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How would you like living in a world with no color, no music, and no love? Well, thats how Jonass life was like. All of those things are present in the book, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, 1993, dystopian. Jonass community is idyllic. Everyone is assigned their jobs or assignments. This community has no conflict, inequality, divorce, unemployment, injustice, or choice. Everyone is the same, but Jonas. During the Ceremony of Twelve, he is chosen for something special. Something he doesnt know but may change his life. There are three important themes in, The Giver: Perfection is not a goal worth striving for, there can be no pleasure without pain and no pain without pleasure, and family is not real if there is no love.
The first theme is, perfection is not a goal worth striving for. In order to create a perfect society, Jonass community sacrifices many things. They sacrifice individuality, emotions, memories, love, and family. Chapter 11 describes how weather and hills were taken away.n But what happened to those things? Snow, and the rest of it? Climate control. Snow made growing food difficult, limited agricultural periods. And unpredictable weather made transportation almost impossible at times. It wasn’t a practical thing, so it became obsolete when we went to Sameness. And hills, too he added. They made conveyance of good unwieldy. Trucks; buses. Slowed them down. So— he waved his hand, as if a gesture had caused hills to disappear. Sameness, he concluded.Jonas frowned. I wish we had those things, still. Just now and then.
As a result, perfection requires sacrifices, but sometimes you dont need perfection, you are good with what you have. What you already have will probably be best for you. Another theme can be, there can be no pleasure without pain and no pain without pleasure. After meeting with the giver several times, he reflects that his family members do not truly know what anger or sadness is.
I felt sad today, he had heard his mother say, and they had comforted her. But now Jonas had experienced real sadness.(165-166)The Giver had given Jonas memories of pain and sadness. His family members didnt know what they actually were. They were deep feelings and they couldnt be told, they had to be felt. To summarize, there are many feelings Jonas had felt, they included pain, joy, and sadness. His parents had not experienced the real feelings, they couldnt.
The last theme is, family is not real if there is no love. Jonas asks his parents if they love him. Do you love me? There was an awkward silence for a moment. Then, father gave a little chuckle. Jonas. You, of all people precision of language, please! (159)
If that family was real; then, Jonass parents would havesaid that they do love him. Jonas loves Gabe and is willing to give up his life for Gabes. No one in the community felt love, besides, Jonas and the Giver. Therefore, Jonas and Gabe are family. They love each other and that proves that its real.
The most important themes in The Giver are: Perfection a goal worth striving for, there can be no pleasure without pain and no pain without pleasure, and family is not real if there is no love. This book gives us a way to think about a world with no color, emotions, family, and love. Its so powerful because while reading this book, we are reminded how lucky we are to live in this world. I loved this book, and I would rate it a 10/10! I enjoyed reading it and loved the suspense. I would recommend this to people of all ages but I can guarantee that you won’t be putting the book down without thinking or looking at the world in a totally different way.
Works Cited
- Lowry, Lois. The Giver. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1993.
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