How Does The Giver Change

The Giver is written from the point of view of Jonas. At the beginning of the book Jonas is an eleven-year-old boy living in a futuristic society that got rid of all sorrow, pain, fear, hate and war. Everyone looks and acts almost the same. Everyone is polite and there is no competition. Also the community is not allowed any kind of choices from the moment they were born to the moment they are released. For example, at the age of nine you are given a bike and are not allowed to ride a bike before that age. Also at the age of

(BS-3) Jonas turned against his society and everyone in it. (TS) In The Giver by Lois Lowry Jonas eventually rejects his society because he discovers they’ve been lying to him. (MIP-1) Jonas had always been okay with everything that happened in the society until he started to notice tiny issues.

Jonas is the protagonist of the novel and a third-person narrator tells the entire story from Jonas perception of things. He is intelligent, curious, caring, and his thought process is very mature for being 11-13 years old. A good quote portraying both his matureness and his intellect is “If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things”(97). This is also one of the first signs that he is displeased with the community. Another quote showing his courage and curiosity is "It hurt a lot," Jonas said, "but I'm glad you gave it to me. It was interesting. And now I understand better. What it meant, that there would be

Jonas never lied nor got in trouble by his parents, Jonas' society never lied to nor harmed eachother they all cared for one another. Jonas started out not taking his medicine that lead him to see color, then had a dream and kept it to himself. Jonas' friend Fiona was a really nice and pretty girl and it made Jonas fall in love, but in his society ur not suposed to fall in love, he wasn't like the other people in his society.He the same as everyone else at the begining of the novel but because of his choices it affected the way he felt, he started to feel depressed because of the things he had found out about the comunity.

Jonas accepting his society because he's unaware of emotions of the other people in his community. Jonas follows the rule of having the share your feelings everyday. Not telling

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 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

From a rule keeper to a rebel has Jonas changed. When he first had his stirrings, he told his mom and his mom gave him the pills which he “swallowed the small pill that his mother handed him.” (38) He kept the rules and took the pill. He took the pill without a second thought and just took it, just because his mother told him to. And he also did because the Speaker. “‘I will take care of that sir. I will take care of that sir,’ Jonas mimicked in a cool sarcastic voice.” “‘I will kill people sir” (152) Never has Jonas ever mimic the Speaker before. No one ever did. But Jonas, now being a rebel sees the true side of the Community turns into a rebel. If he wasn’t a rebel, he wouldn’t mimic the Speaker nor would he see anything wrong in this community. As much as people change, he has changed much from a little kid who keeps the rules to a rebel, i kid who never lies to a kid who lies, from a naive kid to a wise man.

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

Jonas has changed from being feelingless and as the story goes on he develops feelings.

Change of Thought Many people, even fictional characters tend to not perceive people and the world around them because of the environment that they have grown accustomed to. Some examples are Jonas, from The Giver and Mrs. Stevenson, from Sorry, Wrong Number as they experience how the world is not as perfect as they always thought it was. As time progressed, both of these characters learned how the real world was while learning new things, though it was not always pleasant.

H- Jonas had conflict with the society he was living in. Jonas had problems when he was going to train to be the new Giver of the communtiy. In the begining, Jonas thought that his community was a safe and good place to be a part of. Jonas had problems with his training because he was learning the trust about the community, and he didn't like it. The main character Jonas was on his way to the Giver when he seen a color he never saw before the color red on a girl named Fiona's hair.

Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, offers a thought provoking, well written story, because it changes the perspective of anyone who dares to read it to. Lowry places her novel, at some point in the future when mankind has gone away with changes and choices in life. She forces readers appreciate, or at least re-think the world they live in today. Her novel presents a fully human created environment where people have successfully blocked out conflict, grief, and individuality. Each person follows the same routine every day. Failure comply with standards, to be different, means death. Jonas, the main character, finds himself trapped in this world.

“‘And when did we, in the past? Did my parents have sleds when they were young? Did you? (page 83).’ ” This means Jonas is realizing that there is other weather and communities than theres. This matters because now Jonas is more intelligent about his surroundings outside of the community.