Analyzing The Character Of Jonas In 'The Giver'

I think Jonas had no other option but to leave. Changing the minds of the emotionally neutralised beings, with no feelings or any acknowledgment of the real world, would be testing the unobtainable victory only solved by Jonas crossing the border of elsewhere. The members of the community would not comprehend the information Jonas would have to share, and would never, they can’t be changed, besides the Elders would stop Jonas at his first move.

The people in Jonas’s community take pills for their emotions to disappear, leaving a community with no love or feelings, prohibiting the knowledge of pretty much everything. To change the community of unpermissive minds would be nearly impossible. The people in Jonas’s community have no idea what is going on. They are completely innocent to their surroundings knowing no more than what they are told. So to change their minds, to have them rebel against the Elders and to put a new concept in their minds is just too much to ask for.

Secondly, imagine living in a world with only three books. Not even educational books. The members of Jonas’s community only know what they are told. They don’t know that when they release a twin they are killing it. They don’t know. The Elders have …show more content…
They can listen to what they say and even watch videos of that day. They monitor the community closely and carefully watching each move they make. Instantly they would notice that Jonas and the giver were setting up a plan. Almost exactly after the Elders comprehended their plan, they would be held somewhere away from everybody so they couldn't proceed. Since the Elders have so much control over the community, and even if Jonas finally figured out a cunning plan to give them back their memories it would not work. The Elders would most likely give them a pill to forget what Jonas had told them putting him back at the start with yet again zombies with no