Jonas

children turn to the next age with their group mates at special ceremonies (Ferris 10-11). Honesty is another major theme. Rules and order is highly important in the community. People become angry and nervous when the rules are violated. Jonas receives the rules and instructions of his Assignment that he must follow. Something shocks him and makes him worried as he notices the final rule saying you may lie. He knows after that that his father lies to him about releasing the baby.…

The Giver is an exciting tale in which a boy learns about his world of no feelings, difference, or pain. Jonas a twelve year old boy is chosen for what is said to be the job with the highest honor in the community, The Receiver. But this is no ordinary job. Jonas later learns a huge secret kept from the community, and feels pain for the first time through memories he is given. Jonas then tries to escape the community in order to do what he thinks is fair. Sameness is a negative thing because of…

As the snow covered sled reached the bottom of the hill, the music grew louder, louder, louder, until he was sure that it wasn't an echo. Jonas transferred the last memory of warmth to Gabriel, and once again the flakes of heat began to travel across his frozen skin. Mustering up all his strength, Jonas lifted Gabe's frail body into his cold hands and pushed himself off the frozen sled. He trudged through the snow, Gabriel in his arms, and came to the first doorstep. He collapsed on the door,…

Lois Lowry, Jonas is given the ability to hold the memories of the past prior to the development of the dystopian society where everyone is alarmingly equal. In Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, soldiers carry memories of their lives prior to the war and emotional burdens from the war. They share these burdens and war memories through storytelling. In…

The society people think to be perfect is far from what society is really like today. The book “The Giver” is based on one idea of what perfection would look like. Along with the title of “perfect society” there are many differences between Jonas’ society and our society. The rules,families, and jobs are all differences between the two societies we know. The rules of the society in “The Giver” are what you could call unconstitutional in our society. For example they have rules or procedures…

those things. In the story Oskar is asked if he wants to do a few turns, on the water, by his son Jonas. This ends in a disappointment as Oskar isn't as good as “...the man in the white boat” (Line 49). The boat capsizes in an attempt from Oskar to furthermore impress his son. Luckily rescue came. as the man from the white boat being Vilhelm, had been watching them. Vilhelm is being fascinated by Jonas. After the boat capsized Oskar had no more strength to help his son. He used the last of his…

Jonas’ community does not have the freedom to choose what clothes to wear, who to marry, what job to have, and what their children's’ names are. The clothes are all the same, there are arranged marriages, people are constantly correcting language, apologizing…

control of the job picking for Jonas, knew how dangerous being a receiver was. They knew it would be a risk that their perfect world ,(utopian society),could be ruined, due to Jonas might not being able to take all the emotions. Another occurrence is the people not being able to engage in activities and…

The intention was to bring the reader along with Jonas on his quest to uncover the…

away with pills and their life is ended with a shot. The community in The Giver by Lois Lowry, is different from ours today, the planet knows about pain, and memories, they don't. The community Jonas lives in is numb, they can’t feel. They have no pain, and no love. As an example to the story, Jonas’ dad killed a baby and said, “bye-bye, little guy” and put the body, which was in a container, in a chute and gave it a shove.(Page 188) The community also has pills to get rid of the…