That night, at the nightly sharing of feelings, after his sister, father, and mother discuss their emotions, his parents comfort him about his worries. The giver and jonas plan for jonas to escape the community and to actually enter elsewhere. But, the plan falls apart when jonas is forced to leave early in order to save the baby, gabriel. The following day, jonas reports to the annex, where the giver resides, to begin his training. When he enters the giver s living space, he is amazed by the many books, the locks on the doors, and that the speaker in the room is turned off. The first memory that jonas receives from the giver is a sled ride down a snowcovered hill. The setting of the giver is a world in which there exists no pain, no war, and very little emotion. From the very first day spent with the giver, jonas receives many memories. These communities as the author argues are governed by an elder.
He and the giver plan to release the memories into the populace so they can find more compassion. In brief, the elder are more of the conventional city mayors. Book summary the giver is about an elevenyearold boy who lives in a special community. Jonas training involves receiving, from the giver, all of the emotions and memories of experiences that the people in the community chose to give up to attain sameness and the illusion of social order.
Jonas begins the giver feeling uneasy about the upcoming ceremony of twelve, where he will receive the assignment that determines his vocation for the rest of his working life. This is a quick book summary and analysis of the giver by lois lowry. In this utopia, everything is as pleasant as possible. Authored by lois lowry the novel consists of numeral communities. From a social perspective everything in this planet is wholly controlled. It is set in a society which at first appears to be a utopian society but is later revealed to be a.