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The Giver

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The Giver	comment	Newbery Medal-winning young adult novel by Lois Lowry. Known for its expertly merciless Deconstruction of the Utopia, and incidentally provides an introduction to the Dystopia genre for grade-school readers for whom some of the bits of Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World would be a tad too saucy.The Giver takes place on Earth (presumably in the far future) in a setting known simply as the Community, which is similar to other communities not terribly distant from it. Here life is completely free from worry thanks to "Sameness", a philosophy that strives to eliminate any possible want or need from human existence. The protagonist, Jonas, is apprehensive about receiving his Assignment that will determine his future, only to learn he hasn't been Assigned at all—he's been selected to bear the memories of the past the community turned away from. Jonas is mentored by The Giver, the current Receiver of Memory, and delves deeply into the memories and experiences of the past. Eventually, he must choose whether to stay or risk it all in an attempt to get through to them.A movie adaptation was released in August 15, 2014, starring Jeff Bridges as The Giver, Taylor Swift as Rosemary, Meryl Streep as the Chief Elder, Katie Holmes as Jonas's mother and Alexander SkarsgÃ¥rd as Jonas's father. Jonas himself is played by a relative unknown in the United States, Aussie soap star Brenton Thwaites.The book has also inspired a musical with book and lyrics by Nathan Christensen and music and lyrics by Scott Murphy, and an opera by Susan Kander.A graphic novel version of the book was released in February 2019.The book spawned three pseudo-sequels, Gathering Blue, Messenger and Son. While Gathering Blue only implied it was set in the same universe, Messenger made the link much less ambiguous, and Son cemented it. Together, they form The Giver Quartet.
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The Giver / int_1206d299	type	Can't Kill You, Still Need You
The Giver / int_1206d299	comment	Can't Kill You, Still Need You: One of Jonas's rules is that he cannot apply for Release, because when Rosemary did, the community barely handled the six weeks worth of memories that she had. Even so, it never occurs to Jonas that he could use this as leverage to save Gabriel, who has tons of soothing memories, because he panics on hearing his "baby brother" is going to be Released.
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The Giver / int_15177ded	type	The Runaway
The Giver / int_15177ded	comment	The Runaway: Jonas runs away close to the climax with Gabriel, using his father's bike. A teenage boy on the run with a two-year old, hiding from search planes and starving. Another book, Son, revealed that Jonas's father was frantic on realizing his children were missing — keep in mind this would have been right when his feelings were returning.
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The Giver / int_175163cb	type	Transferable Memory
The Giver / int_175163cb	comment	Transferable Memory: The Giver transfers memories to Jonas. Also, those memories can be transferred to the general population if something happens to the Receiver.
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The Giver / int_17a6a31b	type	The Beforetimes
The Giver / int_17a6a31b	comment	The Beforetimes: Some event occurred that led to Sameness, the sequels refer to a destructive event in the past.
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The Giver / int_18eb5500	type	Beautiful Void
The Giver / int_18eb5500	comment	Beautiful Void: All we know about the background is that people got sick of unique differences and pains and got rid of them somehow. And something about infanticide.
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The Giver / int_19fe3478	type	Daddy's Girl
The Giver / int_19fe3478	comment	Daddy's Girl: Lily appears to be this (at least to the extent that that sort of thing is possible in the Community). Heavily implied to have been the case with the Giver's daughter Rosemary.
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The Giver / int_1b465242	type	Conditioned to Accept Horror
The Giver / int_1b465242	comment	Conditioned to Accept Horror: People who work with the very young or the old are conditioned to accept euthanasia as a fact of life, starting from their early adolescence. This includes Jonas's father, who nonchalantly euthanizes a baby. Like most people in his community, Jonas takes things that would be downright horrifying to many people as normal — although once he receives memories of better times, he realizes how horrible the Community is to make its residents live this way. Played very well when Jonas is disturbed to discover that the Giver's intercom system has an off switch — while the fact that every room in the community contains an intercom without one has never bothered him.
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The Giver / int_1c77ec26	type	The Voice
The Giver / int_1c77ec26	comment	The Voice: The Speaker who makes the announcements and warnings over the loudspeaker.
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The Giver / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
The Giver / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: "Back and back and back" is at first used between The Giver and Jonas to describe why things are how they are. Later, it is to emphasize the hopelessness of changing anything.
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The Giver / int_242b7b18	type	First Time in the Sun
The Giver / int_242b7b18	comment	First Time in the Sun: Among the memories Jonas gets from the Receiver is one of the sun, suggesting it's somehow filtered out.
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The Giver / int_264a12ef	type	Mentor's New Hope
The Giver / int_264a12ef	comment	Mentor's New Hope: This is part of the back story: The Receiver of Memory who mentors Jonas is revealed to have had another protÃ©gÃ© in the past, his own daughter, who committed suicide out of despair brought on by the knowledge she received from her mentor, and was Unpersoned by the Community.
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The Giver / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
The Giver / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: A four-year-old boy named Caleb wanders away and drowns in the river.
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The Giver / int_272108cd	type	ZigZaggedTrope
The Giver / int_272108cd	comment	However, it is mentioned that this rule came about because the last receiver did apply for release. Knowing this leads to Jonas and the Giver's eventual plan.
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The Giver / int_2726d167	type	The World Is Just Awesome
The Giver / int_2726d167	comment	The World Is Just Awesome: At the end of the book. Jonas escapes his controlled world to discover a town celebrating, presumably, Christmas, as he sleds down a hill... or this is what he at least imagines as he is fading from consciousness and probably dying from hypothermia, before he is presumably rescued.
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The Giver / int_282579b2	type	City in a Bottle
The Giver / int_282579b2	comment	City in a Bottle: The Community has existed for long enough that no one has any concrete knowledge of the world outside it (known as "Elsewhere"), except the Receiver of Memory. An interesting example as it was intended for their own good, and the ones who Know The Truth carry the burden of knowing every memory ever held by mankind, including the bad and painful ones.
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The Giver / int_2b7ae239	type	Forced Euthanasia
The Giver / int_2b7ae239	comment	Forced Euthanasia: Elderly people and people with disabilities are "Released to Elsewhere." Late in the book, the main character discovers that this means euthanasia.
