Chapter Summary: The Giver By Lois Lowry

Jonas loves basketball and will do anything to continue his career after his high school years. Early in the novel, Jonas’ dad got laid off of his job and their family was struggling financially for a while. The reason that the Dolans family moved to Seattle was because Jonas’ father got a new job. Their family has been stressed out lately and has not been the happiest campers. Jonas is a good kid; he just goes along with what has been happening recently in his family and has been very naïve. He is the type of kid that tries to help out his family in any way possible. Jonas’ recent actions and feelings have been hinting at the fact that he wants to keep basketball in his life for as long as possible. There is nothing better than doing something you love for a long period of your life. For Jonas to play professional basketball would mean the world to him, and he could then help out his parents so they can all be happy again. If one word could describe Jonas’ personality it would be “battler.” He always stays positive no matter what happens in his high school career and will always look at the bright side of

Jonas was given the memories of things people don't want to know and wish didn't exist. He was given the memories of pain, of fighting, and of fear. “But you will be faced, now, with pain of imagnitude that none of us should comprehend, because it is beyond our experience. The receiver himself is not able to describe it, only to remind us of what we will face, and how to manage; you will need immense courage. We cannot prepare you for that"(79). In the beginning Jonas thought he had an understanding of the word frightened, and the feeling that comes with it. Yet, throughout the book, Jonas experiences the true meaning of what fear entails. "Frightened meant that deep, sickening feeling of something terrible about to happen"(1). This quote gives the impression of Jonas's opinion of fear. It resembles how this feeling can consume our every thought and its' overall, overwhelming

Jonas' dream that lead to his life changing was the one he didnt tell at the dream telling, this lead him to start feeling

Jonas began to feel like her wanted to go home. Jonas can't go back to his community, "But he knew he couldn't go back to the world of no feelings for that he had lived in so long" (Lowry 131). Jonas wants to leave the community and never come back to it again because no matter how much he tries to give them memories he can't change them. Jonas decides that it is ok for him to leave his community. “ If he stayed, he would have starved in other ways. He would have lived a life hanged for feelings, for color, for love” (Lowry 174). Jonas made the right decision of leaving his community because he would have been starving for answer on why they never changed the community but he feels happier that he rejected his society and left. (SIP-B) Jonas doesn't want to be a part of his community anymore. Jonas doesn't want to go back to his dwelling to see his family, "I won't! I won't go home! You can't make me!' Jonas sobbed and shouted and pounded the bed with his fist" (Lowry 153). Jonas doesn't want to go back to his dwelling to see his family again because his father lied to him about the ceremony of release for babies. Jonas wanted his childhood back, he didn't want to be the receiver anymore, "Jonas did not want to go back. He didn't want the memories, didn't want the honor, didn't want the wisdom, didn't want the pain. He wanted his childhood again, his scraped knees and ball games" (Lowry 121). That Jonas doesn't want to be the receiver of memory anymore he wants to get his childhood back so he doesn’t have to know about the memories of past communities. Jonas is rejecting his society because he finds out the true meaning of his community and why they took out what they

Lowry writes in a way that utilizes foreshadowing events throughout the story. An example of when Lowry does this is when Jonas is thinking about the apple that had mysteriously changed a while back. “But suddenly Jonas had noticed, following the path of the apple through the air with his eyes, that the piece of fruit had---well, this was the part he couldn’t adequately understand---the apple had changed.”(pg.24) Later on, at another point in the story, Jonas has come to a point where he

He shows this in the last section of the book after he watches his own father mindlessly kill a child. He also finds a way to save Gabriel before he is going to be released. (SIP-A) Jonas has finally realized what’s going on. Nobody in his society knows what death is. They think that people just go somewhere else, elsewhere, like they’re still alive. He couldn’t take it anymore so he decided to escape to elsewhere. (STEWE-1) Jonas starts to realize that Fiona is working at the house of old, and is being trained on how to release the elderly. "’And what about Fiona? She loves the Old! She's in training to care for them. Does she know yet? What will she do when she finds out? How will she feel?’ Jonas brushed wetness from his face with the back of one hand. ‘Fiona is already being trained in the fine art of release,’ The Giver told him. ‘She's very efficient at her work, your red-haired friend. Feelings are not part of the life she's learned’” (Lowry 153). This is a problem for Jonas because he realizes that red isn’t all that great of a color now that Fiona is associated with it. He also has no more feelings for her. (STEWE-2) On the opposite end of the spectrum, Jonas’s family’s newchild, Gabriel, has been scheduled for release. His parents didn’t feel they could take care of him. He was a struggle. “‘He cried all night, apparently. The night crew couldn't handle it. So, we obviously had to make the decision. Even I

Jonas lives with his parents and one sister. His parents were allowed to have only two children, a boy and a girl. It was one of the many community rules that couldn’t be broken.

