Jonas

well. The victims of Dr. Mengele who survived stories were shared to reveal the horrors of the Holocaust. The three victims are Jona Laks, Vera Kriegel, and Motti Alon. Two of these three people have a twin and the other is a dwarf. Jona Laks, a teenager at the time was automatically sent to the Gas chamber, until her sister notified Mengele that they were twins. Jona was sent to the Laboratory…

In “The Giver” by Lois Lowry, Jonas lives in a community which was made to be perfect. Jonas is soon told about the past and the truth about his community, and he then shortly disagrees on what had taken place. For him to solve and change what is about to take place, he must hold the truth about the real world that is given by the Giver. This story made me realise how perfect their world is, and if ours will ever be as perfect as theirs. The society that Jonas lives in is a Utopian Society…

“A shotgun went off in his leg every time he put it down and he thought, you’re a fool, a dang fool, an awful fool, an awful idiot, a dang idiot, and a dang fool: look at the mess the where’s the mop, look at the mess, and what do you do? Pride, dang it, and temper, and you’re junked it all, at the very start you vomit on everything one on top of another, Beatty, the women, Mildred, Clarisse, everything. No excuse, though, no excuse. A fool, a dang fool, go give yourself up!” -- Fahrenheit 451,…

I feel that the Reading Children is the most meaningful because the sculpture was the recognition of the 100 th anniversary of the library. Also, the sculpture captures the delight of reading brings to Naperville’s Children and the sculpture is located at Jackson Ave. between Eagle St. and Webster St. The artist is Dennis V. Smith and the creation date was 1988 and this piece was adopted into the Century Walk in 1998. The library is being commemorated because it is been showing respect by having…

wonder how truthful his knowledge is about the world. In The Giver, Jonas concludes that having the right to decide is what makes us human. He learns that making choices are difficult, and sometimes the choices we make cause things to be even more difficult than it would have been otherwise. Having the ability to choose gives people freedom. The freedom to fall, the freedom to persevere, succeed, and feel emotions. Danger causes Jonas to question the choice he has made, but he does not…

The Giver? How would it feel not to have love? in the future a boy named jonas lived in a community called The Giver in The Giver community where no one knows anything about the outside world or past. The only one who knows anything is The giver,but the twelve ceremony, jonas becomes the new receiver memory. he goes out to learn new things about the past, Elsewhere secret about his own community.The Giver community would be better with love, honesty and empathy. One thing The Giver…

The book, ‘The Giver’ written by Lois Lowry is a futuristic novel about communities trying to achieve utopia. In their desire for this perfect world, a concept called Sameness is introduced which means that every aspect of their communities are uniform and monotonous. They are oblivious to concepts such as colours, true love, war, pain, hunger, freedom of choice and seasons. They live in a society where they are trying to achieve mechanical perfection. It is meticulously ordered, but unknowingly…

“words”. Does delivering and receiving these words qualify as actual communication? Or does language devoid of expression simply imply mechanically informing? When Jonas, the protagonist of ‘The Giver’, by Lois Lowry, asks his parents whether they ‘loved’ him, “there was an awkward silence for a moment. Then father gave a little chuckle. “Jonas, you of all people, precision of language, please!”.”(Lowry,…

Lowry ends the book after Jonas releases the memories to everyone. “ Behind him, across the vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too, But perhaps it was only an echo” (Lowry 179). I think that what Lowry is trying to say is that once society received the memories from Jonas, it was like as a whole they were finally able to take a breath of fresh air after having been tied to…

I have been an avid lifelong reader. As a child, I would read under the covers, with a flashlight, or on long road trips. My family encouraged my love of reading. Often, I would receive books or "book money" as gifts. In particular, my father encouraged me to read science fiction and fantasy. I enjoy all genres of books, but science fiction and fantasy have always held a special place in my heart. This led to one of my favorite books, The Giver. The Giver, by Lois Lowry, has been particularly…