Examples Of Power In The Giver

Imagine no color, no feelings, but knowing they exist, you just can 't have it. Well that how Jonas the receiver of memory feels, “It 's just that... without the memories it 's all meaningless.” (133) He would do anything including leave the community and possibly die, just to return the memories. Everyone in the community follows strict restricting rules and are deprived of many joys in life, but they don’t realize. These restrictions include no color, no feelings, climate control, not real family, no animals, the list goes on and on.

He was often overwhelmed with the feeling of loss and loneliness. But without the memories, other people like Asher and Fiona couldn’t give back the love Jonas had for them. If memories could be shared and remembered, everyone would have real feelings, whether that’s love or happiness. At this point in the story, Jonas realizes that there were many memories, both good and bad, but in the end, Jonas had gained knowledge, things he had never imagined of. The Giver tells him that “‘There are so many good memories,’ The Giver reminded Jonas.

Stop, think about this for a moment. You are in a community that cannot see color, has no feelings, no choices to be made on your own, and no diversity between each other. How would you feel? Jonas, a twelve year old boy and the Giver have to live in this community knowing all this. As they live in this futuristic dystopian community they share memories of the past and what is elsewhere.

Outline Imagine being chosen a job for a lifetime, but this job had a lot of pain, and loneliness. Well that what it was like for Jonas. Which makes Jonas being selected to be the receiver of memory is more like a punishment than an honor. Jonas has to deal with the pain that comes from the memories. He is missing out on things others can do.

In the novel The Giver, by Lois Lowry, a boy named Jonas is chosen to be the next receiver of memories that they keep away from the people of the community. In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, Jonas’s perception of the community changed because, in the beginning, he viewed the community as being safe, in the middle he felt unsure about the community, and in the end, he realized there is more to life than what’s in the community. At the beginning of the novel, Jonas feels safe in the

He starts off by getting positive memories only, but then the current Receiver starts giving him challenging and terrifying memories, as he knows it’s not going to be all rainbows and sunshine. “Overwhelmed by the pain, he lay there in the fearsome stench for hours, listened to the men and animals die, and learned what warfare meant.” This was one of the memories that burdened the current Giver the most. Jonas was so surprised about the different feelings and emotions that the community was raised up to never feel. Can you imagine experiencing all these kinds of emotions for the first time in your life?

Imagine living in a world with no freedom, choice, individuality, and color. Would you want to live in a world like this? Most of you would have said no, but a boy named Jonas has no choice, but to adhere to his community’s rules. In the book and the movie, “The Giver”, by Louis Lowery, Jonas finds it difficult to accept his community’s way of life. However, after he becomes the receiver of memory, he challenges the community after discovering what the world used to be like before sameness.

The community's memories of the past are erased, which ensures that citizens do not question the decisions of the Committee of Elders. This lack of memories means that citizens are not able to appreciate the beauty of life and the importance of relationships and the world around them. The quote "They know nothing and are therefore totally dependent on us" (Lowry 33) highlights the fact that the citizens of Jonas' community are completely reliant on the Committee of Elders and the Receiver of Memory to guide them, as they have no memories of their own to draw from. This means that the citizens of the community are unable to make informed decisions for themselves and are instead forced to rely on the decisions made by the Committee of Elders. As a result, the citizens of the community are unable to exercise their own free will and are unable to experience the full range of human emotions and experiences.

In Document E no one has any memories of color which is one of the reasons of why Jonas was so upset about because since there was no color in the community people couldn’t decide. This also builds on the idea that people have no freedom because they don’t even get memories of color, they don’t get memories of feelings, they don’t get memories of anything besides what the community lets them know. The idea of them having no memories is also told in Document B where the Giver tells Jonas how he has to hold all of the painful memories and soon he will to. The other people in the community have no idea of any of these memories and sure some of the people who say that this could be good because they are protecting the people from anything painful, but this is also bad because that is the problem without them knowing what hurting yourself is they think they can do most things like jump off of high ledges or other cases where it will end in harm. Since they don’t know what pain is they wouldn’t know what hurts them and they will probably end up living dangerous lives just how they don’t know that release is actually where they kill

Even though some memories were so bad Jonas still strongly believed that memories have great meaning, and he believes they’re a part of life not just an image of the past. The elders believe that if The Giver transmitted memories to everyone, it would cause a different way of living, Jonas believes in a much better way, but the elders are insecure about it. Jonas implored The Giver to do something about memories being known to everyone that he and The Giver made a stealthy plan for Jonas to escape and hopefully the memories would be known to everyone. So one day Jonas defied the rules and escaped the community, he believed it was his destiny to escape the community and share memories of the past with everyone. Jonas endured the hard escape from the community passing expansive landscapes.

Imagine a world where everyone has to be the same and your choices are made for you. Jonas is a twelve year old kid who see 's thing that no one else can. Jonas wonders why everyone is the same and why its bad to be different. Jonas realizes what nobody else does, and that no one can see color but him and The Giver, and see memory 's. Jonas is loving, caring , and wants to help the community by taking bad memory 's but he also helps them in another way too. Sameness is a negative thing for many reasons.

This community selected Jonas and the Giver to make decisions based on the memories of the past, before Sameness. Now no one but the Giver and Jonas know true values and emotions such as empathy, diversity, and memories but Jonas is determined to change that. Empathy, diversity and memories would have been important to create a positive community. Empathy would have been important in the community to make it positive . One example to support the answer is on page 110, it states “They have never known pain, he thought.”

His mindless hours of playing ball, or riding his bike along the river? Those had been happy and vital time for him. Were they to be completely taken from him, now?”Jonas has to give up his own freedoms for the community which does not even have and cule of these memories. He was only allowed to train and then go home and he was not allowed to do anything else besides those steps. He was not allowed to hang out with his friends either.

They were deeper and they did not need to be told. They were felt.” In the beginning of this novel Jonas barely knew what emotions are, which show how much he has experienced in the period of a year. His emotional intelligence is accentuated to the reader through this

Jonas figures out there is more once the giver shows him vivid memories of happiness and sadness. Sometimes of war and sometimes of warm fuzzy memories. There is more to the world then we know of. When jonas saw the apple turning black, and he realized “There is something I don’t know”. When Jonas receives many of the memories