The Giver Society Analysis
(AGG) Have you ever thought about rejecting your own society? (BS-1) In Jonas’s community everything is made or planned for you with no choice that you have to make. (BS-2) After Jonas realizes that something is different in his community, he starts to question everything that occurs in his community, especially when he takes the role of becoming the new Receiver of Memory. (BS-3) But after he figures out everything he questioned, he notices that he needs to make a change in his society, something needs to be better in life. (TS) Being in a society that does not allow choices can mostly cause someone to reject that society.
(MIP-1) In the beginning of the book Jonas live a life where himself and the people of the community they follow rules …show more content…
and don’t make choices, therefore he was happy and he would be asked to do things and he would do it. (SIP-A) Throughout the day community announcements are made, they are a result of telling people, not directly, to do things the way they should be perfectly done. (STEWE-1) The elders are always watching no matter what. When making an announcement to someone, but not directly, that person will know, “This is a reminder to females under nine that hair ribbons are to be neatly tied at all times” (23). (STEWE-2) Not only do they just say it to girls, they say it to boys too. And this was specifically towards Jonas after he brings an apple home, “This is a reminder to male elevens that objects are not to be removed from the recreation area and that snacks are to be eaten, not hoarded… he had , of course, disposed of the apple and made his apology to the Recreation Director the next morning” (23). (SIP-B) Even with the easiest community, it's still hard to not be able to see colors or share feeling or experiences, or remember anything that had happened before in this society. (STEWE-1) No matter what happens in this society it’s something you can't keep to yourself, you have to tell a family member and they will tell the elders or you would just have to tell the elders in person to be told what to do to deal with whatever happened, “He paused. He knew he had to tell it all, that it was not only all right but necessary to tell all of the dream. So he forced himself to relate the part that made him uneasy… “thank you for your dream, Jonas,” Mother said after a moment. She glanced at Father” (36). (STEWE-2) ““How long will I have to take them?” “Until you enter the House of the Old,” she explained. “All of your adult life. But it becomes routine; after a while you won't even pay much attention to it.” She looked at her watch. “If you leave right now, you won't even be late for school. Hurry along. “And thank you again, Jonas,” she added, as he went to the door, “for your dream” (39). (CS) Before anything Jonas had figured out about his society he had no problems, no choices, just everything was planned out for you with no issues at all. But is that so,etching you would really want to live with. No emotions expressed, no color, no past, no pain?
(MIP-2) From the time he had been told what to do with no questions asked, he eventually noticed things are different than what they appear to be, overall Jonas begins to question objects and theories and also his society. (SIP-A) After finding out that Jonas is soon to be the new receiver, he soon starts to ask questions or has concern about the rules that the elders have given to him that he has to follow. (STEWE-1) After learning and reading through his rules, he was frightened by the thought . “8. You may lie. Jonas was stunned. What would happen to his friendships? His mindless hours of playing ball or riding his bike along the river. Those had been happy and vital times for him. Were they completely taken away from him now?” (68-69). (STEWE-2) Over and over again he asks multiple questions and worries about what his life is going to be like and how he can’t open up to anyone about his role. When reading over the rule “You may lie” he thinks about his family and friends. If they ask questions Jonas will definitely have to lie, “Now Jonas had a thought that he never had before. This new thought was frightening. What if others -- adults -- had, upon becoming twelves, received in their structions the same terrifying sentence? What if they had all been instructed: You may lie? His mind reeled, Now, empowered to ask questions…” (71). (SIP-B) The one thing Jonas figured he couldn’t watch and experience but now can, being assigned the Receiver of Memory, would be about release. (STEWE-1) With release no one knew how it really work but in Jonas’s rules he is allowed.“”Do you want to see this morning’s release?”Jonas hesitated. He was afraid that his father wouldn’t like it, if he watched something so private.”I think you should,” The Giver told him firmly. “All right, then…” (147). (STEWE-2) As Jonas watches the screen with The Giver he starts to question because his father told him many things about what is believed to happen in the ceremony but ends up a lie and is totally different, “”I thought maybe they’d have it in the Auditorium, so that everybody could come… But I suppose that when it’s just a newborn they don’t--”” (148). (STEWE-3) After watching the video it's at the end of it where Jonas has a flashback/ memory on what happens after life. He eventually sees it in the child that was injected with the needle, “Once again he saw the face of the light haired bloodied soldier as life left his eyes. The memory came back. He killed it! My father killed it! Jonas said to himself, stunned at what he was realizing” (150). (CS) Now that Jonas finally realizes that he had been lied to by his Father and could be lied to by other people in the community, he starts to change and think carefully on what his society misses out, what needs to be fixed, and what rules need to be changed.
