The Giver

Jonas receives memories of color, something that is absent from his community. He realizes how absent his community really is. Jonas hurts inside to tell people in his community what they are missing. The only person that he can really open up to is The Giver. They grew really close, and it became like a grandfather, grandchild relationship.

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.

In the novel “The Giver,” written by Lois Lowry, Jonas is a boy who follows the rules, spends time with friends and family, goes to school, and at the Twelves Ceremony is given the job as the Receiver of Memory. At the end of the novel, Jonas learns information that makes him leave the community to save the people he loves. As Jonas becomes older, he acknowledges that he is different from his family and the people surrounded by him. Once Jonas got his assignment as the Receiver of Memory, his maturity became inconsistent throughout the novel.

The book The Giver by Lois Lowery has been a staple in the education system for many years. Many students today have even written papers on it trying to relate the novel to how times can be observed in their minds. With many of these students there might have been an abundant amount of questions remaining, with little answered, leaving them with anticipation to pick up one of the next four books in the series. The main similarities among the books are that they all deal with an utopian form of society, which includes a main hero or heroine making a sacrifice to save their society. In this research paper databases will be used to compare the similarities and how each book relates to one another, while also looking at the subtle differences

The Giver teaches us that love is essential to life. Jonas and the Giver demonstrate again and again how important it is, even though it’s forbidden. The Giver demonstrates love when he declares, “‘I love you Jonas’ he said. ‘But I have another place to go. When my work here is done, I want to be with my daughter’”(202). The Giver is saying goodbye to Jonas, he is practically telling Jonas he is going to finish the things he needs to, then The Giver is going to ask to be released. He says he loves Jonas and you can tell Jonas loves him too. He loves his family even though they don’t know how to love or what love is. He also loves Gabe, Jonas saves him from being ‘released’. Jonas feels accepted, loved, and at home when the giver tells him he

In the story, the wise old man is the Giver. The Giver’s mind is filled with good and bad memories. He is in charge of holding the memories from the community to avoid pain or suffering. He is the only one that is allowed to break certain rules. His power cannot be “given” to anyone except for a special person selected by the Elders. Jonas is that special person, he is the “receiver of memory”. So, the giver’s mission is to “give” Jonas the power of receiving all the memories. Also, he must share all his knowledge with Jonas so he can become the new “giver” in the community.

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

Despite the fact that he could be killed if he was caught. Jonas also wanted to release the memories into the community to make it a better place. Jonas looked to The Giver for advice, and The Giver was almost like a father to him. Jonas normally followed the rules of the community for what was right and what was wrong except when he ran away. Jonas learned that the rules of the community were harsh, once he had his knowledge he got from The Giver, he kind of made his own rules. The Giver shows lots of moral courage because he helped Jonas run away despite the potential consequences of getting released. Also the Giver took the risk of giving Jonas the memories when the previous receiver ran away because the memories were too much and then those memories were lost. The Giver has all the knowledge from the previous generations so he uses that to decide what is right and

Jonas and The Giver are two important characters in this story. The Giver is someone who transmits the memories and passes them on to the Receiver of Memory which is Jonas. Jonas’s community is dystopia because only two people are able to have the memories, lives are taken away from people with no choice (released) and also only

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

Many characters in the book The Giver and the book, Dreamland, are comparable. For example, Cassandra O’Koren from Dreamland and Jonas from The Giver have many similarities. However, they also have a few differences. Cassandra and Jonas are alike because they both ran away and they have the same personality. On the other hand, their physical traits aren’t the same and they have different living conditions.

The past has been a horrible place, and the present is not any better. Imagine how different our world would be if our societies could change something about the past. Although we are not able to edit the past like a written story, we can learn about it. By studying our past, we can learn how to create a better future. Think back to social studies and history classes during school.

Jonas, a 12 year old boy, who is the main character as well as the protagonist as well as the developing character in the story The Giver. At the December Ceremony he was selected as receiver of memory which allows him to be capable of knowing about memories. The Giver is an older man who is the confidante in the story and holds all the memories of the world. He also gives the memories to Jonas hence the name The Giver. Fiona and Asher are Jonas’s best friends, they are the static characters in the story.

The primary character, Jonas, in Lois Lowry's The Giver experiences a point in which he sees his ability to go past. Jonas starts to see his Community in an unexpected way, with a mindfulness or care that a great many people in the Community have needed. Care, actually, is one of focal topics in The Giver. In spite of the fact that the book starts with what is by all accounts an immaculate spot, things being what they are the individuals in the Community are living shallow and shallow lives. As Jonas starts his role as the Receiver of Memories, he picks up knowledge and through that intelligence, discovers that in shielding the Community from the recollections, their lives have needed feeling and comprehension.

Jonas is one of the main characters of “The Giver.” When one thinks of the character of Jonas, three main words come to mind: intelligent, determined, and passionate. Although these character traits are rare in the community in which he lives, they make him perfect for the role of Receiver. Jonas’s pale-colored eyes and his ability to see color for short flashes of time set him apart from his peers, and he is mildly concerned with these differences in the beginning of the book. He also wishes that he could feel closer to other people, and he cares about his friends and family – a concept that is foreign to many in his society.