Jonas In 'The Giver' By Lois Lowry

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 has not been assigned,” She informed the crowd, and his heart sank. Then she went on. “Jonas has been selected.” The quote pertained to this story due to the significance that Jonas had differentiated from his peers that had their differences acknowledged by the Elders themselves, each with their own desires within a career. The quote influenced Jonas his decisions within the chapters beyond the quote within the story, nevertheless brought Jonas his viewpoint of the situation and his decision into escaping from the community with Gabe to journey off Elsewhere. For example, Gabe had been planned for release the same day Jonas had escaped from the community, due to Jonas’ significant viewpoints he couldn’t bare the loss of Gabe, especially since he would be the only few to discover the true meaning behind being “released.” In the end of “The Giver,” Jonas and Gabriel had hallucinated while freezing to death because of the wild berries, the memories, and the physical limits of his human body.

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

Jonas starts to take advantage of the communities guideline rules for is assignment as the receiver. Jonas gives memories to Gabriel to keep him calm. The ability to receive and give memories is unique in Jonas's community. A person has to have the Capacity to See Beyond in order to accept memories. Which is what Jonas sees and notices Gabe and him have something in common. Once he notices he does it more and more. By doing so, Jonas breaks the rules. Jonas starts to be rebellious and take advantage of his right to lie. This is shown when he lies to his mother for the first time. Jonas was dreaming about Fiona and he had found out during rituals that he had a case of the Stirring. Stirrings were basically feelings in the book. Once she found out his mother was giving him

That night, Jonas was forced to flee. " Jonas is now trying to start a nerw journey with Gabe. He didn't regret leaving his community behind. " He felt, suprisingly, no fear, nor any regret at leaving the community in the end he'll regret

In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry many changes happen with the main character, Jonas. In the book he is in a community where people don’t see color, get their jobs picked for them, and much much more. He gets picked to become the most honorable person, the Giver of Memories. While doing so, Jonas goes through many changes in the book. Some changes are on pages 34 and 98.

He wanted his childhood again” (Lowry 151-152). This quote shows how the pursuit of knowledge can be dangerous because the knowledge Jonas receives causes him to get scared and not want to come to his job anymore. In the beginning, The Giver was importing all of the happy memories from the past that made Jonas cheerful like colors, sunshine, and music. However, when The Giver gave the memory of war to Jonas he freaked out and was very confused. After receiving the painful memory of warfare, Jonas is reluctant to see The Giver again.

Jonas’s opinion gradually changed from the start of the book to the end. This made him react to power in different ways.

Throughout the story, Lois Lowry illustrates how Jonas perseveres to obtain knowledge. We first see this when Jonas is going through training with the Giver: “‘I’m brave. I really am”’(82). This quote exemplifies how Jonas wants

Jonas has changed because of his memories. All of the memories played an important role in the change in his behavior. The feelings, the warfare changed his perspective on the community. This caused a change in Jonas’s behavior and character throughout the story. As he received more memories Jonas was no longer obedient, the memories had a big impact on Jonas. He became rebellious and therefore, he broke many of the communities important rules. Later, Jonas received even more memories and as a result of this Jonas went from being honest to being deceitful and started lying to his friends and family. At the beginning of The Giver, Jonas starts off as an obedient and honest character, but as the story progresses Jonas becomes deceitful and rebellious. When he finally understood what his community was doing he realized that some of the community’s rules were bad and unnecessary. As a result, Jonas tried changing the community norms by running away hoping that the members of the community would understand that the community needed to change no matter

Throughout the book Jonas discovers his true identity. I will show how throughout the book Jonas’s true identity develops. And makes Jonas who he

Opening, Toward the beginning of the book Jonas and his community made a choice that affected the community in a

He feels pain, knows about all the emotions, he sees colors, but the memories of war, death, and pain are too much for him to keep in for himself. With The Giver, he makes a plan to give the memories back to the people. With these memories, comes the knowledge of death. The novel explains clearly the advantages and disadvantages of this ignorance. The ignorance about death and pain can be both beneficial and detrimental to Jonas’ society.

The Giver is in many ways Jonas’s coming-of-age story. Jonas reaches maturity only when he is given memory, and through memory, experience. In this way, Jonas becomes more mature at twelve than the "adults" of his community. But The Giver also teaches Jonas the wisdom to recognize his own shortcomings. Jonas truly becomes an adult at the

Jonas changes from a completely acquiescent kid to a wise, and mature young man throughout the book. At the start of the book he's simply a standard eleven in his community. Jonas solely will do what he's told and does not question things, however he's terribly introverted and thoughtful. Throughout the Ceremony Of Twelve the Chief Elder describes Jonas. He's has integrity, is intelligent, has courage, wisdom and obedience. Once he receives his rules he is aware that he's totally different from his classmates. His rules are short and embrace weird ones just like the ability