Jonas 'Life In The Giver'

In the book The Giver, Jonas leaves his restricted community to get to Elsewhere, a place where his memories will come true. Jonas’s only companion is Gabriel, a baby who was entitled to a horrible death. The question is, will they both survive in time to get to Elsewhere? Based on clues from the book, it seems like Jonas and Gabriel do survive and get to Elsewhere, because the book suggest that Jonas starts to experience his memories in real life, and he hears music for the first time. A reason to believe that Jonas and Gabriel do survive, is that Jonast starts to experience his own memories.

Before Jonas met The Giver, he believed that the society he lived in was a good place.

In the book, The Giver, the main character Jonas makes a lot of important choices. But the most important was his plan to escape with baby Gabriel. When Jonas is given his job at the Ceremony of Twelve, he becomes The Giver. He must make important decision based on past events only he will have. He soon is given memories of the past and can see the colors. After Jonas finds out what happens during a “release” and is given memories of war he no longer wants his job. His father's’ job requires him to take care of the newborns. One newborn could live in the nursery so Jonas’s father takes care of him. The baby's name is Gabriel. When Jonas catches wind about Gabe’s release he asks the Giver what he can do to stop it. Finding nothing he can do,

“Jonas has not been assigned,” She informed the crowd, and his heart sank. Then she went on. “Jonas has been selected.” The quote pertained to this story due to the significance that Jonas had differentiated from his peers that had their differences acknowledged by the Elders themselves, each with their own desires within a career. The quote influenced Jonas his decisions within the chapters beyond the quote within the story, nevertheless brought Jonas his viewpoint of the situation and his decision into escaping from the community with Gabe to journey off Elsewhere. For example, Gabe had been planned for release the same day Jonas had escaped from the community, due to Jonas’ significant viewpoints he couldn’t bare the loss of Gabe, especially since he would be the only few to discover the true meaning behind being “released.” In the end of “The Giver,” Jonas and Gabriel had hallucinated while freezing to death because of the wild berries, the memories, and the physical limits of his human body.

This is something that Jonas has never felt before, that is until he becomes receiver of memory. The giver transmits to him the memory of love. “ The Giver hugged him. “I love you, Jonas.” he said. The giver loved Jonas just like he loved his daughter, Rosemary. Jonas feels love for Gabriel, a newborn that is living in his dwelling temporarily. This love makes Jonas want to leave the community in order to keep Gabriel safe. Jonas feels that love is so important to human life, he leaves the community so that the memory and feeling of love may

“Things could change, Gabe," Jonas went on. "Things could be different. I don't know how, but there must be some way for things to be different. There could be colors. And grandparents," he added, staring through the dimness toward the ceiling of his sleeping room.

Jonas becomes very attached to Gabe throughout the time they care for him. When Jonas’ dad reveals that Gabe is going to be released, Jonas jeopardizes the plan of escape and leaves early with Gabe against his instinct so Gabe is saved from release. In The Giver, it says “First, he had left the dwelling at night. A major transgression. Second, he had robbed the community of food, a very serious crime...Third, he had stolen his father's bicycle. He had hesitated for a moment, standing beside the bikeport in the darkness, not wanting an thing of his fathers and uncertain as well, whether he could comfortably ride the larger bike when he was accustomed to his own. Bit it was necessary because it had the child seat attached to the back. And he had taken Gabriel, too.” This shows that Jonas is determined to save Gabriel, so determined that he broke 3 major rules in the community, all which could get him in serious trouble. However, regardless of that, he saved Gabe despite how risky it was. Jonas was only able to take huge risks like this because he was determined. After escaping the community, Jonas still shows his determination to help Gabe and bring him to Elsewhere when he takes Gabe on his bike through many different places, just to help Gabe. When they are in the freezing cold, Jonas gives Gabe memories of warmth to give him strength. Jonas also catches food for Gabe so he is not hungry. Jonas’ determination to save Gabe gives him the strength and motivation to continue, and eventually get Gabe to

