Joe Jonas

very few differences amongst the citizens inhabiting the community. With the creation of Sameness, however, comes the termination of individuality. Jonas is aware he is different from others in his community, however, he does not begin to feel this difference and individuality until he starts training to become the Receiver of Memory. For instance, Jonas has a unique ability that very few people in his…

The Giver: Utopia or Dystopia? “I have great honor, so will you. But you will find that is not the same as power.” - The Giver. Lois Lowry wrote a book called The Giver. It’s about a boy named Jonas who was chosen to be the new Receiver of memory at the Ceremony of Twelves. With the help of the Giver, he finds out things he didn’t know about the community. To some people, Jonas’s community would be a utopia, a place that is perfection, but to others it would be a dystopia, a place that is…

reject their society. (BS-1) Jonas thinks everything thing is normal in his perfect society and try's his hardest to fit in. (BS-2) Jonas starts to get curious about what his community has been hiding from him with the little evidence he has. (BS-3) Jonas needs to configure a plan to rebel against his dreadful community.(TS) Jonas learns the feel of loneliness throughout the book which drives him to rebel against his society and do something about it. (MIP-1) Jonas thinks everything thing is…

In The Giver, a boy named Jonas lived in a community where everything was planned out for you. At 12 years old, the kids get their jobs that they train for and have to do. What if you wanted to make a change? I do not support the community because you can not be different, there are few rights or freedoms, and people are released. Every body is alike in so many different ways. You probably could not even tell one person from another. Same intelligence, and same family unit. One mother, one…

her book, "The Giver". After Jonas learns that seeing beyond is the ability to see colors, he is told by the Giver, “We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with differences. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others” (Lowry 91). This illustrates the theme because when they chose to eliminate pain, suffering, and inconveniences in their world, through Sameness, they lost the joys of sunshine, sledding, and color. Jonas later receives a memory of a…

a world where everything is orderly and predictable, everyone is the same and all important decisions were made by one's leaders? In the controlling world of The Giver, Jonas gets assigned the role of the Receiver. The Giver gives him memories both happy and painful of their past world to keep for the community. Eventually Jonas realizes that the community members need to feel pain in order to be truly happy and understand the true meaning of life. The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a clear example of…

future where people have given up things like color and memories. Memories are given to the Receiver of Memory Jonas so that he may hold all the pain of things like war and wounds of all kinds so the rest of his society does not have to. In the end of the Giver while Jonas and Gabriel are escaping they survive because he hears things like music which the Giver never gave him any memories of. Jonas had the Giver keep the memory of music claiming “I want you to keep that, to have with you, when…

for Jonas than Mother and Father’s feelings for Jonas. Mother and Father’s feelings for Jonas are structured and formal. Unlike, The Giver and Jonas’s feelings are emotional, warm, and open. Mother and Father had structured feelings for Jonas because they only knew sameness. Therefore, they followed instructions on taking pills, so they never felt a strong emotion before. The feelings from The Giver and Jonas are different. The Giver can feel stronger emotions and can relate better with Jonas.…

Breaking all of the laws that Jonas did, and doing things that he didn’t want to do to reach his destiny, he was a true hero for saving someone whom he loved. One example of why I think that Jonas, from The Giver by Lois Lowry is a hero, is that he saved Gabe from a release, which is when the community will kill him intentionally because he didn’t meet the standards of life. When Jonas’s father said at dinner the night before, that Gabe would be released the next day, Jonas got upset and took…

Jonas’s community is a dystopia. His community can only do certain things that they can not break. In the book The Giver the kids have to get their jobs at the age of twelve. In their community every thing has to be the same due to sameness. Finally, they have lots of rules they have to follow. First, in the book The Giver Jonas’s community has to get jobs. They have to start volunteering at the age of eight. When they turn twelve the elders pick the job that they have to get. They have to…