Jonas

No love, no pain, and no suffering to worry about. That’s where the protagonist, Jonas, lived and Jonas was contented until he found out the truth of what the world was like before. Jonas always thought he always felt true feelings, but as he began to regain the memories of the past he thought otherwise. Other people that he has talked to and himself had never felt true feelings until Jonas met the Giver. When Jonas had started to feel true feelings he realized he never felt anything like…

In the next seven chapters, we observed some significant changes in the main character, Jonas. As he is promoted to a higher age group, the Twelve, he receives a completely different task related to his future career in the December Ceremony. In the Ceremony of Twelve, he is embarrased as his number is skipped, however, it turns out to be special as he receives the job as the Receiver of Memory. Unlike his friends who are assigned for the job, the term “selected” is used for Jonas’s career,…

Chapter 1 With Jonas living in an unfamiliar world, that he can only recall one time when he was apprehensive indicates his community is very safe. When loudspeakers yell directions and the fate of the pilot, making it clear that the community is a very structured and rule-based facility, and also pointing out the rule-breaking always leads to punishment. The repeating word “release” is in connection with the pilot and to the striving infant, verifying it as very meaningful. Chapter 2 The…

everyone must follow a set of rules that create sameness across the whole community. A boy named Jonas is given the job of receiver of memory. His job is to keep the memories of the past to himself so the community can be protected from all those bad things that might cause chaos. Jonas makes a plan with a man he calls the Giver. The plan is to cross a border that keeps all the memories from the community. Jonas ends up making it past the border releasing all the memories of emotions, color, and…

sameness. At the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas receives the assignment as the next Giver, which represents the most honored assignment in the Community. Jonas learns the “rules” of the Receiver, and begins receiving memories of the past, such as weather and feelings. Jonas begins to experience pain and suffering, and learns that the last receiver, Rosemary asked to be released. A new child comes to live with Jonas, and Jonas transmits memories to him so he can sleep. Jonas starts to see colours red…

I have selected the book: The Giver, by Lois Lowry. The book is about a boy named Jonas who is just like everybody else. Or so he thinks. Jonas unlike everyone else, has lighter eyes, and is more intelligent and athletic. In this paper I will discuss the properties of this book. The book is about a perfect society which is completely controlled by four to five people, if you count the receiver of memory. Jonas was chosen to the receiver of memory, not assigned to his job like the rest of his…

Jonas left the community to release the memories and show people things that were being covered up from there censored lives. In the book and the movie, Jonas left the village and crossed the border to release memories, showing the citizens what they were missing. On page 166-167, it said, "He knew he had the remaining hours of the night before they would be aware of his escape... Together the fugitives slept through the first dangerous day." By Lois Lowry using the word fugitive, it enforces…

happened in relative time, but seeing the future will guide you on what might take place in your life. Jonas is being taught to be the receiver of memory. The giver is sharing memories with him so the community doesn’t get them. He has hallucinations of the past. Near the end, Jonas gets the desire to leave and get his plan accomplished. He might be seeing events of the future. In the end of The Giver, Jonas and Gabriel are just hallucinating about making it to the house because they have a…

Like Spreng said, Jonas uses the memories he receives from the Giver and applies what he learned to his perfect society. When Asher and his friends are playing the game of good guys and bad guys, Jonas recalls back to his memory of warfare. “In his mind, Jonas saw again the face of the boy who had lain dying on a field and had begged him for water.” (Lois Lowry 168) Jonas remembers the terrible face of the boy and remembers how abhorrent war is…

This lesson is shown through Jonas, the protagonist. Jonas lives in a community placed in the future where Sameness is the way of life. The Elders, who rule the community, have total control, and the citizens have no freedom of choice over their lives. When Jonas is approaching the age of 12, he begins to worry about his future job that will be selected for him by the Elders, thinking “...he hadn’t the slightest idea what Assignment the Elders would be selecting for his future, or how he…