...The Giver Essay Imagine living in a community lacking color, emotions, and differences, or where choices are banned. Imagine being tricked into believing you’re living in a perfect world, but really, your community is hiding both life changing secrets and terrifying truths from all its people. In The Giver by Lois Lowry, the characters have to take on these problems and limitations. The setting is takes place in a community that the characters believe to be a utopian society but is actually a dystopian society. The community is run by a council and the Chief Elder who make all the decisions. The main character, Jonas, is an eleven year old boy who undergoes a series of changes after he is selected to be the Receiver of Memory during the Ceremony...
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...first thing going through Jonas’s mind was trying to figure out some sort of plan to help Gabriel. He could not think of a reliable plan so he got dressed and snuck out the back door of his house. He knew the only person that can help him with this crisis is the Giver. After a few hours searching for him, he finally found him at his house. He mentioned the shocking news to the Giver and he could not believe what he was hearing from Jonas. The Giver told him that he needs to take Gabriel and they both need to leave the community by tomorrow. Jonas asked, “Why tomorrow?” The Giver told him, tomorrow morning this when Gabriel gets released because on the schedule for tomorrow morning it shows Gabriel’s name. Jonas took the Giver’s advice that he gave him and later that day Jonas figured out a plan to save Gabriel from being released. Jonas needed some food and medical supplies in just in case anything would go wrong. He also wrote his family a good bye letter and explaining why he was leaving them. He placed it on his bed and wrapped up Gabriel with blankets to keep him warm. Around midnight they both snuck out the back door of their house and started walking towards the huge gate that allows you to leave the community. He...
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...Memories are valuable things. Memories can help you recognize the consequences for your actions. The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a young boy named Jonas who lives in a “perfect” community. The people who live in the community know nothing of their history. When Jonas receives the honored job title of the Receiver, he learns about the world’s history by memories gained from the previous receiver - also known as The Giver. When Jonas receives these memories, he understands more about the community’s consequences for their actions. Jonas’ experiences develop a theme over the course of The Giver by teaching the reader that for every action there is a consequence. Although some people believe that their actions don’t affect their future, Jonas’ experiences show that your actions lead to either positive or negative consequences....
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...Honors Language Arts Block 3 January 8, 2013 The Giver How powerful is love in any relationship? Without love in a relationship, the relationship is invalid. In the novel “The Giver” written by Lois Lowry, Jonas life was first surrounded by a no love and unemotional society. Throughout the story Jonas gains knowledge of those feelings that were once always secluded. One of my first examples, Jonas’ parents weren’t in a love filled relationship. In order to receive each other as a spouse, they had to fill out an application. The elders in the community chose them for each other by using their own wisdom of individuals’ compatibility. Needless to say, Jonas’ father and mother didn’t make the decision to be together, they were assigned to each other. They were to always lie to each other due to their assignments. In chapter 20, The Giver explains to Jonas that lying was what his parents were told to do and that it was how life was created for them. Therefore, they could never open up to each other in order to get to know and understand each other’s feelings. The concept of the word “love” was completely unknown in spousal relationships and left them nonplused about it. They never even told each other they loved each other. "You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly." - Sam Keen. Another one of my examples is Jonas and his father’s relationship also lacked love. In the novel there is no mention of Jonas and his father...
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...it is against it. (BS-2) Jonas starts to question and disagree, now having a part of the wisdom and love the giver gave him. (BS-3) Jonas gets pushed to the point of rejection by losing all of his friendships and family members. (TS) This book states a clear message, people will do anything for love. (MIP-1) Before Jonas learns the feeling of love he agrees with the society not knowing it is against it. (SIP-A)Before Jonas learns more, his feelings of the the community are very normal, he doesn't think anything about what is...
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...The Giver vs. Pleasantville Comparative Essay In both works, The Giver and Pleasantville, leaders symbolize control and elsewhere represent new beginnings. Leaders symbolize control. The first example I have for Pleasantville is the time when the Mayor does not allow Bud to speak and defend himself at his trial. wAfter art wreaked havoc and chaos across Pleasantville, Bud and Mr. Johnson decided to paint another painting across the jail walls. At their trial, the judge was the mayor. During the trial, the mayor himselfs asks Bud if there was anything that he wanted to say to defend himself. Bud said "yes," and began speaking. The mayor immediately cut him off because the mayor wasn't hearing what he wanted to. This shows that the Mayor is a...
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...There are three books. All of them “companion novels” to themselves. Why? Sure, Messenger crosses over the other two books into one story, but that would make it a sequel; that can’t be the case. Fortunately, if there’s one thing to be learned from reading these books, it’s how to go deeper. Analyzing the three books, and looking at the different plot points, a common thread seems to be that each book has a mix of conflict types, man vs self, man vs society, and man vs nature. Following the “man vs self” thread, Jonas from The Giver had to cope with all the painful memories of the past and let go of his lifestyle of unquestioning obedience. In Gathering Blue, Kira had to cope with the death of her mother and her twisted leg, and at the same...
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...The ending to The Giver is sort of ending that you choose how it ends. Either Jonas and Gabriel make it to Elsewhere, everyone is happy, and the world is right, or… they die of exposure/starvation in the freezing snow. Depending on the person that you are, will lead you to make your decision. The first option makes a good case for the book being optimistic. Jonas, despite being raised in the highly controlled community, has come to value freedom and choice over a state of happiness and satisfaction. Gabriel, being a baby and all, could represent the opportunity for a better future. That they make it to their destination means there is hope for all of us. Well, if that's not good enough for you, maybe you want to go with that other ending…...
