In my English class we read a book called the giver. We all then wrote an essay about whatever we wanted and I chose to write about the Giver because it was such a good book. This is the final copy of it.
The Giver
By: Abby
Meyer 7A
No fear, no pain, and no war, how,
where? Was it in the past, the present, or the future? It can be any of them.
How can you transmit memories from person to person by putting your hand on
their back? Is any of this possible, or is it reality? Well, this is the Giver,
the impossible, yet a possible tale of a boy named Jonas and a tedious trip to
the unknown.
The Giver was the past receiver of
memories. He deals with the pain, the fear, the depression, the sorrow so
nobody else would. The Giver must live with it all for the rest of his life. He
makes the biggest decisions. However if the pain was not enough, he could not
live his life, he could not talk about even the greatest of memories to his
wife. His daughter even killed herself because she got some of the memories and
became depressed. He also aged even faster because he was carrying with so much
stress. He was carrying the stress so the community would not have true pain,
sorrow, war, fear, or war.
The story could have taken place
either in the past or present. The reason for the chance of it taking place in
the past is that they don’t have a lot of the same technology as we do
nowadays, they don’t even have cars. However it could be the future because
they have new technology that we do not have such as the ability to make people
color blind. This thought really confuses me because the community has high
technology while they do not have some of the things that we have today, so I
think that this story is simply in the presence because it is half pas, and
half future.
Obviously, a lot of the Giver is
completely impossible like the machine controlling the weather. In spite of those few things the actual way
of community is similar to real life. One of the things in the story that could
relate to this story is the government does not tell a lot of things that they
do. Also the type of government that they have in the community is communism.
The reason for that is all of the people in the Giver are very controlled. They
have to wait until a certain age to get a bicycle and they can only have two
children; one girl and one boy.
In conclusion, the Giver is set in a
communism like government. Also nobody can really know for sure what time
period it is in. And the job that keeps the community sane is all taken by one
person. The Giver is one of the most impossible books that are also like
reality.
