Essay on The Giver by Lois Lowry

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

To begin, He is rebellious. All the citizen must take medication of anti-dreaming. Jonas doesn't take it because he learns all the feeling from the memories and he wants to keep all the feeling with him. Furthermore, He is courageous. Once he knows everything about his community that his father kills the twin and going to release Gabriel. Jonas says that" No fear, nor any regret at leaving the community behind. But he felt a very deep sadness that he had left his closest friend behind"(Lowry 163). It indicates that he is going to escape to elsewhere. he knows that he will never come back to the community again and see his friends again. He decides to steal his father's bicycle, steal food from the community, leave his community in the middle of the night, and take Gabriel with him. Last, He is strong. On his way to elsewhere he suffers with problems for instance, running out of food and running out of energy because of travelling in a long distance. Also, the condition of climates. Snowing almost caused him to death finally he tries hard and makes it to elsewhere. Accordingly, in the end of the book. Jonas is courageous, rebellious, and

Even though, Jonas has a high honor in his community, it is a punishment because of all the pain he has to endure and also having to keep all the memories and his training to himself. During break time at school, all the students were talking about their first day of training, but Jonas stayed calm and listened to everyone "He was aware of his own admonition not to discuss his training" (Lowry 112). This shows that Jonas’s selection was a punishment because he could not be a normal kid and fit in with everybody else, making different. Also, after the Giver gave Jonas some painful memories he felt lonely because he was not allowed to talk about it and no one knew how he felt.

So he lied and pretended he took them. He also breaks the rules again through the book. Jonas passes on memories the Giver had passed him that were from love and warmth. Even though no one else had the right to see those memories, Jonas passed them on to Gabe. He passed them down because it was helping Gabe fall asleep and he also quite enjoyed helping Gabe. Especially as Gabe and Jonas’s Bond got closer. By doing so, this is one of his ,Jonas’s, first acts of rebellion. He also breaks the rules again through the book. Even though it is dangerous, Jonas does so anyway because he wants Gabe to be able go through the ceremony of ones. Lois Lowry herself writes, “....though he felt guilty...Each night he (Jonas) give Gabriel memories.”(Lowry, 128) Even though Jonas does not want to be caught, by the committee elder. Jonas acts unruly anyway because he feels he has to do it in order for Gabe to stop crying. This also shows how loyal Jonas is. Throughout the book, Jonas starts to have a character change/ In the beginning of the book starts as being naive. Through the book, he starts being more heroic, bold, and daring. Jonas used to be so naive until he became the receiver and gradually started to

E.E Cummings, a famous American poet from the mid-1900s, once said, “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” In The Giver by Lois Lowry, the main character Jonas makes the right decision by choosing to take Gabriel and running from the community. His courageous act helped Gabriel, benefited himself, and assisted the community. When Jonas makes his brave choice, he transitions from a child to an adult.

Like how you must take your daily medication once you leave the house”. The society doesn’t get a choice on what te should feel. Everyday as a routine the people before they leave their dwelling have to take this medicine which controls how they should act internally This quote shows that the people in the society don’t get a chance to be unique and act in the act in their own way but have to do whatever the government and the chief Elder tell them to do. This over shows 12 years old Jonas made the right decision to give the memories

William Herschel discovered the seventh planet from the sun, Uranus. This was the first planet discovered using a telescope. William Herschel started to question if Uranus was a planet or a star while looking at Uranus. From using a telescope, William Herschel was able to tell that Uranus was a planet and not a star. Previous astronomers thought that Uranus was a star and not a planet because they didn’t use a telescope. William Herschel named the planet Georgium Sidus (“Georgian Planet”) after the King of England. There was another astronomer named Johann Bode, who wanted to name the planet “Uranus” after an Olympian god of the heavens. By the 1950’s, the planet’s name was accepted as Uranus. The discovery of Uranus relates to the scientific

During the story Jonas grew as a person through bravery, love, and risks. The love that Jonas had made him braver and he took more risks. Now think, would would you actually want to live in this community where everything and everyone was the same every day. The lesson of this story was without memories, knowledge is

Lois Lowry was born on March 20, 1937, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Lowry spent a fraction her school years in Japan she ended up graduating from a New York City high school. Then she spent two years at Brown University before dropping out. when she was 19, she married naval officer Donald Lowry.they had to move a lot because of donald's career as a naval officer. On the road they had four children. at a young age she lost her older sister Helen. She was also going through some personal changes in this time she and her husband got divorced. Years later Lowry published one of her best known novels, The Giver. The story takes the reader to an imaginary community where there's no war and poverty but everyone's lives are controlled. A young boy named Jonas

Imagine being chosen a job for a lifetime, but this job had a lot of pain, and loneliness. Well that what it was like for Jonas. Which makes Jonas being selected to be the receiver of memory is more like a punishment than an honor. Jonas has to deal with the pain that comes from the memories. He is missing out on things others can do. Jonas knows things and he can't tell anyone about 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

He did not have any knowledge of ‘sameness’ or memories or feelings. He did not mind living in his community, “nothing was every unexpected… a life without pain” is how Jonas described his community. However, his attitude and perspective to the things around him has started to change. This was because he is assigned to be the receiver of memories, giving him knowledge and wisdom from the memories of the past, before ‘sameness’.

At last, Jonas figures out how to esteem his better approach for seeing and decides to hazard everything to restore care and insight to everybody in the Community. The individuals in Jonas' Community impart their

What if everyone was the same and being different was unacceptable. In The Giver by Lois Lowry Jonas lives in a community where emotion, color, and family, are eliminated from society, but when Jonas is “selected” for a job his life changes, and he becomes different. While the novel progresses Jonas learns three important moral lessons including, take risks to grow, being true to yourself take great courage, and knowledge is useless without memories.

As in The Giver, Jonas leaves his world of Sameness to live a life that is full of love and also pain. He chooses this because his family lives the same life as everyone in his community, with no emotion and connectivity with anyone. Jonas makes this extremely difficult decision to pursue a life with love, passion, and pain. He is courageous enough to accept and experience the feelings his community has deemed unnecessary, and would agree with E.E. Cummings in that “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really