Examples Of Sacrifice In The Giver
The Giver and Self-Sacrifice The Oxford English Dictionary defines sacrifices as “an act of giving up something valued for the sake of something else regarded as more important of worthy.” One way to make a proper sacrifice is to put others before yourself whether it’s keeping something from someone else or having to make an important decisions. Nonetheless sacrifices are a part of one’s everyday life, but in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, the opposite happens. Living in a community of Sameness, The Giver, who is the current Receiver of Memory, holds all of the memories from numerous generations and sacrifices himself in more ways than one for the sake of the communities happiness. In contrast, all the pain and anguish that has ever happened
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The Giver’s sole assignment is to hold all generation of memories that the community has been through so the community itself doesn’t have to live a dreadful and meaningless life. Nonetheless, The Giver is one who self-sacrifices everything that he had, and used to have, in order for his community to avoid feeling pain. It takes a lot to commit to holding all of the communities memories, as one would have to be emotionally strong in order to do this. Nonetheless, The Giver is one of the few people who is emotionally strong enough for this assignment. With that being said, we all understand that people can have bad days and, sometimes, horrendous memories can get the best of us. For The Giver, there was a particular day in which he wasn’t able to handle one particular memory; the memory of war. On that particular day, Jonas walks into the Annex room for his training, but notices that there’s something off and unusual about The Giver. This leads to Jonas asking The Giver what was wrong, when The Giver responds by begging Jonas to take the memory of war so that some of his anguish can be released (Lowry 118). Although The Giver is an emotionally strong individual, there’s some days where the pain is too much to handle to the point where it becomes difficult to function in his community. Similarly, The Giver self-sacrifices his emotional stability for the sake of the community, he didn’t ask for the memories, honor, wisdom, or pain that came with the job, it was merely assigned to him (Brugar 1). Nonetheless, The Giver takes on this role for the sake of the communities emotional
The Giver’s sole assignment is to hold all generation of memories that the community has been through so the community itself doesn’t have to live a dreadful and meaningless life. Nonetheless, The Giver is one who self-sacrifices everything that he had, and used to have, in order for his community to avoid feeling pain. It takes a lot to commit to holding all of the communities memories, as one would have to be emotionally strong in order to do this. Nonetheless, The Giver is one of the few people who is emotionally strong enough for this assignment. With that being said, we all understand that people can have bad days and, sometimes, horrendous memories can get the best of us. For The Giver, there was a particular day in which he wasn’t able to handle one particular memory; the memory of war. On that particular day, Jonas walks into the Annex room for his training, but notices that there’s something off and unusual about The Giver. This leads to Jonas asking The Giver what was wrong, when The Giver responds by begging Jonas to take the memory of war so that some of his anguish can be released (Lowry 118). Although The Giver is an emotionally strong individual, there’s some days where the pain is too much to handle to the point where it becomes difficult to function in his community. Similarly, The Giver self-sacrifices his emotional stability for the sake of the community, he didn’t ask for the memories, honor, wisdom, or pain that came with the job, it was merely assigned to him (Brugar 1). Nonetheless, The Giver takes on this role for the sake of the communities emotional