Themes in The Giver
Themes of The Giver
Broadly, the book The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, is about how a boy name Jonas, born in the perfect utopia where there are no freedom and colour, people there promotes sameness. Until Jonas founds out that there are more then this community when he got his unique job assigned at the age of 12. Being a receiver of memory let him know that the real world is beautiful and colourful; there are rights for every human being. Jonas felt unfair and hope to escape from this tragedy. In this story Lois Lowry wants to show the readers that there is no perfect utopia built by humans, if they have built one, there will have sacrifices made. The elders attempted to build a perfect utopia but somehow secrets will soon be exposed. Lowry wants the readers to understand the disadvantages through Jonas’s job, being the receiver of memory. There are many themes mentioned throughout Jonas’s life in the community. I’m going to discuss and describe three of the themes, which are freedom of choice, emotions and colour.
In the Giver, Jonas lives in a community where there are no freedoms of choice. Everything is decided, the elders’ makes all the decision and citizens don’t get to choose. Every year, there is a ceremony for all ages. By the age of 12, they will get an assignment, which is their future job for their rest of their life in the community. Every assignment was set, assigned; they don’t get to use their future job. Jonas got his job as the receiver of memory at the ceremony of 12. (Chapter 7& 8 pg. 50-71), In a frim, commanding voice she announced, “Jonas has been selected to be our next receiver of memory.” For the new-borns, there are so names that are chose for them at the naming ceremony when they are born. (Chapter 2, page 11-13) “’New child Twenty-three,’ the namer had read. “Lily’.” (Chapter 1, pg. 3) “Jonas was careful about language, not like his friend, Asher, who talk too fast and mixed things.” The elders thinks that having the freedom of
Broadly, the book The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, is about how a boy name Jonas, born in the perfect utopia where there are no freedom and colour, people there promotes sameness. Until Jonas founds out that there are more then this community when he got his unique job assigned at the age of 12. Being a receiver of memory let him know that the real world is beautiful and colourful; there are rights for every human being. Jonas felt unfair and hope to escape from this tragedy. In this story Lois Lowry wants to show the readers that there is no perfect utopia built by humans, if they have built one, there will have sacrifices made. The elders attempted to build a perfect utopia but somehow secrets will soon be exposed. Lowry wants the readers to understand the disadvantages through Jonas’s job, being the receiver of memory. There are many themes mentioned throughout Jonas’s life in the community. I’m going to discuss and describe three of the themes, which are freedom of choice, emotions and colour.
In the Giver, Jonas lives in a community where there are no freedoms of choice. Everything is decided, the elders’ makes all the decision and citizens don’t get to choose. Every year, there is a ceremony for all ages. By the age of 12, they will get an assignment, which is their future job for their rest of their life in the community. Every assignment was set, assigned; they don’t get to use their future job. Jonas got his job as the receiver of memory at the ceremony of 12. (Chapter 7& 8 pg. 50-71), In a frim, commanding voice she announced, “Jonas has been selected to be our next receiver of memory.” For the new-borns, there are so names that are chose for them at the naming ceremony when they are born. (Chapter 2, page 11-13) “’New child Twenty-three,’ the namer had read. “Lily’.” (Chapter 1, pg. 3) “Jonas was careful about language, not like his friend, Asher, who talk too fast and mixed things.” The elders thinks that having the freedom of