Jonas

old man who is the receiver of the community's memories, Jonas finds out about the dangerous truths about his community's secret past. Now that he has the knowledge, Jonas realizes that he must escape from their world to protect himself and those he loves. Lois Lowry wrote The Giver because she wanted her audience to think about how much different it would be compared to our world and she wanted us to be drawn to all the emotions that Jonas and The Giver went through knowing everything that they…

Giver is based on a community with a society that says no to lies. Unfortunately Jonas’ job is to lie. He lies about his daily memories which includes happiness, colors, pain and the meaning of being “released”. First, the story starts with an unnatural setting with the reader wondering why this society so mysterious and strange.The first few chapters, makes you think that the novel isn't hypocritical. When Jonas becomes the new receiver and learns…

reality their “ideal” society turns out to be flawed. And soon enough things start to change, the community turns into more of a dystopia rather than a utopia. Jonas and the Giver two of the main characters in the story begin to realize that the elders might be hiding something,and that's why they are so controlling. In chapter one Jonas explains how one day the announcer announced a message. The announcements seemed so demanding,…

generation, a character named Jonas. However, Jonas would like to find a new world where everyone has feelings and memory. In reflecting on this story, the reader realizes the importance of emotion for survival in life. Three of the most necessary feelings in the story and in life, for everyone, are pain, family love, and friendship caring. In the book and in life, it is true that to be really human, a person needs these emotions. Pain comes up…

For many years the people and the government have been disputing back and forth whether the government should be in control or the people, this is also known as the “Safety or Freedom” disagreement that started in 2006 when Natan Sharansky gave a Margaret Thatcher Lecture named “Is Freedom For Everyone?”. Since then this event, debate has popped up in court and there are many times where this issue has been a spark to start arguments. Many people see this as a problem but many have also taken…

for things that are important. In our society there are lots of good memories and bad, though the good memories are so good and fun that it’s worth having some bad memories like pain. Jonas thinks everyone needs to be able to care. Our society gets to make choices for things that are important. For example jonas says in the utopia “ everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!”In our society there are choices to make like when…

make any choices on their own. One person, The Giver, is responsible for holding all the memories of all the pain and pressures of life. Now Jonas has been chosen to receive training to become the new Giver, and he carries an enormous burden. First, the author’s use of allusion exemplifies how knowledge of oppression leads to freedom. This is clear when Jonas realizes that something odd was going on because…

able to drop Jonas in the waterfall, which is where he was thought to have died. Also, when you are assigned your jobs, you lose your childhood, and you begin doing this job that you'll be doing for the rest of your life. If Asher is assigned to one thing in the book, but assigned to something completely different in the movie, it'll catch your attention. They cause him to have two different careers and that's very noticeable.…

individuality by reading The Giver by Lois Lowry? The dystopian novel follows the life of a young teenage boy, Jonas, and his impact on the area he lives in, called the Community. In the Community, everything is perfect. Jonas’s lives, and all of his community members’, are free of choices. It is free of any memories of the human race’s past, good or bad, except for one person, the Giver. As Jonas grows older, he begins to realize the importance of diversity in life from the Giver, and how his…

and also his daughters death. Lowry's mother on the other had remembered everything about that devastating loss. This situation made Lowry wonder ¨What would it be like to live in her father's world, where all painful memories had been erased?¨ In Jonas’ community, there is no poverty, starvation, unemployment, lack of housing, or discrimination; everything is perfectly planned to eliminate any…