Choices In The Giver By Lois Lowry
Choices
Choice: the act of choosing between two or more possibilities. The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a young boy named Jonas. The novel is set in the future in a community that has strict laws and rules. No one in the community knows about the past before the community apart from the Receiver, the person who holds the memories. Jonas is given the Assignment (job) of the Receiver. As his training progresses, Jonas learns more about the past and how different the past is from the now. One of these differences is about choices and how in the past individuals were free to make their own choices, but now The Elders, heads of the community, make all the choices for everyone. It is better to have the freedom to make choices even if it’s the wrong choice because you can always learn from mistakes, makes the world more interesting and it makes you an individual.
Being able to make choices is better because you can learn from bad choices. Bad decisions are always a learning experience and help you in the future to make better choices. “I didn’t. I used my wisdom of the past, from the memories. I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible things- …show more content…
People choosing different things gives life variety and makes life more eventful and surprising. “If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! A blue tunic, or a red one?” (Lowry, 97). Jonas is talking to The Giver about the lack of choices in his community and how he’d like more choice. Having a different coloured tunic, as simple as it is, can life visually more interesting. Everyone is the community wear the same coloured tunic, which is boring and uninteresting, even something as simple as changing a colour can change this. Deciding on what colour tunic gives the world more variety and
Choice: the act of choosing between two or more possibilities. The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a young boy named Jonas. The novel is set in the future in a community that has strict laws and rules. No one in the community knows about the past before the community apart from the Receiver, the person who holds the memories. Jonas is given the Assignment (job) of the Receiver. As his training progresses, Jonas learns more about the past and how different the past is from the now. One of these differences is about choices and how in the past individuals were free to make their own choices, but now The Elders, heads of the community, make all the choices for everyone. It is better to have the freedom to make choices even if it’s the wrong choice because you can always learn from mistakes, makes the world more interesting and it makes you an individual.
Being able to make choices is better because you can learn from bad choices. Bad decisions are always a learning experience and help you in the future to make better choices. “I didn’t. I used my wisdom of the past, from the memories. I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible things- …show more content…
People choosing different things gives life variety and makes life more eventful and surprising. “If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! A blue tunic, or a red one?” (Lowry, 97). Jonas is talking to The Giver about the lack of choices in his community and how he’d like more choice. Having a different coloured tunic, as simple as it is, can life visually more interesting. Everyone is the community wear the same coloured tunic, which is boring and uninteresting, even something as simple as changing a colour can change this. Deciding on what colour tunic gives the world more variety and