Imagine a world where every child is shielded from danger and mischief. It is a world completely absent of pain, poverty, war, disease or discomfort. There is no divorce and no unemployment. The buildings, the people, the weather are all alike. Yet in this world there is no color, no love, no dreams, or choice. This is the world in which twelve-year-old Jonas lives. .
He lives with his family--the standard unit comprised of a mother, a father, one boy, and one girl. Each member in this nameless society receives an assignment from the government, which is run by a Council of Elders. The Council is responsible for everything from allotting the food to the community to who will bear the children in the society. For example, Jonas's father is a Nurturer at the childcare center, and his mother works at the Department of Justice. Community members receive their professional assignments at age twelve. These assignments are given during a ritual known as the ceremony of Twelve. .
At the ceremony, Jonas watches as his peers receive their assignments like Fish Hatcherie Attendant and Birthmother. When Jonas assignment is bestowed upon him, he is shocked and excited to learn that he has been selected for the most prestigious assignment in the community. He is to become the next Receiver of Memory. Jonas is to be instructed in his duties by the previous Receiver of Memory, who has now become the Giver. .
Jonas is now charged with the enormous job of maintaining all the memories of the community from snow, colors, grandparents, love, and Christmas to grief, broken bones, horror, and war. When Jonas experiences all these memories he is torn. The pleasant memories urge him to desire the world as it was before the government instituted Sameness. He wants to have parents that love him, not ones who apply to have a son and then only "like" him. Jonas is not sure whether or not the people should be sheltered from these essential characteristics of the human spirit.
In Lois Lowry's The Giver, Jonas-the protagonist- is born into a community of uniformity. ... In this society, there is the Receiver, and the Giver. ... The Giver believes that everyone in the community should be able to keep their memories. ... When Jonas met with the Giver for the first time, he was shown color. ... The second time Jonas met with the Giver, a painful memory was transferred to him. ...
This critical theory can be studied through Lois Lowry's novel "The Giver". ... Her parent's health was a major influence when Lowry wrote "The Giver". ... The giver gives Jonas all the memories, good or bad. The giver and the new receiver, Jonas, keep these bad memories from the community. ... Her life has greatly contributed in her writing "The Giver". ...
Givings goes so far as to question why women are the chosen gender for the torture of giving birth and providing food for the child, perhaps even suggesting that women have to endure worse than what Jesus had to go through. ... Givings spends his days giving other women a kind of satisfaction that he denies his wife, which leads Catherine to experience jealousy, even though she isn't completely sure what she is jealous of. ... Daldry returns to the Givings' home in a flustered state as if sexually aroused, which Dr. Givings responds to by giving her further "treatment.... Giving...
The Givers character shows that rules/customs (Sameness) can prevent problems such as wrong choices. In the discussion between the Giver and Jonas, Jonas says "He could choose? Instead of Sameness" then the Giver says "He would make wrong choice"(98). ... But the Giver says that he could make wrong choice and there could be problems them. ... In the book the Giver says that "Climate Control. ...
The Giver There were a few main characters in this book. ... He was to be the next Giver. ... So when they got started the Giver started transferring memories to Jonas by him lying down on a bed and the Giver put his hand on his forehead. ... Then, one day he was with the Giver, he asked the Giver to see the video of a MK2 release. So the Giver let him watch it. ...
The Giver The book that I chose to read was "The Giver", by Lois Lowry. In this book, the Giver, an old man gives all the memories of a world such as ours to a boy named Jonas. ... The Giver tells Jonas of a place such as our normal world. ... The Giver later gives Jonas his consent to escape their town to go search for a normal and happier world. ... The rest of the book, is about the visions that Jonas has, and explains how the Giver, is the keeper of memories from the village from hundreds of years ago. ...
There are many good and bad things in The Giver. ... A bad thing about the giver's community is release. ... It was time for a new giver. ... Once the Giver showed Jonas the memory, the memory the Giver has is gone. ... The Giver and Jonas made a plan to leave town. ...
The Giver By Louis Lowry Jonas and his family live in a place that would be looked at as a dream in today's world. ... They saved the best for last; the job he was assigned was the most honorable in the Community, the Giver. Having the job of the Giver, Jonas, holds everybody's memories. The Giver that is retiring and having Jonas take his place must transfer all his memories to Jonas. ... Gabriel and Jonas travel by night and sleep by day, they eat food that the Giver has saved for him over the past two weeks. ...
As the Receiver he has to get every memory from all over the world from the old Receiver he calls The Giver. The Giver: The Giver is the man who is the old Receiver. He is also the one who gives Jonas the memories. ... The Giver is the only one who is not controlled. ... Plot: Introduction of Characters: Lowry introduces Jonas and his family, with Gabe, plus The Giver. ...
