An Analysis of The Giver
The Giver is a truly amazing work of literal art; it has won a Newberry award. Lois Lowry is the author of many books, including The Giver and The Messenger. Full of wonderful quotes and awesome, morals, this book is truly a page turner. This novel was a comedy through and through. This book was clearly written to be a comedy. The beginning is somewhat normal; Jonas is about to turn twelve, and the ceremony is making him apprehensive. The conflict arises when Jonas becomes the receiver, and begins the task of finding out the truth. When he finds out the truths of the old world, he realizes the conflict. The solution occurs, and Jonas hatches a plan to leave the town, so that all of the people get those memories of the old world. Jonas then makes his own day to day normalcy of biking to the next village. Jonas didn’t begin to bike to the next village all by himself. He made the journey, or as much of the journey that the book covers, with Gabriel, a newborn who had not slept well and was born prematurely. Gabriel was not yet one year old, but when Jonas left, the ceremony was approaching. Gabriel was a newborn in the care of Jonas’ father. The family Gabriel was sleeping with contained, Father, Mother, Jonas and Lily. As you thoroughly examine the characters you also have to notice the symbols. The good memories symbolize goodness. They also symbolize happiness and kindness. The bad memories symbolize evil, and all of the memories symbolize the old world and the value of human memory. Gabriel, the baby symbolizes the dying community. The community was slowly rotting away on the inside. After achieving “sameness”, a term used in the book describing how they changed the world to take away all of the dangers, the community started rotting away. The world was just not meant to be like that, and the infrastructure simply failed.
