The Giver Dialectical Journal

The Giver - Think About What You've Read

Write at least five sentences for each one!

1. Somehow, you come upon Jonas’s Community…a group of people living peacefully, with no poverty, no suffering, no pain, and no war. Should you tell them about pain and war and all those bad things, or not? List the arguments for telling them, and then list the arguments for not telling them. Then decide whether you’d tell them or not.

Yes, Tell Them

No, Don’t Tell Them

They should know the reality and how the world is actually like

They should know that there is love in the real world

They should realize that when they release the old and the the newborn, they are actually killing them.

They must know that there is a world where there is is choices.

So

This being said the people would also be very different. There is no guarantee that the community will even believe you. In the book it says: "But you will be faced, now," she explained gently, "with pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience. The Receiver himself was not able to describe it, only to remind us that you would be faced with it.” This statement proves that even if you try to tell the community, they won’t be able to understand you. You can’t explain love if you never experience it. Now, if by chance you were able to explain to the community the real world, you won’t expect yourself to get too far. This is because the whole community is covered by speakers with which the Elders can listen to you. You would be surely released. I think this because the community was so meticulous when the helicopter had flown over the community. There was not even a threat to the people of the community, but the pilot was not spared. If you started to retell the stories of the world to the community. You are a threat to the people of the community, so you would most likely not survive to tell the

EXCEPT for the “Release” of babies and others, describe what you think are the worst parts of the society described in this book.

The worse parts of this society described in the book is the lack of choice. I feel that only you would know yourself the best. In this community a few things that you do not have a choice about is your assignment, you spose, you birthday and etc. Choices are what make up our lives. In the book, the Giver says: “It’s the choosing that's important isn’t it”. This happened when Jonas wanted to see all the colours so he could choose for himself, what colour tunic he wanted to wear each day. Even if the choices are insignificant it’s the fact you can choose for yourself that matters.

3. Describe the best parts of the society described in this