The Giver Conflict Essay

The Giver is a novel written by Lois Lowry. The Giver is considered one of the most significant works of dystopian fiction ever written. This novel tells the story of a futuristic society where everyone is made to be the same. No one has emotions or feelings. There is no color and everything is black and white. In the story, everyone gets assigned to a job. The Giver tells the story of Jonas, a young boy living in a community where everyone is assigned at birth to a number of one to fifty. The community is governed by the Elders. The Elders decide what each child will do for the rest of his or her life by letting them do service hours for whatever they please. It is then decided that place they spend their most time will be their job.

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society. The conflict tells the reader that it truly is Jonas against his community and how much he differs from his community. When Jonas learns that people are euthanized when they are released, he is horrified at the practices of his society. For example, the author shows us, “Now for the first time in his Twelve years of life, Jonas felt separate, different” (Lowry 65). Jonas felt different because he knew that at some point in his training that he would feel unimaginable pain and would have to go through it alone. The main internal conflict is important; man vs. society, that also creates an external

Younger children would not understand the concept of Release. “He inserted the needle into the bottle and began to fill the syringe with a clear liquid… his father began very carefully to direct the needle into the top of newchild's forehead, puncturing the place where the fragile skin pulsed. The newborn squirmed, and wailed faintly…the newchild, no longer crying, moved his arms and legs in a jerking motion. Then he went limp. He head fell to the side, his eyes half open. Then he was still” (Lowry 149-150). This detailed description of a Nurturer killing a child might be too much for a younger person to handle. I rate The Giver a six out of ten because the ending was mediocre. I would rewrite the ending. There would be a tall chained fence with a hole at the bottom of it. To show that someone broke into the community. Beyond the chained fence there would be dozens of houses and people Christmas shopping with music and laughter filling their ears. Then at the very end of the book, Jonas is seen as an adult reading his own story to his