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The Giver / int_2d0b86f7	type	Newspeak
The Giver / int_2d0b86f7	comment	Newspeak: The Community enforces what is called "precision of language." Children are strongly reprimanded for using any kind of exaggeration or figurative language, because they lump it under "lying". (The example given is a child who says he is starving when he is only very hungry, because implying that the Community would really let anyone starve is seen as extremely problematic.) They can still play pretend, though, so it doesn't hamper their imaginative thinking. Additionally, due to the Giver system, a great deal of the very concepts of the old world (starvation, war, etc) have been or are in the process of being completely scrubbed out of the collective consciousness this way almost passively. Released to Elsewhere is a prime example: it is a Deadly Euphemism that nobody save the Giver even knows is a euphemism because they have ceased to have virtually any concept of death. Which means that the authorities that order it and the doctors that perform it likely don't even realize the full ramifications of what they are doing. In short: Newspeak so powerful and entrenched that even those that mandate it and enforce don't really recognize it for what it is.
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The Giver / int_2eb94abd	type	Deadly Euphemism
The Giver / int_2eb94abd	comment	Deadly Euphemism: The term "released," which is short for Released to Elsewhere. Subverted in that nobody knows it is a euphemism save the Giver (and later his successor, the Receiver) because nobody save him has any concept of death.
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The Giver / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
The Giver / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: While The Giver implies that the world "evolved" for lack of a better term, into Sameness, its sequel Gathering Blue shows that the current state of the world is the result of a major upheaval known as The Ruin.
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The Giver / int_3407c500	type	The World Is Not Ready
The Giver / int_3407c500	comment	The World Is Not Ready: Or, at least, The Community is not ready for the memories Jonas and the Giver plan on unleashing. This is part of why the Giver chooses to stay with the Community to help them through it.
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The Giver / int_3ac583f4	type	SlidingScaleOfIdealismVsCynicism
The Giver / int_3ac583f4	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: Leans towards idealism. Though the seemingly Utopian setting is thoroughly and horrifically Deconstructed, Jonas and The Giver still pursue change and decide that it's better for the Community to remember humanity's past, both good and bad, than to stay ignorant and complacent. The ending, though ambiguous, is also fairly hopeful.
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The Giver / int_3b39c254	type	Dystopia
The Giver / int_3b39c254	comment	The story's dystopian society has removed Rosemary, the previous Receiver of Memory and the Giver's daughter from the public memory, going as far as to forbid her name to be used for a new child ever again, after the memories she received dissipated out into the community when she applied for release (assisted suicide, and she knew what it was) and the members of the community had to feel emotion and pain for the first time.
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The Giver / int_3b79029a	type	Crapsaccharine World
The Giver / int_3b79029a	comment	Crapsaccharine World: The Community, while not perfect, seems to be harmonious, peaceful, and happy. Family units share their feelings, politeness is mandated, and everyone is given a task that suits them. But when Jonas receives memories of what the world was like before, he learns that the Community has completely sacrificed choices, colors, individuality, even love. And when he discovers what Released to Elsewhere means, he realizes the Community has even traded away basic human dignity and respect.
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The Giver / int_41ec06f	type	Occult Blue Eyes
The Giver / int_41ec06f	comment	Occult Blue Eyes: Having blue eyes, or at least light as opposed to dark, is very rare in the community in which the book is set, and seems to be a sign that one is capable of "seeing beyond".
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The Giver / int_42d3be0b	type	Population Control
The Giver / int_42d3be0b	comment	Population Control: Every family unit is allowed two children, one girl and one boy. If a child dies, the parents can apply to be given another baby of the same gender and same name as a replacement. However, they come from Birthmothers, who only have 3 children, then a lifetime of menial labor. Even then, only 50 newchildren (at most) are given to family units each December.
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The Giver / int_4548bae	type	Teen Pregnancy
The Giver / int_4548bae	comment	Teen Pregnancy: Birthmothers receive their jobs at the tender age of twelve. Not until Son is it confirmed that they start the job after only a year of training, therefore they have their three children from the ages of 14 to 16 before becoming Laborers. Of course, this only helps the jarring creepiness of the setting.
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The Giver / int_45fe3a2e	type	Utopia Justifies the Means
The Giver / int_45fe3a2e	comment	Utopia Justifies the Means: The Giver and Jonas, his apprentice, often discuss whether their peaceful and happy lives ordained by the Community is worth the loss of choice, family, sexuality, color, and music, and if it's worth the "release" (that is, execution) of anyone who transgresses against the rules, even accidentally, and any extra babies that would disrupt the population count.
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The Giver / int_4655ec83	type	Important Haircut
The Giver / int_4655ec83	comment	Important Haircut: During the Ceremony of Ten, girls lose their braids and boys' hair is cut short.
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The Giver / int_48cffdb7	type	I Want My Mommy!
The Giver / int_48cffdb7	comment	I Want My Mommy!: The traumatic memory of a war's aftermath brought with it badly wounded soldiers laying out in a field, calling out for mother, water, and death.
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The Giver / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Giver / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: At some point The Giver mentions that there used to be another receiver named Rosemary. She was given sweet memories most of the time, but when she started to get the really painful memories, she asked to be released. After she died, her memories were let out, and there was chaos. Only with The Giver's help did people return to their normal lives. Later on, you also learn that The Giver has a daughter. Jonas, eager to help, asked what her name was. The reply? "Her name was Rosemary." "You are beginning to see the color red".
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The Giver / int_5028baf2	type	What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?
The Giver / int_5028baf2	comment	What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: Jonas grows up in a false Utopian society where the word "love" has become obsolete. When he learns about it through memories received from the Giver and asks his parents if they love him, they admonish him for not using precise language and say that asking "Do you enjoy me?" or "Do you take pride in my accomplishments?" would have been better. What makes it better is that they actually laugh and treat the question as meaningless. Jonas can't help but think that what he felt earlier was anything but meaningless. He realizes that further questions would also be met with either ignorance or programmed responses. It's also explained that there is no choosing of one's own spouses — everyone is paired up according to how "compatible" they are. Couples also don't have their own children and aren't even allowed to choose the ones they adopt. And they take pills to quash hormonal urges and sex drive, so natural children couldn't be a thing even if they were wanted, which is good since even spouses are barred from seeing each other naked.
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The Giver / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Giver / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: A Pilot-in-training is Released to Elsewhere for a navigational error. The Giver reveals that when the Elders asked him whether they should shoot it down, he counseled them to wait upon remembering times of war.
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The Giver / int_51c70be6	type	Obliviously Evil
The Giver / int_51c70be6	comment	Obliviously Evil: Jonas watches his own father commit infanticide, completely and blissfully unaware of what he's doing. The townspeople have no concept of death, and therefore, no idea that being "released" actually means being murdered. The Giver mentions this when Jonas protests that Fiona must be horrified during her training of caring for the Old.
