The Giver Essay, Research Paper

In this book, the Giver, an old man gives all the memories of

a world such as ours to a boy named Jonah. In this world there is no

color, love, or twins, and the babies and children are bred by

special people who have the job of birthmother. They then are adopted

away. Everybody in the town has a special but awkward job. The giver

tells Jonah of a place such as our normal world.

After Jonah learns of the world before, he becomes anxious to

escape and discover if their is a color outside world in which there

is love, and normal families. The more visions that Jonah receives,

the more painful they become. He also begins to become more and more

anxious about discovering what is beyond his dull and controlled

town. He also soon begins to have strange dreams of bathing one of

his “girl” friends naked, in a bathtub. His parents then tell them to

take certain pills to prevent these dreams, he does not because of

his anxiety to find out what else there is in the world.

The giver later tells Jonah how Jonah’s and his own dinner,

breakfast, and everything else that they do is monitored and

controlled. The Giver later gives Jonah his consent to escape their

town to go search for a normal and happier wolrd. Jonah kidnaps his

baby brother who’s twin gets killed by Jonah’s dad. Him and the baby

escape out the town into a normal world at the end of the book. The

rest of the book, is about the visions that Jonah has, and explains

how the “Giver,” is the keeper of memories from the village from

hundreds of years ago.

The ending of the book is somewhat uncertain, since you dont

know if Jonah makes it out of a desert into a new, better world, or

if the whole thing is a mirage, to Jonah.