The Giver Theme Essay
It takes the average human brain roughly 115,197 Ft./sec. to send nerve signals through the brain to make a complicated decision. However, in Jonas’s community, the number is reduced to 0 because, they do not think of any complex choices. I shared this with you because one of the themes in Lois Lowry’s science fiction novel The Giver is “Choices cannot be made without wisdom and knowledge of the past”. This is displayed in many times in the book. Three examples are; the elders asking the Giver for advice on important tasks, Jonas’s father releasing a baby, and Jonas’s choice to leave community.
The first examples of the theme take place after Jonas recently received the painful memory of war. That memory had poured him over the edge of bearing the memories. He had then started to question why the Giver and himself must bear the memories. In response, the Giver had said these memories had given them “Wisdom”. He referenced the time the Elders asked his approval of adding a third child to the family unit. Then, he went on to say, “The committee of elders sought my advice, the Giver said. It made sense to them, too, but it was a new idea, and they came to me for wisdom”…”And the strongest memory that came back was hunger. It had came from many generations back. Centuries back. It was followed by warfare” (111). This is directly stating that he made a choice on what to do. This was all due to the fact that he had knowledge of past experiences, like hunger. He had known that if they went on with this idea, hunger could arise. Now, no one else could make this choice, because no one had known what hunger even was. Luckily, they had the Giver to ask for the final choice, solely because he had this knowledge of what was to come.
This next example pertains to Jonas and his father. When you’re the receiver of memories, you are allowed to get anything you want. Something Jonas had wanted too see was a release, since no citizen is allowed to watch. They had gotten
The first examples of the theme take place after Jonas recently received the painful memory of war. That memory had poured him over the edge of bearing the memories. He had then started to question why the Giver and himself must bear the memories. In response, the Giver had said these memories had given them “Wisdom”. He referenced the time the Elders asked his approval of adding a third child to the family unit. Then, he went on to say, “The committee of elders sought my advice, the Giver said. It made sense to them, too, but it was a new idea, and they came to me for wisdom”…”And the strongest memory that came back was hunger. It had came from many generations back. Centuries back. It was followed by warfare” (111). This is directly stating that he made a choice on what to do. This was all due to the fact that he had knowledge of past experiences, like hunger. He had known that if they went on with this idea, hunger could arise. Now, no one else could make this choice, because no one had known what hunger even was. Luckily, they had the Giver to ask for the final choice, solely because he had this knowledge of what was to come.
This next example pertains to Jonas and his father. When you’re the receiver of memories, you are allowed to get anything you want. Something Jonas had wanted too see was a release, since no citizen is allowed to watch. They had gotten