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The Giver / int_5a963d1c	type	False Reassurance
The Giver / int_5a963d1c	comment	False Reassurance: The language of the Community is full of doublespeak and euphemisms — although what that means in a community that literally has no way of knowing it is left as an exercise for the reader.
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The Giver / int_5da3f522	type	Big Brother Is Watching
The Giver / int_5da3f522	comment	Played very well when Jonas is disturbed to discover that the Giver's intercom system has an off switch — while the fact that every room in the community contains an intercom without one has never bothered him.
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The Giver / int_60194b82	type	Spanner in the Works
The Giver / int_60194b82	comment	Spanner in the Works: Rosemary went against the script upon learning the true significance of their memories. Rosemary applied for release after six weeks, despite the fact that her bad memories were less painful and far fewer than Jonas's. This led to the Giver grieving her death, since she was his daughter, and the Community suffering the sudden influx of memories. If not for Rosemary, the Giver wouldn't have shown Jonas what Release was, or considered Jonas suggesting that things need to change. Jonas himself refuses to be a typical Receiver-Of-Memory and hold all of his knowledge to be an involuntary consultant for the Community, while knowing what death and love are. He and the Giver initially plan for him to fake his death and make it to Elsewhere, but he leaves sooner than they planned to save Gabriel's life.
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The Giver / int_613ca729	type	Request for Privacy
The Giver / int_613ca729	comment	Request for Privacy: Jonas's parents ask his sister Lily to leave the room so they could talk to him about the Ceremony of Twelve, when he would be assigned a career. Lois Lowry's dystopia is very tradition-bound and this is likely something children aren't supposed to be told about until they're of age.
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The Giver / int_629fa757	type	Perfectly Arranged Marriage
The Giver / int_629fa757	comment	Perfectly Arranged Marriage: A very strange example. The elders set up all marriages, but it's mentioned that they choose based on the partners' personalities and skills, so they work well together and are satisfied with the results.
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The Giver / int_643618e5	type	Replacement Goldfish
The Giver / int_643618e5	comment	There's a variant that is almost kinder: A young child dies and his parents are given a new child with the same gender and the same name, in order to "replace" the child that died. Because everyone's emotions are so dulled, this is an effective emotional replacement, rendering the original child meaningless.
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The Giver / int_64edb99c	type	Always Save the Girl
The Giver / int_64edb99c	comment	Always Save the Girl: Just as Jonas and the Giver make plans for Jonas to leave, without causing too much of an upheaval, Jonas finds out that Gabriel is going to be released. He tosses all those plans out the window to take Gabriel and a small supply of food with him. This means that while he's losing the memories of warmth and soothing sunshine and food, the Community is sending helicopters after him.
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The Giver / int_663f35c0	type	Only One Name
The Giver / int_663f35c0	comment	Only One Name: Everyone in the Community. Justified, since all of them are raised by adoptive parents assigned by the government, and have no reason to carry family names. This also prevents people from becoming too attached to their adoptive families, since familial love is one of the many emotions that society has let go of.
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The Giver / int_66b98472	type	Erotic Dream
The Giver / int_66b98472	comment	Erotic Dream: Jonas' dream of his "favorite female friend," Fiona (in which he is shirtless and trying to convince her to remove her clothes so he can give her a bath), which prompts his mother to start giving him the pills. When he later stops taking the pills, he has several more "pleasurable" dreams — though who/what they're about is not stated.
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The Giver / int_680a5252	type	In the Future, Humans Will Be One Race
The Giver / int_680a5252	comment	In the Future, Humans Will Be One Race: All humans in the Community are bred to more or less the same physical features. Differences such as Fiona's red hair and Jonas's blue eyes are regarded as a fault. Not that anyone besides the Giver and Receiver notice the color. And, while most of the names are western (Gabriel, Jonas, Fiona, Rosemary, Lily), there is a Yoshiko mentioned once.
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The Giver / int_68a5e1c3	type	Humans Are Psychic in the Future
The Giver / int_68a5e1c3	comment	Humans Are Psychic in the Future: The Giver has the ability to transmit memories via touch, which Jonas is able to do to Gabe later on inadvertently.
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The Giver / int_68a74d49	type	No Music Allowed
The Giver / int_68a74d49	comment	No Music Allowed: To avoid strife and division in the Community, the policy of â€œSamenessâ€� includes a ban on all music. Interestingly, the citizens are so unaware of the existence of music that they donâ€™t even miss it.
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The Giver / int_69681e01	type	Big Brother Instinct
The Giver / int_69681e01	comment	Big Brother Instinct: Subverted between Jonas and Lily. While he loves her, and tries to share the memories with her, he can't make her understand. And he never takes the chance to teach her to ride a bike. Played straight when Jonas finds out that Gabriel is going to be released. He immediately steals Gabriel, his father's bike, and a small bit of leftover food to make the trip to Elsewhere, without the Giver's help.
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The Giver / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Giver / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: "Jonas" is a variant form of the Hebrew name "Jonah". Much like the prophet Jonah in The Bible, Jonas (who's arguably a "prophet" in his own way) is a Chosen One selected by his rulers to receive great messages, and he ultimately decides to elude his destiny by running away and starting a new life somewhere else. Fiona is an Irish name; although ethnic names of all types appear in "the community," Fiona is the only person with red hair, a feature the Irish are known for. "Asher" means "happy." Not so much in the film, where he's a serious, unsmiling busybody. Gabriel is the name of an angel who is often considered a symbol of healing. Rosemary (which stands for remembrance, according to Ophelia in Hamlet). Her name would never be used again after her death forced the Community to remember the vivid emotions they had left behind.
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The Giver / int_6cd95d76	type	Best for Last
The Giver / int_6cd95d76	comment	Best for Last: When all the people becoming adults are receiving their careers, Jonas appears to be skipped. At the end of the ceremony, they announce that he's to be given the most important job of all.
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The Giver / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Giver / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Rosemary applies for Release after a few weeks of unhappy memories, and she injected herself when they asked her to roll up her sleeve. The Giver implies that he will follow her once the Community no longer needs him.
