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The Giver Presentation
Jonas is selected by the Council of Elders during the Ceremony of 12 to become the new Receiver of Memory. As the Receiver, it will be Jonas' burden to receive and experience all the past memories of pain, pleasure, love, and colors so that the community can live in blissful ignorance without these memories. Jonas must keep his training secret and live separately from the community as he takes on this important role as the sole person who knows the truth about the past.
The Giver Presentation
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- 2. • Main Character:Jonas, the Giver Story: During the “Ceremony of 12” the Council of Elders singles Jonas out from the others and gives him the job assignment of “The receiver of memory” It is Jonas burden to receive all of the memories of the past. He must experience pain, pleasure, love, and colors. It is his job to endure these memories and pain so that everyone else can live perfect lives.
- 3. “They have neverknown pain.” The Giver. Pg. 110 It is the Giver’s job to receive all the memories of the past. The giver must know pleasure, pain, and love. The Giver alone must carry this burden so that everyone else can be happy and live out their lives in blissful peace. The Giver lives a life separate from others. The Giver must not tell others about what his/her memories are. He/She alone must face the knowledge and pain. When the Council is facing a major decision, the Giver will be called on for light advice.
- 4. 1. Go immediatelyat the end of school hours each day to the Annex entrance behind the House of the Old and present yourself to the attendant. 2. Go immediately to your dwelling at the conclusion of Training Hours each day. 3. From this moment you are exempted from rules governing rudeness. You may ask any question of any citizen and you will receive answers. 4. Do not discuss your training with any other member of the community, including parents or elders. 5. From the moment you are prohibited from dream-telling. 6. Except for illness or injury unrelated to your training, do not apply for any medications. 7. You are not permitted to apply for release. 8. You may lie.
- 5. • Would itbe good? Why? • How would we choose? • Is the misery and pain of one worth the happiness of many?
- 6. “There are veryrarely disappointments, Jonas.” Pg. 16 The previous Giver, Rosemary, was a “failure.” Why was Jona’s chosen? • Seeing beyond • Pale colored eyes • Intelligent • Different • Deep thinker
- 7. • NO WORRIES…right? • Most of you (probably all) would be happy • You would not feel true pain. • You would have no worries. • You would not know of war. • Your life would be simple. • Your life would be easily planned out for you.
- 8. Classroom Happiness 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 Happiness of a small classroom 5 0 Happy Unhappy Happy Unhappy
- 9. Happiness of ISUStudents 1 Happy Unhappy 11948 14000 Happiness of ISU Students 12000 10000 8000 6000 4000 2000 0 Unhappy Happy
- 10. Family Happiness 2.5 2 1.5 1 0.5 0 Happy Unhappy Comparing Family Happiness Happy Unhappy
- 11. • Laws • Instancesin history - World War II - Terrorist attacks of 911 • We all personally work towards our own happiness -Personal story
- 14. • Many philosophershave hinted at this “idea” -Hobbes -Mills Hobbes Mills
- 15. Leviathan “Thefirst branch of which rule, containeth the first and fundamental law of nature; which is seek peace and follow it.” “Whensoeever, a man transferreth his right, or renounceth it; it is either in consideration of some right reciprocally transferred to himself; or for some other good he hopeth for thereby.”
- 16. • No love. • No colors. “The life without • No true concept of family color pain or past” • No music • No excitement or true joy • No “family” • No “choice” • No progress • No change “Listen to me • No passion • You essentially live a lie Jonas. They can’t help it. They know nothing.”
- 17. Hint Hint: Rosemary!! Ifyour giver dies or flees before his/her memories are passed on, society must face the memories…ALL OF THEM. -Society would be completely unprepared -If you had no Giver, they would have no idea how to cope
- 18. “Jonas did notwant to go back. He didn’t want the memories, didn’t want the honors, didn’t want the wisdom, didn’t want the honor, didn’t want the pain. He wanted his childhood again….ordinary lives free of anguish because he had been selected, as others before him had, to bear their burden.” “But the choice was not his.” “During his twelve years in the community, he had never felt such simple moments of exquisite happiness.”
