Themes In The Giver

He steps forward to see a luminous light yearning for his attention causing curiosity to overflow through the bones of his body. The feel of the radiating spark is exhilarating, rapidly rushing adrenaline through his veins. His soul fills with extraordinary hope and a newfound love for life, yet he is left with the pain and sorrow of what could have been. Jonas’s light in the novel, The Giver, is the opening of the real world outside of his rigid, cruel society and what it has to offer. Throughout The Giver, the sled was an extremely powerful motif that was crucial to the general theme of the book; time is the essence of change. The motif was profoundly communicated through theme at the beginning of the novel when Jonas was blatantly innocent,

Consequently, this caused Jonas to experience a massive amount of melancholy that was excruciatingly difficult for one person to hold on to. The more memories Jonas received, the more he was set apart from society, but he began to lose his emotional touch with people when he experienced his first memory of the brutal actuality of pain. Time perceived itself to be a beautiful aspect of life, but the more time Jonas lived, the less he had the will to. Jonas found himself on the sled again, but jubilation was the furthest thing from his mind. “[sled ride] He fell with his leg twisted under him and could hear the crack of bone. His face scraped along jagged edges of ice, and when he came, at last to a stop, he lay shocked and still feeling nothing at first but fear” (Lowry 108). Though Jonas’s experience of the sled once was something that brought felicity to his mind, he later thought of the sled as a horrifying experience that was blinding him from life itself. The sled, in this instance, brought trauma to Jonas’s life. Over time, he went from having a vibrant personality to living a life in deep depression. In the middle of the novel, Jonas was a stone with pure lack of