Author Lois Lowry grew up traveling around the world when she was a child because her father was in the US Army. Since her father was a dentist in the army and traveled the world, she had been to many countries which inspired her writing. At one point he had lived in Tokyo where he attended an American school on the base during middle school. One of his literary works later in his life is The Giver, which had won a Newbery Award. In The Giver, the setting is a utopian society where the characters have no feelings, no memories, and no choices they can make for themselves. The characters' names also have hidden meanings and relationships behind them using allusion to recreate a religious issue along with how the novel perceives morality. Lowry uses literary elements, allusion, and setting to express the theme that memories and choices are worth the pain they can sometimes bring. “…Jonas becomes the recipient of memories shared only by another…” (Lowry, 4). The author uses allusion throughout the book, almost through everything and everyone. The boy Jonas's family was taking care of was named Gabriel. In a biblical vision his name is one of God's messengers and at the end of the giver, when Jonas takes Gabe with him to find another community different from theirs, they find it together. In a Jewish relationship Jonas is another version of Jonah who is the child of truth in his community he doesn't like how his father lied and said the twin would be released after killing the child. He also wants the community to know the truth of the past and not hide things. The Giver is the book that is portrayed as God as he is the presenter of all life. Elsewhere in the novel there is paradise, when the old and young... in the center of the paper... could have been many years earlier. Without memory, how can these people learn from mistakes if they know nothing. So without memories and choices you may avoid the pain but you will never know who you really are. Works Cited “Another Look At: Lois Lowry’s Giver Quartet.” List of books 108.19/20 (2012): 91. Literary reference center. Network. January 22, 2014.Davis, Anne. “Connection: The Giver and God.” ITC Blog. Np, December 5, 2003. Web. February 23, 2014. Hanson, Carter F. “The Utopian Function of Memory in Lois Lowry's The Giver.” Extrapolation 50.1 (2009): 45+. Literary Resource Center. Network. January 24, 2014Lowry, Lois. "The Giver." Amazon. Np, nd Web. January 22, 2014. “Utopian.” The free dictionary. Farlex, 2014. Web. 23 February. 2014. .