Have you ever been in a strict community with a lot of rules and for some a lot of choices? Well, in this fiction 179 paged book written by Lois Lowry Jonas has. Jonas is an eleven in his community. What I mean by eleven is that there are groups of numbers for a group of kids. Each year you move up higher and higher, but when you turn twelve you get chosen to a job. Jonas has no choices, but when its time for him to turn twelve he gets singled out to get trained by the Giver. The Giver alone holds the memories of the true pain and pleasure of life. Now its Jonas’s turn to receive the truth. First, my first symbol is the blue eyes. Jonas. The Giver. and Gabriel all stand out in the community because of their blue colored eyes.
The meaning of this is that the communities effort of how impossible it is to control the nature no matter how much it tries. Not only that but the fact that the only characters with blue eyes only see color. The rest of the community can only see black and white. To receive memories and feel true, deep emotion tells only that it is only those who are different who notice others emotions. ”I use the color blue to cover the number twelve. Next, my second symbol is the hill. The hill represents a gateway to elsewhere. Riding down the hill with a res sled is his first memory. It also is his first color of the awareness of the color red.
It will signify his realization that outside his community there is a world not dominated by sameness. Later on, dreams about the hill. He feels the need “to reach the something that waited in the distance,” something ” good, welcoming, and significant.” Still, through the memories of the hill he learns precarious relationship between joy and pain. Last but not least, my third symbol is the river. The river forms a border around the community. The river symbolizes escape. When you cross the river you leave the community. The river also took the life of a four»year old Caleb. One day Caleb wandered off, and ended into the river. The whole community spent a day murming and saying his name.
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As time went on they spent less time saying it. That means the river could also mean danger. So when escaping they would have to be careful. To sum this up, I really like this book. My three elements were the number twelve painted blue, a hill. and a river. They all mean something different. My first symbol stands for Jonas and his blue eyes. My second symbol stands for Jonas’s first memory riding down on a sled. The third symbol stands for the escape route. To put this together I will use two hills. a river, and a blue number twelve. I recommend this book for middle schoolers. because it might not grab elementary schoolers’ attention. I really liked this book.
References
- Lois Lowry Official Website
- The Giver – Wikipedia
- The Giver Discussion Guide – Scholastic
- The Giver – Goodreads
- The Giver (2014) – IMDb
- The Risk of Utopia in Lois Lowry’s ‘The Giver’ – The Imaginative Conservative
- Revisiting Childhood Classics: ‘The Giver’ by Lois Lowry – School Library Journal blog
