![]() ![]() And I think it's a lesson in opening one's eyes and looking at what is going on around them, instead of just blindly buying into what is being pushed by others. This book is very obviously an example (I think a wonderful example), of how we should not behave. ![]() And he has a wonderful sense of right and wrong. If you think it's promoting the horrors of this dystopian society, then you clearly missed the point! I'm all for exposing my child to literature that teaches him how people should not behave, as well as how they should. He also sees a sled and uses it to slide down a hill.I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry at anyone being incensed and outraged by this book for a middle-school-aged kid. At the end of the book, the author describes a scene in which Jonas sees an image of Christmas, with singing and color. The ending of the book is kind of ambiguous because it is unclear if he lives and reaches a kind of world like in his memories, or if he dies. But along the way that life also become a life without much color, a life with few individual choices. The theme of the book is that somewhere in the past somebody tried to create a life with no pain, no war, basically no insecurities. What I liked about this book is that some ideas are related to some things that happen in real life. This can make the people loose human like characteristics and follow everything that the government says which makes them robots. Some governments and different political systems in real life forces people to perform activities and tasks without taking the perspective of the citizen in count. In Jonas’ community all the choices are made for the people including where the stay and what where which results in the people losing all kinds of humanity they have and act like robots. Another message of The Giver is that having no choice is more destructive to the community than having choice. This message is relevant to the reader as it is applicable to a wide range of audience as most people would like to reach their dreams/goals in life. This shows that Jonas never gave up and followed his faith and dreams even though he risked his life for it. This resulted in Jonas risking his life for the community he lives in as he wants everyone to know the truth. Jonas felt that people in his community having no choice was unfair as they could never experience colour, love and joy. This quickly changes as he starts receiving and experiencing different kinds of memories including the pleasant and the unsettling ones. ![]() This can be seen throughout the novel because the main character, Jonas is innocent and very clueless at the beginning of the story. The message in The Giver is to follow your dreams and faith and also that having no choice is very destructive. The Giver is a novel with many messages that are relevant to the reader and are also relevant to real life. This is the only way in which the people will realize that there is more to life. In the end he decides that he can no longer live in these communities, with the help of the Giver he runs away but by running away he will help his people because the memories will leave him and will return to the people. He becomes confused and doesn’t understand. Jonas then finds out about war, colors, music, snow, sunshine and about pain and joy and all kinds of other intense emotions. The old Receiver, who tells Jonas to call him The Giver, transfers the memories to Jonas by a unique method that sounds a bit like how people can read other people’s minds. This is done to be sure that the people do not experience the pain that can come with having strong emotions. ![]() The Receiver bears the memories of wind, war, sunshine, savoring, music, and color. He is to be trained to be the new Receiver. The Ceremony of the Twelves is special for him because he finds out that instead of being assigned a job, he is “chosen”. In the book the main character’s age begins at the age of 11 and the book ends when he is 13. The main character in this book is Jonas. They don’t think it is something bad because they don’t know what war is. They are pretending to have guns and shoot at each other. One of the games that the children play is a war-like game. They also spend a lot of time sharing their feelings within the family group and trying to make each other feel better. People believe that they spend their lives in that community forever. They are told that the people that are release go to a different community. In the book the giver the people in this world do not see color. ![]()
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