Summary: The Giver

On page 104 paragraph 3 the Receiver said to Jonas “ Apparently that’s how it was, once. Everyone had access to the memories ” That quote proves that at one point his community did not have sameness. Everyone felt emotions and saw colors. Another way Jonas gave to his community was on page 162 paragraph 3 the receiver stated “I’m grateful to you Jonas, because without you I would have never figured out a way to bring about the change. But your role now is to escape... ” That proves Jonas will give the gift of the memories to the community when he escapes .

Later the author writes, “Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too...” This shows

“You have made a terrible mistake.” The Chief Elder uttered in shock, her tongue cutting short of a hiss.

In the first chapter of The Giver, Jonas is trying to describe how he feels about the upcoming December. At first he said he felt frightened then he described a time he felt frightened and then took back what he said about how he felt. He felt apprehensive. Then, the next thing that is in the chapter is when they are talking about their feelings. It is a ritual that takes place after every dinner where each person in the family shares their feelings of the day. Lily, the youngest, talks about how other kids her age were visiting their community and they did not follow the rules because they were from a different community. Then, his father shared his feelings about his day. He is a Nurturer and they take care of all of the newchildren. He said

The sled slowed as they reached the bottom of the hill. Jonas stood up trying to get to the house that was straight ahead of him. It took all his strength to keep walking. He was so bitterly cold he would have thought he was frozen. The only thing that kept him going was the thought that he could save Gabriel. Give him a life that he himself didn’t have. Each agonizing step he thought he would die ,but he made it to the house ,his only hope of survival. He transmitted his warmest memory to Gabriel with the only strength he had left. Jonas saw the door open as everything went dark.

The First edition of the giver was written in 1993, Lois Lowry lived in Honolulu, Hawaii. Lois ended up graduating from New york City High school. She then spent two years at Brown University before dropping out to get married. The giver was seen as controversial by some for its violent themes sexual content and depiction of infanticide and euthanasia. Others however praised this book. People believe that she wrote this for children to let children know the future is in their hands. The giver was meant for children. No Lois didn’t intend to use stereotypes or show prejudice although some might take it that way. I could not find where the book was published.

Jonas and Gabriel were freezing. They kept going further into elsewhere. All of a sudden, Gabriel shouted, “plane, Plane!” It was Asher. He was assigned to take them out. But, Asher helped them get further away. He picked them up and carried them for miles in his plane. They were warmed and fed. After a few hours, Asher landed and they were on their own again. Jonas thanked Asher for what he had done for them.

When Jonas receives the memories, he notices that people changed through time. They made a new ways of life,and now they can't feel anything not even love, and then they start releasing old people that are useless to the community, even babies that are smaller than their twins, if they have a twin. The community tells the people the the other people who get released are used and needed.

Imagine having a life with no memory. Living a life where you get a certain amount of money, only the food needed, and your job assigned to you. While not being able to see color makes it even harder. The Giver is a young adult novel written by Lois Lowry that describes a life with no memories.

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.

Jonas turned around, listening to the bells ringing all around him. He woke up, as it was all just a dream. Everything from escaping-- his plans, gone. He struggled in the Giver's room to get up and was thinking all about how it could of gone down if it was somehow real. The Giver was awake reading a book. I said hello, and he turned around as if he was shocked to see me. "Are you okay? What happened, I heard you mumbling in your sleep". I told him about my crazy dream of running away from the civilization. He warned me not to, or else everyone would know I am a savage and that I left. "How are you feeling about your father? Are you ready to go home?", he asked me. I said "I guess"-- still feeling puzzled about that dream. Later, I arrived

Marcus Garvey once expressed, “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.” The novel The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is about a boy, Jonas, who is given knowledge that has the power to change his beliefs and opinions about his society. Jonas is trusted with the information of those from generations before him, and cannot speak of his training to anyone besides the Giver himself. Knowledge is the power to know something and have the power to hold on to the information forever.

The academic study of the Hebrew Bible encompasses thousands of scholars from around the world. These scholars use various methods developed by other disciplines in order to study ancient texts along with other approaches that are distinctive to the biblical studies.

Teetering down the narrow stairwell in great hopes and anticipation, my brother’s emphasis of the word “gift” always riled me up. To my chagrin, it was always his leftovers from his school lunch. I willingly took each “present” of his due to the exciting feeling that enervated within me. This feeling of gratefulness constrained and gave little leeway to my own decisions. As I grew older, I had to make more choices independently. I was not able to decide on what I would eat at places where I was unfamiliar with food, such as restaurants. I always went with safe options like chicken tenders and french fries. Although I had created this monotonous bubble for myself, I was mostly satisfied with my decisions.

In chapter 14, of The Giver by Lois Lowry Jonas develops a lot, because he becomes an individual and stops following rules set for him. In the beginning, Jonas was very obedient to his community because he followed its strict rules at all times. Like when he didn’t want to share his weird dream with his family but he knew it was a rule so he did anyway. However, when Jonas became a receiver the rules he needed to follow for his assignment as the receiver differed from the rules of the community. As a result, in chapter fourteen he changed and became disobedient. He became disobedient when he stopped following his community’s rules because the rules the giver gave him went against the rules of the community. The more he had to break the community