Right away from reading even the first couple of pages of the Giver, I could clearly see the differences comparing our world to Jonas's. Their perspective on how children should be raised and lifestyle is completely different from ours. Certain objects, routines, and activities that are in our daily lives are left out of Jonas's altered world. Something that seems strange to us may seem normal to him and vice versa. An important item that was left out in the Giver was their type of transportation. People in our world get to places in many different ways (Car, Bus, Airplanes, Subway) but Jonas's main form of transportation is bike. There is only one other reference of transportation so far in the book and that is the cargo plane that drops off supplies to the community. At first I thought that bikes were only used by children but the book says that "Lily waved to her friends from the back of Mother's bike, and Jonas rode beside her". Another significant item that is missing in the Giver is modern technology. Jonas seems like any normal teen boy and Lily seems like any normal little girl, their personalities seem like kids and teens in our world. There is no evidence in the book about the time period because it is a made up world with probably a made up time period. Lois Lowry is clearly making a statement by leaving modern technology, transportation, and many more items out of this story; she is telling us how their society is different from ours. It makes the book more interesting not to mention how greatly some of those items would effect the story plot.
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