Jonas Salk

it’s being unwound, or having to stay in a place where one would be controlled and watched. But Unwind has three protagonists while The Giver only has one. Jonas brings Gabe with him during his escape, while in Unwind, Connor, Risa, and Lev didn’t plan on escaping together. But the protagonists of both books have connections to infants, with Jonas and Gabe, and then Risa with the baby that Connor managed to obtain. The length of the books give them very different amounts of time to develop their…

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…

The Giver is about a young boy named Jonas who lives in a society free of hatred, memories, or individuality as a person. At age twelve, each child gets assigned roles that they will receive training on to eventually become productive members of society. In the beginning of the book, Jonas has complete trust and respect for his parents until the Giver shows Jonas’ father killing the baby, and disposing of the body through a garbage chute. When Jonas sees this, he can’t but help lose trust in his…

In Lois Lowry’s story The Giver, Jonas becomes the receiver of memory. He is the most important factor of the community. The Receiver gets all of the old memories from the old world. The memories can include pain, suffering, joy, or, happiness. He will soon know what it takes to become the receiver and how it will mature him. In the beginning, Jonas was quite responsible for his age of eleven. He was different than the other community members though. All of his friends knew what they wanted to…

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…

In that dream it feels different to him. That is when you know that you are no longer a child, you are one step closer to becoming an mature adult. Everyone in the community has stirrings so it's not a surprise to anyone, but to Jonas it is. People in the real world would call “Stirrings” puberty. Jonas’s community calls them “stirrings” because it is the language of Utopia, it is different. In other words, it’s what they are used to. It makes sense to them, they were born with…

Jonas woke to the unpleasant stinging sensation of snow pressed against his right cheek. As he rubbed his face with his numb hands Jonas looked around confused at where he was. I don’t understand, Jonas thought with increasing worry, Is this Elsewhere? As Jonas willed himself to stand up, he felt the cold object pressing against his chest. His heart dropped as Jonas realized where he was. Behind him a few steps down the hillside Jonas saw the now frozen bicycle. Wrapping his arms around him and…

The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the main character, Jonas, becomes the Receiver, after a fail with the previous one, and begins to have memories transported into his mind. The community has no memories and only the Giver and Receiver share this heavy responsibility. The job of Receiver is a major role in the community because this person advises the Committee of Elders using memories from the past to help them make decisions for their future. When Jonas becomes the Receiver, he begins to experience…

Giver, Jonas doesn’t start to feel anything until he starts to receive memories from the current Receiver. In this essay I get to talk about three themes, which are Individuality, Memories, and Emotions. I think that these are the most important themes of this story and are the main reasons behind why what happens, happens. In the current world, being individual is normal because everyone has their own uniqueness to them. We’re used to individuality, so we don’t recognize it as much as Jonas…

are wrong and afraid of the power the book has to prove how wrong they are. Banning “The Giver” or evening attempting to ban it is a mistake. The book teaches kids wonderful things and helps them explore a world of feelings that they are, much like Jonas, just being awakened…