Changes In The Giver

In the book “ The Giver “ written by Lois Lowry, the chapters 6 - 11 were fascinating , I could see that Jonas were changing very rapidly, he was an innocent child that never lied to anyone, who shared his dreams every morning with his family, but when Jonas turned 12 things started to change in his JAUNTY live. Jonas had to take the rules very seriously in his job,because if he didn’t respect the rules he might lose his job. Some of the rules that Jonas had to respect was that he could lie to everyone in the entire community even the family members, Jonas actually never but he has the opportunity now.

E.E Cummings, a famous American poet from the mid-1900s, once said, “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” In The Giver by Lois Lowry, the main character Jonas makes the right decision by choosing to take Gabriel and running from the community. His courageous act helped Gabriel, benefited himself, and assisted the community. When Jonas makes his brave choice, he transitions from a child to an adult.

Imagine a world with no feelings, no color, no choice; a world where individuality and freedom are exchanged for security and sameness. This type of world is a reality for Jonas, the protagonist in Lois Lowry’s The Giver. After being assigned the next Receiver of Memories in the community, where he has the capacity to see beyond. As he begins his works, he gains wisdom and through that wisdom, learned that protecting the community from the memories, their lives lacked understanding and feelings. Jonas goes on an archetypal hero’s journey and chooses to risk everything to restore memories and wisdom to everyone in the community. Throughout this novel, Jonas is represented as a hero considering he demonstrates integrity despite living in a

The theme conveyed through the Giver is that individuality should be valued. The story takes place in a utopian society where everything is the same. There are no choices, no color, and no love in the Community of Sameness. The novel starts out a month before the Ceremony of Twelve, where the 12 year olds each get assigned a job. Jonas gets the assignment of the Receiver of Memory, and he soon finds out that lying is permitted, and receives several memories of the past without sameness, with pain too. He has the ability to see beyond, and finds out that he and the Giver are the only people in the Community that have the ability to see, as well as hear beyond. Similar to the phenomenon of an apple changing quality and his friend Fiona’s hair doing the same

Jonas wanted the Giver to tell hm why he was starting to the color red everywhere he went. In the begining of the novel, Jonas thought the community was good and safe for the people. But when the Ceremony of the twelwe was coming up and Jonas was happy that the ceremony was almost here . When the Ceremony of twelwe came he would become a twelwe and he would be a man. When Jonas was a twelwe he could get a job but for the ceremony, they called jonas and told him that he had a special job and he couldn't tell anyone.

The Giver was created by Lois lowry, Lois is a 78 year old author and was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, and she was inspired to write at age 8. She currently lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and she's married with four kids. The Giver is definitely an interesting book. It’s different, there's an 11-year-old boy named Jonas, he lives in a community with his parents and sister. They don't have a president or a queen, they have a chief elder.

The Filmmaker’s choice to change the light eyes to a birthmarks, because the movie started out in black and white. So the birthmarks helps the audience tell who can see beyond and who couldn't. For instance, in the movie Jonas saw the birthmarks on Gade’s wrist just like The Giver and himself. In the book Jonas said Gabe has the same color eyes. This affects the audience by making them confuse that they would change the eyes.

His transition, expressed by the setting change and supported by his alternating actions, is also gradual. Marked by his obtaining the new “receiver” position in his community, Jonas’s departs from the society that raised him. Evidently, Jonas had always been different from the rest of his peers as he would see something more, something beyond his “reality.” “The apple had changed. Just for an instant… Then it was in his hand, and he looked at it carefully, but it was the same apple. Unchanged… The same nondescript shade, about the same shade as his own tunic” (Lowry 24). No one in Jonas’s community possessed the ability to see color of any sort, which emphasized the theme of sameness. Yet, the fact that Jonas notices the color red first, and repeatedly in Fiona’s hair, insinuates his separation from an emotionless society. “Red is the single most dynamic and passionate color symbolizes love, rage, and courage… red has a great emotional impact… The desire to experience the fullness of living leads to constant activity” (Przybyla, Red Web). The red apple foreshadows Jonas’s ability to see color and further suggests the idea that Jonas will begin to feel. As Jonas later discovers, the reader recognizes a damaging lack of color in his society’s apparent flawlessness after he describes the apples shade as “nondescript,”

