The Giver By Lois Lowry Character Analysis

In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, the receivers are the only people who have feelings and memories. The elders are the people who choose what the best is for their people in the community and sometimes they go to the receiver for help on making the right decisions. The people from the community do not see color, or have freedom on making a decision for them. There is no love, feelings, and grandparents. Jonas is assigned to be the next receiver of the community; He was trained by the giver, who transfers memories of the pain and pleasures of life, who also shows him the truth and reality that is hidden to the community. Jonas’s community does not represent the ideal of society because there are no choices or distinctions between men

During the beginning of the book, “The Giver,” by Lois Lowry, the main character named Jonas is almost the same as everyone in his community. All the people are known to be are the same as each other. Jonas and his younger brother Gabe both have different colored eyes than the rest of the community. In the community Jonas lives in everything is gray and the same. The community also has a lot of rules. In the book, it says, “It was the first thing Jonas noticed as he looked at the new child peering up curiously from the basket. The pale eyes. Almost every citizen in the community had dark eyes. His parents did, and Lily did, and so did all his group members and friends. … No one mentioned such things it was not a rule, but it was considered rude to call attention to things that were unsettling or different about individuals.” This contributes to Jonas and Gabe during the end of the story for a few reasons. A rule in the community is you are not allowed to lie. Also, every year up until you turn 12 you have ceremonies where you grow up and receive better items that will show you have been maturing. As Jonas becomes older and he becomes a 12 he gets assigned to be the new receiver of memories. At the ceremony of 12 Jonas’s name was skipped to come up and receive his assignment so he started panicking because they never made mistakes. Jonas was chosen to be the Receiver of memories because he had no dreams of uncertainty and he had intelligence, integrity, and courage. Because

A book named The Giver by Lois Lowry published in 1993 teaches many life lessons that everyone needs to learn in some point in their life. In this novel it is about a twelve year old boy named Jonas who realizes his perfect society isn’t so perfect. When he was picked for the New Receiver of Memories he learned things that were hidden from the people of the community. The more Jonas learns about the past the more he wants to change how the community sees the world. In The Giver, the author uses an image of a utopia, the people in the community, and The Giver to develop the theme that emotions are needed in life.

Change is inevitable no matter what difference is made. The Giver by author Lois Lowry is the story of a utopian community that has adopted sameness that actually seems more dystopian later on. The Giver’s protagonist is a boy, Jonas, who is chosen and honored to take the assignment of being the Receiver of Memories. Jonas as the new Receiver of Memories is trained by the previous Receiver of Memories who Jonas calls The Giver. This causes many joys and pains for Jonas, but a curiousness to every new memory that is given. The setting is set in a community that has gained the culture to be a strict community that is controlled by The Elders. Before meeting the Giver, Jonas began as an outcast,later as he met his mentor Jonas was brave, and as he became more mature he became determined.

In the novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry, the author makes it clear through the main character Jonas that freedom and safety need to find an equal balance. Lowry shows the importance of deep emotions and family through Jonas. Jonas becomes the new receiver of memory and learns about the past. He also learned about the way it was when people knew what love was. Jonas’ father releases newborn children because they don’t weight the correct amount of weight or they don’t sleep well through the night. Release is a nice way of saying kill; the people of the community don’t know what kill means. They don’t have the freedom to expand their vocabulary. Lois Lowry makes it clear that safety has a negative side and you need that you need freedom to

In the book the giver by Lois Lowry, on page 137-145 they use the word love a lot agian and agian. The giver uses it on page 141 he said ¨ You can understand then, that that's what i felt for rosemary… I loved her¨ This is showing the reader that when the giver is telling jonas that he loved her he's really saying that he loves too.

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

Jonas never breaks any rules and always does what he is told in the beginning of the book. The Chief of Elder said in the book that whenever Jonas was supposed to show up for chastisement, he always did. This is showing that Jonas was being obedient and would do things he didn’t even want to do. Another reason Jonas is obedient is he would always follow directions and do what he was told. “Instantly, obediently, Jonas dropped his bike on it’s side on the path behind his families dwelling.” (pg. 2) This is when the plane flew over the community. Jonas was scared and confused and instead of freaking out he obediently listened to what the speaker was saying and ran inside. Then, Jonas becomes the Receiver of Memory. He begins to learn what pain is and how awful the community is. He starts wondering what it would be like if all that changed. Jonas begins to become rebellious. Whenever the Giver would give Jonas a sad memory of pain Jonas would hate it. He would complain how it is not fair that he has to hold all the pain and how the community doesn’t. Jonas would tell the Giver they could change it and

Imagine a world with no feelings, no color, no choice; a world where individuality and freedom are exchanged for security and sameness. This type of world is a reality for Jonas, the protagonist in Lois Lowry’s The Giver. After being assigned the next Receiver of Memories in the community, where he has the capacity to see beyond. As he begins his works, he gains wisdom and through that wisdom, learned that protecting the community from the memories, their lives lacked understanding and feelings. Jonas goes on an archetypal hero’s journey and chooses to risk everything to restore memories and wisdom to everyone in the community. Throughout this novel, Jonas is represented as a hero considering he demonstrates integrity despite living in a

In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, Jonas’s community is a safe and happy place to live. For starters, there are no problems in the community.When a conflict occurs in the community, it is fixed or forgiven immediately. An example of this is when Asher is late to school and has to say to his classmates, “I apologize for inconveniencing my learning community”(Lowry 5). Asher made a mistake and apologized for it right away. His classmates forgave him and there was no further issue. It is required for a public apology to made; this way, no one holds grudges and everyone coexists peacefully. Furthermore, no one in the community needs to worry about money or employment. At the age of 8, children need to start volunteering so that the Elders can observe them

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 changes from a completely acquiescent kid to a wise, and mature young man throughout the book. At the start of the book he's simply a standard eleven in his community. Jonas solely will do what he's told and does not question things, however he's terribly introverted and thoughtful. Throughout the Ceremony Of Twelve the Chief Elder describes Jonas. He's has integrity, is intelligent, has courage, wisdom and obedience. Once he receives his rules he is aware that he's totally different from his classmates. His rules are short and embrace weird ones just like the ability

If you lived in a suppressing society of sameness would you give everything you have ever known up just to escape? In the Giver by Louis Lowry, Jonas makes the right choice the leave the community which benefits himself, Gabriel, and the people of the community.

Change: is to pass from one state to another: to pass or make something pass from one stage to another. In a dystopian novel The Giver, by Lois Lowry, a 12/13 year boy experiences change from finding out that his Community is not as perfect as it seems. He has changed from a naive to a wise person, from a kid that never lied to his parents to a man who lied to his parents, and a rule keeper to a rebel.

The dystopian novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a boy called Jonas becoming the new Receiver-of-Memories. Throughout the novel, the protagonist, Jonas matures as knowledge is gained, and begins to understand the deepest, and darkest secrets of the community he lives in that is seemly 'perfect'. The author has successfully analysed a variety of social issues present in today's modern world in the novel. Some issues implied are: lack of individuality which allows for easy control, the abandonment of emotions and the importance of memories.