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 world. 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 don’t know if Jonah makes it out of a

desert into a new, better world, or if the whole thing is a mirage, to Jonah.