In The Giver written during the 1990’s and set in the future, Lois Lowry presents a dystopian novel about a society where everything is the same, but one kid plans to change the whole society. A young man named Jonas that has an ability to see color in a colorless society. After being selected as the new receiver of memories, he realizes how much the society is missing and plans to change it. He plans to leave the society so that everyone can receive the memories he was given. However even before becoming receiver, Jonas is shown to be different in a society where everything is the same. His society lacks the ability to see color yet when he and Asher were throwing the apple, the apple had changed Jonas looked at it for a little, then threw again, “and again- in the air, for an instant only- it had changed” (Lowry 24). Later as he was being selected for the new receiver of memories, it happened again. When he was asked if he has the quality of Capacity to See Beyond, All the faces of the crowd seemed to change for only a second. This ability to distinguish something “ different” again happens when he was going to the first day of training, but this time the hair of his friend Fiona changed. When Jonas was asking the giver what was happening, the giver told him to look at the books on a shelf and again it happened. It is then that the giver finally told Jonas that what he had experience was seeing color. Lois Lowry gave Jonas the ability to see color in a society that can

Once Jonas turned twelve, during the ceremony he was singled out and given the most important role in their community by the elders. (who are in control of their society) To receive special training from the Giver. The Giver alone is the only one who holds the past memories of all the pain, fear and joy there is to behold. Now its Jonas’s task to receive the painful truth.

Without freedom, a community will not be able to have creativity which will make them unable to evolve. In The Giver, Jonas is not able to do much of anything without the Speaker indirectly warning him. His community has not changed for quite some time and that's because they don’t have the freedom to change (Lowry 24-36). Jonas’s community is very sheltered and that's why he has to take medicine. He takes medication so he won’t have love or any other major emotions besides happiness. The people in his society aren’t much different from each other because they don’t have the freedom to change and be creative. In Variant, no one has succeeded escaping because they didn’t have the freedom to be creative and figure out how to actually do it.

“I am going to transmit a good memory to you,” the old man said, and placed his hands on Jonas’s back. Jonas close his eyes and saw a girl sitting in a chair with something that was a very long stick. Then the girl started to blow into the stick and wonderful sound came out. Then the girl started to move her fingers and the sound was starting to change. then Jonas walked closer to see that the girl’s fingers were hitting padded circles to close off the air coming from the girl’s mouth. Then Jonas noticed that the girl stopped and flipped pages in her book to another page. The girl started to tap her foot really fast. The sound began again. Then the soft noises turned into an upbeat happy sound. At that second Jonas noticed that his foot was

As the sled slowed Jonas had checked his surroundings and the first thing he glimpsed was a house with a smoky chimney, indicating someone was in fact in there. “Look Gabe we did it,” Jonas said still observing the small house.

The Giver is an exceptional book with many themes to would be great for everyone, but one key theme is the value of the individual. The narrator, Lois Lowry, points out that when people are unable to experience pain, their individuality is lowered. Memories are so vital because many of them include pain. What is painful to one person might not be painful to another. People can learn from memories and gain wisdom from remembering past experiences in life. The Elders in the society and The Giver decided sameness is key, instead of having differences. As being The Giver, he must deal with all the pain that comes with memoires. “Please,” as he gasped, take some of the pain”… Jonas braced himself and entered the memory which was torturing The Giver”

In the beginning, Jonas was your average 12 year old tween who was sensitive, polite, and compassionate. When Jonas was selected from to be the New Receiver, he felt “alone and apart” (77) as he spotted his fellow Twelves who received more of a ‘normal job’. Jonas is a perfect example of a dynamic character; a character in a piece of literature who changes in the book. The protagonist of The Giver, Jonas, changes his perspective throughout the novel. At first, Jonas believed his community was almost perfect until he learned about the choices that he, himself could make instead of having someone superior to him make the choices. For instance, Jonas “wanted to wake up and decide things like choosing a red or blue tunic” (123). Jonas could not because it was all the same old colorless color. Jonas didn’t have the ability to make decisions for his tunics seemed to be