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The Giver / int_6f6ab063	type	The "I Love You" Stigma
The Giver / int_6f6ab063	comment	The "I Love You" Stigma: Brought up in the book, where the society they live in is an obsessive Utopia that regulates everything from family units to emotions to painful memories, and everything must be kept to a strictly even-keeled norm. While they allow a degree of personal freedom and enjoyment, any emotion above caring for a friend is forbidden. Jonas asks his parents if they love him, and they respond with the standard "Love is an inappropriate term..."
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The Giver / int_7043a964	type	Grammar Nazi
The Giver / int_7043a964	comment	Grammar Nazi: Played for Drama. Proper and precise word use are important in The Community. Jonas was punished for hyperbole when he claimed he was starving. He was also asked to use less vague language when he asked his parents if they loved him. Young children are not given an exemption: Jonas's friend Asher was repeatedly beaten for asking for a "smack" instead of "snack", and for a time refused to speak at all.
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The Giver / int_73f79f91	type	Released to Elsewhere
The Giver / int_73f79f91	comment	Released to Elsewhere: Trope Namer. No one other than the higher-ups know what it means. Anywhere outside the Community is known as "Elsewhere". The citizens think that when one gets too old, too sick, or too uppity (or in one case, born an identical twin, because they don't want any confusion on which is which and in another as enforcement of the strict Population Control), one is sent to a doctor to be examined, and then sent through a door in the Releasing Room beyond which, children are told, someone welcomes them to "Elsewhere." Jonas, as he is training to be the Receiver of Memory from the title character, learns that "release" is actually the Community's euphemism for "mandatory euthanasia," carried out by lethal injection by the doctor in question. In this case, that doctor happened to be his father. What's perhaps most disturbing is that, due to the nature of this Dystopia, even those who carry out the "release" can't grasp the full implications of what they're doing.
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The Giver / int_740f59b4	type	ColorCodedForYourConvenience
The Giver / int_740f59b4	comment	Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Blue (or at least "pale") eyes are linked to the special Receiving ability.
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The Giver / int_78255ad7	type	Passing the Torch
The Giver / int_78255ad7	comment	Passing the Torch: An essential part of the Giver's relationship with the Receiver. Every Receiver accepts the job with the understanding that they will eventually become the next Giver, with the task of passing on the accumulated memories to the next Receiver.
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The Giver / int_7a53b67d	type	Sinister Surveillance
The Giver / int_7a53b67d	comment	Sinister Surveillance: No one can turn the speakers off... except the Giver.
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The Giver / int_7a6eac7f	type	Biblical Motifs
The Giver / int_7a6eac7f	comment	Biblical Motifs: A bit subtler than most examples, but they're still there. Two of the central characters are named after an Old Testament prophet and an angel, respectively, and the plot starts with an incident with an apple that foreshadows a loss of innocence. The Community, a utopia without any knowledge of good or evil, undergoes a major upheaval after this knowledge is passed on to them. Unlike the Biblical example, however, Messenger implies that they get better.
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The Giver / int_7aba8180	type	Job Title
The Giver / int_7aba8180	comment	Job Title: The Receiver/Giver is one of these, at least.
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The Giver / int_7d260070	type	Corporal Punishment
The Giver / int_7d260070	comment	Corporal Punishment: How the children learn to speak properly. A story was told about how Asher, as a three, asked for a "smack" instead of a "snack" when he was hungry and was hit so often with the stick that his legs had marks and he went silent for a time. The Chief Elder remembered this fondly. "Discipline wands" are used for other early childhood "misdeeds" as well — starting when a child begins walking (a milestone that is generally reached around one year old). According to Fiona, the Old are also punished this way if they misspeak (or, presumably, "misbehave" in various other ways). Keep in mind that a good number of them are likely to be suffering from some form of dementia (although presumably they're "released" before it can get serious) — and thus are being punished for things they can't even control.
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The Giver / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Giver / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: To the Community, summed up in a single line by The Giver: "They know nothing."
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The Giver / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
The Giver / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: The book ends with Jonas getting a vision of a family celebrating Christmas. The ending is written ambiguously enough that the reader can interpret it as Jonas and Gabe escape, or they end up back at the Community, or the ending is a Dying Dream, or what-have-you. Lois Lowry responded with a Shrug of God when asked about it, although Messenger heavily implies their survival and Son confirms it.
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The Giver / int_8518ffd3	type	Laser-Guided Broadcast
The Giver / int_8518ffd3	comment	Laser-Guided Broadcast: The announcements given in the community are phrased as general reminders (e.g. about how one's clothing should be kept neat), but are clearly addressed at very specific individuals (i.e. at someone who doesn't keep their shirt tucked).
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The Giver / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
The Giver / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: The loudspeaker system prevalent throughout the book actually exists in many schools — the school's office can switch on a microphone to communicate with teachers through the loudspeaker if the phones are out of order for some reason.
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The Giver / int_89631688	type	The Chosen One
The Giver / int_89631688	comment	The Chosen One: Jonas is chosen by his society to be the new Receiver of Memory, a very revered position. Halfway through the book he decides that pulling a Screw Destiny will work for the better of society in the long run.
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The Giver / int_89b8822f	type	Go Mad from the Revelation
The Giver / int_89b8822f	comment	Go Mad from the Revelation: Rosemary turns out to be unable to handle the bad memories she receives, and has herself released.
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The Giver / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
The Giver / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: The Giver is actually a deconstruction of utopias and their necessary maintenance. In the slow revelation of the underlying rules The Community is built upon, it becomes apparent that played realistically utopias may become dystopias of their own.
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The Giver / int_8e20ae0d	type	Child Prodigy
The Giver / int_8e20ae0d	comment	Child Prodigy: Benjamin, a classmate of Jonas', spent so much time volunteering (between the ages of eight and eleven) at the Rehabilitation Center that he came up with machines to facilitate the rehab and knew almost as much as the directors.
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The Giver / int_8f10ec79	type	Weather-Control Machine
The Giver / int_8f10ec79	comment	Weather-Control Machine: Though the mechanics of it are never discussed, it's made clear that the Community's leaders know how to control the weather within the confines of the Community. For the people that live there, things like snow and rain are completely unknown, and the sun is always faint enough that no one apparently knows what a "sunburn" is. Fittingly, most of Jonas's significant early memories are weather-related: his first memory is of taking a sled ride in the snow, his first painful memory is getting a sunburn, and his first truly painful memory is another sled ride, this one ending in a broken leg. When he escapes with Gabe, he has to deal with harsh weather for the first time in his life, and nearly freezes to death in the snow.
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The Giver / int_905438eb	type	Recycled IN SPACE!
