The Giver seems to believe that memory is an important part of gaining wisdom and shaping the future.
Do you believe you need to know about the past in order to be wise?
Do you think knowing the past can be valuable in shaping the future?
Support your answer with examples from the book, other stories, news, history, or your personal life.
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I think that knowing a certain amount about the past will give you the knowledge. Not necessarily the wisdom but knowledge. Certain things happen in history that we need to know about to help us prepare for the future. For instance when the 9/11 occurred we took immediate action to find the people responsible and bring them to justice. We are learning from what happens to us how to make the future better.
In the book, Jonas gets the memory of sunshine and of snow; weather. He also gets the memory of war and death, loneliness and pain. The elders appointed him receiver of memory to keep those things away from the community. They are using what they know of the past to shape their community to perfection.
I tkink that in order to be wise you do need to know about the past because then you would be able to understand what is happening and understand it. like in the book Jonas did not know about alot the world but as soon as he started to recieve the memories he began to realize what the past experiences has brought his community way back. i also think that the past can be valuable for shaping the future because people learn from the past and know whats going on. in the book the commmunity had no clue about the past so they were just boring and had the same rutine everyday.
These days many grandparents are said to be wise and full of memorys. Throughout there lives they have been through alot of rough times, and some great times. I think that to be great and wise you need to know about the past and what has happened up till your day. In the novela the giver Jonas is given the job of the reciever and he has to recieve all these great, and horrible memories so the community wont forget.There is many things jonas does not know though like there was a girl reciever that applied for a release a while ago and they killed her. The community killed many people and never let anyone know about it.i think knowing the past can help you shape the future because if your seeing a trend of bad things happening you can try your best to change them in order to help out the community.
Yes because the past has made us stronger in life and have new ideas and we can still learn and take one step at time. He experienced snow how it was so cold, and he got to experience sledding with that rush he thought it was and scary the same time, knowing the past it makes you use different things and ideas in the future so you can learn from your past and move on with life or other things that are holding you back.
The past is what makes your future. Im sure everyone has heard the phrase "learn from your mistakes." If you have made no mistakes how can you learn new things. you cant become your own person if you are exactly the same as everyone else. The reason our parents and grandparents are wiser than we are is because they have lived throught more experiances than we have. The Giver was wise because he had the wisdome of the past, there was a reason the chief elder called to him when they were unfamiliar with a spacific happening. wisdome also gives you courage, hope, and streanth, to help you become the person that you are.
Of course our past shapes our future and wisdom. We learn from our experiences and mistakes, and out of learning what we did wrong, we become wise. Wisdom is not something you can come across and gain without experience. It can be personal experience or the experience of others that you gain your knowledge from. Jonas gained his wisdom from the secondhand memories of The Giver, and he used them to form logical opinions and personal beliefs. When Jonas saw his father killing The New Child, he KNEW it was wrong from the memories of death.
"knowledge is power!" The more things you learn about life and the past gives you knowledge and makes you learn from your experiences. Your outlook on life and your future can change when you learn from the past. Over the years you get wiser because you learn new things as you go.
I do think a person needs to know about the past in order to be wise. How would you know how to handle the struggles life throws at you or to help a friend that is going through something you've already been through? I think that knowing about the past can definitely help shape the future. If you know about all of the bad things that have happened in the past, you can help to better your future and the future of others. For example, Jonas now has all of the memories. If his memories are released into all of the other citizens, maybe then they can shape a better, more functioning community because everyone would be able to think for themselves and make decisions.
I believe that yes it is important to know the past to be wise. If you knew nothing about the past than you would'nt know or understand what is good for us and what is bad. You would eventually learn because everything you do earns a small spot in your memory but its important to know the past to help the future. In the book The Giver, the elders go and ask the reciever for help because he knows the past therefore he can determine what the community should do in order to avoid failure.If the Giver didnt know the past than the elders would do whatever they felt like which could eventually lead to trial and failure. -jenn
I think that knowing about the past is a necessity to being wise. This is because it gives you the edge over people in your community, because you know more than they do. An example of this, take a guy that plums houses. In the past they would use brass return lines in houses, and now in the future they use pex return lines. It would be important for this person to know how they did things in the past because in some circumstances he would have to use those same principles in the future. An example of this in the book is that it is good for Jonas to know those kinds of memories in the community, because yes it does give him pain, but is also enables him to know things that other people do not. So knowing things in the past and the present will give you knowledge over things that other people know nothing about.
