Jonas In Lois Lowry's The Giver

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.

He realized that the baby that had temporarily been staying at their dwelling named Gabe, would be released in the morning. Jonas had become very attached to Gabe and he could not let him die so he took him on his journey to elsewhere. In their dwelling, Jonas’ father says “ It’s bye bye to you Gabe in the morning.” (165).

Is Jonas’s society different than ours? Utopian (N) an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. The key word there is ‘imagined’ as we haved learned in The Giver that not everything can be perfect; it 's just limiting the being of a human. By having such limitations, the people can’t hold their memories, can’t see color, and the government chooses their family. Jonas’s society is vastly different than ours in various ways.

Isolation is a very sad thing. There are two ways it can go. Either someone can just deal with it and be lonely and sad, or that person can make it into a positive thing. In the Giver, Jonas is getting very isolated with his community, first Jonas refuses to go back to the annex room, then he stops taking the pills, then the game of war, and last he knows about the release. All of these, changes jonas in many ways.

A newchild, Gabriel, was going to be released. For anyone else in this community, this would not be as devastating as it was for Jonas. However, his community affected him in two ways that made the ordeal quite worse for him. First, quite simply, Jonas actually knew what was going to happen to Gabe during the release, unlike most of his community – he would have been killed. For example, the author said, “He killed it!

When Jonas starts opening up to the Giver, he recognizes yet another thing that his society has kept from him by saying, “’I don’t understand it yet, I don’t know what it is. But sometimes I see something. And maybe it's beyond ' " (Lowry 64). The giving of knowledge however is conveyed in a more forward attempt to show how their society passes on knowledge, "Jonas felt nothing unusual at first… only the light touch of the old man's hand on his back…'Whew,' he said.

Throughout the novel, Lowery tries to spot lights on the psychological aspects within a utopic society, which forces the reader unintentionally to compare it to a normal society. A reader can conclude that human nature is the same no matter how different a society is. The debate of man’s will versus fate is introduced since the beginning of creation until this moment. Jonas was orbiting the loop of determining his future job and this made him different and uncategorized unlike his friends. Jonas’s destiny was unclear for him, but because of his different mentality and realization, he was chosen to be the Receiver of memories in the Community.

Jonas had been chosen as the Receiver of Memory for their community. This meant that all the memories of life before would be transferred to him and in his control. The Giver was the former Receiver of Memory, meaning he would pass the memories to Jonas. As Jonas learned about color, love, and freedom of choices, he began to wonder… were they really living good lives?

Jonas changes dramatically throughout the book by three major changes. First, one of the changes Jonas goes through is him not being able to talk to his friends about his new job as the Receiver of Memory. This moment puts an awkward barrier between Jonas, Asher, and Fiona. In other words, Jonas is going to be the odd one out from the world. In the text, it states, “Now, for the first time in his twelve years of life, Jonas felt separate, different.”

Lois Lowry She has written more than thirty children books including “the Giver”. Personal Life Lois Ann Hammersberg was born in 1937 in Honolulu in Hawaii. Her parents were called Katherine Gordon Landis and Robert E. Hammersberg. Her father was part Norwegian and her mother was part German. Lois was both a little sister and a big sister.

There are many memories of the past that humans have yet to uncover, but in the Giver even the eldest citizen cannot remember a time before them. There is value in the collective knowledge of past generations, and in the way that it is passed on to others. Having memory is a source of wisdom, but can also cause pain. When Jonas is receiving memories of the past, he feels pain, relaxation, rejoice, and sadness.

Tarsus American College Analysis of The Giver Term Homework Denizhan Kaynak English 82 Ms. Yiğitoğlu 05.17.2015  Denizhan Kaynak 11/A Term Homework Ms.Yiğitoğlu Theme Analysis "Change is the law of life. And those who look only to their past or present are certain to miss the future." once said John F. Kennedy. Change is one of the fundamental and crucial part of life.

Jonas felt overwhelmed seeing all the 'suffering' and 'pain' felt by him, the soldiers and the animals around him. Through repetition of the word ‘pain’ Lowry lays emphasis on agonizing environment. The atmosphere was of 'anguish' as all around were the cries of wounded men; the whinnies of wounded horses. This memory seemed to be 'torching' Jonas, as never before had he experienced true pain. These similar themed words are grouped together to empathize and draw the reader into the diversity of emotions felt by Jonas.

He watches and is horrified when he realizes that a release is really forced death by lethal injection. Jonas discusses his feelings with The Giver, and they decide on a plan that will force the people to give up Sameness. However, before they can carry out their plan, Jonas learns that Gabriel, a two-year-old infant who has been staying with Jonas' family unit because Gabriel has trouble sleeping through the night, is going to be released killed. To prevent Gabriel from being killed, Jonas takes Gabriel, whom he loves, and together they ride a bicycle out of the community to Elsewhere. By escaping the community, all of the memories that Jonas has received from The Giver will be transmitted back to the citizens in the community, forcing them to experience feelings and emotions and to remember their

(Lowry, 150). Jonas is devastated, angry, and horrified by his new discovery and by the fact the people of the community aren’t even the least bit sad that they took a life. The Giver, although he doesn’t agree with it, tries to explain to Jonas that it’s not the people’s fault, “They can’t help it. They know nothing” (Lowry, 153).