Persuasive Essay On The Giver

Persuasive Essay On The Giver
Many thanks to all those who have participated in today's debate. It is a question worth asking. It is a question that deserves answers. Should the
government be deciding our families? In effect, running our lives? We, the opposition team say, firmly, no. They should not. Even in the world of
The Giver, in the supposed utopia of the Community, it is clear that families should not be decided and designed by the government. First off, we see
that great sacrifices, sacrifices so horrible to the point of being terrible crimes in our world, are made to achieve these so called, "perfect" families of
The Giver. The most obvious of these is the release, or should I say murder, of twins. Amother gives birth to two beautiful, healthy children, and the
Community, in their quest for perfect and perfect families, kills one of the two without emotion or second thought. We see this on page 150 asJonas's
father injects an infant with some form of poison and then, in a sweet, kind voice, says "Bye–bye little guy" as he dumps the child's body down "the
same sort of chute into which trash was deposited at school." And let's keep in mind that all of this takes place months after the child was first taken
from its mother. A mother who carried the child in her womb for nine long months only to never see him or her. This is a despicable act in itself.
Therefore, the Community should not be celebrated for its creation of perfect families because of the terrible acts they commit to create them.
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The Giver Alternate Ending
The heavy white door of the brightly illuminated log cabin opened up. A man stood in the doorway. He was old, with a grey beard. "Giver?" Jonas
asked as he stood outside not feeling the freezing cold on his bare skin. "Quickly Jonas, come inside." The Giver replied. Jonas trudged into the
house. No matter how fast he wanted to get inside he couldn't seem to move with his feet frozen stiff. The Giver led Jonas onto the couch and
wrapped a blanket around Jonas and Gabriel. Gabe seemed as though he wasn't moving at all, but Jonas didn't notice. The Giver sat down next to
Jonas and explained what happened when he finally reached Elsewhere. "The community broke into complete chaos. Everybody and everything was
out of order. When the wave of painful memories hit, the people dropped to the floor and held their heads in excruciating pain. We should havethought
this through more carefully Jonas. I would never have believed that such anarchy could become in such a peaceful community. But the memories were
too harsh. Riots were started. Fires burnt down the buildings. Some jumped into the river and died just...show more content...
"Wha–" "Where is Fiona?!" Jonas interrupted. "I'm sorry Jonas. She died in the riots. You wouldn't beli–" But the Giver stopped talking as Jonas
walked away. There was nothing the Giver could do. He just had to give Jonas some time, so he walked into the kitchen and got some food for
Jonas and Gabriel. Jonas was sitting on the couch, frazzled when the Giver walked in with a platter of apple slices, two cups of water, and a small
bowl of tiny cookies for Gabriel. Gabriel still hasn't moved at all. Not one bit, but Jonas was too preoccupied hating himself for what he had done.
For what he had done to his friends and a whole community. "Has Gabriel moved?" The Giver asked. Jonas sat motionless, staring into space.
"Jonas?!" The Giver

The Giver Essay
Summary The Giver
This book is about a boy names Jonas. Jonas lives in a futuristic society where there is no pain, fear, war, and hatred. There is also no prejudice, since
everyone looks and acts basically the same, there is very little competition. They have also eliminated choice.
You have to apply for a spouse. You cannot just chose who you want and marry them, the community does it for you. His dad works as a Nurturer of
new children, and his mom works at the Department of Justice. He also has a little sister named Lilly. You can't have a child on your own, you have to
apply for them too. There are mothers that all they do is have children....show more content...
Jonas receives memories of color, something that is absent from his community. He realizes how absent his community really is. Jonas hurts inside to
tell people in his community what they are missing. The only person that he can really open up to is The Giver. They grew really close, and it became
like a grandfather, grandchild relationship.
Jonas is helping his family take care of a problem newborn. His name is Gabriel, he had problems sleeping at the Nurturing Center. Jonas helps
Gabriel sleep by transmitting memories to Gabriel. They become really close. Jonas finds out that Gabriel is in danger of being released. He talks to
The Giver and finds out that release means the same thing as death. Jonas gets really mad knowing that his father killed the babies. That was his
father's job. Jonas wants to create a plan to change the community forever.
The Giver and Jonas plan for Jonas to escape to elsewhere. Once he had done that, all his memories would be sent back into the community. The
Giver would stay behind and help the community cope with their new feeling, emotions, and thoughts. Jonas is forced to leave earlier because his
father tells him that they were going to release Gabriel. Desperate to save Gabriel, Jonas takes his father's bike and they head off. Little by little, he
enters a world of animals, color, weather, and also hunger and exhaustion. They travel a long time until they come

