Themes in the Giver Imagine there is a world with no emotion. Lois Lowry shows us in The Giver, a world without feeling. Jonas has recently been chosen as a new receiver of memories. When he receives the memories he realizes that his utopia is far from perfect. As he gets memories from the Giver, he starts to see what the community is lacking; for example, in his society they don’t see color or feel love or hate. As Jonas realizes this, he wants to fix the problem. He leaves the community and

“The Giver”- A Dystopian Society The setting of the novel “The Giver” written by Lois Lowry is a dystopian society. The Community in which the characters live in is a well ordered and harmonious society. These following paragraphs will be going through the characteristics of a dystopian society and how the novel “The Giver” relates to each of these attributes. Two of the main characters are Jonas and The Giver, both of these characters have pale blue eyes… making them “different” from the rest

modern society there are many good things overlooked. There are different freedoms and other choices we can make; however, in The Giver that is a different story. In The Giver there are many differences from from our society but, there still is a few similarities from modern society and The Giver society. There are many differences from modern society and from The Giver society some are the rules, the family units, and the leadership in both societies. One huge difference is the rules between both

one person also experiences the real joy that comes with those memories. The Community tries to hide all memories from their citizens, but it has it consequences. The people aren’t really human anymore; they are numb to sentiment. In the novel the Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas learns how people can’t have real emotions without memories by experiencing true sorrow, true joy, and true love. In Jonas’s community, people always express their feelings, but when they say they’re sad, they aren’t truly somber

Matched vs The Giver Dystopian worlds are illusions of a perfect world, they trick the citizens to believe. “Matched” by Ally Condie is a dystopian society novel with a heavily controlled society, in which the government matches you with another citizen and are to be bounded together for life. After Cassia is matched, but, she reveals stronger, unwanted feelings for someone else. Throughout the novel, Cassia divulges information about the government of how they watch her and treat the one she truly

author of the speculative fiction The Giver, warns us of the dangers of taking away personal freedom by controlling everything, even the weather and environment, in this dystopian and somewhat utopic world that this novel is set in shows us how important emotions and free choice are. Using jargon, visual imagery and figurative language in The Giver Lowry to name a few tricks to show and tell us about dystopias and utopian elements in speculative fiction The Giver. One of the many dystopian elements

opens with Jonas who obeys his government without question and accepts his community completely. (BS-2) Jonas starts to rebel against and question society because of his training with the Giver. (BS-3) Jonas is unable to live another day in his emotionless society so he decides to escape. (TS) In the book, The Giver, Jonas goes through the stages of the antihero because of his lack of meaningful relationships. (MIP-1) Like most antiheroes, Jonas starts as a person who actively tries to fit in with

upon us; it is the keeper of what is meaningful for our deepest hopes and fears. This quote means that memories aren’t just something that happened in the past but give people hope and fear. The Giver is a book by Lois Lowry, and the quote has a great connection to the book. The quote related to The Giver is connected in three different ways to the essay. This quote states that memories aren’t just an image of the past but a holder of our deepest hopes and fears. The community is very strict about