Character Analysis: The Giver

The character in the story that I was most fascinated by was the Giver. This character has many admirable qualities. He is resilient against the painful and hard memories he has seen and he is loving. He and Jonas are the only two characters in the story that are even capable of loving. While reading this story, I felt as though the Giver and Jonas were lucky because they get to understand and feel love, but on the other end of the spectrum, they experience pain and great sadness. The other characters in the story get to be blissfully unaware of the pain and suffering of the past. The first trait that I mentioned above, resilience, is why I like the Giver’s character so much. The quote that exemplifies this is, “The worst part of holding memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” “I’ve shared them with you,” Jonas said, trying to cheer him up. “That’s true. And having you here with me over the past year has made me realize that things must change. For years I’ve felt that they should, but it seemed so hopeless. “Now for the first time I think there might be a way (Lowry 1993 Ch. 20 p. 154-155 para. 9-11).” This shows the Giver’s resilience. He has been lonely because he had these memories, some that were very painful, and no one with which to share them. He saw pain and love and somehow lived with the burden of this knowledge. He continued to carry the burden of being the Receiver while

A true utopia requires sacrifices many people cannot condone. This fact has been shown throughout The Giver. The community decides to sacrifice many things to come to Sameness. Pain, individuality and love are among many things that they have sacrificed (Lowry 124). These sacrifices made the community Jonas lived in seemingly perfect; there is no hunger, no war, no pain, no one will ever be alone. But, a perfect community is completely unrealistic. That is why they have The Giver, the person that knows all the imperfections of the society and help the society to achieve perfection.

In the fictional universe that Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, is set in, all ideas of uniqueness have been done away with. People can no longer see colors. Community members are encouraged to use precise language only, to the point that concepts like love are considered antiquated and obsolete. People cannot experience things such as music. The weak, such as underweight newborns and the elderly, are “released”, or euthanized. Individuality is not only illegal, it is extinct. One would wonder why such a society would ever be created; the answer, as explained in the book, is that uniqueness creates jealousy, which creates envy, which creates hate. Therefore, individuality is at the root of all problems, including war and famine. In theory, if

    The quotation that I will be saying if I agree or disagree will be "Character is what you are in the dark."-Dwight Lyman Moody. The literature I will be comparing it to is The Giver by Lois Lowry. My interpretation of this quotation is you're the real you when nobody is watching. The position I am is that I agree with the quotation. The quotation also applies with the piece of literature I chose.

Imagine living in a place where at the age of twelve you were assigned an occupation by a group of elders and had no choice of that occupation. Imagine a world in which you cannot choose that special person to be your spouse, where you cannot have your own children and are to take care of someone else’s children. Visualize a world where everyone is the same, except you. In The Giver by Louis Lowery, Jonas is different in ways he cannot change. His alienation reveals the surrounding society’s assumptions and moral values about individuality, memory, and emotions -in order to achieve sameness?

In the book the giver by Lois Lowry, on page 137-145 they use the word love a lot agian and agian. The giver uses it on page 141 he said ¨ You can understand then, that that's what i felt for rosemary… I loved her¨ This is showing the reader that when the giver is telling jonas that he loved her he's really saying that he loves too.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling, but a lifelong attempt to acquire it,-- Albert Einstein. This quote ties in very well with a book, “The Giver” by, Lois Lowry. It starts with an 11-year-old boy named Jonas. Jonas lives in a community that is perfect. No war, starvation or divorce. He lives with his assigned parents and friends. The residents in this town have only good memories and experiences, but to grow into a whole individual you need to be exposed to both the good and bad things in the world. When exposed to good things, it brings out people's good side. Bad experiences bring out people's sensitive or protected side, together they are building a person's personality into a whole individual.

The book The Giver, written by Lois Lowry, is about Jonas, a 12 year old boy, who is selected to be the Receiver of Memory. His powers are that he has the memories of seeing in the past and the beliefs to live on in the future. Do you think a 12 year old average kid can manage high regards and respect for one another? This is called honor. For example, "Honor, he said firmly… Great honor..."

“He killed it! My father kill it yelled Jonas!”(Lowry 188). This is just one surprise Jonas learns about in his community, when people are realest they are killed. In The Giver, there are many surprise/lies that Jonas discovers. Jonas is a twelve year old charter in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry. Jonas was chosen to be the next Receiver of Memory. The Receiver of Memory is a very significant individual who holds all the memories from the past. As Jonas receives the memories he begins to understand that his community is far from perfect. As the novel progresses, Jonas learns being true to oneself takes courage, and those who don't take risk never grow.

The topic of my writing this week is words in The Giver that only the people in the community use. These words can sound like something but they really could mean the opposite of what you think. I am going to talk about what words mean and what effect they could have on the people in the community.

The antagonist in the novel The Giver is the Committee of Elders, which is the government of Jonas’s community. In dystopian novels, the antagonists are usually the leaders of the government oppressing the protagonist, such as President Snow in The Hunger Games. This is the same in The Giver, as the Committee of Elders leads the government and oppresses the citizens of their community to “sameness.” This is the opposition to Jonas’s goal in the book, which is to give the citizens of the community color and love, and get away from “sameness.” Therefore, the Committee of Elders is the antagonist in the novel The Giver.

Jonas, from the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, would enjoy and appreciate Cooper in the future, because it provides choice in classes, curriculum, and learning style. The author indirectly characterizes Jonas as rebellious, as this can be seen when Jonas tells The Giver “...I was just thinking: what if we could hold up things that were bright red, or bright yellow, and he [Gabriel] could choose? Instead of Sameness” (Lowry 125-26). He believes that members of the Community should have decisions that they can choose to make. He is not afraid of change. This shows that Jonas disagrees with the ways of the Community. Therefore, the author is portraying him as rebellious. He would appreciate a school that gives students the option to take certain

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.

While I have always been aware of censorship and banned books, I was not aware of how many books were still being challenged by people today. What surprised me the most was many books were challenged simply because of the language used; six out of the ten most challenged books of 2014 cited "offensive language" as a reason. I can understand why some of the books were challenged, but one that surprised me was The Giver, which I read in 7th grade. The Giver was not a particularly nice book to read, as it is about a dystopia, but I found nothing unsuitable about it. Another shock was the Junie B. Jones series, a favorite of mine when I was younger. The series was challenged because it is not educational, but I find that to be a questionable reason

"The Giver" by Lois Lowry describes Jonas's life in the community, where everyone, and everything is the same. A world without conflict, or choice. Your jobs are chosen for you, your partners as well, no one bothers to question the ways of the committee of elders. You could say that the committee of the elders is their form of government. Every year during December, until you’ve reached the year of 12, there is a ceremony for each age as you pass onto the next, helping you age, for example, at age 9, you get a bicycle, it's against the rules to have a bicycle or ride one before then. At the ceremony of Twelve, you get your predetermined lifelong jobs. Jonas gets chosen for a very important job, one which gives you a great honor. He is chosen to be the next receiver of memories. He is chosen to keep the memories of the past, when things were different, much different. The memories are passed down to Jonas by the receiver before Jonas, who's now known as the Giver.