Families In The Giver

Imagine a “fake” family in a community, where families are complete strangers to each other. These families are just made up of 4 people and not even any grandparents. There is no actual bond between the family members. That’s how families are in The Giver’s community. The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a “12” year old boy named Jonas. Jonas’s community can be described as “Utopia” and this community has certain rules that everyone must follow; so the community could be trouble-free. There are assigned jobs like birthmothers who give birth to new children, and those new children will be assigned to a family unit. Citizens are assigned spouses, children, and jobs. In this community everyone is the same; no differences; there isn’t even color in the community. In The Giver’s community, it would be better to have biological family members rather than complete strangers. First, family is about the relationships between each other and their history
Grandparents do not exist, and there are no real relationships between the family members. Jonas is given a memory by The Giver and the memory shows grandparents. Jonas then asks a question concerning the topic about “more” family members outside of his unit. Then The Giver answers his question and explains “Grandparents” to him. Jonas never forgot about that memory; that memory was The Giver’s favorite and it is Jonas’ favorite too.
Although, having an arrangement of a family unit depletes the chance of having broken families like no divorce or no unwanted children. On the contrary, family units do not experience romantic or familial love. People do not fall in love and marry. The adults do not love each other. The family units only exist to raise those two children. Since family units do not really experience these strong emotions; the families are not bonding and feeling these emotions other than just