The Giver Chapter Summary
People have trouble understanding the last chapter in The Giver. Readers are not sure if Jonas and Gabe made it back to the house safely or were just
seeing things.
Jonas and Gabe made it back to the house safely with people waiting on them. The cold,rushing wind was freezing them to death. Gabe,wrapped in his
blanket was shivering, and silent in his seat. All he could see for miles is snow. The wind was bitterly cold. Jonas and Gabe finally reached the top of
the hill where the sled was. Jonas clenched the rope and started downward. Downward, downward, faster,and faster. Jonas could feel himself losing
consciousness, but he forced his eyes to stay open.
Then before his eyes he could see the house with people waiting on them. It was a miracle

The Giver Chapter 1 Summary
In the first chapter of The Giver, Jonas is trying to describe how he feels about the upcoming December. At first he said he felt frightened then he
described a time he felt frightened and then took back what he said about how he felt. He felt apprehensive. Then, the next thing that is in the chapter
is when they are talking about their feelings. It is a ritual that takes place after every dinner where each person in the family shares their feelings of the
day. Lily, the youngest, talks about how other kids her age were visiting their community and they did not follow the rules because they were from a
different community. Then, his father shared his feelings about his day. He is a Nurturer and they take care of all of the newchildren. He said

Examples Of The Giver In The Giver
At the beginning of "The Giver", the reader is to believe that the community Jonas lives in is a utopia. It's later revealed that this is quite the opposite
of what it really is. A dystopia. Along with Jonas, the reader finds out how in Jonas's community they they give the elderly and newborns lethal
injections, constrict feelings, and prevent any form of decision making. When Jonas discovers these things through memories, he is distraught, and he
has the right to be. He wants to show everyone what has been taken away from them, and what they are being lied to about. This is why I believe it
was completely justified for Jonas to leave the community.
If Jonas never left the community, Gabriel would be released, and because Jonas...show more content...
What they have had taken away from them. If Jonas never left, the community would never be exposed to all the new concepts Jonas learned about.
Pg. 146 "The Giver shook his head. Jonas, he said, the community has depended, all these generations, back and back and back, on a resident
Receiver to hold the memories for them. I've tuned over many of them to you in the past year. And I can't take them back. There's no way for me to
get them back if I have given them to you. So if you escape, once you are gone–and, Jonas, you know that you can never return–Jonas nodded
solemnly. It was the terrifying part. Yes, he said, I know. But if you come with me
–The Giver shook his head and made a gesture to silence him. He
continued. If you get away, if you get beyond, if you get to elsewhere, it will mean that the community has to bear the burden themselves, of the
memories you have been holding for them. When Jonas left, the all of his memories were released back into the community. Doing this, brought
them many new memories of pain, death, love, color and more. Pg. 147 "There's a little female with pale eyes. But she's only a six. That's correct. I
know the one you mean. Her name is Katharine. But she's too young. So they (referring to the community) will be forced to bear those memories." By
leaving the community, Jonas placed the burden of his memories onto the community. Doing this, hopefully showed the community all the things that
had been taken away from them. "He pushed firmly again at the pedal with his foot and continued riding along the road. It was not safe to spend time
looking back. He thought of the rules he had broken so far: enough that if he were caught, now, he would be condemned." Even if Jonas broke
numerous rules, leaving the community would still benefit everyone else, as it exposed them to brand new ideas they never knew about

Knowledge In The Giver By Lois Lowry
What would it feel like knowing that you're different from everybody else in your community besides one other person? In the book "The Giver" by
Lois Lowry it shows the struggles of a boy named Jonas who has just been given the assignment of Receiver of Memory. He doesn't know how to
handle being different from the rest of his community. In his community everything's the same.Without experiencing knowledge and wisdom a
community cannot grow.
Some people have more knowledge of the world just like the Giver and Jonas. For example "He leaned back,resting his head against the back of the
upholstered chair. "It's the memories of the whole world." This is an example of knowledge because the giver has the knowledge of the whole

