Lois Lowry Character Analysis

This year, two brilliant selections have been read in which a character has shown perseverance and courage, thus giving a positive change in an overall outlook of the society, or positive change in the character itself. In one of the selections, the protagonist Rikki Tikki Tavi, changed a dangerous garden into a peaceful, safe place. In the other novel, the main character, Jonas, has changed himself from a weak, innocent person to a strong person full of wisdom. As each story progresses, good qualities make a positive change.
In the Newberry medal- winning novel, ¨The Giver¨ by Lois Lowry, the protagonist, Jonas, has shown perseverance by enduring the Giver´ś training, has made him change from someone who figuratively and literally sees black and white, to a person who can see colour. In chapter Twelve, page 114 the author says, ¨¨It …show more content…
In this selection, the protagonist, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi, was washed out of his burrow during a summer flood, leaving him in a new home. Later on in the story, he encounters two snakes, and because of his courage, he changed the garden. ¨Now, if I kill him here, Nagaina will know; and if I fight him on the open floor, the odds are in his favor… If I don't break his back in the first jump, he can still fight, and if he fights- it must be the head.Then he jumped and his teeth met Nag´s head. Then he was battered to and fro. The big man had walked in and fired a shotgun into nag.¨ (Kipling, 28-29)The evidence shows Rikki plotting whether or not to kill Nag, and the chance is right so he does it. In the story, it says that Nag is one of the two most dangerous snakes in the garden, so it must be extremely difficult to kill him. But the mongoose showed courage, and assisted in his death. Eventually Rikki kills the other dangerous snake and, Because of his bravery, the garden turns back into the peacefull place it once