...The Giver Setting: Mythical community Characters: The Giver, Jonas (12 year old boy), the father, mother, and sister Lliy (6 or 7 year old girl) Intro As his days of being an 11 year old were going by,Jonas constantly wondered, " What will my assignment be?". His friends at least had an idea of what it probably was, some were good with children, others liked the Old. When they helped out with the children or Old, their names were put in a book, for the Assignment committee to look at. By seeing how many times kids names were in the book, and getting reports from the chaperones, they were able to best fit every kid to their wanted, and best useful assignment. THat is why spending your recreation hours carefully is very important to this community. But still, Jonas didn't have the slightest clue what his assignment would be. Rising Action It was December by now, and the the Ceremony of 12's was coming up. This ceremony is when each child will get their assignment. It is a very big event, one that nobody is allowed to miss. Still wondering what his job could possibly be, Jonas was anxious, yet nervous to hear his news. Now, everyone took their seats, each age group sat with their group. As the head of the Committee read off the names and assignments of the children, Jonas was listening carefully for his number. Climax He was #24, the 24th child born that year. 20, 21, 22, 23, it was Jonas' turn next! He was so excited, until he heard the next number, #25… He had been...
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...Imagine yourself in a world with out personal freedoms and choice. You wouldn’t be able to choose your own carer and you can’t have feelings of loving someone you like. The community Jonas lives in relinquishes these things in order to experience total safety. Jonas would prefer to sacrifice him self than to live in a community with out individual freedoms. Individual freedoms should NOT be sacrificed in order to create a safe and orderly community. Individual freedoms were relinquished in Jonas’ community in order to create a safe orderly community. One freedom that is relinquished is that the people in Jonas’ community cannot have deep feelings. If a person has feelings of loving someone you have to take a pill to stop your feelings. For example Jonas had a stirring (a dream) that he was in the house of the old, in the bathing room with Fiona. He wanted Fiona to get undressed so he can bathe her in the tub. Then Fiona started laughing and she said no. Jonas told his parents about this dream and they told him that he has to start taking a pill that will control his feelings for Fiona. Another example is when Jonas asked his parents if they loved him, Jonas’ parents didn’t understand what is love. His parents told him it’s obsolete and meaningless. Another freedom that is relinquished is that no body is allowed to see color. For example before Jonas being a receiver, Jonas and Asher were playing with an apple. Then Jonas saw the apple change briefly...
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...Literature Annotated Book Card Name: Shayla Banchs Card No.: 1 Author: Lois Lowry Book Title: The Giver Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Copyright: 1993 Approximate Age Level: 7th -8th grade Genre: Soft Science Fiction Plot Summary with introduction of main characters: The book The Giver is a story about a boy named Jonas. Jonas lives an average life with a mom, a dad, and a sister. Jonas' family has the privileged to take care of a young child named Gabriel only because he wasn't doing as well as he should be. In this community they pick the jobs you are supposed to do at the age of 12. Most kids get chosen to be a doctor or a road cleaner but Jonas got chosen to be the most important job there is, he was chosen to be the Giver. When you are the Giver you get to be privileged with every memory there has ever been. Some memories are hard on Jonas, like war. The previous Giver feels bad about giving Jonas bad memories but he feels it is needed in order to properly do his job. Some memories are good, like love. Jonas is given some rules to use as a Giver. He is allowed to ask anything from anyone, he is allowed to lie, and he is also not allowed to take any medicine unless he needs it for an injury or illness. In the community Jonas lives in they make you take medicine so you don't go through the stages of puberty. But, because Jonas is the Giver he doesn't have to take this medicine. Jonas begins to wonder why everyone in the community talks about release...
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...In “The Giver”, we are introduced to Jonas, the eleven-year-old protagonist of the story, as he struggles to find the right word to describe his feelings as he approaches an important milestone. He rejects “frightened” as too strong a word, recalling a time when he had really been frightened: a year ago, an unidentified aircraft flew over his community; it was a strange and unprecedented event, since Pilots were not allowed to fly over the community. As Jonas remembers the community reaction to the event, we learn more about the society in which he lives. It is extremely structured, with official orders transmitted through loudspeakers planted all around the community. As a punishment, the pilot was “released” from the community, the worst fate that can befall a citizen. Jonas decides he is apprehensive, not frightened (Jonas and his society value the use of precise and accurate language), about the important thing that is going to happen in December. Jonas thinks he lives in a perfect world. He lives in a highly ordered community where there is no pain, but he learns that there is a price to pay for this kind of life and discovers humanity’s long forgotten pains and joys. He finds out that he is living in a twisted messed up imperfect “utopia”. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the Community. When Jonas turns twelve, he is singled out to receive special training from The Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true...
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...Joseph Jones Ms. Manchouck Humanities 205 March 10, 2013 The Giver Benchmark Essay In a community where everyone is recognized by age and every age has a task, things tend to stay in perfect order. “Sameness” is a very strict way of life. Every person has a job that is to be done every day. Things must be done the correct way or the violator will be punished accordingly. All of these rules and procedures were put in place to create a simpler life. Life is an assignment to complete each day. When the children become “8s” they begin volunteer work. This is when the Elders start to observe the individuals in order to choose their assignment. From an “8” to a “12” is the time for the kids to search for a job they may enjoy. Upon becoming a “12” they will be given their permanent assignment .When Jonas became a “12” he was given the assignment of being “Receiver”. As Receiver he must hold all memories from the past. Things become clearer as Jonas goes to his trainings with The Giver. The way of life that he and many of his ancestors had been taught was missing so many elements. The Giver explained that all of these things were obsolete in their life of “sameness”. Without the strong community influence this would be a completely different story. As Jonas progresses through his training the memories overcome him. After seeing the video of his Father releasing the smaller twin he burst into tears. This so called “simpler” life that he’s been living is an ugly lie. After receiving...
