Analyzing The Character Of Rufus In 'The Giver'

The next time Dana was sent back to save Rufus’s life is when he fell off a tree and broke his leg. The mysterious time traveling keeps happening in the book repeatedly. Another reason Dana has more power than Rufus is because whenever she is transported back to the 1800’s Rufus’s life always depends on Dana saving him and helping him until her life is in danger or their connection from the present to the past dies. If one of them breaks the other's trust Dana could abandon him allowing him to die but both of them need each other to survive. At the end of the book Dana has the power to kill Rufus because he always needs somebody to do his “dirty” work and his bad business so he doesn’t get blamed for all of horrible things he did. Ironically, his desire to possess Dana forever comes true. In her final return home in 1976, she loses her arm at the exact spot where Rufus had grabbed onto it. The arm stays in the past forever with

Their father is an intelligent, independent-minded father who influenced them through his outrage of enslavement. Their father inspired Harriet and John’s hatred and resistance to slavery.

     As, Rufus grows older he becomes more offensive , brutal, and vicious. To begin with Tom Weylin’s hatred for his as a little child had turned him this way . For example, when Tom hit Rufus for stealing a dollar from him and Rufus tried to get back at him by burning the draperies. Rufus "He said I took money from his desk, and I said I didn’t. He said I was calling him a liar, and he hit me. Several times" (Pg. 26). Also, Rufus started to deal with his anger by punishing other people like his slaves. Like the time when Rufus blamed Dana for his fathers death and sent her to fields, and also got her whipped. "I guess I just had to make somebody pay. And it seemed that… well, people don’t die when you’re taking care of them" (Pg. 216). Finally, Rufus had really shown his vicious side to Dana.

There are many moments throughout Kindred where Dana is harming the other slaves by bending to Rufus’ will. One major example of this is when Dana goes back to Rufus’ time and sees him getting beaten up by Isaac. She stops Isaac, and tells him that

Rufus has also felt that he was entitled to Dana’s service. When Rufus’ father had a heart attack, he demanded that Dana stop him from dying, even when she had no clue of how to do so. When Dana was not able to save him, Rufus sent her

Rufus’ character develops a lot near the end of the book as we realize his feelings toward Dana all to clearly. In the middle of the night he approaches Alice and Dana and says, “You really are only one woman. Did you know that?” Rufus had Alice for his physical needs and Dana for his emotional. We start to see that Dana wasn’t just his friend; he needed to have her, no matter what. His jealously became clear when he sold the slave Sam for just speaking to Dana. He said, “He wanted you…he wanted you.” He then says to Dana, “Your so much like her, I can hardly stand it.” Rufus’ relationship with Dana had gone from friendship and understanding to Rufus wanting more and he aimed to have it. When we see that Rufus was allowing his son to call him daddy finally it was reminder of his humanity. We see that in some ways he was still good, and not racked with intense emotions. However, his humane side diminishes slowly with his irrational wants, desires and need for affection.

Another example that shows Dana’s relevance in the novel is by helping other slaves. For example, Alice, after the fight between Isaac and Rufus because of Rufus’s attempt to rape Alice who apparently was Isaac 's wife. The reason this shows her relevance to the novel because once again, she saves Rufus from being killed by Isaac after her try to convince them to run and Rufus will let them escape without telling

Much of Rufus’ goodness can only be considered remarkable when observed in the context of the time period in which he lives. Unlike Dana, Rufus is raised in a world where the majority of black people are slaves and white men are superior to blacks and women by law. Rufus himself ends up assuming the role of a plantation owner once his father dies. That said, there are a handful of actions that Rufus commits willingly that can be seen as “good.” His more staunchly kindhearted moments occur when he is young and impressionable, like when he tries to save Dana from “[getting] in trouble” with his father and other whites by helping her assimilate into life as a slave; here in particular, Rufus warns Dana that she must refer to him as “Master”. He is “concerned, even frightened” for Dana, solidifying the notion that his advice is not for his own benefit but for hers (30). As a slave owner’s