Jonas starts out with a very low understanding of what it means to be mature. He has no knowledge of pain, love, or any other emotion. He proves this by acting like a normal child. He plays with his friends after volunteer hours. He attends school on a regular basis. Jonas is a stickler for the rules. He has been told that it is wrong to not follow rules and that there

A reminder that stirrings must be reported in order for treatment to take place.” (Lowery 36 )I feel like it’s sad that we have to take a treatment when we get stirrings because we can’t love anyone. According to the text,” Then in the same way that his own dwelling slipped away behind him as he rounded a corner on his bicycle,the dream slipped away from his thoughts. Very briefly, a little guiltily, hr tried to grasp back.” (Lowry 37- 38 )Jonas regret that he took the treatment and he was guilty that he tried to grasp it back.According to the text,” I knew she wouldn’t. And I think I knew that she shouldn't. But I wanted it so terribly.” (Lowry 35 )It’s just sad that the people in this society won’t ever be normal or remember how it is to love someone or their

Promptly afterwards, Jonas seems “stunned at what he was realizing. He continued to stare at the screen numbly” (Lowry 188). Lowry compares Jonas’s innocence when he is first unable to comprehend the actions of his father, to his growing maturity, after he

A quote to support this is, “But now Jonas has experienced real sadness.” , this was found on page 132. This text evidence supports the answer because sadness teaches perseverance to get through real emotions and not shallow ones that teach you nothing. A second quote to support the answer is, “And he has funny eyes like yours, Jonas!” ,

But I wasn't. I was almost a little angry at her, in the dream, because she wasn't taking me seriously....."Jonas tells his parents his strongest feeling; not understanding why his Mother responds that he must take a pill. Jonas does recall that in the Book of Rules there is a reference to them.Then, Jonas recall’s that a voice over the loudspeaker saying that stirrings must be reported so that treatment can begin. His mother tells Jonas that he must begin taking the pills for the Stirrings just as she and his father do. But, barely Jonas remembers that he enjoyed the stirrings and wanted to feel the Stirrings again.The "Stirrings" are sexual feelings that the Community wishes to control so that there is no trouble such as fighting among the males or jealousy among the girls. The society in which Jonas lives censors the thoughts and feelings of its inhabitants.This evidence supports my statement because the stirrings don’t let them feel the emotion of love.In my society we feel every emotion or feeling.The giver society has a rule of everyone being the same and no is different so there is no

The Giver, a novel written by Lois Lowry, follows a young boy named Jonas during his journey into becoming the community 's new Receiver of Memory. Throughout his adventure, Jonas has to make many choices along the way that impact him and the others around him. For example, the biggest turning point in the story is about a choice that Jonas makes. The people of the community take pills everyday to control their “stirrings” which are just uncontrollable emotions that a person feels. One day, after months of training, Jonas decides not to take the pill. On page 129 Lois Lowry writes, “Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away” (129). From the quote the reader can infer that something during his training has compelled him to not take the “necessary” pill. This choice will affect the people around Jonas, as well as Jonas himself. Without control over his emotions, Jonas is more likely to lash out on his peers and experience certain emotions that he does not know how to process. This choice reveals the fact that Jonas is starting to become aware of the truths about his community. Another example of the choice was when Jonas

Semester B Unit 1 Lesson 4 Introduction and Objective As you read a story, characters struggle with conflicts as events unfold. No matter the conflict that occurs in a story plot, the character typically goes through changes. The changes could be good to bad, but usually bad to good. Today's lesson objective is: • Students will be able to describe how the characters respond or change as the plot moves toward a resolution.

(MIP-1) Jonas used to accept his society before he started to realize what was really going on and how messed up his society truly is. (SIP-A) Jonas once thought that release was a happy ceremony and that his dad only tells the truth to him. (STEWE-1) Jonas thought that his dad would never lie to him so he tried to relate things that his dad had told him to the video of release even though every thing he was told about release was really one big lie. "now he cleans him up and makes him comfy" (Lowry 150). (STEWE-2) This is another example of Jonas trying to relate what he was told to the video. "I suppose it 's just a newborn" (Lowry 148). (SIP-B) Jonas thought he was actually happy and had connections at one point in his life . (STEWE-1) His family shared what they thought were feeling to connect with one another every night. “who wants to be first tonight for feelings” (Lowry 5).(STEWE-2) Jonas was very happy and excited and scared to become a 12