Theme Statement For The Giver By Lois Lowry
Imagine a world with no choices, or not really having to much concerns. For example, what if you only had a first name, but instead of your name
you were identified as a number. In addition, what if your life was planned for you, nothing was much of a surprise. "How could someone not fit in?
The community was so meticulously ordered, the choices so carefully made." (Chapter 6). In other words, in the community that Jonas lived in,
everything was already prepared for them. By the time you turned a specific number they already had certain things planned they expected you to
do. Lois Lowry the ,author of this book,"The Giver" wrote this book for many different reasons. One of them may be because she wants to warn
the readers that if, the world keep going as we know it we might all die. In addition , that if we don't consider that the stuff we have and the choices
that we have are actually privileges we might get them taken away without having much of option to protest against it. However, in Jonas
community they don't have options also, what Lois Lowry also might be saying is that what if having no choices is might be good for us. Imagine
not having to worry about paying for gas for a car because, the way everyone gets around is on a bike. Holmes 2...show more content...
She's trying to tells us future generations is that the world depends on us. We have to come up with ways, for fuel, water, etc. In today's society we're
running out of our main resources so without those things that are necessary to our life are world might go into complete chaos. However, if our
generations can prevent that we won't have to worry about those ways but one of the ways might be to turn our corrupted society to a utopian society.
That means, we won't have to worry about wars, starvation, fuel,

The Giver Thesis
Katie Soliz
Dejong
Language arts
2/12/16
Thesis My thesis for the giver is that you have to make decisions in your life because if you don't then there really is no purpose in life, what's the
purpose to be alive if you're not going to do anything with it all they do is feed you and you go to work and your job isn't even your choice sure you
can do volunteer work where you want but Jonas didn't get that choice.

Essay On The Giver
The Giver essay Is killing ever okay? IN Lois Lowry's novel The giver, the community believes killing is okay. The Giver begins with Jonas who is a
12–year–old boy and his sister Lily who is 7–year–old girl. They all are assigned jobs and The Giver is the Old Receiver of Memory. The teacher
teaches Jonas about color, love,war, and pain so he can feel those some day. Jonas and his sister Lily go with each other all the time. Lily is at the
child care center during after school hours until her brother can get her. Jonas will receive memories by the giver and memories that already happened.
It is not worth giving up for freedom because the people in that community are nice and they all have...show more content...
Not all the things in the book are nice or kind.
Old Release,While the exact age of Release is never given, all citizens know that they will eventually be Released at the end of their time in the
House of old. Release as punishment, you are getting released because you did something bad or hurt someone. They can get in trouble by asking
there teacher for a snack an actualdently say smack and your teacher will smack you.
" Release of the elderly, which was a time of celebration for a life well and fully lived; and the release of a newchild, which always brought a sense of
what–could–we–have–done." The differences between are euthanasia and theres is that we don't kill one of the twins we keep both of them because
we want them to grow up with a brother or a sister. We don't give the elderly baths every day. We don't all go to bed at the same or wake up at the
same time. They are not allowed to have feelings for someone because they can't have babies with someone. That's why they have to take a pill so
they can't fall in love with someone. Release as punishment, you are not getting released because you did something bad or hurt

Persuasive Essay On The Giver
Nic Poulos Throughout our lives, as humans, we have to make many decisions about things such as, the clothes we wear, the people we will mary,
and even the jobs we will work at. However, these decisions can either be very good for us, or they can come back to haunt us later in life. It is
dangerous for us as humans, to make our own decisions, and it would be safer if society made these tough decisions for us. In the story, "The Giver," by
Lois Lowry, Jonas comes to the conclusion that letting people choose the things such as their clothes, their spouse, and their job would be very
dangerous. If society chose things for people, then life would be a lot safer for everyone. Also, many bad things that can harm people can be
better by society choosing things for people. It would be more dangerous for us to get through our lives if society didn't make decisions for us. It
is dangerous for us as humans, to make our own decisions, and it would be safer if society made these tough decisions for us. If society chose
things for people, then life would be a lot safer for everyone. Throughout the story, everyone is assigned to a family unit, a job, and a spouse. With
this being done, it would prevent people from going bankrupt, and creating an unstable economy. Today, when people are hired for a job, they are
not always ready and will fail, but in the story, everyone is ready because they all have grew up and lived the same way. "Of course the Elders are so
careful in their

Character Analysis Of The Giver
The Giver: Analyzing Characters and Topics The character in the story that I was most fascinated by was the Giver. This character has many
admirable qualities. He is resilient against the painful and hard memories he has seen and he is loving. He and Jonas are the only two characters in
the story that are even capable of loving. While reading this story, I felt as thoughthe Giver and Jonas were lucky because they get to understand and
feel love, but on the other end of the spectrum, they experience pain and great sadness. The other characters in the story get to be blissfully
unaware of the pain and suffering of the past. The first trait that I mentioned above, resilience, is why I like the Giver's character so much. The
quote that exemplifies this is, "The worst part of holding memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared." "I've shared
them with you," Jonas said, trying to cheer him up. "That's true. And having you here with me over the past year has made me realize that things
must change. For years I've felt that they should, but it seemed so hopeless. "Now for the first time I think there might be a way (Lowry 1993 Ch. 20
p. 154–155 para. 9–11)." This shows the Giver's resilience. He has been lonely because he had these memories, some that were very painful, and no
one with which to share them. He saw pain and love and somehow lived with the burden of this knowledge. He continued to carry the burden of being
the Receiver while

