"The Giver" by Lois Lowry is about a community that is monitored very closely. Everything that the people of this community do is watched and recorded. They are punished for not doing something right or by the rules, and they are rewarded when done right. There is a procedure for everything, and they must follow the procedure or be punished. There is even a specific way that they are to apologize for doing something wrong. This community lives by "Sameness." There is no color, the family units are not self-chosen, and they are picked by observing who would be the best mate. The two adults in the family unit must apply for children when they are ready, and they can only have two; one boy and one girl. There is a special ceremony that advances every child in the community, and at the ceremony, they give families that have applied for a child the one that the elders think would be the best child for them. When a child gets to be a twelve, he is given an assignment. This is to be the job that he or she will do for the rest of their time, until they are placed in The House of the Old. Once you have lived a long and fulfilling life, and you are ready to go, you will be released, and your name is placed back into the records to be recycled and used again on another Newchild. Unless you have done something very wrong, your name is used once you are gone. If you have committed some kind of wrongdoing, your name is never to be spoken again. The process of Release means that you are killed and taken care of. Everything in this community is run very smoothly and with very much order.
This community uses euphemisms to sugar coat the harsh reality that things happen. Death happens, birth defects happen, under developing children happen. This community uses the euphemisms to make it easy for the people to the community to take it. If they don't know exactly what "Release" is then they cannot fear it and they cannot rebel against it, because that would throw off the whole system.
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. ...
