Response To The Giver
The Giver
INTRODUCTION
The book was great! This book and its story are unique. The Giver is a deftly crafted work, both stunningly beautiful and deeply disturbing. Finding myself being imperceptibly lulled by the peace, order, safety and serenity of Jonas's world; being awakened by the sickening thud of reality's steel-toed boot in the gut, leaving both him and me breathless and disoriented in the aftermath. This story is haunting and powerful. It's a raw portrayal of the presumed moral sacrifices that man would have to make in order to create and maintain a Utopian society, and the acceptable naivety of the horrors that would accompany it.
Perhaps what is most frightening to me is the way I so easily assumed, at first, that Jonas saw …show more content…
What if our choices were already made for us we had no say so? Would we still be ourselves? Would everything that made us “us” disappear? No laughter. No emotion. No love. No color. No true family. No pain. No sadness. No sorrow. No freedom. No way out.
Of course, I know, I believe, you would not want this kind of life you have now. It is because of the fact that those no sentences are such things that you can’t have. Even me, who’s in college and have the power to make a choice, would be worrisome on these things! Just imagine a world like Jonas’, a world with no pain, no suffering, no love and no choices, a perfect utopia but stupid and gone terribly wrong.
This was Jonas’ world until he met the Giver. The Giver had memories that no one else in the community could even imagine. Now that Jonas has received these memories, what will he do to them? Will he bear the burden of his memories himself? Or will he share them, he good and the bad, with the community.
He will, for he cannot take the pain anymore. Not the pain he had on those memories but the pain he still holds them without sharing it and the pain that the fact that he knows them all but the community
INTRODUCTION
The book was great! This book and its story are unique. The Giver is a deftly crafted work, both stunningly beautiful and deeply disturbing. Finding myself being imperceptibly lulled by the peace, order, safety and serenity of Jonas's world; being awakened by the sickening thud of reality's steel-toed boot in the gut, leaving both him and me breathless and disoriented in the aftermath. This story is haunting and powerful. It's a raw portrayal of the presumed moral sacrifices that man would have to make in order to create and maintain a Utopian society, and the acceptable naivety of the horrors that would accompany it.
Perhaps what is most frightening to me is the way I so easily assumed, at first, that Jonas saw …show more content…
What if our choices were already made for us we had no say so? Would we still be ourselves? Would everything that made us “us” disappear? No laughter. No emotion. No love. No color. No true family. No pain. No sadness. No sorrow. No freedom. No way out.
Of course, I know, I believe, you would not want this kind of life you have now. It is because of the fact that those no sentences are such things that you can’t have. Even me, who’s in college and have the power to make a choice, would be worrisome on these things! Just imagine a world like Jonas’, a world with no pain, no suffering, no love and no choices, a perfect utopia but stupid and gone terribly wrong.
This was Jonas’ world until he met the Giver. The Giver had memories that no one else in the community could even imagine. Now that Jonas has received these memories, what will he do to them? Will he bear the burden of his memories himself? Or will he share them, he good and the bad, with the community.
He will, for he cannot take the pain anymore. Not the pain he had on those memories but the pain he still holds them without sharing it and the pain that the fact that he knows them all but the community