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The title of this book- The Giver- is based on the Giver, the man who was the Receiver before Jonas and the man who is giving the memories to Jonas. I think the title of this book is The Giver because the Giver gives the memories to Jonas that helps him recognize everything that changed in his society. It helps it recognize the faults and cons of living in the society and even some of the pros. Jonas only found all of these things out because of the Giver who gave him these memories. I think that this title symbolizes the good and innocence in the community or the outside of a rotting apple that hasn't gone bad yet. This part would be the new generation, the generation that doesn't really know all about the society yet.

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Some things Jonas sees in the memories that don't exist in the society anymore are things like snow, sleds with runners and hills. He experienced going downhill, too. Sunshine was also given in a memory and he experienced sunburn.

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Jonas is surprised when the Giver locks the door and turns off the Speaker because they aren't usually given that privacy as normal citizens. Jonas is also surprised he even has an off/on switch on his Speaker and a lock on his door since you don't see those things in this community very often. I can infer that the citizens aren't given much privacy and choice in this society and are always monitored and watched so they don't do anything wrong or forbidden. They probably don't give them much privacy because the Elders in the society don't want anything to go wrong and will not hesitate changing anything that goes wrong. I can also infer that other communities aren't like this because the society probably doesn't want their rules and ways of working to get out, which is another reason why they might be monitored.

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Jonas says this quote on page 98 "I thought there was only us. I thought there was only now" (Lowry 98). This quote shows that Jonas thought that things were always were the way that they are in his society. He thought that people were always given an Assignment and rode on bicycles. He didn't know that there were other ways that the world worked and that there were other ways to govern or control a society. This is a bad way to live because the only way you learn your mistakes and get better at things is if you learn from the past which the citizens in the society don't know about. The only way that they will thrive as a society is if they know about their past and make changes to the world because of those mistakes. They need to know why the society even changed at all, too.

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The process of transmitting memories is pretty simple. The Receiver puts his hands on Jonas' back when he is lying down and Jonas receives the memory he is giving to him. This is probably because the Receiver needs skin contact to give the memory which he would get with this process when Jonas removes his tunic. The first memory Jonas receives is of snow and going downhill on a sled.

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The Receiver's House is different from other houses in the community because the houses in the community are usually plain with the same un-original furniture. The Receiver's House has the same furniture too but it's just more sleek and luxurious with slender legs on the tables and intricate designs on the tablecloth. The Receiver's House also has tons and tons of books on bookshelves that nobody else has. He has these because it shows importance and honor because of his position showing that he does something that someone else may not be able to do, showing him that he is special.

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The utopia Jonas lives in is designed for perfection by eliminating some things because they are meant to be the same and eliminating some things does that. When the kids get Stirrings, it makes them different in a way because everyone probably has different Stirrings and different feelings which they shouldn't really have. By eliminating these feelings and Stirrings, it gets rid of feelings that may interfere with the laws of the utopia like getting assigned for marriage. Without what happens during the Stirrings, their laws for honesty, sameness and more are abided. During the Stirrings, the children probably get moody and difficult to deal with since the Stirrings could be like puberty. With getting rid of these mood swings they could make everyone perfect and everyone follow the rules to just how they are. The utopia also eliminated love which could lead to many bad things for the utopia leaders if the citizens knew what they were missing.

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The apple symbolizes the utopia that Jonas lives in in many ways. The society is meant to be a utopia, always perfect, but that's just the outside, like how an apple on the outside can be smooth and perfect but rotten on the inside. Although the utopia may seem perfect, the core of the society could be corrupt, like the core of an apple is rotten and unhealthy. When the apple stays out for too long, it starts to rot inside out and that too could happen to a utopia- slowly destroying itself. This utopia is also symbolized by an apple because when people are released, they are just thrown away like how the core of an apple are thrown away. The criminals are the core of the apple- rotten- and the babies and elder people are just bruises on the apple that are still discarded because the apple has to be perfect to make the whole batch of apples the same. If the apple is perfect, it stays in the society and if they aren't, they are released. A perfect apple in the society is also paired with other perfect apples like them like how in the utopia the Twelves are given jobs with people who share similar interests like them or are just like them.

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I noticed that each ceremony, the child grows up an year and becomes more mature. Birthdays also mark this growth and maturity as you get older, although there is one every year (even for adults) unlike in the GIver. I also noticed that each ceremony, every child is given a new thing, either big or small like presents you get on your birthday, Usually these ceremony gifts are privileges. GIfts you get on your birthday are also privileges, too, because you could get something that needs extra responsibility and care, which would be a privilege for you. You could get a new iPhone or something else like that which needs maturity and would be a privilege to have, since some people don't actually have things that others get on their birthdays.