The Giver / int_905438eb	comment	Recycled In Space: Brave New World FOR KIDS!
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The Giver / int_9058da25	type	Nuclear Family
The Giver / int_9058da25	comment	Nuclear Family: Invoked by the Community. All families are intentionally set up like this, although minus the dog, as pets don't exist in the Community.
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The Giver / int_95428daa	type	Rite of Passage
The Giver / int_95428daa	comment	Rite of Passage: Getting assigned a job is an important rite that determines the rest of a person's life; being assigned the unusual job of Receiver is what marks Jonas as special in the Community.
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The Giver / int_97fa0a10	type	Mass "Oh, Crap!"
The Giver / int_97fa0a10	comment	Mass "Oh, Crap!": The Community off-screen when Jonas runs away with Gabriel. The Giver also mentions that they had the same reaction after the previous Receiver-In-Training's failure.
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The Giver / int_98e358c	type	Learning to Ride a Bike
The Giver / int_98e358c	comment	Learning to Ride a Bike: At the Ceremony of Nine, the children are given bicycles for the first time (instead of having to ride on the back of a parent's bike) and thus shown to be more independent in the Community. While this should be the first time the child is ever on a bike and thus wobbly and unskilled at riding, many are taught by older siblings beforehand in secret and have some balance before the ceremony.
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The Giver / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Giver / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Early on, we learn that Jonas' younger sister Lily has a stuffed toy elephant as her "comfort object", and that she believes that elephants are imaginary creatures that never existed (when he was little, Jonas had a bear, which was also supposedly imaginary). Much later in the book, Jonas receives a memory of an elephant being killed for its ivory by poachers. This is a major step in Jonas learning about the lost memory of sorrow, and it makes him realize just how much of the old world people have left behind.
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The Giver / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
The Giver / int_a1b141f4	comment	Jonas's father is a gentle, caring Nurturer (a person who takes care of newchildren at a special "Nurturing Center" before they're assigned to a family unit) who appears to genuinely enjoy (at least to the extent that a Community member can enjoy anything!) his job and his young charges. He even convinces the Elders to allow him and his family unit to effectively foster Gabriel until the next Ceremony of One in the hopes that they can help him overcome his developmental delays (and thus avoid Release). Of course, the reader (and Jonas) do eventually learn that he also routinely euthanizes newchildren who are deemed unfit to be part of the community (in some cases simply because they were unfortunate enough to be the smaller of a set of identical twins). However, like Fiona, he honestly has no idea of what he's actually doing because he literally cannot comprehend it. In the film he eventually does realize the sordid truth — when Jonas's memories are returned to the Community- and he is absolutely horrified).
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The Giver / int_a2e887be	type	Secondary Character Title
The Giver / int_a2e887be	comment	Secondary Character Title: The book is about the boy who's been selected to replace the Giver.
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The Giver / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Giver / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: There is a nice scene where Jonas watches his father give the smaller of newborn twin brothers a check-up. It's so nice and lovely, and... Wait, what's that needle? What do you mean "can't have two identical people running around?" WHAT DO YOU MEAN "THE VEINS IN YOUR ARM ARE TOO TEENY-WEENY"?!?!
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The Giver / int_a7f7e5f4	type	Absurdly Youthful Mother
The Giver / int_a7f7e5f4	comment	Absurdly Youthful Mother: During the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas mentions that "birthmothers", like everyone else, have their profession chosen for them at the age of twelve, and that they start having babies not long after that.
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The Giver / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Giver / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Jonas after he gets his first memory of serious pain, and realizing that he can't return from that point. The Giver had this in the past when learning that Rosemary, his daughter, applied for Release. Also Jonas when he learns that Release is actually euthanasia, and his father murders infants.
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The Giver / int_ad952d6e	type	Renowned Selective Mentor
The Giver / int_ad952d6e	comment	Renowned Selective Mentor: The Giver is an example of this trope. The task of the Receiver of Memory is to remember the details of their history and how the world used to be. Only when a successor is chosen does the Receiver take on the title of "Giver" as he begins to transfer these memories to his replacement. Usually this is a once in a lifetime kind of thing, but the current Receiver had a protÃ©gÃ© (his own daughter) that failed many years ago and has had to carry on as the Receiver for a long time while waiting for the next suitable replacement. Jonas becomes the Giver's student, and he is considered to have a special rank in the community.
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The Giver / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
The Giver / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: The Giver refuses to leave the Community with Jonas. He explains that someone has to take care of the Community, while Jonas can make better change by leaving. Jonas tries to persuade him, but the Giver is firm and says he wants to join his daughter Rosemary eventually. To join Rosemary would, in fact, mean being released himself — something which he mentions that he often thinks of when containing the memories is too much for him. This may be less than noble, since it implies that he wants to die... which, if he does before the people in the community have dealt with the memories, would probably destroy the Community and their way of life, and give him revenge for the death of his daughter.
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The Giver / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
The Giver / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: The previous Receiver-in-Training, Rosemary, was able to apply for Release because at the time there wasn't a rule against it. After she died, and the Community suffered the six weeks of memories she had, they added a rule that Jonas isn't allowed to apply for Release.
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The Giver / int_b1e9444f	type	Baby Factory
The Giver / int_b1e9444f	comment	Baby Factory: Some girls are selected at the age of twelve to begin training as Birthmothers, producing offspring for the Community that are immediately taken away. Once they meet their quota, Birthmothers spend the rest of their lives doing menial labor.
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The Giver / int_b352e864	type	Sexless Marriage
The Giver / int_b352e864	comment	Sexless Marriage: Every marriage is this, since sexual desires are suppressed by pills.
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The Giver / int_b38b6147	type	Science Fantasy
The Giver / int_b38b6147	comment	Science Fantasy: Everything that happens in the book is mostly within the realm of reality, except for the psychic way memories are passed from The Giver to The Receiver. No science is involved, just physical contact and concentration, implying use of some form of magic or supernatural ability. But in the sequels, especially Messenger, certain people possess "gifts" that are essentially magical powers that perform a set task. There is even a forest that changes itself to reflect the attitudes of the members of a community.
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The Giver / int_b535a9d6	type	False Utopia
The Giver / int_b535a9d6	comment	False Utopia: The Community is a society of perfect order. Except when someone decides not to follow it, then they get killed. Also, there are no emotions or colours.
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The Giver / int_b58bc88e	type	One Twin Must Die
The Giver / int_b58bc88e	comment	One Twin Must Die: In the event that a Birthmother has twins, one of them is Released to prevent any confusion between them. The Giver shows Jonas a camera feed of his father Releasing the smaller of a pair of male twin babies before dumping its body down a trash chute.
