"Quote" from the Story Piece

Jackson Wolf

2/10/12

Language Arts

Quote From “The Giver”

Author's note: This Piece is focused on retelling a story quote in the book "The Giver"

The Giver is about a young boy named Jonah who is chosen to be the next receiver, who now is a “receiver-in-training” who is being taught by the previous receiver, but now there is a new receiver, the original receiver is now known is The Giver who teaches the young Jonah to escape his world of nothing but gray and black shades into seeing true color through The Giver via memories throughout hunger, freedom, and pain.

"Not everyone should be chosen for Freedom"

That quote is basically the plot of the entire book. Not everyone can see color, or “Plainness”, nor does The Giver can or want to have everyone to be able to see color because everything would be in chaos to have “Freedom” throughout their entire life. Like Jonah joked about having people being able to pick their own jobs, otherwise like the Giver said, those jobs will be in the hands of others that could not handle the job. But if someone selected for you you’d be able to handle and concentrate rather than goofing off or something.