The Giver Compare And Contrast Essay
Many differences exist when you compare our world to the world of The Giver. In the book age is celebrated up until the Ceremony of Twelve. In
our world there are many milestones throughout our lifetime. We celebrate with presents and parties. Nobody in The Giver has a birthday party for
just themselves. Instead they all share a yearly celebration together. When they are in the nurturing center, they get an item of comfort when they are
born. At the age of eight their comfort item is taken away from them by the Elders. The reason the Elders remove the item from each child is to keep
the child from clinging to their youth. They also take away the girls hair ribbons at the Ceremony of Eight. For the ceremony years of four to eight
they will...show more content...
The first thing they do to train for adult life is to volunteer at their possible future assignments. They start volunteering at the age of eight. Volunteer
hours are an overall process of determining what that person's assignment will be when they're older. An assignment is a job that you are given
based on how many hours you spend at places volunteering. The children get their final assignment at The Ceremony of Twelve. From age eight to
age twelve they will be working in places like nursing homes, the nurturing center and much more. They will have a choice of where they want to do
for their volunteer hours. A couple days before they get their assignment the elders will count up their volunteer hours. In The Giver they do things
very differently than we do to prepare for adult life. They begin the preparation much earlier than we do. We don't start our jobs at age twelve. Instead
we take longer to grow up. We place more importance on education than service hours. But we do earn service hours as part of our education inhigh
school. We might not do the same things as the characters in the book to get ready for adulthood, but when the time does come we will be prepared
for what life has in store for us as an

Argumentative Essay On The Giver
The Giver by Lois Lowry is a Utopia because no one is ever starving, no one really feels pain, and they can't choose wrong. Throughout our world I
have seen many people on the sides of streets having no food, no home, and no family with no one helping them to have a better life. I have also
seen people helping the homeless and shelters but in this book they don't need to do that because everybody already has a home and food. Plus they
don't have to ask for money and food, they already have it.
The communities always have meals ready to go for everybody. They have three meals a day and everybody meets in their community. "No one in the
community was starving, had been starving, would be starving (Lowry 110)." This is when Jonas gets in...show more content...
Unlike us where we have the privilege of choosing even though most of the time we choose wrong. "'What if they were allowed to choose their
own mate? And choose wrong' (98)." This is Jonas after he learned about choices and how bad they could be. I think that he is totally right because
in our world people have had multiple wife's or husbands. They can never choose the wrong job and be jobless for the rest of their lives or choose
the wrong husband or wife. If they had kids and they got a divorce the kids are sad for the rest of their lives having to go to a different parents
house each week. If someone loses their job and can't afford a house they could be homeless with kids living on the side of the street with no food
or shelter. You could argue that this book is a dystopia because they aren't free and can't make their own choice but the problem is a lot of the time
we choose wrong and it affects our whole life. For example, what happens if someone choose to not go to college and end up working at a fast food
restaurant for half of their life. Then they can't support their family if they were even lucky enough to have one without a descent job and they could
end up going to college when their 40 or 50 trying to get a descent job. Be honest though no one wants to do that. In Jonas's community people watch
over other people and assign what they think is the right job for them for the rest of their lives and not have to worry about putting food on the table

Giver Case Study Answers
During this time, DI and case supervisor Ms. May worked on adding more goals to Skills for Jonas. DI and case supervisor talked about client's mom
request on adding more goals such as personal information for the client his parents phone number, city, mom name, dad name and grandma name. In
addition, mom wanted Jonas to meet be toilet training goal before he start kindergarten.

