Jonas Hardships In The Giver

How can one change what they know is wrong? In the short story Harrison Bergeron, Harrison’ community makes sure that no one has any advantages. They create mental and physical disabilities to do so. Jonas, from The Giver by Lois Lowry, gets assigned as the receiver of memory, the most important job. He ends up leaving the community, releasing all of the memories that have been taken away to create sameness. Harrison and Jonas are the only people that feel differently about their society only because of their braveness, Intelligence, and willingness to rebel. These two characters try to find ways to better their communities through their own personal expeditions.

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.

Imagine living in a community where one person is chosen to hold all of the world´s memories. Being alone, afraid and separate. Jonas has been through all of these emotions as the Receiver. Jonas's assignment to be the Receiver of Memory is a punishment. Jonas has to receive painful and harsh memories from the Giver, that no one else has to have. Jonas feels different from his friends, and realizes that he is not the same as everyone else. Jonas is learning more things about what the world is really like, and is realizing that his training will be more painful than what he thought.

The Giver then told Jonas he would be glad to share that memory with him. He transmits the memory of a christmas morning, grandparents and love. Jonas liked the memory and wanted to be able to feel it all the time. When Jonas got home he asked his parents if they loved him, They were a little fluster about the word love and told him to pay attention to his precision of language. His father told Jonas that the word love is absolutely meaningless. They asked Jonas if he understands, Jonas say yes but does mean it. He didn't understand why that didn't feel that way toward him, the way he did for them. The Giver explains that the people of the community don’t feel emotion and feelings the way the two of them did because of sameness. (chapter

“You were put on this earth to achieve your greatest self, to live out your purpose and to do it courageously.” This quote by Dr. Steve Maraboli states that life has a purpose that you have to reach out to. The objects in life are growth and the discovery of new things, and that can’t happen unless you push your limitations. The main character, Jonas, in Lois Lowry’s The Giver goes through a similar encounter when he is specially selected as the Receiver of Memories for his community. With his assignment as the Receiver, Jonas begins to see his community differently and its absence in color, feeling, and choices. In order to live your life, you have to uncover new things, and when that happens, it will open a door for more things to discover.

I have read the dystopian novel “The Giver” (1993) which is written by the beloved American author Lois Lowry. “The Giver” is about a twelve-year-old boy with the name Jonas. Jonas lives a similar life as all the others in the community, until the Ceremony of Twelve when he got assigned the task as the Receiver of Memory. As The Receiver of Memory it is Jonas’ task to keep all the memories of the past so not everyone needs to keep this burden. Although Jonas received beautiful memories with a lot of colors and happiness he also felt grief, pain and anger. The Giver and Jonas were tired of being the only ones who have to keep the memories and feel the pain. Therefore, does Jonas leave the community so the memories will bit by bit, come back to the citizens of the community.

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.

Jonas 's departure changed the book for the better, giving the ending a extra and essential flair. Without him leaving the story would have no ending. Lowry would have left using the dark about the communities future. There is a turning point in of sorts when Jonas realizes nothing can be changed. That they would be stuck in a feeling less loop when babies and elders were killed. "Now it was ominous. It meant, he knew, that nothing could be changed." (113) This crucial part of "The Giver" changes the ending completely, because it puts the idea of change in Jonas 's head. Without this moment he would have lived his life as a giver without being able to truly help the community. Jonas leaving not only gave the book a ending, but it also gave hope to the citizens of

How would you feel if society forced everyone to be the same? In the book The Giver, society has forced its’ citizens to go to Sameness so no one is different. In the short story “Harrison Bergeron”, the U.S. government has made several amendments so people are the same, going as far to force citizens who are smarter or stronger to wear radios, masks to hide beauty, and weights. Both governments are doing their best to force their citizens to be a certain way, and they implemented rules to make sure of it ; in fact, Harrison was even murdered trying to call for a revolution. Both this story and this short story have one theme in common: even if you make everyone perfect and equal, someone will still rebel.

Jonas, a 12 year old kid, who grew up in a community with no color, uniqueness or feelings discovers these things as he gets memories through the Giver. In The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas becomes the new receiver and he gains memories of the past and of things he never knew existed. Jonas eventually decides that he wants to leave the community after he notices everything that 's wrong with his utopia. As Jonas leaves the community, discovering his newly found knowledge, he learns that taking risks help growth and love truly conquers all.

(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 Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, the protagonist Jonas is a dynamic and round character whose purpose is to be the hero of the story. In writing this paper, I proved how Jonas is a dynamic and round character. In writing this paper, I realized that Jonas is actually a really brave character. I realized that Lois Lowry is really good at creating characters. Lastly, I learned that being different isn’t a bad thing. No one in this world is the same, some people may have some similarities, but no one is the

Throughout The Book Thief, Hans faces a struggle in accepting what the Nazis are doing as proper. His internal thoughts and memories clash with what society deems acceptable. In this book’s time period, oppression of Jews is found necessary by society, but Hans recalls an incident of the past which the author uses to depict the theme. “A Jew had once saved his [Hans’] life and he couldn’t forget that. He couldn’t join a party [the Nazi Party] that antagonized people in such a way” (Zusak 180). Hans had constant internal battles about who he should side with. Ultimately, Hans ends up living upto his own values and attempts to save a Jew from his imminent death. In The Giver, Jonas faces the same internal conflict. The memories that Jonas is exposed to cause him to wish to escape his “perfect” community that has been kept the same for years. Once Jonas experiences these true emotions, he realizes that the feelings expressed in his society are nowhere near the level of depth that true feelings possess, thus reinforcing the theme. “But now Jonas had experienced real sadness... He knew that there was no quick comfort for emotions like those. These were deeper and they did not need to be told. They were felt” (Lowry 166). These emotions cause Jonas to see how isolated his community really is, later pushing him to run away, escaping his

Generally, when a person is put on the spot they suddenly feel different from those around them. Jonas experiences this type of situation first hand. Lois Lowry uses this moment to create anxious and anguished tones in chapters 7 or 8 of The Giver by utilizing specific words and phrases.

Once Jonas was out playing catch in his community with his friend Asher when "(page 30) just for an instant it had changed in mid air." This shows that the setting around that Jonas doesn't see the setting around him like his friends do.In Harrison Bergeron, George and Hazel have a child named Harrison who doesn't at all fit in with his society, he has more handicappers than anyone. Harrison has giant bags that are filled with bird shot to make him week and, he also has a mask to keep his face hidden from the community. It Is evident in the analysis of characters in multiple dystopian text for example in Hunger Games By Suzanne Collins Katniss is faced with many obstacles people could never do. In The giver Jonas is faced with several obstacles especially since he holds a very special position in his community. Jonas holds position on maybe being the next giver, but has many questions about his society The current Giver was giving Jonas a past memory and, "(page 105) was eager for whatever experience would come next. But he had, suddenly so many