Jonas Decisions In The Giver By Lois Lowry

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.

The Giver is written in Jonas’ point of view. Jonas is an eleven year old boy living in a special community. The community has eliminated all feelings and pain. Everyone in the community is polite and everyone is the same so there won’t be any differences between each other. In this community, when you are twelve, you will be assigned a job. In this case, Jonas was assigned as the receiver of memory. The community also has a giver, who has all the memory of feelings that everyone doesn’t have. Since the giver is getting old, Jonas will be learning from him and excluded from the rest of the community. He is able to ask questions that normal citizens weren’t able to.

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 is very mature at the beginning of the novel. For example, he volunteers at many places, plays games, goes to school every day, shares his dreams and feelings, and most importantly follows the rules.

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

The Giver by Lois Lowry is about a twelve year old boy, Jonas, living in a utopian society. This story follows Jonas on his way to find out the truth about his Community, and what secrets lie in the past. The society where Jonas lives knows nothing of the real world, and only know of their perfect reality. In the novel The Giver, the most significant theme is control because in the society there is no freedom of knowledge, freedom of love, or freedom to do what they please, which amounts to uttermost control.

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 Giver is written from Jonas’s confusion, excitement, glory, and discoveries. Jonas is a twelve-year-old boy living in a futuristic civilization that has eliminated all pain, fear, love, and free will. There is no chauvinism, since everyone looks and acts basically the same, and there are no “important” choices to be made, also, everyone is consistently polite. The “perfect” society Jonas lives in has also abolished choice: At age twelve every member of the community is assigned a job based on his or her abilities and interests. Citizens can apply for compatible spouses, who are assigned to them based on interests and jobs and each couple is allowed to receive exactly two children each. (Notice that I said receive, not give birth to.) In addition to that, spouses don’t show any signs of love or affection, just the word love, even when pointed at their children, makes them burst in laughter and explanations! Citizens who break rules or fail to adapt properly to the society’s codes of behavior are “released”. Everything is planned and organized so that life is as convenient and pleasant as possible, or so they think.

In the novel The Giver, Jonas make choices that leads to consequences. Although some readers may believe that the choices you make does not affect your future, Jonas experiences shows that choices can affect your aftermath. Jonas experiences develops a theme over the course of The Giver by teaching the readers that choices can lead to a positive or negative aftermath.

Lois Lowry’s young adult classic The Giver has been a staple of classrooms across the country since its release in 1993. While a dystopian setting is commonplace in modern young adult fiction, Lowry’s work came years earlier. The focus of The Giver, however, is not so much on the mysterious, flawed society as much as it is the growth of the main character, Jonas. The novel follows Jonas as he goes from a naïve child concerned with what job his is going to get and how he is going to stay in touch with his friends, to a mature young man with knowledge deeper than any of his peers. He becomes more complex as he begins his work as the Receiver and receives memories the leaders of his society have deemed unnecessary for all to know. On several occasions in the text, Jonas receives life-changing revelations about the world as it once was and as it actually is in his community.

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.

Imagine living in a world where you can’t make your own choices and don’t have any feelings. In The Giver by Lois Lowry, this is Jonas’s everyday life. He lives in a world with no mountains, hills, color, and weather. All the houses and landscapes are the same, but the people in community seem to still think they live in a utopian society. In the beginning of the book Jonas seems to think that too, but as Jonas becomes wiser and more mature he realizes that he wants to enjoy weather, color, and make his own choices. Jonas knows what real pain feels like, and as the book goes on he thinks the whole community should too. Jonas changes throughout The Giver and as a result, tries to change the community.

The power of his individuality is symbolized. . .” (Telgen and Hile 160-182). Being The Giver is a sign of personal freedoms. Jonas’ will soon have the personal freedom while everyone else will forever learn the routine of non-individuality. “The Giver exhibits the unique quality of combining the theme of responsibility in society within a literary context agreeable to adolescents.

The Giver, a book written by Lois Lowry. It is about a young boy named Jonas in a community without war, fear, and pain. He is selected to be the new receiver of memory when he turns twelve years old, which is the most honorable job in the community. To be the receiver of memory requires intelligence, integrity, and courage. This job makes his life changes throughout the novel. To begin with, in the beginning of the story, Jonas is committed, obedient, and eager. During the middle of the story, he is brave, curious, and imaginative. Finally, at the end of the story, He is courageous, rebellious and, strong.

The Giver Imagine a black and white world with no love. In the book, The Giver, by Louis Lowry, the protagonist, Jonas, disagrees with this dystopian way of life. Modern day society and Jonas’s society have close to nothing in common. Jonas’s society is emotionless, experiences Sameness, and has no freedom of choice, while modern day society revolves around emotions, individuality, and freedom.