Literary Criticism Of The Giver
The Giver is an American young adult dystopian science fiction novel. It was written by Lois Lowry and this would have been her twenty–second
book she had written. The author wrote the book straightforwardly. She did not use complicated language and writing style so it was hard to read.
Writing it more complicatedly would probably distract the reader from the actual message because the reader would be struggling to understand what
is actually being said (as seen in some old works such as Shakespeare). According to Marie C. Franklin's, "Children's Literature: Debate continues over
merit of young–adult fare" (The Boston Globe, February 23, 1997, p. G1), some reviews have criticized The Giver for lacking originality.
The Giver is set in a futuristic society where they have eliminated war, pain, hatred, and fear. The story is set in the point of view of an eleven year
old boy named Jonas. At the Ceremony of Twelve, he was assigned the job of Receiver of Memory where he is the only one, along with the current
Receiver of Memory named the Giver, who has the community's collective memory.
He can sense what it used to be like before the community became its warless, painless, and emotionless state of harmony and tranquility. However, he
wants the people in the community to have the same richness and meaning in their life that the memories have given him. So, Jonas and the Giver
planned the escape of Jonas into what is known as Elsewhere so the memories would disperse into the

Essay Questions For The Giver
1. What is important about the subject?
The subject of The Giver is the significance of memory to human life. This is important to the subject because without memory there is no pain. This
prevents anyone from suffering any pain in human history, and it also prevented people of the society from wanting to get involved with relationships,
that could end in conflict and suffering. From not being able to engage in relationships there was no love, and love is one of the main qualities that
brings our world together, but could also tear our world apart.
2. When does/did this take place?
In the book The Giver this book takes place in an unspecified time in the future. But, towards the end of the of the book, there was one chapter where
the author put in...show more content...
It only states that the main focus of the book takes place in a "perfect community" where Jonas lives.
4. Why do you think this subject/event is so important?
I think the subject of this book is important because it takes away the main quality of human life. I believe that to live a fulfilled life, you need to
experience pain. And even though pain is not something many people enjoy, it teaches us lessons on how to grow stronger mentally. This is important
because God gave us memories so we could reflect on them, and have them help us as we continue going through our life.
5. Write a 3–5 sentence summary about this book.
In the book The Giver Jonas lives in a "perfect community". In this community there is no color, parent's, memory, love, relationship, freedom, etc.
This year when Jonas turns eleven he his given his profession for his life. Jonas gets a rare profession called "The Receiver". In this profession
Jonas receives the memories of the past, good and bad. These are given to him by a wise old man, who told Jonas to call him The Giver. These are
transmitted only to Jonas, they are hidden from the rest of the

Conflict In The Giver
The Giver
Lois Lowry's novel, The Giver, offers a thought provoking, well written story, because it changes the perspective of anyone who dares to read it to.
Lowry places her novel, at some point in the future when mankind has gone away with changes and choices in life. She forces readers appreciate, or at
least re–think the world they live in today. Her novel presents a fully human created environment where people have successfully blocked out conflict,
grief, and individuality. Each person follows the same routine every day. Failure comply with standards, to be different, means death. Jonas, the main
character, finds himself trapped in this world.
To begin, the elders set apart Jonas and give him the prestigious job of "Receiver of Memory."...show more content...
Lowry, herself even says "she didn't think of "The Giver" as futuristic or dystopian or science fiction or fantasy, it was just a story about a kid making
sense of a complicated world" (Ulaby). In his own way, Jonas served as his own protagonist as his mind attacks him with questions and
uncertainty. Community elders also pose as a sort of enemy, keeping people away from the truth. Moreover, Lowry also included other characters
to contrast Jonas. Firstly, his friends, Asher and Fiona show up as foils. When Jonas learns the reality of release and war, he looks at his friend in
horror. Even the Giver reinstates "Fiona is already being trained in the fine art of release" (153). Giver tries to comfort Jonas by saying "listen to
me Jonas they can't help it. they know nothing... it's the life that was created form them, it's the same life that you would have, if you had not been
chosen as my successor" (153). This shows how Jonas remains set apart because he was selected as the successor. Rosemary, the previous "Receiver
of Memory" shows up as another foil. Although Jonas never met her, everyone, even the elders, compare him to Rosemary. They hope they did the
make the same mistake again and watch him closely. All of Lowry's characters are created to support Jonas' role in the

The Giver Assignment
Imagine a world where your job was chosen for you. You never got paid, but you were still happy. This is what happens in Lois Lowry's book "The
Giver." In Jonas' society the Elders assign a job to the children after the Ceremony of the Twelve's. If our society operated like Jonas' then it would
be horrible and if I were observed and got an assignment right now it would be at the House of the Old. In Jonas' society the Assignments are chosen
by the Elders and that is their job for the rest of their life. When they are new children that is when the Elders start observing the children to see what
job they think they would be good at. As they grow older, the Elders take into consideration what the children volunteer the most and rule out where

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