The Giver Conflicts

Have you ever wondered what a perfect society really is? To some people, they may imagine a world where all people are wealthy and live in mansions, where everything and everyone is happy and equal, but maybe to other people it may be a place where its all cupcakes and rainbows, fun and colorful. In The Giver the society the people live in is called a “dystopian society”. However, in the book, the author makes it seem as they live in a “utopian society”, when in reality its the complete opposite. The society they live totally differs from the society we live in, however there are a few things on how they’re alike. In the book The Giver there are similarities and differences to modern day society such as family units, rules and laws, and

Everything is the same even the color of everything is in back and white, no body has freedom of their own and everything is controlled by the government. In the book The Giver written by Lois Lowry, a twelve-year-old boy named Jonas lives in a futuristic community where everyone and everything is the same everywhere you look. Jonas is selected to receiver memories from the time before their community. The community is named Sameness because everything was the same. People saw things the same because their eyes had been made to see only in black and white. Once Jonas receives memories from the Giver of past experiences and memories from the time before him, he notices that his community is wrong about how to live life because of this, he goes to a high extent and leaves his community. Life in the book, The Giver, is a communistic government because everything is the same, there is no diversity, and the citizens have no choice because the government makes

The Giver by Lois Lowry is a frequently challenged book that is part of many middle and high school curriculums. On the American Library Association’s list of most commonly banned books, it ranked eleventh from 1990-1999 and twenty-third from 2000-2009 (Admin). This novel, even though its theme is anti-censorship, is challenged on the basis of sexual influences and violence, especially the recurring theme of euthanasia. Despite these protests, The Giver should remain in curriculums and continue to be read for generations.

“Someone who can’t sacrifice anything, can’t change anything.” (Whisper.sh). Jonas sacrificed everything to change his community, other communities, and the world. Lois Lowry creates a flawed and controlled setting in chapters 1 and 2 of The Giver using specific words and phrases.

People like to think that a society with no crime, equality, and no wrong choices would be a perfect society; however, what is the price people pay for this “perfect” society? Most people think they know what 's right and what 's not, when they are given the choice. Nevertheless, when they are given the choice a wrong choice could greatly affect the society. The novel The Giver shows us this with a boy named Jonas who lives in a society where there are no choices, no individuality, ands lots of rules. Although this may seem like a utopia, it could very easily turn into a dystopia .

“The Book Thief” is not just about how Liesel surviving during WWII and how everyone eventually dies. Markus uses his characters, and many events to express the theme that a book can be a person 's saving

Many times in dystopian literature, characters are faced with problems to do with their governments, but are forced to live with it or stand up to it. In, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the curious Jonas lives in a community where everything is the same and there is no change, but when he turns 12 he becomes the receiver of memory, a job where he learns about the real world. After learning the truth, he escapes the confines of his community bringing Gabriel, a young child, with him. On the hand, In Harrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., people are given handicaps to maintain the same intelligence level. For example, the main character, Harrison is a genius who escapes his handicaps and and makes the citizens happy by having fun with them and teaching

by Lois Lowry, Jonas is selected to have the job of the Receiver of Memory where he finds out the true history of the world he lives in. While Jonas is training, he finds out some of the bad things about his society. Some of the bad aspects are when twins are born the lighter one is killed, everything was not always the same, and that the world once had more features.

Jonas feels sad and lonely that The Giver and Gabe are the only ones he can share these great memories with. The community Jonas lives in can’t experience many great memories that he can. Sure there are bad memories, but to experience the good ones, they have to experience the bad. Jonas feels that he has to make a change to his community. He will not let himself be a bystander to many, many innocent people getting released each year. Jonas has real feelings, unlike his community, and he knows he has to make a change. Jonas’s enthusiasm inspires The Giver to help Jonas make a change too. The Giver believes that they just might be able to do it.

Have you ever dreamed about a world that is perfect, not just for you, but for everybody. Such an amazing thing doesn't really exist. The Giver is a book about a dystopian society. It's a future world where the people in charge are trying to make a perfect community, but no place can be perfect. There world is similar to our world, but there are many differences too. In this community everyone has a family but the families are not related and the are put together by the people in charge. There is also very little freedom in this community, people are constantly being watched and they rarely get to choose what they want to do. Additionally they have no outside world, its just them in there community, no animals, and no other people that they

But the knowledge and memories he gains from The Giver don’t just change Jonas, they help him grow and mature into a smarter and wiser person. Jonas came to realize that his community is in need of proper memories and emotions, and if it wasn’t for The Giver, Jonas would have never saved his community in the end of the novel. Jonas knew that to be a perfect community, people would have to learn from their memories, everyone would need see their world through color, everyone would need to make choices in life, and everyone would need emotions and feelings to fully enjoy life. In the end, being the receiver impacted Jonas and changed him, but if Jonas was never the receiver, his entire community would be in ruins, and the memories would have never opened up his eyes to see the potential future for everyone around

How many times have you tried to remember something from a long time ago, from could not seem to recall it? What if you could not remember anything from the past except for what you are made to remember? This is how life is for Jonas, in Lois Lowry’s The Giver. He only knows what he is told. He lives in a society where everything in the same, and no one is discriminated against. But is not knowing the truth really a good thing? Jonas addresses this question for the majority of the novel and therefore makes the theme of The Giver, the importance of memory.

He thinks more seriously than the others do in his community about life, worrying about his own future as well as his friends. He enjoys learning and experiencing new things: he chooses to volunteer at a variety of different centers rather than focusing on one because he enjoys the freedom of choice that volunteer hours provide. Not only that but he also likes to be in contact with other people than his society permits or encourages. Virtually, Jonas is unique and unusual in a good way. At the Twelve Ceremony, he is selected to be the new Receiver of Memory, the most honored position in the community. Jonas by receiving these memories from the Giver has to retain all the abandoned memory of pain, war, and emotions and bear the pain alone so that the community can avoid the pain. Within a short time he gains wisdom from the memories he receives and realizes that people have given up their freedom for Sameness. He becomes angry and frustrated that is why he Risks his own life to save the citizens in his community. That is what I liked about Jonas’s character. He saw something different, something that would make the community he lives in better, so he decided to take an action and change the community forever. Even though he knows that he might be released for doing so because it is against society rules. However, his will and determination were the main motivation for

Imagine being chosen a job for a lifetime, but this job had a lot of pain, and loneliness. Well that what it was like for Jonas. Which makes Jonas being selected to be the receiver of memory is more like a punishment than an honor. Jonas has to deal with the pain that comes from the memories. He is missing out on things others can do. Jonas knows things and he can't tell anyone about them.

How you ever considered how lucky you are to be human, knowing about the past, your amazing gift to express emotions and how you feel? In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, the community is made up of people, but they are not truly human; they do not show emotions or any other human traits. All but one, Jonas, are people who do not understand their world, do not know about their past, do not show emotions or take risks, and they do not have memories. Because Jonas takes risks, he is able to grow in his humanness.