(MIP-3) After being assigned the role of becoming the Receiver of Memory, Jonas starts and finally realizes that his society has been keeping secrets that are important for the community people to know. He starts to realize something needs to change in his society. They finally learn that they need to reject their society. (SIP-A) After having the experience of what release really is, Jonas now over thinks the fact that he is alone and no one, but Gabriel, he can share memories with or even talk to about his job. He starts to hate the rules and the fact that the rules keep him from opening up to others. (STEWE-1) “Jonas sighed. It was no use. Of course Asher couldn’t understand. ‘I accept your apology, Asher,” he said wearily” (135).
(STEWE-2)“...he knew that they could not understand why, without the memories.
He felt such love for Asher and for Fiona. But they could not feel back, without the memories. And he could not give them those” (135). (SIP-B) As Jonas finishes the fact that his society has more than what they are given, the information they don’t have, the pain they never experience, what life was like in the past, he eventually makes a plan with The Giver and asks him to go but cannot. But no matter what The Giver says Jonas is still determined to make a change and reject his society in the way they live without the meaning of life. (STEWE-1) Knowing that Jonas will follow through the plan with help from The Giver, he asks him to come as well so he too can change the way society works, but yet he has to help the people when they receive memories when Jonas passes, ““Im grateful to you, Jonas, because without you I would never have figured out a way to bring about change. But your role now is to escape. And my role is to stay”” (162). (STEWE-2) As Jonas comes to the start of his journey and new life he starts to remember the rules he broke what his life like before becoming the New Receiver, but that didn't stop him from following his plan into leaving and changing the way his society is, other words rejecting it, “Jonas reached the opposite side of the river, stopped briefly, and looked back. The community where his entire life had been lived lay behind him now, sleeping. At dawn, the orderly, disciplined life he had always known would continue again, without him. The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without color, pain, or past” (165). (CS) Eventually Jonas and Gabriel had passed while in their journey but had ded into one of Jonas’s memoires. The memories has not left but has been brought to the people of the community so they will not be left clueless about what the real world is
like.
(RTS) In this society people don't actually know the real truth but as soon as Jonas passed with Gabriel his memories still love on and has transferred to the people of the community. The Giver would help them understand the true facts about what a real society or community could really be like. (BS-3) Jonas figures out that things need to change and that's exactly what he did. (BS-2) As he questioned everything half way in the book he gets the answers and tries to fix them. (BS-1) And being in his society, if people had known the truth they all too would make a change for sure. (R) Being in a society that does not allow choices can mostly cause someone to reject that society.
(MIP-1) In the beginning of the book Jonas live a life where himself and the people of the community they follow rules …show more content…
and don’t make choices, therefore he was happy and he would be asked to do things and he would do it. (SIP-A) Throughout the day community announcements are made, they are a result of telling people, not directly, to do things the way they should be perfectly done. (STEWE-1) The elders are always watching no matter what. When making an announcement to someone, but not directly, that person will know, “This is a reminder to females under nine that hair ribbons are to be neatly tied at all times” (23). (STEWE-2) Not only do they just say it to girls, they say it to boys too. And this was specifically towards Jonas after he brings an apple home, “This is a reminder to male elevens that objects are not to be removed from the recreation area and that snacks are to be eaten, not hoarded… he had , of course, disposed of the apple and made his apology to the Recreation Director the next morning” (23). (SIP-B) Even with the easiest community, it's still hard to not be able to see colors or share feeling or experiences, or remember anything that had happened before in this society. (STEWE-1) No matter what happens in this society it’s something you can't keep to yourself, you have to tell a family member and they will tell the elders or you would just have to tell the elders in person to be told what to do to deal with whatever happened, “He paused. He knew he had to tell it all, that it was not only all right but necessary to tell all of the dream. So he forced himself to relate the part that made him uneasy… “thank you for your dream, Jonas,” Mother said after a moment. She glanced at Father” (36). (STEWE-2) ““How long will I have to take them?” “Until you enter the House of the Old,” she explained. “All of your adult life. But it becomes routine; after a while you won't even pay much attention to it.” She looked at her watch. “If you leave right now, you won't even be late for school. Hurry along. “And thank you again, Jonas,” she added, as he went to the door, “for your dream” (39). (CS) Before anything Jonas had figured out about his society he had no problems, no choices, just everything was planned out for you with no issues at all. But is that so,etching you would really want to live with. No emotions expressed, no color, no past, no pain?
