Jonas Salk

This book is about a dystopian future where everyone is the same. The main character’s name is Jonas. Jonas lives in a community. In this community, you get your lifelong job at the age of 12. The ceremony is called the ceremony of 12. Throughout your life, before year 12 it gets observed to give you the right job. Also, you are not allowed to question anybody, think for yourself, or feel feeling. In this way the council can control everybody as they wish. The reason for controlling is for the…

The book and movie of The Giver are very different but alike at the same time. I liked the book and movie very much. There are similarities both big and small. One of the main differences that I noticed was about Jonas. In the book he was said to be 12 years old, while in the movie he looked 18 years old. One thing that was the same was his dark hair. I always imagined him with dark brown hair. In the movie he has dark brown hair. Another difference that I noticed was how the memories went back…

read about A boy named Jonas who lives in a perfect communing with no color, weather, being, hurt, or hills. Also no feelings or memory about the outside world known as Elsewhere. However, a man known as the Giver gives Jonas memories… Jonas changes throughout The Giver and as a result, tries to make a change in the community. Jonas changes for the beginning of the book to the end because in the beginning of the book he is scared and at the end of the book he is courageous. Jonas is afraid in…

Jonas and Fiona biked to the House of Old together and waved to each other as they were both heading their own ways for their training. He entered the Annex, greeted the Attendant and went inside The Giver’s room. He walked toward The Giver who was sitting on the chair waiting for Jonas. As he was walking the books caught his attention again, and he suddenly stopped and just stared in awe with the memory of his first time seeing all these books playing like a movie in his head. He looked in awe…

start, I will be explaining the plot. Following that will be conflict and theme. From then on I will cover setting and characters. “The Giver” is a story about a young boy named Jonas. Jonas lives in a world where everything and everyone are the same, except for him. On the day they get their jobs appointed to them, Jonas feels like he doesn’t belong to any specific job. When he is selected as receiver of memory, he is automatically shocked at their decision. He felt nervous for his first day…

story, The Giver by Lois Lowry, and the article, “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut, both main characters are poised as hero’s. In The Giver, Jonas is selected as the receiver of memory. After many months of training, Jonas’s realizes that there is more beyond what he has learned in his community. He learns about family, music, and most of all, love. Jonas believes that the feelings he has experienced should be shared with everyone in his community, but his message isn’t vivid, for it is…

come. Why think of the future when one could be focusing on what is going on right now. Why push a “surprise” button when everything that happens is already full of surprises. If Jonas were to decide whether or not to press a “surprise” button, he would press it because he is thoughtful, curious, and apprehensive. Jonas has always caring towards his peers, friends, and family, which is why he was chosen as the new “Giver”. When it comes to pressing a button that says “surprise”, he would think…

story, Jonas, the protagonist and narrator, is living in an orderly community in the future that runs on a strict set of rules. The book was published in 1993, and like any great book a film adaptation was filmed, and released about a year ago. Like any book and its film adaptation, there are some differences. In The Giver, some major differences included the age of graduation, the jobs of Asher and Fiona, who were Jonas’ best friends, and the endings of the story. During the exposition, Jonas…

In the book Divergent and The Giver Tris and Jonas are the main protagonists, that play important parts in the story. Tris is a young women that faces many hard decisions that have to do with where she belongs. Jonas is a young man that lives in a society where everything is kept a secret. Tris from Divergent and Jonas from The Giver have similarities and differences. Tris and Jonas are both characters that face tough decisions and live complicated lives. For example, in the book Divergent Four…

Ender and Jonas both come from two different settings, yet they still have similar challenges and take similar paths.In ender’s game written by Orsen Scott Card ,Ender must go through a difficult training at the same age as Jonas- twelve. In Ender’s training he must fight in a three dimensional, zero gravity arena. He gets shot at by special guns, which paralyse his suit and often get’s hurt.Ender is also isolated from the rest of his group and as soon as he starts making friends he is moved…