The Giver by Lois Lowry looks at something the world takes for granted: personal empowerment. These simple daily decisions create what the world is. Without self-empowerment and the right to believe in a personal decision, what is the human race? The world can only imagine, as Lois Lowry does in The Giver. He asks himself: what if everything in life was decided by others? What if spouses, children, climate, education and career were chosen based on the subjects' personalities? What if it didn't matter what the subject thinks? Jonas, the curator, lives here. He eats, sleeps and learns in his so-called perfect world until he meets the Giver, an old man, who conveys memories of hope, pain, color and love. Jonas then flees his community with a newborn baby (doomed to be killed), hoping to find a fulfilling life. Along the way he experiences pain, sees colors and feels love. Irony, symbolism, and foreshadowing are three literary devices used to imply the deeper meaning of The Giver. A skillfully written literary element in the novel is irony. Jonas' life is seemingly perfect, in an environment where everyone's life is controlled and documented by the Elders. Time, marriages, selection of children, population and education are decided by the Elders. A career is also foreseen for them; Every December, at the Ceremony of the 12th, new recruits receive the career they will pursue for the rest of their adult working lives. The task that Jonas receives is the most difficult one, that of the Receiver, who has the task of containing all the intense experiences of life. Ironically, Jonas doesn't like this; instead he feels that the work is too painful for him. Yet the decisions of the Elders, even if chosen in the middle of paper, have crept into his writing, the answer becomes clear. Society has boundaries and limits which, as is known, should not be exceeded. Yet humans have a burning desire to do so. Every time the fine line between acceptable and inappropriate is crossed, a new boundary is created; then a new desire develops and the cycle never ends. The Giver takes place after the last limit has been broken, when the Elders have taken away some of life's finest pleasures and the last line has been drawn with all the stored memories of freedom. And this memory appears to be a human mind, the Giver, transmitting it to the next Receiver until the end of time. Jonas disagrees; the memories he saw, the pain he endured, the beauty he experienced must be shared. He wants the entire world to know the full scope and intention of the life God created. The border must be crossed.