Conflict of The Giver

 Authors Note: I would like this to be graded for conflict.

What would you do if you had to have all the memories of pain and happiness that no one else was allowed to have? Would you want to leave that place and find somewhere where it was? In the story The Giver, by Lois Lowery, the main character does want to get away from his community ,which doesn’t allow anyone but the receiver to know the memories of pain and happiness, and find out if there is an Elsewhere.

Jonas wants to get away from his plain life because he had made a plan with The Giver to run away to Elsewhere. Although part of that plan was to make the community have to receive all the memories Jonas had, he had wanted to escape and live a different life with Gabriel.

The conflict starts to become more and more of a problem because Jonas receives more of the memories and doesn’t want to live his plain life. He wants to run away from it and find out if there is another place that is like the good memories he has.

The conflict doesn’t quite get resolved in the end. When it says "Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was just an echo." at the end, it doesn't show that he made it to Elsewhere. He could have died or he could have made it but didn’t say it in the text.

Although the conflict may or may not have been solved, it is still a very important to the book. If Jonas had not wanted to leave his community or was never the receiver at all, the ending of the story wouldn’t have gone the way it had.