The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, is about a boy named Jonas who lives in a community happily following the rules of the community. Everything changes when Jonas is chosen as Receiver of memory in which he will be experiencing learning things that are kept well away from the citizens of the community. Lowry’s characterization of Jonas reveals the importance of freedom through her development of the rules of the community, Jonas’s time with the Giver, and Jonas’s decision to leave the community.
The community’s rules emphasizes that freedom is necessary to make choices.
As Jonas walks he thinks about different adjectives to use for the evening ritual of sharing feelings. At first he thought he was frightened but that was the feeling he felt …show more content…
Jonas's father is combing lily’s hair when Jonas.“With all of his being he tried to give each of them a piece of the memory: not of the tortured cry of the elephant, but of the towering, immense creature and the meticulous touch with which it had tended its friend at the end” (101). Jonas really wants his family members to experience the elephant along with him. But it is against the rules for Jonas to share the memories that he receives during his training. It is hard for Jonas to do this because he does not like the fact that only him and the Giver are the only ones that have knowledge about the world and whatever is outside of community. Memories of the world before the community were taken away from the people except for the Giver and receiver of memory, thus not giving them the freedom to share memories on their own terms and decide which ones the do and do not want to share and be able to experience them with others. The Giver tells Jonas it would be a long while before he could see all the colors. Jonas desperately wants to see all the colors and tells the Giver that it is unfair how nothing has color. “If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! A blue tunic or a red one?... But it’s all the same, always” (97).
The community’s rules emphasizes that freedom is necessary to make choices.
As Jonas walks he thinks about different adjectives to use for the evening ritual of sharing feelings. At first he thought he was frightened but that was the feeling he felt …show more content…
Jonas's father is combing lily’s hair when Jonas.“With all of his being he tried to give each of them a piece of the memory: not of the tortured cry of the elephant, but of the towering, immense creature and the meticulous touch with which it had tended its friend at the end” (101). Jonas really wants his family members to experience the elephant along with him. But it is against the rules for Jonas to share the memories that he receives during his training. It is hard for Jonas to do this because he does not like the fact that only him and the Giver are the only ones that have knowledge about the world and whatever is outside of community. Memories of the world before the community were taken away from the people except for the Giver and receiver of memory, thus not giving them the freedom to share memories on their own terms and decide which ones the do and do not want to share and be able to experience them with others. The Giver tells Jonas it would be a long while before he could see all the colors. Jonas desperately wants to see all the colors and tells the Giver that it is unfair how nothing has color. “If everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! A blue tunic or a red one?... But it’s all the same, always” (97).