- 19. • http://www.indstate.edu/news/news.php?newsid=2402 • MYEPIC MIND • The people who influence MY EPIC MIND • Markie, Peter, and Cahn M. Steven. Ethics: History, Theory, and Contemporary Issues. • Lowry, Louis. The Giver. • Reality • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill
Editor's Notes
- #2 Introduce yourself
- #3 A brief summary for those of you who relied solely on spark notes….or who have already fogotten…or didn’t actually read.The main 2 important characters you should know for this discussion: Jonas and the GiverStory: During the “Ceremony of 12” the Council of Elders singles Jonas out from the others and gives him the job assignment of “The receiver of memory”Jonas has no idea what this position is, or what is in store for him.As the giver it is Jonas burden to receive all of the memories of the past. He must experience pain, pleasure, love, and colors. It is his job to endure these memories and pain so that everyone else can live perfect lives.
- #4 Basic overview of “The Givers” positionSo, throughout this presentation, I will be analyzing the idea of using one person to bear all the sadness and pain so that everyone else can be happy.
- #5 Imagine receiving this list and how Jona’s must have felt. He had no idea what he was getting into. Yet, suddenly he was freed from some of his society’s main rules. Go immediately at the end of school hours each day to the Annex entrance behind the House of the Old and present yourself to the attendant.Go immediately to your dwelling at the conclusion of Training Hours each day. He is not expected to really integrate with the other kids. Even when he tries, he can’t. He has learned too much. They can never understand.From this moment you are exempted from rules governing rudeness. You may ask any question of any citizen and you will receive answers.Do not discuss your training with any other member of the community, including parents or elders. He is not allowed to talk about his training like the other kids.From the moment you are prohibited from dream-telling.Except for illness or injury unrelated to your training, do not apply for any medications. He has to experience pain.You are not permitted to apply for release.You may lie.
- #6 WRITE ON BOARD
- #7 The elders select positions for different people. They base their selections on people’s abilities, personality, and activities.It must be hard to pick when kids are only 12. People change. When I was 12 I wanted to be a witch.Jonas was singled out and chosen to be the receiver of memory because of his own unique qualities. If we were to establish such a society, how would we decide who to pick? What qualities do you think are important?
- #8 Most of you (probably all) would be happy.You would not feel true pain. Sure, you may stub your toe or fall of your bike…but, there are medicines for that. You know of no true pain. You do not know of true loss of love or of worry.You would have no worries.You would not know of war. You would not have fear of war, or atomic bombs. You would not even know of war, true fighting or battles.You would have no worries. No financial stress. No worries about your future, your life, finances.Your life would be simple. Everything easy.Your life would be easily planned out for you. Your parents decided for you. Your education and job. Your wife/husband, your children.
- #9 If this were the case in a regular classroom
- #10 As the pie graph and bar chat show, causing on person to bear the burden of pain and the past, everyone one else would be happy.The single miserable person who must bear it all, doesn’t even show up in the chart—he is only 1%!
- #11 Now if this were the case in my small little family.
- #12 Laws—laws force people to give up some of their own freedoms and happiness for the general happiness of all-World War II, Japanese in America were forced into camps and monitored. -Terrorist attacks of 911Instances in histoWe all personally work towards our own happiness-Hobbes felt that all people are generally selfish and that our natural state is that of war-Mills, focused on greatest happiness for greatest number-Noble lad, I would’ve wished that on anyone else. Same with my scholarships.
- #15 Laws—laws force people to give up some of their own freedoms and happiness for the general happiness of all-World War II, Japanese in America were forced into camps and monitored. -Terrorist attacks of 911Instances in histoWe all personally work towards our own happiness-Hobbes felt that all people are generally selfish and that our natural state is that of war-Mills, focused on greatest happiness for greatest number-Noble lad, I would’ve wished that on anyone else. Same with my scholarships.