Jonas

are all treated. For example, when Jonas’ father is showing an elephant to Gabriel he calls it a hippo because that is what the Elder has told them is right. The citizens believe the reality they are told. They have also been led to believe that murder is simply “release” and that older folks get sent to “elsewhere”, which is supposed to be a place of serenity. Really “elsewhere” is heaven. This is all they know because it is all they were ever taught. But when Jonas gets chosen to be the next…

In Lois Lowry’s story The Giver, Jonas becomes the receiver of memory. He is the most important factor of the community. The Receiver gets all of the old memories from the old world. The memories can include pain, suffering, joy, or, happiness. He will soon know what it takes to become the receiver and how it will mature him. In the beginning, Jonas was quite responsible for his age of eleven. He was different than the other community members though. All of his friends knew what they wanted to…

takes place sometime in the future in an utopian community. In the Utopian community, everything has to be perfect. At the age of 12, every child is force to get a job of the counsels choice. The main characters in the story is Jonas, The Giver, and Gabriel. When Jonas turned 12, he got the job of being the next receiver. The receiver…

The Giver by Lois Lowry two passages really moved me. “Jonas felt a ripping sensation inside himself, the feeling of terrible pain clawing its way forward to emerge in a cry” (pg.151.) This passage really touched me because it was the moment Jonas really realized his community was messed up. He realized his father had been lying to him for his whole life. He realized that release was plainly killing people and everyone was fine with it. Jonas then realized that something had to be done. Another…

but are very different. In this essay I will contrast the community, Jonas, and Asher in the book to the movie’s community, Jonas, and Asher. The community, Asher, and Jonas have the the same characteristics or qualities. They go down different paths. So here are their contrast. Some of Jonas´s qualities are different in the movie than the book. In the book Jonas had pale blue eyes in the movie he had a birthmark. Another…

Initially, the memory of the elephant being killed for the tusks, teaches Jonas not to be greedy in other creatures’ expense. The author announced, “Going closer, he watched them hack the tusks from a motionless elephant on the ground and haul them away, spattered with blood. He felt himself overwhelmed with a new perception of the color he knew as red” (100). This memory sickens Jonas, but what sickens him more is how another elephant comes to grieve the dead elephant. “Now he…

USA in 1993and in 1994 in Great Britain. The giver is a science fiction-type novel about a boy named Jonas who lives a so-called perfect world where everything is controlled by strict rules and everything is the same. This novel questions what is right or wrong for society, and how differences and choices make life good. The title comes from the friend Jonas finds in his instructor (the giver). Jonas is assigned to an important position in the community and is the only one who learns the truth…

a world where everything is orderly and predictable, everyone is the same and all important decisions were made by one's leaders? In the controlling world of The Giver, Jonas gets assigned the role of the Receiver. The Giver gives him memories both happy and painful of their past world to keep for the community. Eventually Jonas realizes that the community members need to feel pain in order to be truly happy and understand the true meaning of life. The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a clear example of…

The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a science fiction story about a young boy named Jonas who learns about the world that has been hidden from his whole community. He is given an assignment to have the memories of the last world to be transferred to him from an old man called the Giver. When Jonas gets the memories he is horrified by what he sees. But, he more terrified by what he learns about his community. He wants to change the people and show them what they do is wrong. Lowry vividly illustrates…

her book, "The Giver". After Jonas learns that seeing beyond is the ability to see colors, he is told by the Giver, “We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with differences. We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others” (Lowry 91). This illustrates the theme because when they chose to eliminate pain, suffering, and inconveniences in their world, through Sameness, they lost the joys of sunshine, sledding, and color. Jonas later receives a memory of a…