A wise man once said, “life's not worth living is you can't have fun.”- Sophia Loren
Is life worth giving up your choices to live in a perfect world? No life isn't worth living if you can't have choices. You need to be able to choose your path of life, not forced to live a life someone chooses for you. Jesus died for us so that we could have the freedom to choose. Would you throw that all away? “Strength lies in differences not similarities.” This quote shows that the community is not strong because they don't have knowledge. The community is basically perfect, but there is also a lot of sameness. The Giver’s world is extremely sheltered off from the outside life. These people have an extremely boring-basic life, they don't know how to have fun because no one can remember how. They haven't experienced real joy, snow, or sweet loving animals. It is like living your life over and over again without any change. Like a clean slate because they don't remember anything of their community's past life. How would it feel to not know what's going on the world this very moment? I personally feel it is an important job of technology to keep us up on the world's latest activities. The Giver once said,“I see technology as an extension of the human body.” This quote shows that technology is
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I believe this is smart because it reduces the risk of injury or even death. There typical weather was warm, but not to hot, it was never cold. When jonas was receiving memories he experienced snow and hills for the first time. This tells me that Jonas’s community is flat, and sunny. In The Giver Jonas said, “I finally felt at peace with nature.” This quote shows me that jonas has been sheltered from nature and when he had the ability to choose if he liked his boring home or the unknow. He chose the unknown and he ended up happy, he saw a house with lights and people dancing and singing. This was jonas’s idea of
(TS): Throughout the entire book the one thing that Jonas wants is relationships, he goes through many different ones in the book, but in the end the reason for everything is based around Jonas 's desire to have somebody to be with. (MIP-1) Jonas is happy with his world because he believes that he has the relationships that he wants, so he listens to the government so he can keep these relationships. (MIP-2) Jonas begins to question the government and moves on to questioning his relationships. (MIP-3) Jonas is rejecting his world and abandoning his meaningless relationships in order to get
In The Giver by, Lois Lowry, adventurous Jonas and curious Gabriel didn't make it to Elsewhere; the cold snow weakened both boys just before they closed their eyes and passed away. In the first place, on page 177, the author clearly states. “He was not warmer; if anything he felt more numb and more cold. He was not less exhausted; on the contrary, his steps were leaden, and he could barely move his freezing, tired legs.” From this statement it is proven that Jonas’s health conditions are extremely poor.
The last extreme change is that we have emotions, feelings and we can see color, Jonas’s society is so much about equality that they don 't want anyone to be different or they fear that the people will have the power to chose what they want to do. Today 's society and Jonas’s have some similarities. Such as, in both children are given comfort objects to help them through rough times. Well just like in The Giver all children go to school in our country too.
The leaders of the community presented the option to the people, and they chose sameness over diversity. This decision shows that the community values stability and predictability over individuality and diversity. The quote, "We relinquished sunshine and did away with differences," highlights the extreme measures the community took to achieve sameness. By eliminating differences, the community has also eliminated things that make life enjoyable, such as sunshine, colors, and music.
Just think. Nobody has any knowledge of the past. You do not know what color is, you have no emotion, and everybody is the same. The world that you live in is colorless, emotionless, drab, even lifeless. This is the type of world that Jonas and The Giver live in.
This evidence shows the theme of tradition because Jonas talks about how it is uncomfortable to talk about being different. Another example of tradition is after Jonas leaves the community he thought “After a life of Sameness and predictability, he was awed by the surprises that lay beyond each curve of the road” (Lowry 172). This quote shows how for Jonas' entire life, he followed the same rules as everyone else. He follows the same traditions as everyone in the community. This is visible when you don’t get to pick your job and only are able to ride a bike when you are nine or
Jonas states his feelings about not telling feelings ,“Sometimes I wish they'd ask for my wisdom more often-there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen. ”(Noyce).
Jonas also found out what it means to starve. This was very hard for him, he now realized that all places are not like his community where everyone is all the same and had everything provided for them. If Jonas had had lots of innocence, he would not have been starving, he would of stayed in his community. This is shown in the following quote, “Jonas remembered, suddenly and grimly , the time in his childhood when he had been chastised for a misusing a word. The word had been “starving.”
Technology rules the 21st century. Phones and appliances are what this world is made up of, that’s where the money is. In the book Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury shows how the government uses technology to censor their citizens. Like Mildred’s tvs or technology has always been there for her so she calls the parlor walls her family.
He is under sameness and the influence of the community. Jonas is chosen to receive feelings, colors, and emotions from memories. As time goes by Jonas sees the community not as a utopia but a horrible place. Jonas wants to change
Literary Analysis: The Giver Imagine a world where everything seems perfect but truly it is not as pleasant as it appears. In The Giver by Lois Lowry shows us a community in the future with no feelings at all. Jonas a twelve year old boy knows his life as it is and one evening he learns the truth about the community. Jonas set’s off into a adventure to change it all. Character,conflict,and symbolism makes the reader see thru the eyes of a twelve year old in a place of slavery disguised without anyone knowing it.
One of the main themes in “The Giver” is the importance of individuality. The people in the community are not given any freedom to be individuals. They are not allowed to be different, and this creates less understanding of the world. This is why the community needs a receiver to understand these things for them.
Furthermore, memories allow the community to gain wisdom from remembering experiences of the past. Moreover, the Giver disagrees with how the community runs things. He believes that memories should be experienced by everyone as well, because life is meaningless without memories. The Giver states: “There are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they
The Giver then told Jonas he would be glad to share that memory with him. He transmits the memory of a christmas morning, grandparents and love. Jonas liked the memory and wanted to be able to feel it all the time. When Jonas got home he asked his parents if they loved him, They were a little fluster about the word love and told him to pay attention to his precision of language. His father told Jonas that the word love is absolutely meaningless.
What do you think about Jonas’s community is it a dystopia or a utopia. Jonas’s community has ups and downs. Jonas’s community has a weird society, There are camaras,rules,and rituals. There are lots of camaras all around Jonas’s community. You have no privacy,they are watching.