(MIP-2) From the time he had been told what to do with no questions asked, he eventually noticed things are different than what they appear to be, overall Jonas begins to question objects and theories and also his society. (SIP-A) After finding out that Jonas is soon to be the new receiver, he soon starts to ask questions or has concern about the rules that the elders have given to him that he has to follow. (STEWE-1) After learning and reading through his rules, he was frightened by the thought . “8. You may lie. Jonas was stunned. What would happen to his friendships? His mindless hours of playing ball or riding his bike along the river. Those had been happy and vital times for him. Were they completely taken away from him now?” (68-69). (STEWE-2) Over and over again he asks multiple questions and worries about what his life is going to be like and how he can’t open up to anyone about his role. When reading over the rule “You may lie” he thinks about his family and friends. If they ask questions Jonas will definitely have to lie, “Now Jonas had a thought that he never had before. This new thought was frightening. What if others -- adults -- had, upon becoming twelves, received in their structions the same terrifying sentence? What if they had all been instructed: You may lie? His mind reeled, Now, empowered to ask questions…” (71). (SIP-B) The one thing Jonas figured he couldn’t watch and experience but now can, being assigned the Receiver of Memory, would be about release. (STEWE-1) With release no one knew how it really work but in Jonas’s rules he is allowed.“”Do you want to see this morning’s release?”Jonas hesitated. He was afraid that his father wouldn’t like it, if he watched something so private.”I think you should,” The Giver told him firmly. “All right, then…” (147). (STEWE-2) As Jonas watches the screen with The Giver he starts to question because his father told him many things about what is believed to happen in the ceremony but ends up a lie and is totally different, “”I thought maybe they’d have it in the Auditorium, so that everybody could come… But I suppose that when it’s just a newborn they don’t--”” (148). (STEWE-3) After watching the video it's at the end of it where Jonas has a flashback/ memory on what happens after life. He eventually sees it in the child that was injected with the needle, “Once again he saw the face of the light haired bloodied soldier as life left his eyes. The memory came back. He killed it! My father killed it! Jonas said to himself, stunned at what he was realizing” (150). (CS) Now that Jonas finally realizes that he had been lied to by his Father and could be lied to by other people in the community, he starts to change and think carefully on what his society misses out, what needs to be fixed, and what rules need to be changed.
(MIP-3) After being assigned the role of becoming the Receiver of Memory, Jonas starts and finally realizes that his society has been keeping secrets that are important for the community people to know. He starts to realize something needs to change in his society. They finally learn that they need to reject their society. (SIP-A) After having the experience of what release really is, Jonas now over thinks the fact that he is alone and no one, but Gabriel, he can share memories with or even talk to about his job. He starts to hate the rules and the fact that the rules keep him from opening up to others. (STEWE-1) “Jonas sighed. It was no use. Of course Asher couldn’t understand. ‘I accept your apology, Asher,” he said wearily” (135).
(STEWE-2)“...he knew that they could not understand why, without the memories.
He felt such love for Asher and for Fiona. But they could not feel back, without the memories. And he could not give them those” (135). (SIP-B) As Jonas finishes the fact that his society has more than what they are given, the information they don’t have, the pain they never experience, what life was like in the past, he eventually makes a plan with The Giver and asks him to go but cannot. But no matter what The Giver says Jonas is still determined to make a change and reject his society in the way they live without the meaning of life. (STEWE-1) Knowing that Jonas will follow through the plan with help from The Giver, he asks him to come as well so he too can change the way society works, but yet he has to help the people when they receive memories when Jonas passes, ““Im grateful to you, Jonas, because without you I would never have figured out a way to bring about change. But your role now is to escape. And my role is to stay”” (162). (STEWE-2) As Jonas comes to the start of his journey and new life he starts to remember the rules he broke what his life like before becoming the New Receiver, but that didn't stop him from following his plan into leaving and changing the way his society is, other words rejecting it, “Jonas reached the opposite side of the river, stopped briefly, and looked back. The community where his entire life had been lived lay behind him now, sleeping. At dawn, the orderly, disciplined life he had always known would continue again, without him. The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. The life without color, pain, or past” (165). (CS) Eventually Jonas and Gabriel had passed while in their journey but had ded into one of Jonas’s memoires. The memories has not left but has been brought to the people of the community so they will not be left clueless about what the real world is
like.
(RTS) In this society people don't actually know the real truth but as soon as Jonas passed with Gabriel his memories still love on and has transferred to the people of the community. The Giver would help them understand the true facts about what a real society or community could really be like. (BS-3) Jonas figures out that things need to change and that's exactly what he did. (BS-2) As he questioned everything half way in the book he gets the answers and tries to fix them. (BS-1) And being in his society, if people had known the truth they all too would make a change for sure. (R) Being in a society that does not allow choices can mostly cause someone to reject that society.