Lea Vilna Santos Mrs. English, 7th September 1st, 2015 The Giver, by: Lois Lowry Log Entry 4: Chapters 7-8: Question 2: In chapters 7 and 8, Jonas is assigned the job of Receiver of Memory and although the Chief Elder calls it the greatest honor,it might give him more hardship and pain than fortune. She explains that the selection is rare and his role is very important because there is only one Receiver and it takes integrity, intelligence, courage, wisdom, and the capacity to see beyond to be that person. At first he wants to tell he has no idea what she means and that he doesn’t have it until he notices a change in the crowd that was quick but he knows that he isn’t dreaming because it’s happened before but to his apple. Then he realizes
Many young adults feel like life's not fair, and dream about stepping up and being the hero, so they can relate to the book . Jonas, the main character, the receiver, feels like this also. He starts to feel this way when he started getting the memories from the Giver. The receiver feels passionate towards people to have emotions. Many teenagers fight for what they believe in, and can relate to Jonas.
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.
It was now that Jonas was informed of his duty as receiver of memories. Jonas was forced to leave his place of comfort and leave the safe world that he had been in up until this point.
The Giver is based upon a society in the future that has eliminated most forms of individuality. The Council controls everything that the people in this society are allowed to do. The Council has put an end to anything that may cause their people any type of pain or emotion. These people are no longer allowed to make any decisions of their own, the Council determines everything to
Jonas had just had his first crush in his dream called stirrings. So to get rid of them they take pills and this shows that the people don't have feelings for anyone. So The giver proves that things are not always what it looks like.
The theme of death in Antigone and The Tragedy of Julius Caesar created a big effect for the character left behind. In Antigone, death effected Creon and in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar, death effected the entire city of Rome. In Antigone, the deaths around Creon are to be shown as a punishment for Creon’s hubris and his failure to follow the god’s rules. Creon had to pay for what he did to Polyneices because Creon, “denied the grave.
The Giver then told Jonas he would be glad to share that memory with him. He transmits the memory of a christmas morning, grandparents and love. Jonas liked the memory and wanted to be able to feel it all the time. When Jonas got home he asked his parents if they loved him, They were a little fluster about the word love and told him to pay attention to his precision of language. His father told Jonas that the word love is absolutely meaningless.
The government in The Giver is based on keeping information from the members of the Community and using deception to control the society. Jonas is exposed to the truth through receiving the memories from The Giver. The government relies on The Giver and The Receiver to keep the secrets of the old ways and prevent the members of the Community from rebelling. The Elders do not allow the members of the Community to know the truth of the releasings because it would cause the Community to know too much and have too much power. The leaders of the Community trick the members of the Community into thinking that they are able to make decisions, when in reality they are living a life void of free will.
The Giver was a story of a boy named Jonas who lived in a false reality similar to Truman’s. Everyone was detained inside an area for live, never having full control of their own lives, because of the same purpose. This purpose was to protect us from the dangers of the real world, and create a haven. Eventually, both Truman and Jonas escaped their haven and returned to the outside world in order to regain their freedom.
The movie “The Giver” sets place in a community that is very different than our own. The film is shown in black and white which represents the community and how they live their lives. At the head of the community is the elders who have come up with the rules for the community and choose the jobs assigned to the children. In charge of the elders is the chief elder who is like the president of the community; has the last say. One of the elders is very unique from all of the rest, he is the receiver.
In Jonas’s society memories are held by one person, The Giver. The Giver is selected by The Committee of Elders after being observed very closely; The Giver is the one who holds all the pain so the people of the community don't have to feel them. According to the novel, the narrator states, “‘Jonas was identified as a possible Receiver many years ago. We have observed him meticulously. There were no dreams of uncertainty”’(Lowry 62).
He is under sameness and the influence of the community. Jonas is chosen to receive feelings, colors, and emotions from memories. As time goes by Jonas sees the community not as a utopia but a horrible place. Jonas wants to change
The Renaissance was a period of primarily artistic rebirth. It occurred in Italy, a peninsula on the central Mediterranean, which made it a hub and ideal location for trading and ports. This exchange contributed to the economic gain and subsequent economic and financial prosperity of the region. With this economic stability, it can also be inferred that there was time to pursue the arts and other hobbies as the necessities were readily available. The Renaissance followed the Middle Ages, a period during which the Pope and Church held absolute and unquestionable superiority, and resistance and denial guaranteed punishment, to the extent of death in severe circumstances.
One of the main themes in “The Giver” is the importance of individuality. The people in the community are not given any freedom to be individuals. They are not allowed to be different, and this creates less understanding of the world. This is why the community needs a receiver to understand these things for them.