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The Giver / int_b6db5695	type	Political Overcorrectness
The Giver / int_b6db5695	comment	Political Overcorrectness: Though this is never explicitly stated, it's likely that this played a role in the development of the Utopia Justifies the Means society. Even the ability to see color is eliminated. Not just skin color — all color except black, grey and white. And couples don't actually reproduce through intercourse, but are assigned exactly two children (children are born to specifically designated Birthmothers who are never seen)- one male and one female- and every citizen begins taking medication during puberty to suppress "the Stirrings".
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The Giver / int_b818d204	type	Forbidden Holiday
The Giver / int_b818d204	comment	Forbidden Holiday: The community has banned any form of emotion and individuality, and that includes holidays. Nobody even knows that the holidays used to exist, save for the Receiver and Giver of Memory. While there actually is at least one 'holiday' seen in the book, it's simply a day off from work and school, with no actual celebration or deeper meaning behind it.
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The Giver / int_b89d9f13	type	Assimilation Plot
The Giver / int_b89d9f13	comment	Assimilation Plot: Has already occurred in the distant past. "Sameness" is a concept that is central to the functioning of the utopia. Everyone is so similar that even the ability to see color is not allowed.
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The Giver / int_b89ed08a	type	Obvious Rule Patch
The Giver / int_b89ed08a	comment	Obvious Rule Patch: After Rosemary applied for Release, died, and unleashed her memories on the Community, Jonas has a new rule saying that he cannot apply for Release.
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The Giver / int_b9baed0a	type	Lost Common Knowledge
The Giver / int_b9baed0a	comment	Lost Common Knowledge: This is the whole point of the book. The title character's actual occupation is "Receiver of Memory," and his role in the community is to be the only one with access to Lost Common Knowledge (such as the existence of death, color, and animals), in case it comes in handy to the regime. For example, the Giver tells Jonas that he was consulted when the powers that be were considering increasing the number of children born, and he said no because he knew why they'd started controlling population numbers, to avoid starvation. Of course he and Jonas come to feel that everyone else is being deprived of the knowledge of good things and that they're unfairly burdened being the only ones to know about things like starvation.
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The Giver / int_bb6c96a7	type	Culture Police
The Giver / int_bb6c96a7	comment	Culture Police: Society is strictly regulated under a policy of "Sameness," in which life is carefully regulated to eliminate strife and division. Music and media have been eliminated. Weather is kept constantly pleasant, only raining at night to water crops while the people sleep. Sex drives, or "stirrings" as they're called in the Community, are suppressed by mandatory drugs (except for the few whose job it is to breed), as are other strong emotions. Even positive emotions like familial love have been carefully eliminated so as to avoid making waves. Animals of all descriptions have been eradicated, at least in the areas where people might actually see them, and even the ability to see color has been carefully removed from the general population. Everyone is kept in blissful ignorance of the fact that life has ever been any different, with the exception of one individual per Community called "the Receiver of Memory," who is entrusted with the memories of life before Sameness in case a situation arises that requires such knowledge to resolve.
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The Giver / int_bbb3a5a0	type	Splash of Color
The Giver / int_bbb3a5a0	comment	Splash of Color: In-universe. Jonas first starts seeing color by noticing red for the first time, when everyone else is unable to see anything other than black and white.
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The Giver / int_bca8900a	type	Government Drug Enforcement
The Giver / int_bca8900a	comment	Government Drug Enforcement: Aside from the usual birth control pills, people are given painkillers for every little hurt, to keep them from feeling even that most basic of emotions, pain. The mandatory pills also remove "stirrings," or sexual desire. Jonas is put on the pills soon after he has his first Erotic Dream about Fiona, a female friend.
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The Giver / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
The Giver / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: The ending is ambiguous enough that readers can easily become hopelessly confused, especially without reading the sequels.
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The Giver / int_c13c9e38	type	Tomato Surprise
The Giver / int_c13c9e38	comment	Tomato Surprise: The point-of-view character, Jonas, experiences certain objects (an apple, his friend's hair) "changing" in the former half of the story; only he notices it, and he can't even quite explain what kind of change he saw. It is later revealed that everyone in his society is genetically engineered to be colorblind, and the "changing" was him briefly seeing the color red.
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The Giver / int_c232dbff	type	Perfection Is Impossible
The Giver / int_c232dbff	comment	Perfection Is Impossible: The creators of this society sought to eliminate war and prejudice, among other things, and apparently succeeded, but at a great cost. Just about everyone in the Community is content and safe, but they experience only the most shallow of emotions, no longer have things like color and animals, and lack freedom and rights, to the point that everyone's entire life is decided for them. Causing even a minor inconvenience to the status quo can result in "release" - mandatory euthanasia.
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The Giver / int_c5249b29	type	Nice Guy
The Giver / int_c5249b29	comment	Nice Guy: Jonas is intuitive, understanding, sensitive, kind, well-meaning, polite, and wanting to do what's best for the Community. Fiona is caring and considerate, which makes her a good fit for the job of caring for old people. Although her job of "releasing" old people is not so nice, she doesn't understand the implications of such an act. Jonas's father is a gentle, caring Nurturer (a person who takes care of newchildren at a special "Nurturing Center" before they're assigned to a family unit) who appears to genuinely enjoy (at least to the extent that a Community member can enjoy anything!) his job and his young charges. He even convinces the Elders to allow him and his family unit to effectively foster Gabriel until the next Ceremony of One in the hopes that they can help him overcome his developmental delays (and thus avoid Release). Of course, the reader (and Jonas) do eventually learn that he also routinely euthanizes newchildren who are deemed unfit to be part of the community (in some cases simply because they were unfortunate enough to be the smaller of a set of identical twins). However, like Fiona, he honestly has no idea of what he's actually doing because he literally cannot comprehend it. In the film he eventually does realize the sordid truth — when Jonas's memories are returned to the Community- and he is absolutely horrified).
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The Giver / int_c585947d	type	World of Silence
The Giver / int_c585947d	comment	World of Silence: The Community is a milder version. People still laugh and take pleasure in their activities, but as Jonas discovers, it is all very superficial. When someone in the community says they are sad or angry, they are not talking about true grief or rage, but much shallower emotions. The word "love" is not unknown in the Community, but it has lost relevancy. Jonas' parents enjoy his company very much, but they consider the word "love" very generalized, meaningless to the point of being obsolete. If the Community continues as it is, the word itself may be forgotten.
