The Giver

Jonas is essentially the only character to realize that choices are made for everyone. He is the only one in the community to realize not everything has to be

Jonas is the protagonist of the novel and a third-person narrator tells the entire story from Jonas perception of things. He is intelligent, curious, caring, and his thought process is very mature for being 11-13 years old. A good quote portraying both his matureness and his intellect is “If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things”(97). This is also one of the first signs that he is displeased with the community. Another quote showing his courage and curiosity is "It hurt a lot," Jonas said, "but I'm glad you gave it to me. It was interesting. And now I understand better. What it meant, that there would be

In the movie The Giver the main character, Jonas, learns more than what society has been telling him and sees a whole new perspective. To explain, the government hides emotions, colors, music, and memories from the community and Jonas is fortunate enough to experience it all. On his first day of training as the receiver, he sees the vision of snow and a sled. Jonas is shaken by the memories he has learned but is deeply intrigued, begging for more information each day. In the film, the wooden sled represents pain and experience.

Jonas never lied nor got in trouble by his parents, Jonas' society never lied to nor harmed eachother they all cared for one another. Jonas started out not taking his medicine that lead him to see color, then had a dream and kept it to himself. Jonas' friend Fiona was a really nice and pretty girl and it made Jonas fall in love, but in his society ur not suposed to fall in love, he wasn't like the other people in his society.He the same as everyone else at the begining of the novel but because of his choices it affected the way he felt, he started to feel depressed because of the things he had found out about the comunity.

Their way of release would be good under some circumstances. With the way they do release nobody knows they die. The people in Jonas’s community don’t even know what death is. When Jonas asks The Giver why cannot everyone have the feelings The Giver responds with,

Jonas discovers what is really beyond his community, beyond all the rules and policies they have to follow; he decides to leave and give all of his memories to the rest of the community so they would know about what they have not seen or experienced before. Jonas discovers that the community has decided too many things for everyone. He realizes Sameness is not right, that it cannot last any longer. He thinks of all the what-ifs. What if the Elders choose a wrong spouse? What if the Elders choose the wrong job for someone?

Jonas accepting his society because he's unaware of emotions of the other people in his community. Jonas follows the rule of having the share your feelings everyday. Not telling

The story is about a boy named Jonas. Jonas lives in a community where everything is perfect, everything is the same and no one is allowed to brake the rules imposed by the Elders. The Elders are in charge of creating all the rules and basically ruled everyone’s lives.

Jonas has to learn more about death and pain than he already has. Death was something that wasn’t talked about in the community. The community “releases” members when they are old or if there is a set of twins or something wrong with a baby. Release is something celebrated within the community. Jonas had no idea that what release really means is to murder someone. He watches the release of a baby boy who was part of a set of twins born into the community. His father is the one performing this release because his father is a nurturer. This knowledge left Jonas devastated and in shock that his father could do something so terrible. He leaves the Giver’s and tells him that he can no longer continue receiving the memories. He takes a few days and collects himself. Fiona, his childhood friend talks him into to going back. Love is another emotion new to Jonas. He falls in love with Fiona. Falling in love is a big step that usually happens in adulthood. Another thing Jonas does that proves his progression in maturity is he decides to leave the community. When you grow up, you leave your mom and dad’s house which is how I connected this part of Jonas’ life with that of a real life

Not only has Jonas changed but he has also changed his community, in a good way. Jonas went from being a rule follower, obedient, careful and as the book goes on Jonas breaks the rules, feels, reckless and becomes an hero. We can all learn from this story though. Change is not a bad thing, change can affect our lives in good and bad ways. It depends on what change you choose for yourself. Jonas felt strongly about his decision to leave the community and even though the days were tough Jonas persevered and fought for every last breath he

Throughout the book jonas becomes more and more angry and against the rules of the community. “I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!” jonas was furious because the other people of the community were not given any power. The people couldn't even see color and were blinded by

From beginning to the end of the novel, Jonas proves he is a serious person. Lowry writes, “He didn't often do volunteer ours with his friend because Asher frequently fooled around and made serious work a little difficult.” (Lowry, 26) Here Jonas does not want to participate in work that requires to be mature with Asher. This is important because it shows that Jonas is very focused and can't

Jonas starts to take advantage of the communities guideline rules for is assignment as the receiver. Jonas gives memories to Gabriel to keep him calm. The ability to receive and give memories is unique in Jonas's community. A person has to have the Capacity to See Beyond in order to accept memories. Which is what Jonas sees and notices Gabe and him have something in common. Once he notices he does it more and more. By doing so, Jonas breaks the rules. Jonas starts to be rebellious and take advantage of his right to lie. This is shown when he lies to his mother for the first time. Jonas was dreaming about Fiona and he had found out during rituals that he had a case of the Stirring. Stirrings were basically feelings in the book. Once she found out his mother was giving him

In the beginning, Jonas tries to fit into his society, and to be like everyone else. Jonas wants to fit in by following the rules and doing what he

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared” (p.193) This quote from the story, The Giver by Lois Lowry, The Giver explains how the memories should be shared, not held by a single person. All the memories from the past are held by the receiver. He believes the community should have these memories and keep them.