How you ever considered how lucky you are to be human, knowing about the past, your amazing gift to express emotions and how you feel? In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, the community is made up of people, but they are not truly human; they do not show emotions or any other human traits. All but one, Jonas, are people who do not understand their world, do not know about their past, do not show emotions or take risks, and they do not have memories. Because Jonas takes risks, he is able to grow in his humanness. Jonas begins to love Gabe, and he grows in his understanding of love and sacrifice. For example, Jonas receives many memories from the Giver and, he starts loving Gabe, even when he cries out in the night; “Once more [at dawn], the new child woke and cried out; again Jonas went to him; this time he quite deliberately placed his hand on Gabriel 's back and released the rest of the calming day on the lake; …show more content…
(147) This shows Jonas is beginning to show affection for the new child, Gabe, which begins the growth of his emotions, which in the end, leads to the strength of his human characteristics. This is important because the whole point of the book is Jonas growing in his emotions, who no one in the community never truly have, which makes them not entirely human, unlike Jonas and the Giver. In addition, Jonas’s final strides in growing in humanness and emotions of love and sacrifice are when Gabe was to be “released” and Jonas took action, “whether he could comfortably ride the larger bike when he was so accustomed to
It was now that Jonas was informed of his duty as receiver of memories. Jonas was forced to leave his place of comfort and leave the safe world that he had been in up until this point.
Jonas is a determined 12, which is his age as well as his level of education, who takes on a task no one should have to bear; all the memories. This means he hold some of the most beautiful memories as well
In a last attempt to get that real relationship that Jonas has always desired, Jonas leaves in the middle of the night so he could save gabe and himself from being alone. (CS)Jonas finds truths that cause him to break his relationships and keep one of the only true one he ever
In “The Giver”, Lois Lowry uses Jonas’s character development to demonstrate how humans ignore
He is revolted that so many people he knows are killers.(SIP-B) Jonas rejects his society and abandons the Giver’s plan because society is trying to take away the only person he loved.(STEWE-1) When Gabe could not sleep soundly without Jonas the Nurtures decided to release him even his father “I voted for Gabriels release” (Lowry 165). Jonas’s own father is trying to take away the only person that he still has a relationship with.(STEWE-2) When Jonas hears that Gabe is going to be released he wants to save him.
Stop, think about this for a moment. You are in a community that cannot see color, has no feelings, no choices to be made on your own, and no diversity between each other. How would you feel? Jonas, a twelve year old boy and the Giver have to live in this community knowing all this. As they live in this futuristic dystopian community they share memories of the past and what is elsewhere.
The last extreme change is that we have emotions, feelings and we can see color, Jonas’s society is so much about equality that they don 't want anyone to be different or they fear that the people will have the power to chose what they want to do. Today 's society and Jonas’s have some similarities. Such as, in both children are given comfort objects to help them through rough times. Well just like in The Giver all children go to school in our country too.
Imagine living in a world with no freedom, choice, individuality, and color. Would you want to live in a world like this? Most of you would have said no, but a boy named Jonas has no choice, but to adhere to his community’s rules. In the book and the movie, “The Giver”, by Louis Lowery, Jonas finds it difficult to accept his community’s way of life. However, after he becomes the receiver of memory, he challenges the community after discovering what the world used to be like before sameness.
Lois Lowry’s The Giver has an emotional ending where the author points to the protagonist, Jonas, dying. Although Jonas doesn't survive the end, the author helps the reader believe that it was still a happy ending. In the quote, “Jonas felt himself losing consciousness and with his whole being willed himself to stay upright atop the sled, clutching Gabriel, keeping him safe,” the author states in the beginning, that Jonas begins to hallucinating, losing consciousness, and is passing away. Secondly, He is so content on protecting Gabriel, he might start to hear music.
The most important assignment in the community. He must receive memories from the current receiver. The chief elder made the decision to make only one person bear the burden of the memories. Everyone thinks the community is perfect, a utopia, but Jonas sees all the flaws .Jonas changes throughout The Giver and as a result, tries to change the community.
When Jonas experiences both painful and pleasurable memories, he becomes willing to accept pain and suffering in order to experience the fullness of life. He decides to leave, that he will no longer live within the constraints of his community, and that security is not worth the absence of freedom. The line between public safety and personal freedoms should be drawn where extreme harm can occur, and most freedoms are more essential than an orderly society. These freedoms include color and diversity, personal freedoms such as dress code, speech, and religion, and love and marriage.
In the book,everyone has the same attribute’s but one twelve year old boy named Jonas. Throughout the novel,Jonas has suffer and has been misunderstood. Jonas opened his eyes to the reality of the community. This causes tears,anger,lonely’s,confused,unaware and misunderstanding. “He killed it my father killed it”,Jonas said to himself” (Lowry 188).
Feelings and Emotion Different feelings and emotion are not known in the community within the people. The Giver and Jonas are the only true people that know how to feel the different emotions. Every night at the conclusion of their evening meal one of the rituals is the evening telling of feelings. In the very first Chapter Jonas talks about how it was almost December and Jonas was beginning to be frightened. But then thought that was the wrong word to use.
Jonas’ Hardships Lois Lowry, the author, wrote a novel titled “The Giver” which took place in a dystopian society with ideas like climate control, sameness, and precision of language. The main character, Jonas, was selected for the assignment “The Receiver of Memory” and this assignment caused him many hardships. Throughout the story, Jonas faces many hardships related to his assignment, his friends, and the community. The theme to the story is overcoming obstacles because Jonas has to conquer many hardships throughout the novel.
Nearing the end of The Giver, Jonas changes and becomes rebellious. An example of Jonas being rebellious is when he left his dwelling, stole food from the community, taken his father’s bike, and taken Gabe. By the end of the story, Jonas’s character changes into rebellious and deceitful. As a result of Jonas’s character changing his view of the so-called utopian community also changes too. Furthermore, Jonas’s character change affected his view of the community by making him think that it was not perfect at all, the community had secrets and the past stored away, and no one knew except him and the