The dystopian novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry was a great suspenseful book read by our class. Although Lois Lowry wrote a great novel, we will forever be mad at her. The author uses great suspense throughout the novel and then leads us into a dead end. Even though you have your own theory, the true end will never be told. Jonas is dead. At the end of The Giver, we experience a part of the book where we are forced to produce our own theory of Jonas’ fate. Jonas is dead and saw the lights and gates of heaven or in this case, “Elsewhere”. Others believe that Jonas succeeds on his journey and saw a family celebrating Christmas. The author gives us a novel that shows the life of Jonas through his struggles of being the Receiver in Training but leaves

The novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is an everlasting story that shows the importance of individuality. This novel is about a young boy named Jonas who was elected as the Receiver of Memories, a person who is given the memories from the world that existed before their current society, Sameness. In this society there is no individualism. People can not choose who to marry, or what they want to do for a living. Over time Jonas becomes more and more wise, and realizes that the supposedly perfect community actually has some very dark and negative aspects. The author, Lois Lowry is a 76-year-old writer who focuses her writing on helping struggling teenagers become individuals. Lowry had a very tragic childhood. After both of her parents were

is intrigued about the things he has experienced. The things that he didn’t know about interest him. Jonas goes to The Giver’s house again and asks him about the different things that have changed when he saw them. The Giver tells him to remember the sled from yesterday. When he does the sled is red. The giver explains that he is beginning to see the color red. He explains that the sled was just red instead of changing to red is because the memory is when red still existed.

One theme for The Giver is the importance of human connection. The author, Lois Lowry, portrays this theme by depicting a society without human connection. Jonas learns through the memories The Giver transmits about love and immediately longs to experience it in his everyday life. Jonas first started creating bonds with The Giver. They are the only ones who truly understand each other. The Giver has said that he felt love for Jonas. This is why he sent Jonas Elsewhere because he could not bear to see Jonas go through what he had. Jonas also feels this way towards Gabriel. Ever since Gabriel started to stay at his family’s lives, he started to create a bond between them. He felt the same way for Gabriel as The Giver had when he took Gabriel

The Giver knows that the burden of memory is too much for Jonas to bear, so he and Jonas plan Jonas’ escape. In the escape, The Giver plans to leave Jonas with memories of courage and strength so that he can make his journey to freedom. The plan changes when Jonas finds that Gabriel, an infant the family had been caring for was going to be “released” the next morning. Upon hearing the news, Jonas takes Gabriel and flees The Community. The book ends with Jonas hearing music, which symbolizes finding his

“’Memories are forever”’ (Lowry). People make new memories every day without even realizing it. Some good some bad, that’s just the way of life, but in The Giver nobody knows what happened before them. People barley remember what their childhood was like, they don’t understand the importance of memory and that memories are forever. Aspects of life, rules, and prosperities between our world and Jonas’ world are very different yet have some similarities. Things that are crucial to the characters in The Giver are not as meaningful to the people in our world.

The quote represents how the giver has to hold in all these memories and he isn’t able to share any of the joys or sadnesses of them. The quote pertains to the story because its shows how hard it is for the giver to hold in all of the memories of the world and he cant tell anybody because it can cause trauma to the city. In the end of “The Giver” Jonas and Gabriel made it to elsewhere because in the story it says “he could see lights”; this quote explains how at the end of the hill, he knew something was out there because he could see lights. Another quote that supports the theory that they made it to elsewhere is “for the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music”.

In The Giver, Gabriel symbolize love. Jonas reveals this when he takes Gabriel with him to release the memories into the community. “ And he had taken Gabriel, too” (208). This is Jonas experiencing love for Gabriel. He wants Gabe to grow as a person and in a society that will except him. Jonas didn't want Gabriel to grow up in a world where everyone is the same. Jonas knew the world Gabe was to grow up in had he not taken him. A world of perfection in the people in The Giver was to take away pain and violence. Although pain and violence were gone, so is love and happiness. They created a world without emotion.