Identity In The Giver

Lowry shows that without any freedom, there are many emotions that cannot be felt. After learning that there were more feelings, emotions, and choices to that could be made from the memories he received, Jonas starts making his own choices, “The next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories told him to throw the pill away.

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

Jonas begins to receive painful memories from the giver and he finally understands why the community would want to avoid such painful experiences. If people had these memories it would create choices, which can lead to many mistakes (Lowry 98). People could choose the wrong mate, the wrong job, and people could get angry which can lead to war. The elders, from a time long ago, did not want to worry about incidences like those happening; therefore they created a community with no memories or choices. So they gave all of their collective memories to a receiver of memory. Jonas, after a year of training

Jonas began to feel like her wanted to go home. Jonas can't go back to his community, "But he knew he couldn't go back to the world of no feelings for that he had lived in so long" (Lowry 131). Jonas wants to leave the community and never come back to it again because no matter how much he tries to give them memories he can't change them. Jonas decides that it is ok for him to leave his community. “ If he stayed, he would have starved in other ways. He would have lived a life hanged for feelings, for color, for love” (Lowry 174). Jonas made the right decision of leaving his community because he would have been starving for answer on why they never changed the community but he feels happier that he rejected his society and left. (SIP-B) Jonas doesn't want to be a part of his community anymore. Jonas doesn't want to go back to his dwelling to see his family, "I won't! I won't go home! You can't make me!' Jonas sobbed and shouted and pounded the bed with his fist" (Lowry 153). Jonas doesn't want to go back to his dwelling to see his family again because his father lied to him about the ceremony of release for babies. Jonas wanted his childhood back, he didn't want to be the receiver anymore, "Jonas did not want to go back. He didn't want the memories, didn't want the honor, didn't want the wisdom, didn't want the pain. He wanted his childhood again, his scraped knees and ball games" (Lowry 121). That Jonas doesn't want to be the receiver of memory anymore he wants to get his childhood back so he doesn’t have to know about the memories of past communities. Jonas is rejecting his society because he finds out the true meaning of his community and why they took out what they

In this situation, Jonas witnesses an event that forces him to understand that life may involve suffering and fear. Seeing this memory compelled Jonas to be wiser with his actions because he too may experience much pain throughout his life, thus, causing his gain of maturity. In addition, according to Jonas when he experiences his father “release” a young newborn child, “the newchild, no longer crying, moved his arms and legs in a jerking motion. Then he went limp. His head fell to the side, his eyes half open” (Lowry 187).

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 is not able to share the memories with any friends or unit family members and he has to deal with the fact that his friends and his family unit always ask him and he has t lie to them tellings them that they just walk all the time and he learns new

Jonas was selected as the next Receiver of Memory. Upon his training, he discovered and felt things that not all people in their society know. He realized a lot of things about the world. He discovered there is something more with the world than what he has known of. And as he felt things, he realized the things that are wrong with their idealistic society.

Another quote show Jonas feeling that say,” Jonas didn’t want the honor, he didn’t want the pain. He wanted his childhood back”(121). I believe that this quote shows the reader that Jonas never wanted to be the Receiver of Memory. Jonas never wanted to experience the moments and

This matters because this one of the first change jonas has because he is now feeling feelings, just like the giver, but not everyone else. Addition to not taking pills, Joans is become isolated even more is the game of war. On days off, the children like to play in the park. The like to play a game that they like to call, good guys and bad guys. The game to them as really no meaning, but to Jonas it's a whole different thing.

As said here by a parent: "I'm just trying to keep my little girl a little girl," she said. (Anderson). According to Anderson a committee remember named Maria Lewis said the book taught valuable lessons. Parents agree that the book is teaching a valuable lesson on how the society that Jonas is in is trying to shield people from how painful life can be, just like how the parents are doing. Later in the novel Jonas just stops taking pills, he decides on his own that it’s not what he wants. As said here: “The next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away.” (Lowry 133). The book says that something within him told him to throw the pill away, but the reader realized that Jonas discovered his free will.

Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, offers a thought provoking, well written story, because it changes the perspective of anyone who dares to read it to. Lowry places her novel, at some point in the future when mankind has gone away with changes and choices in life. She forces readers appreciate, or at least re-think the world they live in today. Her novel presents a fully human created environment where people have successfully blocked out conflict, grief, and individuality. Each person follows the same routine every day. Failure comply with standards, to be different, means death. Jonas, the main character, finds himself trapped in this world.

The novel ,The Giver, is written by Lois Lowry. It was written in 1993 and is about two different societies. The protagonist is Jonas, Fiona and Asher. Jonas is the main character who was selected to be the receiver of memories. Fiona and Asher are his two best friends.

Jonas was unhappy he wanted to live in the memory’s that he received. He often found himself confused on why such beautiful things should be taken away and hidden away from him and the whole community and not even getting the knowledge of these things. “His feelings were to complicated this evening” p. 5, the giver had said they took these things away to make the world better but to jonas he almost felt he didn’t belong there anymore.

Later in the book Jonas is skipped in his ceremony of a 12. In which he gets assigned his new job he’s very anxious, he finds out he is a receiver of memory, one of the most responsible and hard jobs of all because they feel pain, can ask questions, and Jonas can lie. He meets this man named the giver, the giver can transmit memories onto other people making them see color and things they never experienced. The Giver transmits a memory of release, war, and snow. Jonas has always wondered what else other than the community is out there and when he hears that one of his close brothers Gabriel is gonna released he decided to make a plan to leave the community. When he and Gabriel leave the community he runs into these search planes when this