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...In a perfect society conflict, pain, distrust, and secrets would be eradicated. That is a far cry from from society today where people fight constantly, there are grave differences in the way people think and act, and pain is evident everywhere. But while we are not perfect people are still happy and if you look true joy can be found in many places. Through Jonas’ experiences over the course of “The Giver”, Lois Lowry develops a theme of nothing is perfect. Though opposing readers may believe that perfection is attainable, Jonas’ actions and experiences throughout the novel convey that attempting to become flawless can only lead to ignorance and the unavoidable idea of an escape from a life of strict perfection. Jonas society strives to be...
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...THE GIVER Lois Lowry ← Plot Overview → The giver is written from the point of view of Jonas, an eleven-year-old boy living in a futuristic society that has eliminated all pain, fear, war, and hatred. There is no prejudice, since everyone looks and acts basically the same, and there is very little competition. Everyone is unfailingly polite. The society has also eliminated choice: at age twelve every member of the community is assigned a job based on his or her abilities and interests. Citizens can apply for and be assigned compatible spouses, and each couple is assigned exactly two children each. The children are born to Birthmothers, who never see them, and spend their first year in a Nurturing Center with other babies, or “newchildren,” born that year. When their children are grown, family units dissolve and adults live together with Childless Adults until they are too old to function in the society. Then they spend their last years being cared for in the House of the Old until they are finally “released” from the society. In the community, release is death, but it is never described that way; most people think that after release, flawed newchildren and joyful elderly people are welcomed into the vast expanse of Elsewhere that surrounds the communities. Citizens who break rules or fail to adapt properly to the society’s codes of behavior are also released, though in their cases it is an occasion of great shame. Everything is planned and organized so that life is as convenient...
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...2/26/2012 English 2, paper 2 The Effect of Knowledge on Happiness and Relationships There is a common expression that "Ignorance is bliss." It implies that not knowing about a potentially troubling situation allows for more happiness. Can this be the case for most people? Would people be happier if they lacked knowledge about their surroundings and lives? Does gaining knowledge push people away from their loved ones? These questions surface in the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry. They arise from a society where knowledge is only kept by a select few. This lack of information keeps the people happy, but possibly not to the extent they could be. In the novel The Giver there exists a society in which there is no emotion or feeling. A world with no choices and no individuality, where everything is set out for everyone. Most importantly in this society, people have no memories of times before their own lives began. This lack of knowledge is the reason no one experiences feelings for they have no idea of what feelings are. They don't know love, pain, fear or happiness. The main character Jonas, a boy of 12, lived this way until he was chosen, like the rest of the children his age, for his occupation. Jonas received the position of receiver, the person in charge of keeping every memory of the society to themselves. As the receiver Jonas would receive every memory of times before, including feelings and emotions. As Jonas received more and more memories, he began...
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...Imagine your whole life has been decided by elders. the person you marry, who your children are, and what your job is. You do not have the freedom to choose how you live. Life in the community, where everyone was the same, was boring as gray. All of the dwellings and clothes were very basic. You made no choices, unless you were the elders. The novel The Giver written by Lois Lowry shows the theme of avoiding a deal of pain if we are willing to sacrifice freedom. So you must ask yourself, Pain or Freedom? What if every time you fell or scraped your knee you wouldn't feel the emotion, pain. The Community do not feel pain. Whether it is physical or emotional. There was no feeling of pain. For example,"It's the choosing that's important, isn't...
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...leave your same old world or life, would you? Well in The Giver, the novel that Lois Lowry wrote, Jonas is given the chance to escape the community and if he acts now he also gets my full support. Jonas really had to free his people from this dehumanized state and the elders controlling ways. Moreover he had to save the Infant Named Gabriel from being released. Lastly, Jonas wanted to see the world, elsewhere and feel emotions he would never had felt in the community. In the end, Jonas had many reasons to why he had to leave. Jonas had to save the community from this hellish life. The Civilization needed these memories to, to live, to feel and to gain wisdom from them. Jonas’ former home needed to get their memories because on page 133 The Giver said “without the memories it is all meaningless.” Furthermore, with what they learn from the memories they will change their ways of slaughtering the old and newborn or not growing well children. This community is a village of savages being brought their salvation by Jesus… I mean Jonas....
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...manager over the apartment complex where I live, and she knows several things about management. Diana prefers to study where there are no background noises, such as the television or even listening music. At Diana’s house, home, or even the library, there are more distractions. Because of this, she does not have her full focus on what she has intentions on studying. To contrast, I Cheryl Womack finds it easy to study at home in the morning, or late at night, because I have no distractions. I cannot concentrate with too much noise. The Meyer Briggs Personality Results The styles of learning within the discussion are my intrapersonal, verbal-linguistic, and musical. I think that the types of personality will correlate to the styles of a giver and thinker. These results will definitely be exploring the traits that will be learning and also how they will interact with the types of personality. The interviewer and interviewee:...
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...Investigating the impact and challenges of implementing the National Counselling and Testing Campaign in the Ga-Motupa Community in Limpopo Mushwana Sipho Simeon An assignment submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Philosophy (HIV & AIDS Management) at the University of Stellenbosch Africa Centre for HIV &AIDS Management Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences Supervisor: Gary Eva March 2011 Declaration I hereby declare that the entire work contained in this document is my original work and I have not previously submitted the same work to the same or another institution for another qualification. All sources used are herein acknowledged and referenced. Date: 22 January 2011 Copyright©2011 Stellenbosch University All rights reserved Abstract The National Department of Health and The South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) jointly agreed to launch a massive campaign for HIV Counselling and Testing. The campaign was launched as an effort to step up and supplement and modify the programmes that are already running in the country, to fight HIV and AIDS. The campaign is known as the National HIV Counselling and Testing Campaign and it is based on the National HIV Counselling and Testing Campaign Strategy of SANAC (2010). The study aimed to investigate the impact of the campaign in terms...
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