Jonas' Confusion in The Giver by Lois Lowry

Has your personallity ever changed overtime while envolved in your community? In the book, "The Giver", this happens to the main character, Jonas. Jonas's personallity changed overtime as the story progressed through abundant obstacles. Jonas faced various challenges, such as dodging spy aircraft, in and out of his community.

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

Set in a community with no climate, emotions, choices, or memories Lois Lowry tells the tale of Jonas in The Giver. Jonas is selected to be the receiver of memory, which means the memories of generations past, before the community was created, will all be transferred to him to hold. As Jonas receives memories his concept of the world around him drastically changes. Jonas starts out as twelve-year-old boy with perceptions different from those around him, he then begins to see the community for what it really is, and he makes a plan to change it.

Lois Lowry’s The Giver is set in a futuristic, dichotomous society, one that is both utopian and dystopian. In response to the overwhelming destruction and chaos in the world, the Elders have attempted to create and maintain a peaceful and orderly utopia, but this security comes at a price. The citizens of the community have sacrificed their individuality and freedom. Although most adult members have some knowledge of the hypocrisies involved, they choose to perpetuate the deception, allowing the community, as a whole, to continue on blissful ignorance. When young Jonas is confronted with all the truths of the present and all the memories of the past, he must choose for himself

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.

“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.” This quote shows that although it hurts to know that the outside world is very different compared to Jonas’ community, Jonas is the only one receiving and keeping these memories. Therefore, he is the only one who knows about the distorted society in which he lives in.

Lois Lowry’s The Giver is a book about a seemingly utopian society in the future. This idea of perfection was created by removing individuality and emotion from the lives of people in the community which contrasts to today’s society in the United States, where freedom is extremely important to citizens. The only people who know that these freedoms are possible are a boy from the community named Jonas and his mentor who goes by “the Giver.” Jonas’s job in the community is to receive memories about the experiences that the society has removed.

is intrigued about the things he has experienced. The things that he didn’t know about interest him. Jonas goes to The Giver’s house again and asks him about the different things that have changed when he saw them. The Giver tells him to remember the sled from yesterday. When he does the sled is red. The giver explains that he is beginning to see the color red. He explains that the sled was just red instead of changing to red is because the memory is when red still existed.

Through our society we are all raised up to be independent and unique individuals such as being ourselves and expressing who each of us are to the world. However, in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, everyone is raised to count on one another and everyone must look and act the same. Our society differs from Jonas’s in many ways, such as the family units, birthdays, and the way we each learn about our past.

Jonas has an elaborate relationship with his Mom,Dad and his Sister(Lily). In the book The Giver Jonas likes his parents and has been with them for a long time, but when Jonas met the Giver he saw a different perspective of his parents and Lily. The reason Jonas has a new perspective of his parent is because , the Giver showed him how to have feelings and show love. When Jonas came home that day from training he asked his parents do you love me then his mom said Jonas better choice of word and then his dad explained why

People can reject society in many different ways, but the protagonist of the book The Giver, which is Jonas, only realizes this once he gains the memories from the Giver. In the beginning of the book Jonas respected the rules of the community and he always listened to them, but when he got his job as the receiver of memory he received some rules that he is skeptical about. Throughout the middle of the book Jonas has received more memories and they are changing him in different ways and it is causing him to be more isolated. Jonas and the Giver are the only ones in their community that can choose and really make their own decisions, but Jonas is upset that no one else can do that, so he ends up making some bad decisions.In the book The Giver

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.

The book starts in the "Community" where people literally don't feel anything. The main character,Claire, is assigned as a birthmother and she is supposed to give birth to three children. But her first birth giving has a problem and she is dismissed after giving to a baby; Gabe. She is assigned to work in the Hatchery. She always takes care of her baby (while hiding the fact that she was his birthmother) in the nutrition center.

Lois Lowry offers readers a clear insight into each of the characters internal feelings, since the film can not describe how each of the characters are feeling in depth as the book does, this is sorely missed in the film adaption. The director changes how characters feel about each other, in particular how Fiona feels about Jonas. The novel details Jonas feeling “stirrings” for Fiona, but he never acts on them, in contrast in the movie he does act on them and it leads him to a makeshift sled ride, a kissing scene, and also Fiona facing release for breaking the rules on several occasions including when she helps Jonas and Gabe escape. 'He felt such love for Asher and for Fiona. But they could not feel it back, without the memories.' Compared to Noyces version were Fiona knows she feels something, but not quiet what this leads her to she asks Jonas 'what was that' after he kisses her and then in return when she helps Jonas and Gabe escape she says 'wait' and kisses him as

Jonas’s attributes will assist him in his new assignment as the Receiver of Memory because they all play a role in his training, duties, and when he must train the next receiver. The first attribute that is needed to become the Receiver that will also help him is intelligence. In the book it supports that Jonas is intelligent when the Chief Elder says “We are all aware that Jonas has been a top student throughout his school days,” (pg.78). Having smartness will help Jonas learn how to master the ways of a Receiver. The second attribute that will help Jonas is integrity. The Chief Elder supports that Jonas has courage with saying how Jonas has always presented himself promptly for chastisement. Jonas’s integrity will help him learn easily from