Conflict/Resolution piece on The Giver

Author's note: This piece is a conflict resolution piece where I will be talking about The Giver by Lois Lowery and one of the main conflicts in the story.

In The Giver by Lois Lowery the government almost controls people in a way because they took away all of the peoples emotion and feelings for things so if the sun was out and it was 83 degrease they couldn’t feel it and they don’t really care if they have a test to study for, they just study they don't give it any thought to it. In this way the government is messed up.

In the story the conflict is that no one can feel anything and also the government "releases people" if they do something wrong. What that means is that they kill you if you mess up so if you are learning to drive a car and you go through a stop sign you will be killed. The people of this town do not know what emotion is and Jonas and the Giver believe that the people have the right to know.

The resolution was that Jonas ran away from the town with all of the memories of the people so that the town leaders can turn to the Giver for advice and the town will fall into chaos. Then the government will have to give people emotions. After that the people will most likely protest and revolt against the government.

If the Giver and Jonas hadn't done what they did then who knows what could have happened. They could have died a normal life in the community but then they would feel like they forgot something.

Then they would never have saved the city from the "Sameness" as the author calls it.