Jonas

This person in the book is Jonas, a twelve year-old who has recently been giving the job of receiving memories. These memories include colors, feelings, and everything that the regular people of the town do not know about. After so long, Jonas starts to realize that the town’s way of life can be way better. The first example the book gives us is when Jonas receives the memory of war. He finds out that war is horrible, and he ultimately feels…

Would sameness be the best thing in today's society? In the novel, The Giver sameness seemed like the best thing for Jonas (the main character) and his community. How everyone lived the same life doing the same thing and having everything easily handed to them. After Jonas was assigned as the receiver, he eventually realized the reality of what was going on around him. The community he lived in, which could be referred to as a utopia, quickly turned into a dystopia where all feelings were to be…

their choices. “Jonas was surprised. There was no way, really to know in advance. it was a secret solution, made by the leaders of the community, the Committee of Elders.” If there was no way of knowing what job you would get, then the Elders control the lifestyle of every citizen in the community. The Elders control the peoples jobs and the people have no…

INDIVIDUALS The Giver is the story of Jonas’s development into an individual. After Jonas became the receiver of memory, he realized that their rights have been stolen from them. They’ve been living like robots. Their individuality is being devalued because their right of making choices is stolen from every individual in the community. The nurturers kill the babies that are uncertain and call it “release”, but Jonas was the only person that knew that. Jonas’s father brought Gabriel, a baby that…

citizen to own or read any type of literature. People are also disciplined by not being allowed to have a front porch because it is believed that they would sit around thinking too much and form ideas in their heads. Montag’s society is also similar to Jonas’ in the fact that surveillance is strongly enforced. There is a robot named the Mechanical Hound that works for the firemen to track down anyone who secretly owns a book or simply looks suspicious. Since the Hound is always alert and…

He undergoes training for a year and a man who Jonas calls The Giver transfers all the memories he knows to Jonas. He then learns about pain, pleasure, color, snow, war, and everything else the people in his society have been sheltered from. But the real suspense is when he learns that when someone is “released” they are killed. This terrifies him the most and Jonas becomes angry. He feels that his society is not living right. Jonas becomes strongly attached to Gabriel, a child his father…

Wouldn’t you want to be perfect, even if it takes a little bit of work? All you would need to do is focus on certain things. In The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas the protagonists’ community is utopian. The most important thing in their whole community is Sameness. They are all the same in the best ways. They are Utopian because they receive the Assignment that is fit for them, everything they need to survive is given to them, and most importantly they have a severe set of rules. This society is…

Giver by Lois Lowry Jonas is controlled by his community. This is a Dystopia. A Dystopia is a Utopian society in which things have gone wrong. Jonas’s community is a Dystopia because of lack of knowledge , sameness , and complete control. First, there is lack of knowledge. In chapter one the pilot was was released. Also in chapter 13 Jonas was transferred him the memory of color. The Giver only transferred him one memory. Some days the giver would add more memories. When Jonas received these…

In these stories the characters, Day and Jonas, however very different, are, like many things much more similar than you think. Jonas rebels against the ‘government’ in the community. He wants everyone to have memories and see color. In the other book, Day fights through many injuries to get his little brother, Eden, some plague medicine. He leaps off a three story building to get his brother some plague suppressants. At the ceremony of twelve, Jonas was given the job of the receiver of…

the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce new children, who are assigned to appropriate family units. Citizens are assigned their partners and their jobs in which everyone obeys. The community is a preciously choreographed world without conflict, inequality ,divorce, unemployment, injustice or choice.Everything is made for peace and all causes for danger are removed from the people’s sense and imagination. And in this world of sameness lives Jonas, who was…