The Giver By Lois Lowry: Chapter Summary

The more Jonas learns that emotions are needed in life he starts to question the people he thought “loved” him. “Do you love me? There was an awkward silence for moment. Then Father gave a little chuckle. “Jonas. You, of all people. Precision of language, please!”... “Your father means that you used a very generalized word, so meaningless that it’s become almost obsolete,” his mother explained carefully.” (159-160). Now that Jonas knows that his family doesn't love or truly care about him he wants to bring back memories and emotions to the community. This conversation from the book states that because the community has no emotions even saying the word love is considered to have no

On page 120, Jonas says,” Do you love me?” Jonas is trying to experiment with the love in his memory. Love is limited in the community as you cannot marry who you want to. Jonas’s mother responded,”…you used a very generalized word, so meaningless that it becomes almost obsolete.” Both quotes show that love and many other important qualities are missing which helps change Jonas’s perspective towards the society.

Jonas learns about love, he wants everyone else to feel it as well. Jonas feels love for his family, but they don't feel love for him. For this reason, Jonas left his Community to make sure that they feel what love is. If you don’t have feeling or emotions, it gives you a different perspective of society. Feelings of 'love' allows for comfort and a connection with one another.

Jonas’s community is perfectly made for everyone, and to make sure of that, the community has everything planned in advance for them. Their employment, their marriage, their children, even their death is scheduled in

“‘I couldn’t quite get the word for the whole feeling of it, the feeling that was so strong in the room.’ ‘Love,’ The Giver told him” (Page 125). This shows words of the wiser because The Giver explains that love is what completes the feeling of family, and how great it feels. In the life that they are living, Jonas’ parents can’t say if they love him. They are unable to understand what that word means because they are in such a black and white world, where everything is the same. This next example shows us how Jonas wants to let other people

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

Jonas is a kid when he received his assignment from the Elder, learns most of the truths he thought to be true were false. This is Jonas and his assignment is receiver of memories. He later learned so many trues that is community knows to be false that he gives all his memories away. He leaves his community to find a better life. The secrecy of the elders control and lying to the citizens about their assignments are seen in the Giver‘s job, what release really is, and their being a place beyond Jonas’ little community.

At the beginning, Jonas feels isolated and different from other children, as he sees things differently from the others. For example, Joans began to see the colour red when he was playing with an apple. His “difference” from the other children foreshadows Jonas’ isolation with the Community after he gets “selected” as Receiver. Later in the story, Jonas receives feelings of pain, hatred, love and the concept of a

From that night forward, when he discovered that gabe could receive memories, Jonas starts giving him his thoughts to calm him down. He also discovers that the community changed the old way of life, and they became stricter. He also discovered that when they release they just kill the people. The higher people of the area lie by telling them that when they release people they put them elsewhere.

In Jonas’s society, members of the community aren’t allowed to feel feelings of attraction or love. According to the novel, it states, ‘“Jonas nodded. ‘I liked the feeling of love,’ he confessed. He glanced nervously at the speaker on the wall reassuring himself that no one was listening, ‘I wish we still had that,’ he whispered’” (Lowry 126).

Throughout the novel The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas makes many decisions that sometimes aid him and sometimes hinder him. The Giver is a novel about a 11 year old boy named Jonas in a community where everything has gone to Sameness, where there is no color and no differences. But at the Ceremony of Twelves where he is chosen for Receiver of Memories that all will change. Jonas’ experiences develop a theme over the course of The Giver by teaching the reader that all actions have consequences. Although some readers may believe that actions don’t always have consequences, Jonas’ experiences clearly show that all actions have consequences weather they are good or bad.

Jonas has an elaborate relationship with his Mom,Dad and his Sister(Lily). In the book The Giver Jonas likes his parents and has been with them for a long time, but when Jonas met the Giver he saw a different perspective of his parents and Lily. The reason Jonas has a new perspective of his parent is because , the Giver showed him how to have feelings and show love. When Jonas came home that day from training he asked his parents do you love me then his mom said Jonas better choice of word and then his dad explained why

In order to create a completely peaceful and pleasant society that was free of hate a war, they eliminated emotions. Well the creators, of this utopian society, were successful in achieving a completely safe and stable community but was it a meaningful? No throughout his training, Jonas came to realization that without memories of the past, on cannot learn from their mistakes, grow as a person, ever know real happiness or deep emotions or true love, and or celebrate in one’s accomplishments. Members of this utopian society are not allowed the opportunity to ever no true happiness or pain because life in the Giver does not give one the chance to endure it.

The setting of The Giver takes place in a fictional community known as the “Sameness”. Life here is supposed to be "perfect" because there is no pain or suffering. They don’t have to take

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