Jonas

In The Giver, the main character Jonas changes. Over the course of the story, Jonas changes his personality, along with his whole outlook. At the beginning of the book Jonas was just like any other kid his age. He is completely unaware of the gruesome inhumane things that are happening in his community, “I’m feeling apprehensive,”...”I know there’s really nothing to worry about”(Lowry, 1993, p.12) This shows how Jonas knows that he is a normal person and he should have no reason to think that anything out of the ordinary would happen to him. Also at the exposition, cared about the community and its well being. He loved to be a part of it, and wouldn’t want anything to happen that would change the community. At the second half of the…

How do you think Jonas' community is the same and different to ours? Jonas' community is the same and different to ours in many ways. They are the same in ways such as laws and equality, but they are different in ways such as job selection and education. Jonas' community can be compared/contrasted to our own in many ways. In Jonas' community there are laws that are very similar to our own. One such law that is similar is theft, in the novel before Jonas left the community he would steal…

In The Giver, Jonas– a boy who lives in a community where everything is the same– makes very few choices, and because there are no choices, there is no pain, fear, war, or hatred. (cc) People do what they are told to do, so they look like they live in a predictable way doing things without questioning why they should be done. (cp) Their society is so bland, that they cannot even see colors! (cp) Jonas embarks on a journey to leave the community and end this type of “Blandness life”…

In the giver, Jonas the main character risked his life so many times to escape the community with no choices, feelings and uniqueness. I support Jonas’s decision to escape because of these three points. They don't see cool and beautiful things like colours, sleds and more. The second reason is, they never got to experience love. Finally, citizens in the community never had choices. The First reason I supported Jonas when he escaped is, they don't get to experience the fun and exhilarating…

“It’s called snow, gabe,”This quote means jonas is trying to sooth gabe. This quote pertains to the story because the two try to make it past the boundary of memory. In doing so they two are left in the cold. In the end of “the giver” jonas and gabe are lying their freezing because, the sled and the ouse was just one of the memories that the giver gave to jonas, secondly, jonas might be dreaming because he doesn’t take his medicine which enables him to dream, and lastly jonas might not have made…

Throughout the book The Giver Jonas was given huge responsibilities being chosen as the Receiver of Memory and having the fate of his community in his hand. Living in a community where you have no say in how you live your life, who you marry, who your kids are, or where you work must be hard and quite honestly it couldn’t be considered living, so discovering who you are in this environment must be impossible. But Jonas discovered and understood why he wasn’t the same as the others in his…

Imagine a utopian society where everything is perfect for ordinary 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.…

I think Jonas had no other option but to leave. Changing the minds of the emotionally neutralised beings, with no feelings or any acknowledgment of the real world, would be testing the unobtainable victory only solved by Jonas crossing the border of elsewhere. The members of the community would not comprehend the information Jonas would have to share, and would never, they can’t be changed, besides the Elders would stop Jonas at his first move. The people in Jonas’s community take pills for…

Lowry’s book, The Giver, Jonas decides to leave the safety of the community to allow Gabriel to live, to allow the memories to return to the community, for Jonas to live a meaningful life and for the Giver to have a second chance at helping the community at a time of distress when Jonas’s memories return to the people. Jonas’s decision was the preferred one. How and why is releasing Jonas’s memories to the community better than not releasing the memories to the community? Releasing the…

Some books seem totally different and they are extremely easy to contrast, but sometimes you have to look closely to see the the characters aren't that different after all. Caitlin and jonas share several qualities mentally and they have some similar internal conflict. Although, physically Jonas and Caitlin are complete opposites. One of the first major differences between Caitlin and Jonas is their age. Caitlin turns 16 at the beginning of “Dreamland” and Jonas turns 12 at the beginning of…