The Giver Reflection - 1165 Words

Giver Reflection The Giver is a morally driven and thought-provoking story about a young boy called Jonas who lives in a society free of crime, sadness, pain, death, music, color and love. The story follows Jonas as he receives the memories of the past, good and bad, from the current Receiver, who is called the Giver. The Giver transfers memories by placing his hands on Jonas s forearms. The first memory he receives is of a thrilling sled ride, which he will remake in the end of the movie. Jonas discovers the dangerous truths of his community s secret past. Armed with the power of knowledge, which he knew about from memories (Ways of Knowledge), Jonas realizes that he must release all the memories to the community to allow them to feel†¦show more content†¦And the main question here is: How can they alter humans to not see colors? Once he is able to see colors, he notices the apples on the table and exclaims that they are red. But how does he know? He has never seen color before and wasn’t taught colors and this relates back to the memory passed down from the giver. He knows the apple is red from memory, not emotion, senses nor from intuition. He knows that not from his memory but from the giver’s memory of the past. When Jonah listened to music the first time as it is something that doesn’t exist in their community he questioned: â€Å"Why would anyone want to get rid of this?† This relates to areas and ways of knowledge as knowing the answer to that question would depend on a person’s reason, which could be a bad memory or experience with music. This question, a knowledge question, doesn’t have a specific answer and the answer would differ from one person to another but as they live in a community of sameness, all answers would be unified. Correspondingly, Jonas asks Fiona if she can feel his touch, she doesn’t know how to describe the feeling as she lacks the sense of feeling and emotion, which is a way of knowing. 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