Character Analysis Of The Giver

Imagine a world where the government controls all choices. The Dystopian novel The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is set in a future where everything is the same. They have the same houses, clothes, and the same birthday. They have no choices or feelings. The society from The Giver would be a negative change from the current society because it limits choices, eliminates feelings, and abolishes color.

One similarity they both share is that the job given to Jonas, The Receiver of Memory, has the same meaning to it as it does in the book. The whole book and movie is about Jonas becoming The Receiver of Memory and his world having sameness, which is also another similarity. Sameness is a huge problem in both the book and the movie. Without sameness the two would be entirely different. In both the book and the movie, Jonas tried to stop sameness from happening. The real meaning of sameness in The Giver is when everybody in the world is exactly the same. Without sameness the entire plot would change. With sameness no one gets choices or gets to have opinions. One last similarity is that all the characters in the movie are the same as the book. When characters are different it may change certain things that happen in a book which can be good but can also be bad. Similarities in a book and movie occur and when they do they show that they are needed to keep the same plot and message of the author or director is trying to tell

In the Giver, Jonas is waiting to become a 12. Which means he is a 11.Jonas finds out that he is the next receiver, but along the way he is becoming very courageous young man.The setting is a time in the future in a unknown . In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry,the protagonist Jonas shows that he is very observative , he also has the ability to see beyond, and the stress that makes Jonas change mentally.

In The Giver by Lois Lowry, the main character, Jonas, can undoubtedly be considered a hero. Jonas’ actions throughout The Giver are a quality example of the archetypal pattern of the Hero’s journey, and to depict this I used a variety of text, illustration, and color throughout my graphic novel.

“The Giver” and “The Outsiders” are both very good novels. I chose to compare these two books because both showed a great amount of courage in the main characters. Both of these books were very interesting and I hope you enjoy reading about them as much as I loved reading them.

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. Another similarity is in The Giver people are punished from chimes just like us today. In The Giver memories last forever they do today to, but people hold onto them not two people. “If you were lost in the river Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you memories are

On chapter 18, page 143, the giver tells Jonas about the previous receiver, it says that , “Rosemary left here that day, left this room and did not go back to her dwelling. I was notified by the speaker that she had gone directly to the chief elder and asked to be released.” the Giver told Jonas that once Rosemary got released, and the memories were released too. So Jonas thought that if Rosemary released the memories, he thought that he could too, to make the memories go back to the people, so he asked the giver. On chapter 21, page 163, it says that, “ That night, Jonas was forced to fee. He left the dwelling shortly after the sky became dark and the community still.” So on chapter 23, page 180, when Jonas when to the boundaries it says, “ Downward, downward, faster and faster. Suddenly he was aware with certainty and joy that below, ahead, they were waiting for him. Behind him, vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left. He thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was an echo.” and he accomplished his wanting to save his community. He did this to have a good life and not

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. Frightened ment that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen. Now that it was almost upon Jonas he wasn't frightened but he was eager he decided. He was eager and excited. But then their was a little shudder of nervousness when he thought about what might happen at the ceremony of twelve. Apprehensive, Jonas decided. That's what I feel like. (chapter 1)

Jonas expresses his feelings when he says, " ‘If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! A blue tunic, or a red one?’ ” (Lowry, 97). As the Receiver, Jonas experiences the memories passed on by the Giver and soon learns what the world without Sameness is like. This changes his perspective on his community and he soon realizes the lack of choice, feeling, and color his community has. As his perspective on things become different, so does he. He becomes confused, overwhelmed and unhappy about the deficiency of color, feeling, and choices opened to his community. After Jonas watches the release of the newchild, he finally understands that it is actually a killing and reacts by saying, “ ‘I won’t! I won’t go home! You can’t make me!’ Jonas sobbed and shouted and pounded the bed with his fists’ ” (Lowry, 152). Jonas is consumed with rage after he sees the release of the newchild and he is so upset that he doesn’t want to return home. Jonas finally realizes that he has uncovered the dark and complex truth about his

Imagine a world where everything seems perfect but truly it is not as pleasant as it appears. In The Giver by Lois Lowry shows us a community in the future with no feelings at all. Jonas a twelve year old boy knows his life as it is and one evening he learns the truth about the community. Jonas set’s off into a adventure to change it all. Character,conflict,and symbolism makes the reader see thru the eyes of a twelve year old in a place of slavery disguised without anyone knowing it.

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. Choice, diversity, and feelings could change the Giver community and make it a more positive place.

“When you receive the memories, You have the capacity to see beyond.” said The Giver when he explained the job of being the receiver to Jonas, in Lois Lowry’s The Giver. In the novel The Giver, the main character Jonas lives in a bland, boring community where everyone is the same. When he receives the assignment of being the receiver he realizes how disappointing the life he is living is once he gets memories from The Giver, of how life used to be. He lives in a society that is very different from ours in many different ways. Three main differences between Jonas’s society and society today are family, rules/consequences and colors.

(STEWE-1) Jonas now knowing the truth has broken him into a thousand pieces. This is a big moment because this is when the giver and Jonas begin to plan his escape. Jonas is desperate to be with the giver because it is his only real relationship “I 'll do it. I think I can do it. I 'll try, anyway. But I want you to come with me.”(Lowry 155). The giver says that he must stay which is a weight on Jonas, but it does not change his mind.

In chapters 7 and 8, Jonas is assigned the job of Receiver of Memory and although the Chief Elder calls it the greatest honor,it might give him more hardship and pain than fortune. She explains that the selection is rare and his role is very important because there is only one Receiver and it takes integrity, intelligence, courage, wisdom, and the capacity to see beyond to be that person. At first he wants to tell he has no idea what she means and that he doesn’t have it until he notices a change in the crowd that was quick but he knows that he isn’t dreaming because it’s happened before but to his apple. Then he realizes

3. I think that Lois Lowry chose Jonas as the main character's name because in the bible Jonah was commissioned by the lord to proclaim judgment upon a sinful city, and i think that jonas is going to realise that the communities way of life is very unfair and is not okay. I think that Jonas will try to change how the community is. Just like how Jonah proclaimed judgment upon a sinful city in the