Let's create our own show!

The Giver is the first English novel I read, and it is also one of my favorite novel. The Giver by Lois Lowry, is a world without emotion and memory. A young boy called Jonas who lived in this world, at the start Jonas did not has all his memories, and he is chosen to be the receiver who receives all the memories and knowledge from the giver. Then he realized that this society is wrong, so he finally escaped from this place. People in this society they just live by orders and they try to fellow rules to make sure they will not be released which is death. If we make this book into a play, we can discover so much on human’s emotion and how important it to us. Also, we can improve our acting skills better because we have to show different levels’ emotions and reaction through the whole story.

I want to choose this book because of two reasons. The first one is that we do not need a huge cast to do this skit because the main part is the scenes between Jonas and the giver. I want to have 4 characters in this skit, and they are Jonas, the giver, Jonas’ mother and the president. At the beginning, I want to show how the relationship works between Jonas and his mother which can show how this emotionless society works. Then I want to focus on how he becomes the receiver and starts working with the giver. At this point I want to switch around the conversation between Jonas with his mother and Jonas with the giver, so audience can actually see how his reaction changes along his learning with the giver. Meanwhile, I also want to put some scenes between his mother and the president to show how dark this society is. At the end I want Jonas runs into a conversation between the president and his mother, then he goes to the giver and starts planing to escape. I don't want to use the original ending which is so unclear. I would change the ending to a happy ending like the movie version, but since we don't have the ability to do it. I will add a monologue which tells how Jonas have been doing after he escaped a year later.

I believe that this skit will be so fun to work in this class, and it will also be a good literary work for us to do because the script will be the most important part for this story. How can we make the each character to have its own style? How can we make audience feel the lines are spoke by the character? Those are the question we have been working on, and I believe that we can creat a great version of The Giver! Finally, I hope that I can have 3 or 4 amazing classmate which can be anyone in this class work with me to build this society together!