The Giver Hero's Journey

She knows the pain within Jonas will experience. She knows pain turns to honor all in the end. In page 58, it states, “Alone? Apart? Jonas listened with increasing unease.¨ Jonas fears being alone, so what he thinks is he won’t see anyone ever again.

During the book the Giver gives jonas multiple pushes towards leaving the community. He even tells Jonas that hill give hima ride only to stand him up and leave him to his doom. Because even a blind person could smell the revenge seeking Giver, who is in a blood luse for the animal community that killed his daughter. So he sends jonas to die to realese all the memorys sending the community to a burst of

Before he begins his training as the new receiver in their community, he is non-caring, sensitive and intelligent. After he begins receiving the memories, he was change. He seems to become more intelligent. Jonas realizes that people gave up their freedoms for sameness, he becomes angry and frustrated. He does not accept the ways of the community as easily as he did in the past before he was the receiver.

After giving Jonas the terrible memory, the Giver gives Jonas his favorite memory, a time of love. Before experiencing war, Jonas was just happy when he got memories of joy, but after, anytime Jonas got a memory of happiness, it meant a little more to him because he had to go through a bad time to get a good time. Jonas had to experience a lot to learn this lesson, but it was probably one of the best ones he learned. Without this lesson, Jonas would just think he was feeling joy, but really, nobody knows true joy if they cannot also know sorrow and

Finally, it subsided as the memories were assimilated. But it certainly made them aware of how they need a Receiver to contain all that pain”(Lowry 104). This quote shows that there is a Giver. In Jonas’s society, there is one person who obtains all memories, people don't have their own memories, while in today's society, people make their own memories, and don't have someone else hold the memories for them. What would life be like if there was only one person to have all the good and bad

For Jonas to be a good leader, he should try to change the sameness in the community, and make choices for the community to prevent negative things to happen. In real life, leaders choose voting from citizens to decide either a choice is correct, while in The Giver, leaders decide base on the

By using examples of Jonas’ actions and how they positively affect the society he lives in, it will be shown that heroes are not the macho men we assume them to be, but they are common and everyday people. The Giver is about

When Jonas was back into reality, he realized that with pleasure came pain. That was the pain that the Eldest was talking about (the woman that watches over the community) except after Jonas had experienced pain, he didn’t let that stop him from wanting to learn more about the past. He was glad that he could stop being paranoid over the fact that one day he would feel pain that he had never felt before. Now the pain had been exposed to him and the only thing he could do now was brace

Jonas and the Giver demonstrated this when they acted selflessly to give the community memories. This action shows the people love and self-sacrifice because the Giver and Jonas sacrificed themselves to gift the community with

Jonas understand the true meaning of love and happiness. When he asks his parents ‘“Do you love me?’” (121) they reply pay saying the word love is obsolete and that they enjoy him. Jonas realizes at that moment that his family, doesn’t seem like a real family at all. Jonas later realizes he felt love for his best friends Asher and Fiona, and also

He had to switch it up a little bit but it all worked out in the end. He was determined the whole time to get the memories and feelings back so that there would be no release anymore. There would be no more secrets and no more lying. He would save the twins, the old, the mistaken, and the people who could feel more than the community has in its barriers. Jonas was never the type to give up, lets hope he doesn't give up on his community.

Outline Imagine being chosen a job for a lifetime, but this job had a lot of pain, and loneliness. Well that what it was like for Jonas. Which makes Jonas being selected to be the receiver of memory is more like a punishment than an honor. Jonas has to deal with the pain that comes from the memories. He is missing out on things others can do.

As Jonas realizes this, he wants to fix the problem. He leaves the community and discovers his power to take risks, and learns that sharing memories with others can help overcome the bad and knows deeply in his heart that love and family is the most important thing. In Jonas’ community no one takes risks, but in the book Jonas starts to take risks to help fix the utopia he lives in. For example, when Jonas is comforting Gabe, he gives Gabe a memory “He was not aware of giving the memory; but suddenly he realized that it was becoming dimmer.

Jonas begins to despise the ways of his society and wanted to live among a society that had a life of choices. The realization of what a horrible society he really lives in led Jonas’ to decide plan an escape to another society which possesses those things his society does not. This

As Jonas starts working with the old receiver, better known as the giver, He receives memories and starts questioning why his community doesn 't have the fun activities that he is being shown by the giver. He and the giver discuss why the community is so different from the memories he is given. Jonas does not understand why his community does not have the same privileges that he saw in the memories. Later he finds out that his community took away all of those privileges because of sameness and climate control. Jonas does not agree with the government of the community, he thinks the memories should be restored back to his community.