The Giver Society

Despite the fact that he could be killed if he was caught. Jonas also wanted to release the memories into the community to make it a better place. Jonas looked to The Giver for advice, and The Giver was almost like a father to him. Jonas normally followed the rules of the community for what was right and what was wrong except when he ran away. Jonas learned that the rules of the community were harsh, once he had his knowledge he got from The Giver, he kind of made his own rules. The Giver shows lots of moral courage because he helped Jonas run away despite the potential consequences of getting released. Also the Giver took the risk of giving Jonas the memories when the previous receiver ran away because the memories were too much and then those memories were lost. The Giver has all the knowledge from the previous generations so he uses that to decide what is right and

In “ A Modest Proposal”, Jonathan Swift mainly targets two audiences: one being the English who were purchasing all the land in Ireland and the Irish themselves. After he wrote his proposal, the English purchased about 90 percent of the land, causing rent to increase thus, a difficulty for farmers to pay for rent, and a struggle to provide for their families. Since Irish families were larger in size, it was of great difficulty to care for every individual, hence the number of beggars rose dramatically. In addition, the English parliament ratified laws that restricted rights of the Irish living in their native land. More importantly, Swift attacks the English for their prejudice and political injustices, as well as displeasement with

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Have you ever wanted to live in a place that is peaceful, quiet, and has everything under control? Would you give up colors, weather, memories or even love for that? Jonas lives in a futuristic community that has everything under control. However, when Jonas becomes the Receiver, everything changed. Jonas starts to become curious about the truth, Elsewhere and the past. The Giver’s community would be better with love, colors, and pain.

In the novel "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, Jonas' progression as a character is shown before Jonas receives the "memories" then following after Jonas receives the memories. In a society where feelings are required to be shared at night, "This evening he (Jonas) almost would have preferred to keep his feeling hidden. But it was, of course, against the rules." Although Jonas would prefer to keep his feelings hidden and not discuss them, he would rather not disobey the rules even if nobody would find out. The readers can infer that Jonas would prefer to follow the rules because he does not know to do different nor does Jonas know about a different life "elsewhere". After Jonas receives the memories, Jonas then has a different view of his community

In the novel “The Giver,” written by Lois Lowry, Jonas is a boy who follows the rules, spends time with friends and family, goes to school, and at the Twelves Ceremony is given the job as the Receiver of Memory. At the end of the novel, Jonas learns information that makes him leave the community to save the people he loves. As Jonas becomes older, he acknowledges that he is different from his family and the people surrounded by him. Once Jonas got his assignment as the Receiver of Memory, his maturity became inconsistent throughout the novel.

Jonas starts out with a very low understanding of what it means to be mature. He has no knowledge of pain, love, or any other emotion. He proves this by acting like a normal child. He plays with his friends after volunteer hours. He attends school on a regular basis. Jonas is a stickler for the rules. He has been told that it is wrong to not follow rules and that there

Jonas is feeling things that no one in his community has ever felt before. He is beginning to understand that others are missing out on important emotions. He knows that The Giver has already given away most of the memories, and in order to stop the process, he must make a sacrifice in order for his community to be aware of what they are missing. This proves that he is conscious of the fact that his community is not perfect, and the act of staging an accident is a noble, selfless thing to do; something that his perfect peers would not understand. When talking about the harms of banning books and by quoting Lois Lowry, Jennifer Kendall states, “The world portrayed in The Giver is a world where choice has been taken away. It is a frightening world” (Kendall). Kendall makes the point that the Utopian society is not something that people strive for. As a middle-schooled child, it is easy to see that life is not perfect. I feel as if Lowry does a great job in showing the reader that Jonas does understand that his community is not perfect, and he goes to great links to stop the perfection. While there may seem to

In our world, we can decided what we wear like and how we act. Some of us have long hair, others have short, and a portion of us have none at all. Other physical features may be eye color, hair color, height, or weight. Internal differences may be likes and dislikes; the people in Jonas’ community are just the opposite. They follow a strict set of rules and cannot see or realize any differences. This sameness has been enforced by the Committee of Elders for a while. It is like they live in a one-way mirror; but Jonas can see differences and so can the Giver. They can see color while others just see shades of gray. They can see how the community has changed and how it is being controlled. So this one-way mirror has a secret second side and Jonas can now see through it. This begins to get frusterating to Jonas because he is confused about his

In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas was always a good boy until he realized that something weird was going on. He always followed the rules in the beginning but toward the end he stole, lied, and threw away his pills. In their world everything was the same,no one had ever had memories but when he became the receiver Jonas received memories and gave them to the society. Throughout the novel, Jonas moves from a rule follower to a bad bad boy.

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Throughout the novel Giver, Jonas was questioning his society and community. Jonas accepting his society because he's unaware of the emotions of the other people in his community. Jonas starts to question his community when Jonas starts to feel emotions from getting memories. Jonas became to reject his society because he finds out what his community actually is. In the beginning of the novel, Jonas accepts his society's rules but once he starts to feel the memories of the past Jonas questions, and if they purposely took that out for the rest of the community.

Jonas’ community appears to be a utopia, but, in reality, it is a dystopia. The people seem perfectly content to live in an isolated wreck—in a government run by a select few—in which a group of Elders enforces the rules. In Jonas’ community, there is no poverty, starvation, unemployment, lack of housing, or discrimination; everything is perfectly planned to eliminate any problems. However, as the book progresses and Jonas gains insight into what the people have willingly given up—their freedoms and individualities—for the so-called common good of the community, it becomes more and more obvious that the community is a horrible place in which to live. You as a reader can relate to the disbelief and horror that Jonas feels when he realizes

Jonas discovers what is really beyond his community, beyond all the rules and policies they have to follow; he decides to leave and give all of his memories to the rest of the community so they would know about what they have not seen or experienced before. Jonas discovers that the community has decided too many things for everyone. He realizes Sameness is not right, that it cannot last any longer. He thinks of all the what-ifs. What if the Elders choose a wrong spouse? What if the Elders choose the wrong job for someone?

“Color.” It’s all around us, we see it every day of our lives, everything has color, but the people in Jonas’ community didn’t know this. They had no clue what color was or that it even existed. Their society was hue less, hopeless, and everything was the same until the new receiver of memory changed that for everyone. In our world choice is a big part of our everyday lives we make many choices a day, do I want this or that, green or blue, this shirt or that shirt? But in The Giver choices were made for them, what they wear, how they act, what they say, what they eat, and what they do for a living. Imagine all that stuff being chosen for you. Everyone would be dressed the same, act the same,