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Joraika Rodriguez
English 7
January 15, 2019
The Apple in The Giver
Most of the time authors put symbols in their stories. In the book called The Giver by
Lois Lowery, there were many events happening throughout the story. The story has a lot of
symbols in it. These symbols were utilized in the book as signs of emotions, color and different
types of points of view from the characters. The apple was a significant symbol in The Giver. It
shows how people have a different point of views and that everyone is not the same.
In The Giver, Jonas and Asher were throwing an apple back and forth. Jonas thought
that the apple’s shape, size, and color looking different, while Asher knew that it was just a
regular size red apple. They got the apple from the recreation center and it was an obligation or
requisition for the community not to take any type of food home from there. Jonas did not obey
the rule and he took the apple with him to his house. In The Giver, it says “Everyone had known,
he remembered with humiliation, that the announcement ATTENTION. THIS IS AN REMINDER
TO MALE ELEVENS THAT OBJECTS ARE NOT TO BE REMOVED FROM ThE
RECREATION AREA AND THAT SNAKES ARE TO BE EATEN, NOT HOARDED had been
specifically directed at him, the day last month that he had taken an apple home.” (23,24, and
25) Jonas took the apple with him to his house because he was able to see different things
through it that no one else was able to see. He was able to see different colors, shapes, and
sizes through it and as he told people about it they thought he was crazy.
In the book, The Giver Jonas told the Giver about him seeing the different colors in the
apple. The Giver believed him. Just because people see things in a different way it doesn’t
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mean they are crazy. Everyone in the world is not the same and they can’t expect others to
think or act as we do everyone is quizzically in their own way.
Work Cited
Lowry, Lois. The Giver. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.