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Analysis Of The Giver By Lois Lowry

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Could you imagine living in a world with no history, or memories of the past? Think of not being able to share extravagant stories of your families history or the stages your country went through to become what it is now. Well, this is what it was like Jonas in the book, The Giver. The Giver gives Jonas all of the memories of the past, allowing him to look at life in a new way. Jonas changes as a person and finds the truth about his community. The community, is all the same, not having access to the memories of the past, blinded by what they think is a perfect world. In the book The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, the theme is memories can be hard, but they important because they make us who we are, based on the symbols the Giver, Jonas and the Community. …show more content…

The reason Jonas is getting all of the memories is because the community can’t handle them. The last time the community even had access to a few, “it was chaos” (104). Next, Jonas’s community wants to live in a harmless environment, no violence what so ever. They don’t even want the pain from the past to overwhelm them. “They really suffered for a while. Finally, it subsided as the memories were assimilated, But it certainly made them aware of how they need a Receiver to contain all that pain” (104) the Giver tells Jonas. Also, the Giver explains to Jonas how there is more to history than just Jonas’s life or his parents. “ ‘Before you, before me, before the previous receiver, and generations before him’” (77). Through his training, the Giver teaches him the true meaning of life and what it should be. That is how the character the Giver supports the

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At first The Giver warns Jonas that this process of receiving memories “will be painful”(Lowery 85). This pain comes in the form of both the joyful and the terrifying memories. The positive memories that he receives cause him pain because they make him see how much happier the people in his community could be. “Jonas’s realizations about the constraints of this rigidly organized life come gradually", but they begin to weigh on him (Chamberlain). Everytime he learns something new about the past he is overcome by the will to share all of his mental experiences with the rest of the population, but he knows he is not able to do this.

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He didn’t want the memories, didn’t wan the honor, didn’t want the wisdom, didn’t want the pain. H wanted his childhood again,his scraped kneesand ball games” (121). Instead of focusing on this doubt however, Jonas picked himself back up and went back to The Giverto continue doing his job. The Giver was the one who assisted Jonas’ journey as he was receiving memories.

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