Jonas Salk

Truth The Giver is a brilliant book that contains many themes. These themes can be used in your life to make you a more successful person. There was one certain theme that stood out the most in the book. Truth can be pleasurable and painful. Truth is a major component in the book. The value of truth is evident throughout the entire book. In the book, The Giver, certain information is retained from the citizens that results in the community being controlled. The lack of freedom for the…

The decisions we make impact our past, present and future. The Giver takes place in what seems to be utopia or a paradise. Life is good and people are happy. Everyone plays games and is polite to each other. But something is wrong and Jonas can sense it. Jonas becomes the Receiver of Memory. The Receiver takes in all of the memory from the past. There is also no pain, hunger, war, poverty or crime. This is good, however this also includes music, art, color, love, and literature. A world that…

Argument Rough Draft Jonas is one of the main characters in the book the giver, but is his assignment a punishment or a honor? Jonas’s assignment as the next receiver of memory is a punishment rather than an honor. Jonas’s is seperate from his friends and age group, he is lonely.The receiver of Memory and Jonas had and has gone through lots of pain. Jonas even with honor and respect is still separate from people in the community. Jonas’s is seperate from his friends and age group, he is…

12, and have just been assigned a job, you do not like your job but you can not change your job. You find yourself in similar scenarios regarding your spouse and children. Can you imagine? Well, this is exactly the kind of scenarios that people in Jonas’ community, in The Giver, experience. People should not be deprived of the right to choose their job, their spouse and the time when they are ready for one, and when they will have children as well as other major decisions. These things should…

The Giver presents us the story of Jonas, a kid who lives in a utopian society. This society is described like a community in which almost everything is controlled by rules. At first glance it looks like a perfect world; however as the story goes on this concept changes. In like manner, this community has to develop under a considerable law called sameness. Basically, it means that the whole population has to have the same and no one can has individuality. When Jonas became a Receiver of Memory…

experience pain and joy because it is what defines us. One event that Jonas feels extreme pain is when he is given the memory of war. Jonas see that the Giver is in pain and offers to help relieve some of it. The Giver is overwhelmed and agrees. “Overwhelmed by pain, he lay in the fearsome stench for hours, listened to the men and animal die, and learned what warfare meant,” (Lowry 120). This is the first time Jonas has ever seen, or experienced war. He is overcome with fear and at one…

Rough-Draft Decide if Jonas made the right choice in leaving the community. Did his leaving produce more positive or more negative results? Jonas should not have left the community.The Giver is in pain and Jonas should be there to help him through it. The citizens of the community are now left with the pain and confusion getting all the memories at once. And the book literally says that he made the wrong choice. The Giver is in pain and Jonas should be there to help him through it.“Some…

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…