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...Brief summary (100-150 words) It is a novel set in a utopian society. In Jonas's community, there are no feelings, no hunger, no choices, and no colors. Everything is created to be equal. Every family unit is uniform and prescribed according to the community leaders. Each member of the community is given their career when they turn twelve. Jonas is selected to become the receiver of memory. Training with the Giver, he realizes the truth of the community he lives in. The people of the community do not get to feel love, and true happiness. Those who do not reach the standards of this Utopian society are quickly "released". Jonas later finds out that this release process is equal to that of death. Finally, he decides to return what has been taken from the members of the community. With the help of the Giver, Jonas escapes from the community which will result in the release of all memories to the community. Insight: (just choose one of the followings to develop: one specific lesson learned, one or two interesting characters, dialogues between characters, the plot of the novel, one specific incident, and etc. In my opinion, the community in the story is not a so-called Utopia. People living there have no love and choices. They cannot choose their husband or wife and have their own children delivered by themselves. A family without blood relationship might have fewer concepts of lives’ meaning. Besides, not knowing the feeling of love, people would have no...
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...have never known. Some things were joyful, while other things were painful. But the most important thing is that Jonas and the Giver learned that they are more than capable to make a difference for difference. In the book The Giver by Lois...
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...Pain is something that we need to help us learn from our decisions. In the book The Giver it shows that very well. The Giver by Lois is a book about a futuristic world in which there exists no pain, no war, and very little emotion. In this utopia, everything is as nice as possible. When people become too old or brake rules, they are “released". Although they do not realize it, those who are released are actually killed. A boy named Jonas who is turning twelve and that’s when the citizens get a job but Jonas gets chosen to be the receiver of memories who holds all the memories of the world before along with all the pain so no one else has to. When he starts his training he meets the Giver who is the previous receiver who the gives him the...
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...So far while reading we have learned that in Jonas’s community, they have a strict set of rules and rituals they have to follow. They are all under sameness and never experience anything different. So far while reading we have not learned about their education system in place, but we have learned that citizens of that community have limitations as to what content they can read. I believe that this is due to the idea of sameness. If one were to pick a book about different ways of life such as religion or culture, they might break the “sameness”. This is used as a way to make sure everyone is exposed to only one set of things and doesn't have a choice or even knowledge of a different idea. So far, no information has been given of what the...
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...In the book The Giver , Jonas shows intelligence by understanding the community and through his common knowledge. First he is intelligent because he knows release is murder. Jonas really understood this when he saw his dad kill the twin. Next the Giver gave Jonas a memory. The giver gave him a memory of war. After the memory of the war he is angry. When Jonas sees his friends playing war, Jonas gets mad and tells them to stop. Jonas’s friends are mad at him for telling them what to do. Jonas sets up an escape plan with the giver. Jonas in not happy because of all that he knows he is missing out on in the community. Jonas gets mad at the voting committee for removing individualism. The main character jonas was very intelligent as he made he...
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...Lois Lowry has exposed the world to her life in almost every book she has written. From losing her sister at a young age to watching her mother suffer in a nursing home, Lowry has been challenged with those hardships, and created her own world in her books. Every book she wrote had a personal experience behind it. Her creative mind draws readers in with her heartwarming symbols and themes. Lowry has pushed past the boundaries, and wrote one of the most controversial books in history, The Giver. Lowry was born in Honolulu, Hawaii on March 20, 1937 to Katherine Gordon and Robert Hammersberg. Lowry was the middle child with an older sister, Helen and a younger brother, Jon. She was no ordinary child, her father was a military officer which means she had to move around a lot. She never had one stable place to call home, and never made very many friends. Lowry was a solitary child who would rather curl up with a good book then be outside playing with the other military children. Lowry went to Brown University for two years before she transferred to the University of South Maine. There she met her husband...
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...Response to Literature Essay for The Giver The Giver is a novel written by author Lois Lowry. In this dystopian reading selection, the setting is a place called the community. The community is a place where everything is the same. Also, everything in the Giver community is safety-proofed. It is ran by a group of people called The Elders. The Elders are considered the wisest and most powerful people in the community. They are in charge of everything, from picking out job titles for the incoming twelves, to keeping track of the newchildren that are born. The setting of the giver affected the citizens by keeping them proctected from dangerous things. In doing so, trial-and-error cannot occur. Also, many of the citizens are used to everything...
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...The Giver, Cathartic Responses How would you feel if you couldn’t see color? Or if you had lost memories that you didn’t even know about? The community in The Giver by Lois Lowry, were in that exact situation. In what appears to be a utopia, the people in The Giver cannot see color and they have no memories of previous historic events. This is due to the fact that the Chief Elders, the leaders of the community, think that eliminating all previous memories and the memory of color is better for the people. The Chief Elders strive to eliminate pain and all human desire throughout the book creating what seems to be a perfect world, but Jonas, the main character, later comes to discover eliminating these things may not make their world the utopia...
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...Before Jonas was The Receiver of Memory, he thought his community was perfect, but then, he found out secrets that were being kept from him and everyone else in his community. When Jonas became The Receiver of Memory his whole world changed right before his eyes. In the novel The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the author shows that being individually different is a good thing. She does this through Jonas seeing colors and seeing everyone in his community different in their own special way. Having the job The Receiver of Memory, is very difficult, because what Jonas believed what was true about his community was wrong, which scared him. Jonas had always believed that everyone is the same and that everyone always told the truth. "How could someone not fit in? The community was so meticulously ordered, the choices so carefully made (pg. 48)." This was what Jonas thought until he became...
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