The only real disadvantage to using euphemisms to make things easier on the people of a community is that it disillusions them to the truth. When something bad does happen or they find out that something that they have been told all their lives is not true, they either would not understand, or they would then begin to question everything that they have been told. Not just the bad things, but the good things as well. .
Jonas is a twelve year old who just received his job. He is chosen to be the new receiver of memory, the most respected job in the whole community. His job is to receive all of the memories of the earth's history so no one will have to bear the pain of it, except for him. He gets to have all the pleasure but also bears all of the pain of the past so no one in the community will have to. He is chosen for this job because he is very smart and very brave. Also he can see beyond. No one in the community can see color except for Jonas. Jonas sometimes sees little glimpses of color. With this job he has specific rules that he has to follow. The rules are: after school he has to go immediately to his job, after his training at his job he has to go home immediately, he can be rude, he can't discuss his training with anyone except for The Giver, he doesn't have to tell people about his dreams, he cannot take medication for his pain from training, he cannot apply for release, and he can lie. Most of the rules he has to follow are just meant for him and no one else in the community can do these things. .
Another main character in this story is The Giver. Because of all of the painful memories he has to bear he looks a lot older then he is. The memories have aged him. Like Jonas, when he was little he was special. Instead of being able to see beyond, though, he could hear beyond. His job was the receiver but now Jonas is the receiver. He now is The Giver. His job as The Giver is to transmit all of the memories that he has (all the memories of the world) to Jonas.
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 people have been going to the Giver for help and concerns, but I haven't had the chance to make an appointment with him. ... The community should give the right to all the families to have as many children as they want. ...
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. ...
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. ...
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. ...