleasant memories and did not know what an unpleasant situation feels like, it would be living with no significance. Like in the book, The Giver, people live in an isolated community with no choices, no pain or true happiness. The protagonist, Jonas, becomes the receiver and realizes that there is more Elsewhere, and does not understand how the community can live with no true feelings. Memories are extremely significant in an individual’s life because it gives a person feeling and emotions of happiness, excitement, fear, and many other mindsets that will allow a person to know who they really are deep inside. The community in The Giver does not have true emotions and feelings; furthermore, their life is precisely robotic where people are not aware of many important things in life. In The Giver, Lois Lowry designs a vague setting in a community of people that have no pain or feelings to make a statement that life today would be boring and with no meaning without memories; in addition, Lowry contains many symbols in the book to show why memories are important in a person 's life.

In The Giver by Lois Lowry the main character Jonas is chosen to be The Receiver of Memory but he soon realises that the community he is a part of is not as perfect as it seems. Throughout The Giver Lowry stresses that people must not blindly obey the rules that have been placed for them to follow. In doing this Lowry also addresses many moral and ethical issues such as: Lying, whether euthanasia is acceptable and whether sameness is more important than having a choice. Through Jonas, Lowry questions these moral and ethical issues to warn us not to blindly obey, but to think and have an opinion.

How would it feel if this world didn’t let people have choices, didn’t let people share, or if they didn’t let people celebrate birthdays, holidays, or just celebrate anything? Well that’s what it was like for Jonas in The Giver. Jonas lives in the future in a community where The Giver is the only one who knows everything, but soon all that changed for Jonas. He became the the community 's new Receiver of Memory, and soon Jonas learns the terrible secrets of this “utopian” community. Later on as he learns some more about the community’s secrets he makes a plan to leave the community, and to take Gabe with him so he wouldn’t get released.(which means they die, but the community doesn’t understand that) In this book choices, sharing, and celebrations would have made The Giver community more positive.

Lois Lowery´s The Giver is an award winning book where it tells a story of a boy named Jonas and his stereotypical community. The community has taken away any chance of pain, feelings, and creativity. The community has taken away memories from the past. The fact that taking away the memories limits people to be their true selves and takes away their choices.

Through our society we are all raised up to be independent and unique individuals such as being ourselves and expressing who each of us are to the world. However, in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, everyone is raised to count on one another and everyone must look and act the same. Our society differs from Jonas’s in many ways, such as the family units, birthdays, and the way we each learn about our past.

The power of his individuality is symbolized. . .” (Telgen and Hile 160-182). Being The Giver is a sign of personal freedoms. Jonas’ will soon have the personal freedom while everyone else will forever learn the routine of non-individuality. “The Giver exhibits the unique quality of combining the theme of responsibility in society within a literary context agreeable to adolescents.

The Giver and our society are very different in my ways but alike in some ways. The novel has a government just like modern society with rules and laws. Mother confessed “I feel frightened, too, for him...you know that there are no third chances”(Lowry 9). Just like our society we have punishments

Lois Lowry’s “The Giver” takes place in the future in a utopia, a so called “perfect place” isolated in the middle of nowhere. There is no poverty, sickness, war in this place. But everything isn’t as it seems in this place. The main protagonist in this story is a boy named Jonas. Jonas lives with his mom and dad and a younger sister named lily. Jonas’s mother has a very important job in the department of justice. As the story progresses the entire domineer of the book changes, suddenly things aren’t as they seem. At a meeting Jonas finds out that he has been selected to become one of the next to receive their memory back, which is one of the highest positions. For nobody had any recollection of what was there before the establishment in the

The Giver is a book written by Lois Lowry, based on a youngster named Jonas who lives in a utopian society. Also, known as a perfect world. And in this perfect world that Jonas lives in, there are no memories, no pain, no color, no feelings, and no love. Jonas thought that this way of life was best. But Jonas’ opinion on the world changed as soon as he had been selected to be the new receiver of memories. Through the book The Giver, Lois Lowry is trying to portray that we learn from memories and gain wisdom. Through the memories Jonas gains, he gains wisdom about individuality, and mistakes that have been done in the past but since we have learned about the cons we make sure that we do not do it again.

The Giver is in many ways Jonas’s coming-of-age story. Jonas reaches maturity only when he is given memory, and through memory, experience. In this way, Jonas becomes more mature at twelve than the "adults" of his community. But The Giver also teaches Jonas the wisdom to recognize his own shortcomings. Jonas truly becomes an adult at the

The book called, “The Giver” is a novel created by Lois Lowry. The book describes at the beginning, the life of a twelve-year-old boy named, Jonas, who throughout the book becomes the main protagonist that allows the book to unravel completely. Jonas is very intelligent and perceptive when it comes to his others mates taking on life seriously, these qualities grant him the position of Receiver which in the book, is the most important job within the community. The book introduces many unusual concepts, concepts that involve feelings, balance, rules, decision-making and most importantly, life.