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The Giver / int_c63e7d67	type	Invoked
The Giver / int_c63e7d67	comment	Invoked. In the Community, only one person is allowed to carry a given first name at any given time. In the rare event that a person dies unexpectedly, their name is immediately passed on to a newborn baby to create the impression that they never really left.
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The Giver / int_c97c198d	type	Happiness Is Mandatory
The Giver / int_c97c198d	comment	Happiness Is Mandatory: It's more like "Quiet Contentment is Mandatory", since excess emotion is discouraged in the dystopian society.
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The Giver / int_c9993b95	type	Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage
The Giver / int_c9993b95	comment	Bureaucratically Arranged Marriage: All couples are arranged this way, although, in this case, some mention is made of how couples are arranged so that the people involved complement each other and work well together, though it's still loveless and sexless.
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The Giver / int_ca6b7737	type	No Blood Ties
The Giver / int_ca6b7737	comment	No Blood Ties: Babies are produced by women whose job title is Birthmother, but raised in 'family units' composed of a man and a woman (matched up by the Elders), and one male and one female child. Given that everybody's sex drive is chemically inhibited (pills for "Stirrings"), it's safe to assume that the Birthmothers are artificially inseminated (which is confirmed in Son).
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The Giver / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Giver / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Jonas's parents names are never mentioned- they are always referred to simply as "Mother" and "Father".
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The Giver / int_ccf7fe9c	type	Freedom from Choice
The Giver / int_ccf7fe9c	comment	Freedom from Choice: This trope figures heavily in the book. In particular, both jobs and spouses are assigned by the government.
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The Giver / int_ce0b2b21	type	Monochrome Casting
The Giver / int_ce0b2b21	comment	Monochrome Casting: The only time a non-Anglo name is mentioned is Father's childhood acquaintance Yoshiko, and the only time a non-White person is mentioned is in one of Jonas's memories of war. Also applies to the movies where there are no non-White cast members.
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The Giver / int_cff33981	type	Living Is More than Surviving
The Giver / int_cff33981	comment	Living Is More than Surviving: A central theme: Jonas comes to realize that the community gave up genuine emotion and humanity for an emotionally sterile, functional utopia.
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The Giver / int_d028ca10	type	Deliberately Monochrome
The Giver / int_d028ca10	comment	Deliberately Monochrome: Though its absence isn't indicated until far into the book, the majority of the book takes place In a Worldâ€¦ where color (and music... and sex...) have been eliminated — or, rather, most people have been genetically engineered and drugged not to see it.
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The Giver / int_d2771f82	type	World of No Grandparents
The Giver / int_d2771f82	comment	World of No Grandparents: Invoked. The Community doesn't even have the concept of grandparents - Jonas is completely unfamiliar with them before the Giver's explanation. Family units are used solely as a mechanism for raising children and family roles solely consist of mother/father, son/daughter, and brother/sister. And once children grow to adulthood, even these relationships essentially dissolve.
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The Giver / int_d558b013	type	Un-person
The Giver / int_d558b013	comment	Unperson: The story's dystopian society has removed Rosemary, the previous Receiver of Memory and the Giver's daughter from the public memory, going as far as to forbid her name to be used for a new child ever again, after the memories she received dissipated out into the community when she applied for release (assisted suicide, and she knew what it was) and the members of the community had to feel emotion and pain for the first time. There's a variant that is almost kinder: A young child dies and his parents are given a new child with the same gender and the same name, in order to "replace" the child that died. Because everyone's emotions are so dulled, this is an effective emotional replacement, rendering the original child meaningless.
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The Giver / int_d5c229d1	type	Fictional Age of Majority
The Giver / int_d5c229d1	comment	Fictional Age of Majority: The book begins with Jonas going through his Ceremony of Twelve, in which twelve-year-old members of his community are given their "Assignments" (i.e. jobs) and become legal adults. The Film of the Book gives the characters an Age Lift and changes the age of majority to 18.
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The Giver / int_d7b34c31	type	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
The Giver / int_d7b34c31	comment	Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": The Giver's real name is never revealed and he is always just called "Giver" by Jonas and "Receiver" by other characters. The Chief Elder's real name is never revealed.
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The Giver / int_da1c8191	type	Writers Cannot Do Math
The Giver / int_da1c8191	comment	Writers Cannot Do Math: The book has ridiculously strict population control methods doomed to fail. Even with a completely cooperative populace, it will still fail because of math. Each family unit is allowed a maximum of 2 children, the same number of children are born each year and they are all assigned to a family unit. Not all adults have children, and not all family units have the maximum of 2 children. Birthmothers, the only job that allows giving birth, are only allowed to have 3 children each before they become laborers. This would require that at least 2/3 of all women become birth mothers to maintain a stable population, but this doesn't happen at the beginning of the book as the administration is handing out jobs to graduates. The jobs that are described (both by the Ceremony and Jonas's parents) include Engineer, Doctor, Rehabilitation Specialist... but the ratio of these jobs to laborers to birthmothers is way off for this to be a functional community.
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The Giver / int_dbca2c99	type	Red Herring
The Giver / int_dbca2c99	comment	Red Herring: One of Jonas's rules is that he's not allowed to apply for Release. The Giver outright states that the Receiver-in-Training cannot apply for Release because the community can't handle the emotional memories, not even the good ones and certainly not the bad ones. With all this, however, Jonas doesn't face the threat of Release. Instead, Gabriel does. However, it is mentioned that this rule came about because the last receiver did apply for release. Knowing this leads to Jonas and the Giver's eventual plan. Asher gets into a mild argument with Jonas when the latter begs his friends to not play a war game after Jonas suffers a flashback. It seems to imply that Asher will become an antagonist. Instead, Jonas drifts from Asher and Fiona as they all go deep into their training.
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The Giver / int_dbe9d2ac	type	Living Ark
The Giver / int_dbe9d2ac	comment	Living Ark: The nature of being the Giver is this trope. The protagonist is to be trained by an elderly man to be the next Giver, as the living repository for all the memories, feelings, and emotions discarded in the new emotionless utopia of the setting to act as an unconventional advisor to the ruling authority. He must recall all emotions like Love and concepts like Family, because his regimented society has eliminated them to prevent dissension and conflict.
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The Giver / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
The Giver / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Jonas and Lily are called Jonas-Bonus and Lily-Billy respectively by their parents (which the former finds rather embarrassing).
