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Jonas's True Identity In The Giver By Louis Lowry

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Jonas is a normal kid, in a normal town, with normal people, and normal everything. Jonas lives in a world without color, without feelings, and without struggles. The book The Giver by Louis Lowry . It is a about a community where everything is the same. The same clothes, The same amount of people in each “family unit.” A boy named Jonas lives in this community with his “family unit” His mom (Who is not his actual mom.) His Dad (Who is not actually his dad.) And his sister Lilly (Well you get the picture.) Jonas is starting to realize there are greater things out there than in the small community in which they live in. 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 …show more content…

People start to freak out. When a speaker comes over the announcer, In the Novel by Lois Lowry “ IMMEDIATELY, the rasping voice through the speakers had said. LEAVE YOUR BICYCLES WHERE THEY ARE. Instantly, obediently, Jonas had dropped his bike on its side on the path behind his family’s dwelling.” Jonas was very obedient and dropped his bike immediately. In his community they must obey the laws or there are severe punishments. p.g 2 “HE WILL BE RELEASED.” Jonas did not yet know that RELEASED meant something way different than what he had thought. These quotes show how everyone is Jonas’s community is obedient without hesitation. I think this is similar to the text A Long Walk To Freedom by Nelson Mandela.The paragraph states that”I was not born with a hunger to be free. I was born free- free in every way I could know. Free to run in the fields near my mother’s hut, free to swim in the clear stream that ran through my village, free to roast mealies under the stars and ride the broad backs of slow-moving bulls.” Just like Jonas did not yet know that he wanted to make a change throughout his

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