The Giver By Lowis Lowry

The Giver, written by Lowis Lowry, is a book about a boy named Jonas, whose community chooses him to take the position of the Receiver. The Receiver is the most important person in the community since the job of the Receiver is to ultimately learn to be the Giver and become a judge for the community. Indeed the Giver must eventually make important decisions for the future of the community like parental planning. The Receiver must obtain some important memories from the current Giver about the past. In truth, the community members do not have memories of the past, and they are not capable of making these important decisions for themselves. In fact, part of these memories involves learning about physical and emotional pain. At several places in the story, the author leads us to believe that a central theme of the story is that pain is the price of emotional growth. This topic is important since we need pain to: understand the importance of memories, grasp the difference between …show more content…
For instance, Jonas receives a memory of a civil war battle in which he experiences a death of a friend. Since this memory involves death, Jonas must learn that we need to learn about death to understand how to enjoy the pleasures of life. In particular, when the narrator describes “Overwhelmed by pain, he lay there in the fearsome stench for hours, listened to the men and animals died and learned what warfare meant.” (120). Is having to deal with learning about death and how to enjoy it to enjoy life and how to live it. By having this experience, Jonas learns that you have to live life to the fullest and spend it with the people you love (add the analysis). Therefore, without the pain of death, people in the community will never live their lives to the fullest extent possible. Also, they also will not have the ability to express love for another