The Giver Louis Lowery

The Giver by Lois Lowry follows Jonas in a world that has left emotions, colors and love. Instead the community stays safe with routine and control. That is until Jonas learns about love, feelings and most importantly what the community has left behind. Jonas must now decide how to save his and his little brother's life before it is too late.

Jonas is the true giver in the science fiction book The Giver by Lois Lowry. In the book The Giver, Jonas is a regular kid that has grown up with his friends Asher and Fiona, and each year, together, they go to the ceremony to become the next year older. They go to school and do their community service hours all for the day they wait for-- the day that they get their assignments or jobs that they will do for their life. When they go to the Ceremony of 12’s to get their assignments, the number 19, or Jonas’s number is skipped. At the end, it is announced that Jonas has not been given an assignment but rather he has been selected--selected to be the new Receiver of Memory.

Summary: The Giver The Giver is a story about a boy named Jonas that lives with his father, mom, and his younger sister Lily in a sheltered community. This community regards age as an extremely important factor by tracking each boy and girl and assigning various labels based on their age. When Jonas turned 12 he was assigned his job. The elders in the community assign the jobs for the kids while Jonas’s friends and pears were assigned normal jobs he was selected to be the receiver a prestigious position.

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This is important to the plot because the only other two people in this novel that share Jonas’ ability are the Giver and Gabriel, allowing them to sense the world beyond the one the community has established. When Jonas receives his task at the Ceremony of Twelve, he is to become the Receiver of Memory, the person who keeps all of the memories of the old world. Jonas’ ability to appreciate the world more is ultimately what leads him to realize how lamentable their society is. He’s also abhorred to find out “release,” the community’s way of disposing of useless or old people, is actually death. Because of his experience with receiving mankind’s memories, his realizations about the life he’s living, and his relationship with Gabriel, he flees to save Gabriel from being released.

In The Giver, the community decides to make everything the same. There are no differences. No color, no major or minor distinctions, and no feelings. The community believes that this leads to perfection. The people living there believe that the community is perfect. In the book, The Giver, the main character, Jonas, lives in this utopian society. Utopia means an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. In Jonas case, he lives in a place that everything is not just “perfect”, but well planned. Jonas is an eleven-year-old boy (known as an “Eleven” in the community) and is a very honest and obedient boy. Lois Lowry, the author of The Giver, changes Jonas’s character as the story advances. Jonas changes throughout The Giver and as a result, he tries to change the community.

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.

Lois Lowry’s The Giver is a book about a seemingly utopian society in the future. This idea of perfection was created by removing individuality and emotion from the lives of people in the community which contrasts to today’s society in the United States, where freedom is extremely important to citizens. The only people who know that these freedoms are possible are a boy from the community named Jonas and his mentor who goes by “the Giver.” Jonas’s job in the community is to receive memories about the experiences that the society has removed.

Jonas gets to see memories that the giver gives him. “Close your eyes.Relax. This will not be painful.’’ “ I am going to transmit the memory of snow.” This shows that Jonas got a rare job because not everyone gets to see memories like Jonas gets to . HE starts to notice that fiona's hair is red and the memories allowed him to see all of the colors. That means that the memories are allowing

However, in Jonas’s horrendous community, this seems to be the case. Jonas, unlike everyone else in the community with the exception of The Giver, has pale eyes while everyone else living in his community maintains dark eyes. Although Lowry never straight up tells us what color eyes they are, we learn that not only Jonas and The Giver have pale eyes, but also, they have blue colored eyes almost identical to water (Stewart 28, Lowry 21). To add onto this, individuals who have blue eyes in Jonas’s community have the ability to both understand and use wisdom, which is why Jonas will become the new Receiver of Memory. However, one must take into consideration that in order to utilize these skills, Jonas must learn to use them, which ultimately, is what his training prepares him

Jonas (no last name) is the main character of the book The Giver. Jonas lives in what seems like a post-apocalyptic world in a community that has no color or music or memories but is a utopian civilization. He is faced with a tough challenge at the Ceremony of Twelves (Where they turn 12) and is chosen to be the Receiver of Memories where he must burden himself with memories of the past so he can provide wisdom to the community. Jonas then realizes through many long lost memories that there are many dark and horrible secrets that build the foundation of the community, therefore, The Giver and Jonas decide to make a plan to leave the community to confront them with the memories of what life was like back then so that the people would know what

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

The Giver is mainly about Jonas’s development and how he grows as an individual. Jonas is a young man with a lot of uniqueness and dreams. As, Jonas matures we see that he does not want to be in a society where everyone is the same \, instead, he wants to go his way. This story makes readers happy about differences, instead, of blending in or being invisible. Jonas’s society ignores his different eyes and odd abilities, when in the end they bring positive change to the

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