One motif in the book “The Giver” by Lois Lowery is the motif of power. The community has the least power because they have to follow all the rules the Elders make and can't be different from everyone else. The elders decide what they look like and how they act and what job/role in the community they have but there is always one person who has more power than them. It is the receiver of memory. Jona is the new receiver of memory and his job requires him to not listen to the elders and their rules. Jonas’s rules say he may lie,he may ask questions, and be rude, and cannot take any medicine. One quote that proves my thinking is “But now that I can see colors, a least sometimes, I was just thinking: what if we could hold things that were bright