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The Giver / int_dfa40c1b	type	Didn't See That Coming
The Giver / int_dfa40c1b	comment	Didn't See That Coming: For all the community's thought-out plans to keep everyone orderly, they didn't consider that the token Receiver of Memory wouldn't want to bear all the pain and pleasure from the past. Rosemary's suicide shocked them, and no one anticipates Jonas's rebellion.
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The Giver / int_dfcb2c08	type	The Evils of Free Will
The Giver / int_dfcb2c08	comment	The Evils of Free Will: The guiding principle behind the dystopian "Community". The elders make everyone's choices for them, including their career and their spouse, because if people were left to their own devices they might make the "wrong" choice. To limit people's choices even further, they go so far as to make the population colorblind.
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The Giver / int_e28ccd68	type	No Sex Allowed
The Giver / int_e28ccd68	comment	No Sex Allowed: People are given pills to stop sex drives, or "stirrings," from the start of puberty. (Platonic) marriages and families still exist, but the children are assigned to parents by the government, which has Birthmothers as a special profession. They undergo artificial insemination, as described in Son.
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The Giver / int_e2a41c3b	type	Literal-Minded
The Giver / int_e2a41c3b	comment	Literal-Minded: Enforced. Precision of language is brought up often. Community members must be very careful to say only what they mean, because there's no room for metaphor or ambiguity or subtext in Sameness. This is most aptly demonstrated with Asher, who couldn't pronounce "snack" when he was little, and would accidentally ask for and receive a smack instead. It's clearly taken to an extreme by this point— everyone knew what Asher meant, and he was often warned not to say it, but because it's so important that there be no questioning of what anyone means, this is what happens.
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The Giver / int_e4157ffd	type	May It Never Happen Again
The Giver / int_e4157ffd	comment	May It Never Happen Again: When the previous Receiver-in-Training applied for Release (read as: death) due to being overwhelmed by the memories given to her, the Community briefly experienced the memories she had received over the course of six weeks. Distressed by the incident, the City Council thereon enforces a new rule saying that Receivers can't apply for Release by the time Jonas is selected to be trained.
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The Giver / int_e9db9908	type	Younger Than They Look
The Giver / int_e9db9908	comment	Younger Than They Look: The Giver's description and appearance on the cover imply that he's an elderly man but based on the timeline outlined in the story, he'd be somewhere in his late 30s to mid-40s. Possibly justified based on how much stress he ensures and what he's been through.
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The Giver / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
The Giver / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: "Precision of language" is a very big deal in the Community. The Chief Elder tells a story of when Asher was a toddler and demanded 'a smack', when he wanted a snack... so the Instructor smacked him. Later, when Jonas asks his parents if they love him, he is chastised for using a word that is so vague and imprecise it's practically obsolete.
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The Giver / int_ea2e9f2d	type	No Ending
The Giver / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: Was the house Jonas saw at the end real and he actually escaped, or was it just a dream or hallucination caused by the final stages of hypothermia? The sequels give the answer, but the wonderful thing about them is you can accept them as sequels or not, and either interpretation is acceptable. Lois Lowry knew what she was doing.
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The Giver / int_ea6f361f	type	You Are Number 6
The Giver / int_ea6f361f	comment	You Are Number 6: People have serial numbers besides their names. When children behave badly, their parents sometimes call them by their number, suggesting that a bad child is not worthy of a name. Related is the fact that, in the community, children's ages are used as nouns rather than descriptors; for example, "a Four" or "all the Elevens".
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The Giver / int_ec1f731c	type	Individuality Is Illegal
The Giver / int_ec1f731c	comment	Individuality Is Illegal: The Community is run by a very precise set of rules — people have been engineered so that they all look the same, experience more or less the same things, and react with the same quiet contentment and patience, and any deviance from this (see Asher's "snack"/"smack" incident) is punished. Breaking serious rules three times results in Release.
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The Giver / int_edb6dd67	type	We Will Have Euthanasia in the Future
The Giver / int_edb6dd67	comment	We Will Have Euthanasia in the Future: Everybody except the Receiver of Memory (and his protÃ©gÃ©) has the right to commit suicide whenever they want and euthanasia (which is called being "Released to Elsewhere") is practiced on the elderly, the smaller of identical twins, and babies that don't develop correctly (with the "issue" sometimes being as simple as the baby being unable to sleep through the night), as well as on people who cause too much trouble (airplane pilots who make too many mistakes, for instance). Consent is an issue in the first case though, since they don't know it's euthanasia rather than exile. Due to the way this society works, even the people who perform "Release" don't fully understand what they are doing. Only the Giver and the Receiver, the only people who possess all of the knowledge the society has given up, understand that "Release" means death. One chilling scene is when the main character realizes that his gentle, caring father kills the "defective" infants.
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The Giver / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
The Giver / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Invoked. In the Community, only one person is allowed to carry a given first name at any given time. In the rare event that a person dies unexpectedly, their name is immediately passed on to a newborn baby to create the impression that they never really left. Rosemary is about as straight an example of this as you can possibly get. After she Released herself, causing her memories to escape into the Community and cause chaos, the Elders retired her name, forbidding it to be given to any newchild going forward.
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The Giver / int_f0e85546	type	Unbuilt Trope
The Giver / int_f0e85546	comment	Unbuilt Trope: Despite being middle grade and published before YA Lit was even a thing, the book reads like a Deconstruction of modern YA Dystopians: Jonas is much younger than most YA Dystopia protagonists, the love story is more familial than romantic, and the Community was not set up in response to a rebellion that we know of. Most striking of all, however, is the fact that those within the Community are perfectly happy with their way of life and even believe it to be ideal. Things get chilling when we see the Community's casual support of euthanizing a pilot who made a single, non-lethal error, and veer into full-on horror when Jonas' dad "releases" an infant.
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The Giver / int_f1d6144a	type	War Is Hell
The Giver / int_f1d6144a	comment	War Is Hell: A brief, haunting moment is when Jonas is given the memory of a young man dying in combat in what is implied to be The American Civil War. And when we say young, we mean no older than thirteen. Utopia Justifies the Means, indeed...
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The Giver / int_f3b36473	type	Important Hair Accessory
The Giver / int_f3b36473	comment	Important Hair Accessory: All the girls of the Community wear long braided hair with ribbons at the ends from the Ceremony of Three until the Ceremony of Nine, where the ribbons are removed. (The next year, they all get their hair cut short.)
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