I think that if we have memorys from the past we will learn from the past and the mistakes of things mankind has done in the past. So we will noat make the same mistakes again. Its also good so we have wisdom of what is good and bad. If we have memorys of joy, love and happiness. Then we will be able to notice it right away and feel warmth and comfort from that.- Austin Rhoten period 3
I think that you do need to know the past for your future because then you have more knowledge which then you can become wiser. There are a lot of things in the past that everyone should know about in order to deal with. In the book, the community isn’t being fair because people don’t get to experience the past with memories and the past doesn’t always have to be bad which in the community, they think that it’s always bad. I think that the people should live the way that they want to. Cherish the memories that they have whether it is good or bad because you only live once and you should live it to your fullest. –Kayla Corpron
i dont beleve you need to know the past to be wise . it could be a certain part of wise to know about the past.but what i think would be wise would know about life lessons like knowing how to help solve problems.cuse how some people look up to people that they think are wise becuse they help them with there proablems. so then they think they know alot like in the past people looked up to people whe new the past becuse there wher lessons in it .
Yes. As the eldest in my family, most of the choices that i make are based primarily on the decisions and concequences that i've made and delt with before. Without the knowledge of my previous mistakes, i would not know how to choose decisions on a daily basis. When it comes to knowoledge of the world, though it would be alot to comprehend, i cannot imagine the amount of wisdom it would bring someone in nearly everysituation, knowing the possible consequencing of every choice.
-Danika schiele-
Being wise and being intelligent are 2 different things. In my point of view to be wise, it is not so much about knowing history, but experiencing it. Intelligence is knowing history and what happened. For me, wisdom is something you aquire with personsal experiences and with age. A 15 year old could study all the history they want but yet not have more wisdom than their grandparents who lived during a World War. In The Giver, Jonas takes on all of these memories but he is still too yound to protray the wise characteristic the The Giver puts off. Knowing the past is very crucial to shaping the future. The holocaust and slavery are huge examples of this. Had these tragics events not happened our country would not have learned from our mistakes and how evil people can be.
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it. I believe we all should know about the past to help us be wise. I am not necessarily talking about knowing about Napoleon and Julius Cesar, but knowing history in general. When thinking of history as something that has happened in the past we can look at peoples decision making, how people handle problems, how to understand life, and how to improve it. The receiver is a very important member of the community. When something completely out of the ordinary happened, they would need the receiver to give them wisdom. If knowing about the past was not necessary for helping with the future, this community would have had no need for the giver or the receiver on memory. If we as a society know about how things have happened in the future we can improve it. If no one knew about the past we would not be typing blogs on the computer, have electricity, or even have books in the first place.
I believe that we learn from our experiences and knowing about our past defiantly keeps us wise. In The Giver the committee of elders have to ask The Giver about what they should do when things that they don’t know about happens. This proves that The Giver is more wise because if he didn’t have the memories and learned from those past experiences the whole community would have fallen way before it did. We learn from our past mistakes, like war, and hunger. One huge thing we have learned from our past is about illnesses and diseases. If we forgot about the diseases that we have learned from people would still be dying from them and many of the treatments wouldn’t be around. If we didn’t know our past we would repeat the future over and over again and nothing would ever change. The world would never be a better place.
You need to know about the past in order to be wise. But you will only be wise if you learn from it. That’s the only way the past can be valuable in shaping the future. One time I forgot my sleeping bag on a winter camping trip. The memory of that experience reminds me never to forget it again.
I greatly believe that in order to better out future we must learn from our past. Everyone makes mistakes at some point in their life, the important thing is that you learn from them and maybe do things differently in your future. I believe in history class, it's important to learn about mistakes our country has made in the past so when we get older and have a greater say in what decisions our country makes, we don't make the same mistake that was made 50 years ago.
In the book, Jonas receives all sorts of memories, they're given to him because the elders of the community believe he needs them to be able to help the community with whatever may come up, they hide certain memories from the members of the community to shape it the way the elders feel is best for the people.
If we did not remember anything from our past and never learned from our mistakes then no problems or anything in life would ever be solved or fixed.
I think that having a thorough knowledge of the past can make you a wise person because people learn from mistakes. In The Giver, Jonas recieves memories of pleasure, pain, joy, warmth, cold, and love. The reason only one person in the community recieves the memories of the past is to shape the future based on mistakes of the past. I think that the whole plot of this Utopian society is to make a community that never has to experience change; such as war, death, and weather to say a few.
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