Introduction
Imagine this, living in a society that only you have feelings and sensations. No one else in the society can feel or sense anything. Wouldn’t you feel lonely and sad? In this fiction book The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas is selected to be the receiver. No one in their community can feel or sense anything. Since Jonas has been assigned as the receiver, he is going to get all the memories from the Giver and he is going to be the only one with feelings and sensations. Jonas now has to try and live his lonely life as a receiver and try to survive when he gets to know the reality of his community.
In this companion book, you will read about how the protagonist, Jonas, has changed throughout the book and how he is different from everyone …show more content…
The main themes in the book are that we shouldn’t strive for a perfect society, being different is what makes us human and that was should be thankful that we have choice in doing different things.
To begin with, the first theme in this book is that we shouldn’t strive for a perfect society. This can be shown when the author writes:
Why can’t everyone see them? Why did color disappear?’ …show more content…
Then the moment on stage, when he had looked out and seen the same phenomenon in the faces of the crowd.
‘Then today just now, outside it happened with my friend Fiona...her hair looked different; not in its shape, not in it’s length…’
‘You’re beginning to see the color red,’ The Giver said. (Lowry 91-94)
This connects back to the idea that Jonas was seeing color. He could see the color of the apple (which was red), the light tone of people's faces and also, his friend, Fiona’s hair color which was also red.
In particular, this part is about when Jonas was sensing, in this part pain.
Sideways, spinning, the sled hit a bump in the hill and Jonas was jarred lose and thrown violently in the air. He fell with his leg twisted under him, and could hear the crack of bone...In his agony he perceived the word ‘fire’ and felt flames licking at the torn bone and flesh. The pain grew. (Lowry 108-109)
The reader of this scene understands that Jonas was sensing the pain of him being thrown off the sled. Unlike others in the community, if they were thrown off a sled, they wouldn’t feel
Imagine this, living in a society that only you have feelings and sensations. No one else in the society can feel or sense anything. Wouldn’t you feel lonely and sad? In this fiction book The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas is selected to be the receiver. No one in their community can feel or sense anything. Since Jonas has been assigned as the receiver, he is going to get all the memories from the Giver and he is going to be the only one with feelings and sensations. Jonas now has to try and live his lonely life as a receiver and try to survive when he gets to know the reality of his community.
In this companion book, you will read about how the protagonist, Jonas, has changed throughout the book and how he is different from everyone …show more content…
The main themes in the book are that we shouldn’t strive for a perfect society, being different is what makes us human and that was should be thankful that we have choice in doing different things.
To begin with, the first theme in this book is that we shouldn’t strive for a perfect society. This can be shown when the author writes:
Why can’t everyone see them? Why did color disappear?’ …show more content…
Then the moment on stage, when he had looked out and seen the same phenomenon in the faces of the crowd.
‘Then today just now, outside it happened with my friend Fiona...her hair looked different; not in its shape, not in it’s length…’
‘You’re beginning to see the color red,’ The Giver said. (Lowry 91-94)
This connects back to the idea that Jonas was seeing color. He could see the color of the apple (which was red), the light tone of people's faces and also, his friend, Fiona’s hair color which was also red.
In particular, this part is about when Jonas was sensing, in this part pain.
Sideways, spinning, the sled hit a bump in the hill and Jonas was jarred lose and thrown violently in the air. He fell with his leg twisted under him, and could hear the crack of bone...In his agony he perceived the word ‘fire’ and felt flames licking at the torn bone and flesh. The pain grew. (Lowry 108-109)
The reader of this scene understands that Jonas was sensing the pain of him being thrown off the sled. Unlike others in the community, if they were thrown off a sled, they wouldn’t feel