Individuality In 'The Giver'

     Jonas is helping his family take care of a problem newborn. His name is Gabriel, he had problems sleeping at the Nurturing Center. Jonas helps Gabriel sleep by transmitting memories to Gabriel. They become really close. Jonas finds out that Gabriel is in danger of being released. He talks to The Giver and finds out that release means the same thing as death. Jonas gets really mad knowing that his father killed the babies. That was his father’s job. Jonas wants to create a plan to change the community forever.

In The Giver, everything and everyone within the community look the same, and everything revolves around sameness. At the ceremony of twelve, Jonas receives the assignment as the next Giver, which represents the most honored assignment in the community. Jonas learns the “ Rules” of the receiver and begins receiving memories of the past, such as weather and feelings. Jonas begins to experience pain and suffering, and learns that the last receiver, Rosemary, asked for a release. A new child comes to live with Jonas, and Jonas transmits memories to him so he can fall asleep. Jonas begins to see the color red, and The Giver transmits different colors. Jonas begins to see the color red, and The Giver transmits different colors. Jonas continues

Equality, the harsh rules, and the secrecy negatively impact society in The Giver and proves that if equality is wrongly understood, it can have a bad impact on society. The impacts are shown clearly in many ways throughout the beginning of the novel in the society. The citizens all have to go through a day when they are “a 12” when they get chosen for their jobs in the future. The protagonist named Jonas is chosen to a very special job named the receiver. The point of this job is to receive the memories of the past to keep them from being released to the society around. There are many painful memories and happy ones. In one of his first happy memories, Jonas sees his first-ever glimpse of color and starts to have different thoughts about the black and white world around him. He reacts to the memory and says “‘But I want them!’” Jonas said angrily. “‘It isn’t fair that nothing has color!’” (Lowry 122). After this and

The Giver describes a society in search of perfection, which is a recurring theme in literature. Somebody in Jonas’s society decided that eliminating or limiting choices and feeling, among other things, would ultimately create a perfect place in which to live. By eliminating and/or limiting choices and feelings, the creators were able to implement Sameness, which would then provide a conflict-less environment in which to exist.

The novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is an everlasting story that shows the importance of individuality. This novel is about a young boy named Jonas who was elected as the Receiver of Memories, a person who is given the memories from the world that existed before their current society, Sameness. In this society there is no individualism. People can not choose who to marry, or what they want to do for a living. Over time Jonas becomes more and more wise, and realizes that the supposedly perfect community actually has some very dark and negative aspects. The author, Lois Lowry is a 76-year-old writer who focuses her writing on helping struggling teenagers become individuals. Lowry had a very tragic childhood. After both of her parents were

Imagine being trapped in a community and everyone is the exact same. Imagine feeling not special in anyway. Everybody wears the same clothes, rides the same bike, the weather is always sunny behind clouds, and there is no color. Well Jonas had to live in the society for many years until his world was turned upside down. In The Giver, the Giver is the receiver of memory for the community. The receiver of memory is in charge of the memories of the past that the community doesn’t know about. The ceremony of 12 is when the people of 12 is given there jobs picked out by the elders. The elders are the main committee of the community, they make the decisions. Jonas was then given the one of the highest job of the community, Reciever of memory. The job was rare and only chosen once the old receiver is about ready to pass. The receiver of memory passes the memories of the past that he got from the previous receiver of memory. The Giver is the receiver of memory he gave Jonas memories he never knew about. He transferred them by putting his hand on Jonas’s back and transferring them. When his memory was gone and in the new receiver the memory would vanish from his memory and transfer into the new receiver's memory. Until the new receiver passes the memories on. In The Giver, By Lois Lowry, The theme of, sameness means everything being the same and nothing being different is supported by these symbols: No Color, Bikes, and the weather.

How would you live life if you were trapped in a cage, like an animal, with no freedom, individuality or the ability to make choices? In The Giver by Lois Lowry a young, different boy by the name of Jonas, finds himself in a community where all people live a similar lifestyle with balance and control…. except for two people, The Giver and The Receiver who hold the strongest feelings and emotions of the community so the leaders can maintain balance. It is learned early on in the book that Jonas has “the capacity to see beyond” and will be selected to be the next receiver of memories (as the previous one was killed ten years ago because she could not handle the pain of memories). Jonas then begins training to become the next Receiver of Memories

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.

Diversity and change rely and thrive on each other, one without the other would not survive. Jonas is the only person in his society that can see the change,”They changed… Briefly, he felt a small sliver of sureness for the first time.” Page 64. In this quote, Jonas finds what comforts him, change. Jonas doesn’t yet know what change means to him, but he finds that diversity is something only he has encountered, and it is what keeps him thriving to make a difference. The way Jonas describes his love of Gabe is displayed when Jonas helps Gabe feel changes through the memories he gives to him. This action is important because Gabriel is the future and can make a change greater than ever imagined.

Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, offers a thought provoking, well written story, because it changes the perspective of anyone who dares to read it to. Lowry places her novel, at some point in the future when mankind has gone away with changes and choices in life. She forces readers appreciate, or at least re-think the world they live in today. Her novel presents a fully human created environment where people have successfully blocked out conflict, grief, and individuality. Each person follows the same routine every day. Failure comply with standards, to be different, means death. Jonas, the main character, finds himself trapped in this world.

The giver is a fictional novel authorised by Louis Lowry dedicated to informing readers about the devastating impact of extreme conformity on a community. As we progress throughout the book we start to realise and learn all these new things about the giver's community, such as creating and trying to maintain a perfect community, that comes beyond our abilities, while the givers society is having a huge impact on the individuality and individual choices on the members of the community. We learn that the inhabitants of the society had a hard time handling all the different memories, in a sudden event. All hints and evidence to these statements above are hidden and presented throughout the book.

Imagine having someone make all of your choices for you and not getting a say so about

“The Giver” is a Utopian and Dystopian fiction ; Meaning that the book starts off in a community where everything is idealistic yet as the story progresses, the setting appears to be an environmentally degraded one. In this book, there is a boy named Jonas who lives in a community where everyone is assigned a role at “Twelve”. Jonas is selected for the role “Receiver of memory” and receives the memories of the past through his training to become the Receiver. During his training, he receives memories that reveal the truth about his community. Jonas dislikes the fact that his community is hidden from the truth and decides to change it by leaving so that since he is gone, all the memories of pain, color, love and choices

Imagine a world without color or love. Were everything and everyone is the same, with no sunshine or rain. This is a world where our protagonist,Jonas, in The Giver lives in because of the fact that they wanted a utopian society and got a dystopian one instead . While Jonas’s society is a community with no love, sameness, and no color, modern society is free to love anyone, valued for individual differences, and we see colors,

The Giver is a morally driven story about a young boy called Jonas who lives in a society free of crime and sadness. At the age of 12, all children in the community are assigned their respective jobs, in which they will train and do for the rest of their lives. Everything factor of life is predetermined; from your parents to your partner. Jonas stands apart from the community because he is chosen to become the new "Memory Keeper". Society has been kept free of all the negative aspects of life because for as long as it has been formed, there has been someone who holds all the bad and good memories of the past within them. This is both bad and good for the inhabitants because, although they are protected from harm, they are also not exposed to the wonderful aspects of life.