What Is The Theme Of The Giver Movie
Analyzing The Giver The Giver was originally based on a book written in 1993 by Louis Lowry. The movie takes place in a utopian society where the past was purposely taken away from the citizens in order to maintain peace. The elders eliminated fear, hatred, pain, and hunger through this society. The loss of memory meant a loss of pain, but it also meant a loss of human relationships. The society was meant to be perfect because everyone was supposed to be happy, but ended up being significantly flawed because the citizens weren’t truly free. One of the major themes present in the novel is the importance of memory to human life. The Giver is about a young boy named Jonas who realizes that he is different than everybody else. He becomes a Receiver of Memory, and he gets to experience events from the past through the Giver. Jonas must keep the memories so that the community can avoid making the same mistakes as they did before. The memories start to change Jonas’s life as he realizes how different society could be if everyone knew the truth. Jonas starts to become angry with other members of his community, because they aren’t capable of knowing the things that he knows. Jonas also begins to form a relationship with a young baby boy named Gabriel. Jonas’s dad
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Memories of all past experiences had been wiped away from most of the members in society in order to save them from pain. The downside, however, is that the members of the community didn’t know what they were missing. Once Jonas began to receive memories, he realized how different life could be. “The members of Jonas’s community cannot appreciate the joys in their lives because they have never felt pain: their lives are totally monotonous, devoid of emotional variation” (SparkNotes). Jonas realizes that the people of his community do not deserve to have these feelings taken away from them, so he decides to change
Memories of all past experiences had been wiped away from most of the members in society in order to save them from pain. The downside, however, is that the members of the community didn’t know what they were missing. Once Jonas began to receive memories, he realized how different life could be. “The members of Jonas’s community cannot appreciate the joys in their lives because they have never felt pain: their lives are totally monotonous, devoid of emotional variation” (SparkNotes). Jonas realizes that the people of his community do not deserve to have these feelings taken away from them, so he decides to change