THE GIVER THEMES

UTOPIAN SOCIETY

• Not as perfect as everyone always thinks it is.
• There has to be a balance.
• In order to get good, there has to be bad and vice versa.

LOVE

• The heart symbolizes what Jonas felt and saw in his memories
• It's something that is not allowed in the community but Jonas wishes it could.

LIFE ISNT WORTH LIVING WITHOUT LOVE.

• Jonas sees that in his community they have no sexual attraction to each other.
• After receiving happy memories, he sees beautiful things such as love, happiness, and family.
• Jonas immediately wants those thing and that plays a factor into him leaving his community.

HAPPINESS&LOVE

• This picture symbolizes what Jonas sees.
• Jonas gets happiness from seeing this kind of love that families share.

LOVE

• Jonas doesn't want to stay in the community if there is no love

HISTORY IS IMPORTANT

• History is important in our society even though it may seem boring, pointless, and unimportant.
• It helps us to prevent from making the same mistakes again.
• We've made a lot of bad choices & done AWFUL things that today, we can't believe that we actually did that.
• So, now we know that we can't do something like that BECAUSE we know our history.

WAR

• Jonas sees and witnesses war & doesn't understand it.
• He doesn't get how people could do this to each other

CLIMAX

• The climax of this story is when Jonas decided to leave the community.
• In the morning, Jonas takes the bike & Gabe and makes his way.
• He starts his journey to find another community, to find something similar to the good memories he got