The Giver

The Giver is written from the point of view of Jonas. At the beginning of the book Jonas is an eleven-year-old boy living in a futuristic society that got rid of all sorrow, pain, fear, hate and war. Everyone looks and acts almost the same. Everyone is polite and there is no competition. Also the community is not allowed any kind of choices from the moment they were born to the moment they are released. For example, at the age of nine you are given a bike and are not allowed to ride a bike before that age. Also at the age of

The Receiver was talking about his age, and he said this, “I am not, actually, as old as I look,” he told Jonas. “ This job has aged me. I know I look as if I should be scheduled for release. But actually I have a acceptable deal of time left.” (72) Therefore, when you become the Receiver of Memory you age a lot more than you would in a regular job, because of the importance of the job he stresses more, which causes him to look older. When you become the age when you actually need to be released you will look way older than the rest of the people getting released. The Chief Elder was telling the audience when Jonas had been selected Receiver of Memory, she said, “ Such a selection is very, very rare,” The Chief Elder told the audience, “ Our community only has one Receiver. It is he who trains his successor.” (57) Although this may be true, there is only one Receiver that is trained to be able to train the next Receiver of Memory, the Receiver gets older because of all of the hard work he put in to train the new Receiver, because it is a rare situation to have a new Receiver. Therefore, The Giver has to put in loads of work to train a Receiver, since it is especially rare, so he has to put in a lot of hard work to train him well, so another incident doesn’t happen like it did ten years ago. When the Receiver of Memory is selected, he would become a

In the movie The Giver the main character, Jonas, learns more than what society has been telling him and sees a whole new perspective. To explain, the government hides emotions, colors, music, and memories from the community and Jonas is fortunate enough to experience it all. On his first day of training as the receiver, he sees the vision of snow and a sled. Jonas is shaken by the memories he has learned but is deeply intrigued, begging for more information each day. In the film, the wooden sled represents pain and experience.

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.

Imagine having everything you wished for. You would live in a perfect world. But every world has imperfections and you come across to realizing...a perfect world doesn’t exist. Within time, you come from an illusion to reality. You choose your journey and it starts here. The community is a separate environment from the world and has many rules to live by. The rules can vary to be severe consequences. It includes sameness, no memories, and family unit regulations. The kids end their childhood at the age of 12 by receiving their life assignment. The main character, Jonas is chosen to be the receiver of memory. He is reliable to hold everyone's feelings, hopes, and devotions. In The Giver the author Lois Lowry uses the theme of change to reveal that growing up in “the community” is a non-stressful and organized environment but Jonas finds the real world a whole different place when he receives memories about strong feelings and hardships, intellects the word “love”, and how important it is to be an individual.

The book The Giver by Lois Lowery has been a staple in the education system for many years. Many students today have even written papers on it trying to relate the novel to how times can be observed in their minds. With many of these students there might have been an abundant amount of questions remaining, with little answered, leaving them with anticipation to pick up one of the next four books in the series. The main similarities among the books are that they all deal with an utopian form of society, which includes a main hero or heroine making a sacrifice to save their society. In this research paper databases will be used to compare the similarities and how each book relates to one another, while also looking at the subtle differences

In The Giver Louis Lowry created a perfect world so different from our world today. Each member of the community has their place and they are not to stray from it. The story follows an eleven named Jonas as he becomes a twelve and gets his job assignment. At Jonas’s ceremony of the twelves

The theme conveyed through the Giver is that individuality should be valued. The story takes place in a utopian society where everything is the same. There are no choices, no color, and no love in the Community of Sameness. The novel starts out a month before the Ceremony of Twelve, where the 12 year olds each get assigned a job. Jonas gets the assignment of the Receiver of Memory, and he soon finds out that lying is permitted, and receives several memories of the past without sameness, with pain too. He has the ability to see beyond, and finds out that he and the Giver are the only people in the Community that have the ability to see, as well as hear beyond. Similar to the phenomenon of an apple changing quality and his friend Fiona’s hair doing the same

The Giver is about a young boy of twelve named Jonas who lives in a utopian/dystopian future in which everything is “perfect” and controlled by something called “Sameness.” There is no color, no music, no anything that creates individuality. When Jonas is chosen to receive the memories of the past from a person called the Giver, he begins to see what society has lost and learns dark secrets about what officials do to keep it that way. At the end of the novel, Jonas runs away with an unusual child named Gabriel, who is marked for death, in an attempt to share his newly found memories with the world and find the place called “Elsewhere.” “The majority of the bans on this book are because of children issues instead of grown up ones.

Many characters in the book The Giver and the book, Dreamland, are comparable. For example, Cassandra O’Koren from Dreamland and Jonas from The Giver have many similarities. However, they also have a few differences. Cassandra and Jonas are alike because they both ran away and they have the same personality. On the other hand, their physical traits aren’t the same and they have different living conditions.

Lois Lowry’s The Giver is a book about a seemingly utopian society in the future. This idea of perfection was created by removing individuality and emotion from the lives of people in the community which contrasts to today’s society in the United States, where freedom is extremely important to citizens. The only people who know that these freedoms are possible are a boy from the community named Jonas and his mentor who goes by “the Giver.” Jonas’s job in the community is to receive memories about the experiences that the society has removed.

Intro: “Perfection is just an illusion based on our own perception,” an unknown source has said. In the utopian community that Jonas was living in had tried to make everything perfect and people lived like that for years. But, when Jonas becomes the new receiver he looks at this so called “perfect” community in a whole different way. In the giver written by, Lois Lowry, Jonas grows up and becomes a 12 and learns how to see deeper. The theme is growing up and is showed by the ceremony month, December, Jonas’ little sister, Lily, and the protagonist Jonas.

The characters are Johnas who was the novel's protagonist, he is an intelligent and courageous boy with the Capacity to See Beyond. Gabriel who becomes a lively, inquisitive toddler, and Jonas discovers that he is also able to receive memories. The Giver took more years than Jonas to realize the necessity for action and change in their society, and by the end of the novel, his experiences with Jonas cause him to realize that he can help

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

I will really like to talk about the character “Giver” because I found him the most interesting character in the book. The Giver is the person who is responsible of keeping all the community’s memories and pass them on to the next receiver. In the book he’s an old man who is very wise and gentle, but haunted by the memories of suffering and pain. He didn’t do anything except giving memories to Jonas, and letting him know more about the community. But since the Giver was definitely clever, he already realized the dangerous truth of the community, but he couldn’t do anything before Jonas became the receiver.