Jonas

and is transmitted memories for a community. These memories can either be good or bad. In the book “The Giver”, Jonas, a twelve year old boy, is being transmitted these memories which are making him suffer. But not just the memories, but also the rules of being a Receiver. Now, can being Receiver be a punishment or honor? Pain is what the Receiver, Jonas, feels while have this “job”. Jonas feels pain in numerous times and ways. Two of them can be when he is unable to take bad memories and…

I have selected the book: The Giver, by Lois Lowry. The book is about a boy named Jonas who is just like everybody else. Or so he thinks. Jonas unlike everyone else, has lighter eyes, and is more intelligent and athletic. In this paper I will discuss the properties of this book. The book is about a perfect society which is completely controlled by four to five people, if you count the receiver of memory. Jonas was chosen to the receiver of memory, not assigned to his job like the rest of his…

As Jonas was going down the hill.He recalled the memory of Christmas.He heard sing coming from the tunnel ahead.He saw lights coming from the end of the tunnel.tunnel. Gabe started to cry Jonas looked at Gabe in saw the palest of his eyes freezing with coldest . Jonas want in the tunnel As Jonas was going down the hill.He recalled the memory of Christmas.He heard sing coming from the tunnel ahead.He saw lights coming from the end of the tunnel.tunnel. Gabe started to cry Jonas looked at…

transmitting memories to Jonas, giving Jonas love and wisdom, and then Jonas passing on that love to Gabriel. All these memories gave Jonas the ability to see his community as it really was, lifeless. Nobody in his community was able to perceive the true meaning of happiness or pain. This made Jonas angry because he wasn’t able to share his true feelings with anyone except The Giver. Together they devised a plan that would release all the memories that were transmitted to Jonas into the…

play a role in a human’s life are explained through the remarkable novel entitled The Giver. The main character Jonas discovers the importance and roles of free choice, memories, and feelings. In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, the learning of memories leads Jonas to create new found feelings of love and isolation with the freedom to choose right and wrong, indifference to the straightforward,…

get to keep things. The quote pertains to the story because Jonas´s community lets go of the elders and some newborns if they were the smaller twin of the two. In the end of ¨The Giver¨ Jonas and Gabriel freeze to death because in the book it said that they were starving, very cold, and Jonas had hallucinations. In the end of the story ¨The Giver¨ Jonas mentions that him and Gabriel are starving be cause of the shortage of food. Jonas and Gabriel were short on food because the Giver didn't have…

The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the main character, Jonas, becomes the Receiver, after a fail with the previous one, and begins to have memories transported into his mind. The community has no memories and only the Giver and Receiver share this heavy responsibility. The job of Receiver is a major role in the community because this person advises the Committee of Elders using memories from the past to help them make decisions for their future. When Jonas becomes the Receiver, he begins to experience…

happened when I was a Eight. As Jonas lays back he feels sadness all a sudden and he saw drops of tears coming down my eyes and he saw me cry he cried too because it was very emotional and sad. Jonas eyes got wet and it was tears. His tears fell down to the ground. He could feel pain like I did. This day was when my grandmother died for getting home at late time. “How do you feel Jonas.” I said. Jonas said “Very sad like I could sit down and bawl my eyes out.” I said “ Jonas that was the day my…

In The Giver, there was a boy named Jonas who was selected to be the Receiver of Memory and he was trained by a person named The Giver. When Jonas found out Gabriel was about to be released, he desperately wanted to save him by leaving the community with him and was successful. The Giver movie and The Giver book there was lots of differences. Just to name a few that stood out a lot was in the movie they skipped the beginning, Asher didn’t try to stop Jonas and there also was no map. Therefore,…

Jonas left the community to release the memories and show people things that were being covered up from there censored lives. In the book and the movie, Jonas left the village and crossed the border to release memories, showing the citizens what they were missing. On page 166-167, it said, "He knew he had the remaining hours of the night before they would be aware of his escape... Together the fugitives slept through the first dangerous day." By Lois Lowry using the word fugitive, it enforces…