Jonas is put to the ultimate test of his bravery when he experiences pain. Jonas has never felt pain in his life, and has no idea what it really is, until The Giver shows him. He undergoes unimaginable amounts of torment and destruction. The Giver leads him on a journey from the first memory of misery, and it takes a dark turn. “The agony of the fractured leg began to seem no more than a mild discomfort as The Giver led Jonas firmly, little by little, into the deep terrible suffering of the past” (Lowry 110). To withstand pain, takes serious amounts of bravery. Jonas is suffering deeply and yet, he continues on with his training without a complaint. If any other person in his community was chosen to be The Receiver, they wouldn’t be able to do it. They would need to have strenuous amounts of courage, like Jonas has. It takes a real hero to take on the most feared feeling, pain. Certainly, Jonas has to be very different to be chosen to be in great affliction.
To begin, you have to be very different in order to be a hero, and Jonas is exactly that. Nobody has ever seen …show more content…
When Jonas becomes a 12, he is supposed to be assigned a job. Instead, he was chosen. He was chosen to be the Receiver of Memory, the most important position. In order to become the Receiver, the person with the assignment before him has to pass the memories on to him. “Beginning today, this moment, at least to me, you are the Receiver. I have been the Receiver for a long time. A very, very long time” (Lowry 75). The job of the old Receiver is to pass all the memories of the past to the new Receiver. The Giver, is the old Receiver and Jonas’ mentor. He is the one to show him pain and beauty. He passes all those feelings over to Jonas and leads him on the journey of growing up. Jonas is now the one to withhold all the thoughts of the past. His training with the Giver is what leads him on his way to become a
To begin, you have to be very different in order to be a hero, and Jonas is exactly that. Nobody has ever seen …show more content…
When Jonas becomes a 12, he is supposed to be assigned a job. Instead, he was chosen. He was chosen to be the Receiver of Memory, the most important position. In order to become the Receiver, the person with the assignment before him has to pass the memories on to him. “Beginning today, this moment, at least to me, you are the Receiver. I have been the Receiver for a long time. A very, very long time” (Lowry 75). The job of the old Receiver is to pass all the memories of the past to the new Receiver. The Giver, is the old Receiver and Jonas’ mentor. He is the one to show him pain and beauty. He passes all those feelings over to Jonas and leads him on the journey of growing up. Jonas is now the one to withhold all the thoughts of the past. His training with the Giver is what leads him on his way to become a