The theme of the book “The Giver” is Sameness and the concept of Utopia. One of the most important themes in “The Giver” is the significance of memory to human life. At some point in the past the community in The Giver decided to eliminate/remove all pain from their lives. They had to give up the memories of their society’s experiences. This allowed them to forget all of the pain, sadness, and loneliness that had been suffered throughout history, it also prevented members of the society from wanting to engage in activities and relationships that could result in conflict and suffering; in order to live in total peace and harmony; like utopia. But as the story goes on, Jonas goes through his training, he learns that just as there is no pain without memory, there is also no true happiness.As the book stated, “Not everyone is happy in a ‘perfect’ world”, Jonas realized that even though his community is perfect; not everyone is gonna be happy.
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