Jonas's Society In The Giver By Lois Lowry

Imagine your society perfect and having no memory, well this is Jonas society. In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a young boy whose world claims to be perfect. In his community everything is perfect, there is no pain and there is no memory. In our society we have a very much different worlds compared to Jonas. There are many differences compared to Jonas’s society. The most important differences are family, spouses, and ceremonies. Could you imagine applying for a family ?Well in Jonas’s society if you want a family you have to apply for one. “This year we got Lily, we knew, of course, that we’d receive our female, because we’d made our application and it had been approved.” (Lowry 11 and 12). This quote states in order for Jonas’s family to have another sibling in the family they would have to apply. Unlike in our society, you don't have to apply because you can have have a birth mother. Also if you are not able to have a baby then you can adopt a child.”....how she would look,who she would be,how she would fit into their established family unit.” (Lowry 12).This quote explains how in Jonas society he would wonder how his new sibling would look and act,not knowing her.

However, in Jonas society you have to apply for a spouse.” Even the Matching of Spouses was given such weighty consideration that sometimes an adult who applied to receive a spouse waited months or even years before a Match was approved and announced.”(Lowry 48).This quote explains how long you would wait for a spouse.”Jonas’s mother, for example, had higher intelligence than his father; but his father had a calmer disposition.They balanced each other.”(Lowry 48).This quote explains how they would find a match for