“A kindred spirit crazy enough to keep on trying.” This explains why she continues to save Rufus’s life and help the other slaves in ways that could endanger her life. She adapts to the situation at hand, as well as Kevin and she never stops trying to do what she feels is the reason she is there. Kevin never stops looking for her, and never gives up hope of her return. This are reflection and connection to the fact that slaves never gave up on hope that things could change. They worked and worked and prayed and prayed that things would someday be a little bit different, or

First of all, the main character of this novel as follows is Dana. She is my favorite character. Dana is the narrator and heroine of the novel. A young black woman writer living in the end of the twentieth century, she finds herself plunged into the antebellum South of the nineteenth century, an alien world in which she must struggle to establish an identity and to maintain her freedom. Dana must also battle her conscience. Only if Rufus, her forebear, survives will she herself live, so she must constantly save him. At the same time, she wonders if she is morally bound to let him die, thereby helping dozens of slaves. Further complicating matters are her feelings of genuine affection for Rufus. She likes him, despite his cruelty to her and her friends. Each time Dana saves Rufus’s life, he strips her of another piece of her dignity, which forces her to think about her own limits. By the end of the novel, she discovers that she is willing to kill to defend herself against rape.

In a fictional land called The Community, no one can feel true emotions like love except for one person The Receiver of Memory, holds every memory, emotion, and color. In The Giver, a novel by Lois Lowry, many opinions are changed after The Giver gives the main character, Jonas, the true emotions and colors of life. Jonas has his thoughts changed on playing war with friends after he really experiences what warfare is like. The Giver can show Jonas anything he wishes from the past, and Jonas experiences many new things including; pain, suffering, sadness, anger, and peace. He gains many new likes, fears, and opinions.

The novel The Giver has three main characters. The characters are Jonas, Giver, and Gabriel. All three are males and they all share a pair of pale eyes that according to Jonas, show depth. “Depth, he decided; as if one were looking into the clear water of the river, down to the bottom, where things might lurk which hadn’t been discovered yet. He felt self-conscious, realizing that he, too, had that look” (Lowry 21).

If you lived in a suppressing society of sameness would you give everything you have ever known up just to escape? In the Giver by Louis Lowry, Jonas makes the right choice the leave the community which benefits himself, Gabriel, and the people of the community.

The book The Giver by Lois Lowry takes place in a very futuristic society where there's no pain, war, concern or hate. Their society has eliminated memory all at once. Jonas, the eleven year old protagonist of the book, he is intelligent and sensitive. He has weird powers of perception that he does not perceive. Jonas is chosen to be the new receiver of memory once he turns twelve. Even before Jonas starts his coaching to become the receiver, he's thoughtful and has abundant concern for his family and friends. When he begins his coaching, Jonas’s universe becomes more advanced. His new awareness of lovely colors, robust emotions, and suffering makes him terribly addicted to the globe around him and also the happiness of individuals he loves. Jonas experiences emotional growth as a result of the memories he receives from the Giver, however that very same emotional growth makes him feel anxious and angry.

Over the course of the novel, Rufus becomes less idealistic as he learns of corruption and greed when he meets with Mr. Floode and the “Professor.” Mr. Floode exemplifies the willful ignorance of people working at the oil company. “--Our pipelines are vandalized daily, losing us millions... and millions for the country as well. These people don’t understand what they do to themselves…” Rufus then has to explain to Mr. Floode that, “There are countless villages going up in smoke daily… I don’t blame them for wanting to get some benefit out of the pipelines that have brought them nothing but suffering to their lives…” (103). Rufus’ humble roots also compel Rufus to correct Mr. Floode and to try to portray the gravity of the situation in the delta. This scene is a key part of Rufus’ character development because the reader can tell that Rufus has thickened his skin. He is trying to fight for what he believes in by correcting an extremely powerful executive, Mr. Floode. As the novel progresses, Rufus grows from a shy rookie reporter to a reporter so confident in his abilities that he is willing to confront the head of the militia. “Are you calling me a liar, reporter? --No, Professor. I am not. I don’t know you well enough to do that.” (230) The