Joe Jonas

This lesson is shown through Jonas, the protagonist. Jonas lives in a community placed in the future where Sameness is the way of life. The Elders, who rule the community, have total control, and the citizens have no freedom of choice over their lives. When Jonas is approaching the age of 12, he begins to worry about his future job that will be selected for him by the Elders, thinking “...he hadn’t the slightest idea what Assignment the Elders would be selecting for his future, or how he…

things will change between Asher and Jonas. They are going to feel uncomfortable around each other. Jonas will feel uncomfortable because now he's the receiver of memories. He is the most honorable person now while Asher isn’t. Everyone will know Jonas as The Receiver. At the end of the ceremony, the discomfort in their relationship begins with Asher being a little hesitant. The author wrote, "Sure." Asher smiled, his usual smile, friendly and familiar. But Jonas felt a moment of hesitation…

that only major parts of the story were acted out, whereas in the book everything was included. On the stage, this was shown because major parts, like when Jonas saw the color red, or when Jonas was receiving memories, or when Jonas transmitted memories to Gabriel, were all acted out. The book gave details about minor details like when Jonas saw Gabe’s eyes and the release…

character Jonas and Truman are in communities very far away and isolated. The setting in The Giver and the Truman Show. In The Giver’s community is very small it is clean far away Isolated and very controlled. The Truman show’s community is very far away almost like on an island the houses are all the houses are alike the people are all fake and it being controlled by a man named Kristoff. Both are basically the same because both are isolated and being controlled. The main characters Jonas…

people, but Jonas is no ordinary person. In The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas can’t deal with this community where people are limited and the same, so he leaves. Jonas made the right decision by taking Gabriel, because living alone can lead to depression, a person must protect the things they love when they are in danger, when someone has the opportunity to give someone you love a better life, that person should always do so. Sometimes living without someone can lead to depression. In Jonas’ case…

everyone must follow a set of rules that create sameness across the whole community. A boy named Jonas is given the job of receiver of memory. His job is to keep the memories of the past to himself so the community can be protected from all those bad things that might cause chaos. Jonas makes a plan with a man he calls the Giver. The plan is to cross a border that keeps all the memories from the community. Jonas ends up making it past the border releasing all the memories of emotions, color, and…

the book, The Giver, the community didn't have any memories of emotions, color, and more. The receiver was the only person who knew what had happened in the past. Jonas was chosen to become the new receiver and had the honor to knowing what the past held. In the book, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, by having the knowledge of the memories, Jonas was able to form opinions, fears, and dreams. Knowing the memories and having the power, can change your opinions. “It's choosing that's important, isn't it?”…

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…

young man named Jonas. In this dystopian society every year 12s go to the ceremony where they receive jobs. This society had always seemed normal to Jonas until that day. He had been chosen to be the receiver, one who receives memories from the past in order to make decisions to better the society. Once his job was selected for him, he went to his job and received some memories from the giver, the old receiver who has to pass down the memories. This is when everything changed. Jonas realized…

The main idea is that people in the community can’t feel pain and the have a lot of different rules and the they have a receiver that is the only person that can feel pain and know what love is. The old receiver will give Jonas a memory and when the old receiver will lose that memory and never remember that memory. I think that not being able to feel pain is weird cause you not experience the pain or the way you hurt peoples feeling but not knowing you did. “Don’t play it anymore” “I’m the one…