Summary Of The Giver By Lois Lowry

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” - Lois Lowry. The Giver by Lois Lowry is a novel about a boy named Jonas who begins to see his community differently. The book begins with what seems to be a perfect place; it turns out that the people in the Community are living shallow and superficial lives. As Jonas begins his work as the Receiver of Memories, he gains wisdom and through that wisdom, he begins to learn the history of the place we call planet Earth. Many may believe that the society in The Giver is inferior to ours, but I believe it is not because of spouses, jobs, and history.

To begin with, the primary motivation behind why Jonas' reality is predominant is a
When we think about tragic events we think of World War, The Holocaust, 9/11, Plagues, Mass Shootings, Terrorist attacks, Slavery, Natural disasters etc. Imagine not knowing these things? Not knowing that millions of people died over one selfish act done by someone in power? Without memory, there is no pain. Not only does this allow people to forget all of the pain that had been suffered throughout human history, but you now have the choice to start fresh without knowing mistakes from the past. We learn from history that we don't learn from history. History is rewritten and told differently every time it is spoken. Meaning we don't really know if Christopher Columbus really sailed the ocean blue in 1492. If we repeat the same events throughout the course of our time on this earth, what is the point of even knowing our History? Knowing about tragic events in history can lead to people trying to replicate these events. There have been hundreds of terrorist attempts in the United States alone this year. Not knowing our history would help prevent all the terrible events across the globe we know see in on a daily basis. This is the third reason why their world is an
It provides the reader with ideas to contemplate about our society, the facts which are kept from us. Lois Lowry put together a stunning, memorable novel, and subsequent reading that will and has fascinated readers with a new mindset on the world we all live in. It has allowed readers including myself to take a glimpse into a futuristic utopian society. However, sticking to my original argument I strongly believe Jonas’s world is superior to our own. Reasons being spouses, jobs, and