Consequences In The Giver By Lois Lowry

Jonas's father obliviously follows the rules of the community, not stopping to think for even a second that maybe things could be different, that life could be better. He is among all the other oblivious citizens in the community doing his job without realizing what he is truly doing. Jonas's father is a nurturer, meaning he takes care of the newly born children. He is required to 'release' a certain number of newborns per year. The community is told that this means they send the child off into a new community, but Jonas learns the truth, which is, they are put to death. As Jonas was watching a video of his father doing the 'release ceremony' he yelled "he killed it! My father killed it!" (56) Jonas could not believe that the community had been lying to everyone forever, or that his own father would do such a thing and lie about it. Later on in the novel, we learn that love is not existent in this society. After Jonas and the giver had talked about love and what it is, Jonas decided to ask his own parents how they felt about him. Jonas stated "'do you love me?' There was an awkward silence for a moment. Then Father gave a little chuckle 'Jonas. You, of all people. Precision of language please!’" (71) This shows that love is not something that exists within the community, seeing as love would require a connection between two individuals, created

Imagine living life with no knowledge of color, memories, death, or even love. Jonas and The Giver are the only two people who have feelings and know of things no one else knows about. In the book, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the author has the community not have any knowledge of most things that exist. Knowledge has the power to change anything.

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

Jonas wanted to live a different life. In his journey, Jonas travels with Gabriel, the child that was being nurtured by his family. He needed to saved him from being “released”. Together they faced danger and fear but it was just the beginning of a new life in the land of Elsewhere.

The Giver, by Lois Lowry is about a young boy named Jonas who is growing up in a utopian society. In The Giver they have no memories of anything that has pain even involved which meant that the community had to get rid of some joyful things also. Jonas, the receiver, and The Giver himself are the only two that know the memories. The author, Lois Lowry, was given the Newbery medal in 1994. In her acceptance speech of the medal she stated things in her life that influenced her book, The Giver. Many of the events in Lois Lowry’s life had really influenced many of the big events in The Giver.

Jonas’ has had a variety of interesting experiences throughout the book. The Giver by Lois Lowry is about Jonas and he goes through many changes in his life with some help from the Giver. Jonas’ experiences develop a theme over the course of The Giver by teaching the reader for every action there is a consequence. Although some readers may believe that there will not be a consequence, Jonas’ experiences show that there are good and bad consequences for everything you do.

The novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is an everlasting story that shows the importance of individuality. This novel is about a young boy named Jonas who was elected as the Receiver of Memories, a person who is given the memories from the world that existed before their current society, Sameness. In this society there is no individualism. People can not choose who to marry, or what they want to do for a living. Over time Jonas becomes more and more wise, and realizes that the supposedly perfect community actually has some very dark and negative aspects. The author, Lois Lowry is a 76-year-old writer who focuses her writing on helping struggling teenagers become individuals. Lowry had a very tragic childhood. After both of her parents were

The book The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a novel about a kid named Jonas that tries to save his community of a simple, unfeeling life. At his community, nothing had suspense. Everything was dull, simple, dim, and colorless. Nobody knew real pain, physical or emotional, and had no memories. The people in the community didn’t even know what a animal was.

One person is isolated from their town to find the New World, a dimension that has a different government. When searching for the New World, you could find new unpredictable problems and surprises, like in “The Giver”. In “The Giver”, from page 170 to 178, Jonas and Gabriel was in situations, that they both experienced new problems, like rain, hunger, and snow, that slowed them down along the way. In page 178 to 179, Jonas and Gabriel found the other community, with amazing surprises, like lights and music. You always need to prepare and store items, before living in a new society, like in both “The Giver” and “I Am Currency”. In “The Giver”, The Giver taught Jonas most of his ideas, thoughts about life, and food for Jonas to search the other

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Through the element of characterization, Jonas’ selflessness is exemplified in the novel, The Giver, written by Lois Lowry. The story takes place in a dystopian society that is stripped away from all emotion, color, music, and love. To restore his crippling society, Jonas, the main character, sets out on a journey into the beyond of his district, but, on his way, is stopped by a young child, named Gabriel, who is to be killed the next morning because of his inadequate development. To prevent this trauma from occurring, Jonas takes the boy with him as he continues on with his quest. To begin, Jonas suffers from hypothermia and starvation, due to the extreme conditions of his pursuit.

Jonas’ decisions in The Giver could affect you and me. In The Giver by Lois Lowry where Jonas a 12 year old boy lives in a community with strict rules. He decides that he wants to escape and live a free life. Jonas’ experiences develop a theme over the course of The Giver By teaching the reader that freedom comes at a cost. Although some readers may believe that freedom is free, Jonas’ experiences show that it takes sacrifices and hard work to get freedom in their community.

The Giver written by Lois Lowry. In The Giver there are two main characters; Jonas and the giver. The Giver is a very interesting book, especially for young teenagers. the book is about a very controlled society, from infants being born and which family the infants go, to the memories of the whole community. Anyone that has read The Giver has to love every aspect of the book.

What do you think the world would be life if we didn’t have to hear opinions from other people, or outside sources? Hard to imagine, isn’t it? This is because there is a high value of public statements of opinion from various sources. Without these opinions, our own perception of things could be very different.

The Giver is a futuristic novel, written by Lois Lowry, about a boy named Jonas. Jonas was selected to become the Receiver of Memories, later he realizes his “perfect” community was not as perfect as he thought. Jonas makes a plan to escape to where the memories return to the other citizens of his community. The Giver falls into more than one genre. In fact, this novel falls into three: utopian, dystopian, science fiction.