The biggest, most important Ceremony in The Giver is the Ceremony of 12. At this Ceremony, the children learn their Assignments, which are the jobs they will do through adulthood.
Jonas explains his apprehensiveness about the coming Ceremony of Twelve—the time when he will be assigned a career and begin life as an adult.
Jonas is the protagonist, or main character, in the novel. He is a sensitive, polite, compassionate 12-year-old boy.
Eight year-old children, or eights, are not allowed to have comfort objects. Girls under nine are supposed to keep their hair tied in ribbons at all times, and no children under nine can ride a bike. Tens are to receive haircuts, while elevens get new clothing. Lastly, twelves get job assignments.
The movie is based on young adult fiction with themes and disturbing scenes that make it unsuitable for most children under 15 years, although younger children might have read the book.
This is my 11-year-olds favorite movie, but if your kids are more sensitive or easily scared, don't watch it. (There is a scene where a baby is killed and also a scene with war, along with a scene where a main character is almost killed) I don't think this movie deserves its PG-13 rating at all.
The main reasons why The Giver was banned or challenged include the violent content related to euthanasia, suicide, and infanticide, and the sexually suggestive content in the novel.
The Giver [2014] [PG-13] - 2.4. 1 | Parents' Guide & Review | Kids-In-Mind.com. SEX/NUDITY 2 - A teen boy kisses a teen girl and she says, "What was that?" and she becomes frightened and walks away.
The ending to The Giver is sort of a "take it how you like it" deal. Either Jonas and Gabriel make it to Elsewhere, everyone is happy, and the world is right as rain, or… they die of exposure/starvation in the freezing snow.
The Ceremony of Twelve is an annual gathering where the current twelve-year-olds in the town are given Assignments. These Assignments are apprenticeships which serve as precursors for their permanent careers.
4) Jonas doesn't kiss Fiona in the book
But in the book, he doesn't really act on his Stirrings toward Fiona, probably because, well, he's only a Twelve.
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But Lowry says the film itself isn't consumed by the relationship between Jonas and Fiona, except for a line in the final scene in which Jonas says, "I knew I would see Fiona again." "I've written four books now (in this series) and he never sees her again," Lowry tells The News.
Jonas stops taking the pills just so he can experience the sensation of wanting something, not because he has hopes to start a sexual relationship with another person. He wants to feel capable of making choices, and he wants to want things—nothing will change if he does not want it to very badly.
The biggest, most important Ceremony in The Giver is the Ceremony of 12. At this Ceremony, the children learn their Assignments, which are the jobs they will do through adulthood.
However, he doesn't really know what pain is, for pain is "beyond his comprehension." And he can lie. Jonas has never intentionally lied. He recalls an incident when he used the word "starving" rather than "hungry." Accused of lying, he was told that no one in the community was, or ever would be, starving.
He is totally blind to the worlds of music, color, dance and ultimately — emotion. That is until he receives the job as the new “Receiver” in his community and is thrown into a changing world of completely new ideas, senses and emotions.
Jonas cried, too, for the same reasons, and another reason as well. He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself. ' Jonas is learning that it is not as easy as he thought to live in a world without steady food, shelter, and medical care.
The end of The Giver is open to interpretation. Some readers believe that Jonas and Gabriel are able to escape, and they sled into a new community. Others interpret the final scene as a dying hallucination of Jonas's that was triggered by the first memory The Giver gave him.
When Jonas is selected as the Receiver, or the holder of memories and emotions for the whole society, he realizes his love for Fiona. But, she won't be able to return that love.
The Giver is rated PG-13 by the MPAA for a mature thematic image and some sci-fi action/violence.
Now, even the expression "love" is an empty ideal. For example, when Jonas asks his parents if they love him, his mother scolds him for using imprecise language. She says that "love" is "a very generalized word, so meaningless that it's become almost obsolete." To Jonas, however, love is a very real feeling.
Although the Giver is a kind and understanding old man, he is the book's main antagonist. This is not because he is evil, but rather because he perpetuates a society in which humans no longer possess the freedom to choose their own lives.
According to community rules, Jonas must take a pill to stop “the stirrings,” or the onset of sexual desire during puberty. Jonas's mother gives him the pills after he talks about an erotic dream in which he wanted to bathe Fiona, which reveals Jonas's burgeoning sexuality.
The Giver served as a warning for society to show the effects of what would happened if we conformed to the idea of Sameness. It's believed that in order to achieve utopia, many aspects that contribute to human suffering would have to be eradicated.