Giver Essay Template 2016

Outline for GIVER LITERARY ESSAY

Themes: Pain and Loneliness

Paragraph #1: Introductory Paragraph (GIT)

Grabber Statement (G): What if there was a society who didn’t feel emotions? Who never felt pain, loneliness, sadness or happiness? This is true for the community in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry.

Introduce Plot Summary (I): Jonas, a twelve year old boy, was chosen to be the Receiver of Memory. It is the most important and most respected job among the people. Jonas takes on the task of seeing and feeling new ideas, such as emotions. This makes him different.

Thesis Statement (T): This society is a dystopia because the community doesn’t allow anyone to have emotions. The society seems like a utopia in some ways because the elders hold back the feeling of pain and loneliness from the community, but in reality, pain is something we can all learn from and is an important emotion.

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Paragraph #2: Thematic Analysis

Topic Sentence (T): One way that Jonas’s community tries to be a perfect society and make everyone the same is by not allowing anyone to feel pain.

Explanatory Sentence (E): The elders do not want people in the community to feel pain or emotions. This insures that there are no differences between the people in the society.

Evidence (E): For example, when Jonas is selected as the next Receiver, the elders know that Jonas will feel terrible pain that he has never experienced before and that Jonas will struggle through it. Although it actually makes Jonas a s It gives us wisdom and strength. Jonas will have a special honor to have the impression of pain that only he and past receivers have felt. On page 95 it says, “‘Why do you and I have to hold these memories?’ ‘It gives us wisdom,’ the Giver replied.”

Analysis (A): This shows that Jonas and the Giver are one of the only people who can feel pain. Jonas and the Giver obtain knowledge and memory, and as a result, experience pain. The elders need to keep the community in order and to have everyone be the same.They are preventing the community to have the reaction of the whole human experience. But Jonas and the Giver are different. Jonas can now feel both physical pain and mental pain too. He is starting to feel emotions such as sadness, love and fear.

Concluding/ Transition (C): Emotions like pain makes Jonas feel alone. Feeling pain and loneliness is required for Jonas. He and the Giver are the only ones in the community who take in all the pain and loneliness. Although feeling pain and loneliness is not a bad thing, it does later help us and makes us wiser.

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Paragraph #3: Thematic Analysis Continued

Topic Sentence (T): Loneliness is a meaningful and life-changing emotion that Jonas experiences. It changes the way Jonas thinks by a great amount.

Explanatory Sentence (E): Loneliness is a feeling of pain and grief. It is a unique experience and a huge new shock for Jonas. Feeling alone is a hurtful emotion, it makes Jonas feel depressed and scared.

Evidence (E): Having emotions is a brand new way of thinking for Jonas, especially feeling pain and loneliness. For example, Jonas’s community doesn’t know anything about pain and being alone. On page 133 and page 134, Lois Lowry writes, “Jonas stood alone in the center of the field. Several of the children raised their heads and looked at him uneasily.” “One of the children raised an imaginary rifle and made an attempt to destroy him with a firing noise. ‘Pssheeew!’ Then they were all silent, standing awkwardly, and the only sound was the sound of Jonas’s shuddering breaths. He was struggling not to cry.”

Analysis (A): Because Jonas is one of the only people who can feel pain, other people and children in the society don’t understand how he is thinking. Having emotions in Jonas’s community is really unimportant because the utopia does not have emotions anymore like they used to. That caused a dystopia.

Concluding/ Transition (C): Having emotions is like being in a whole new world. Jonas is starting to be experiencing happiness, sadness, pain, loneliness and more.

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Paragraph #4: Concluding Paragraph (ROC)

Reflection on Thesis (R): I have proven that the community is a dystopia, because the people in the society aren’t able to feel emotions such as pain and happiness.

Overview of Main Points (O):  Pain helps us grow up stronger and help deal with hardships later in life. Happiness is a moment of joy, it’s lucky to feel happy, but the society took this away from the people.

Concluding Sentence– Comparisons and Connections (C): Difference is fortunate, and Jonas gains this fortune. Jonas imagines to create this a better world by letting everyone have the impression of emotions.