The Giver

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.