Perseverance In The Giver

Sameness and difference, is one of the themes Lois Lowry portrays in “The Giver”. The theme of sameness and difference plays a key part in Jonas’s life, and contributes to the people in his community, and their past as well.

For the first time,he heard something that he knew to be music.He heard people singing. Jonas wipes his eyes and still saw the lights and houses with all the pretty lights.

Jonas’s experience in The Giver molds him into the classic archetypal hero. The journey includes both positive and negative experiences from his call to duty, training, departure, and the return home. Through these experiences, Jonas grows into an archetypal hero.

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

     This book is about a boy names Jonas. Jonas lives in a futuristic society where there is no pain, fear, war, and hatred. There is also no prejudice, since everyone looks and acts basically the same, there is very little competition. They have also eliminated choice.

In the novel “The Giver,” written by Lois Lowry, Jonas is a boy who follows the rules, spends time with friends and family, goes to school, and at the Twelves Ceremony is given the job as the Receiver of Memory. At the end of the novel, Jonas learns information that makes him leave the community to save the people he loves. As Jonas becomes older, he acknowledges that he is different from his family and the people surrounded by him. Once Jonas got his assignment as the Receiver of Memory, his maturity became inconsistent throughout the novel.

“You have made a terrible mistake.” The Chief Elder uttered in shock, her tongue cutting short of a hiss.

Gabriel, the adorable Newchild is staying at Jonas's house, but he is about to be released because of his inadequate weight and bad sleeping habits. Therefore, when Jonas decided to run away, he takes Gabriel with him so that Gabriel can avoid a death from release. Jonas did make the right decision of bringing Gabriel with him to Elsewhere. By doing this, Jonas has given Gabriel a chance to live and possibly to live an exceptional life, and for himself, Jonas gave himself the opportunity to love something for the rest of his life.

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

Laura Hillenbrand’s Unbroken recounts Louie Zamperini's incredible life. The novel contains extreme obstacles that Zamperini overcame in his life, in which motifs of survival, resilience, and redemption emerge. Zamperini, a former Olympic athlete, survived a record-breaking forty-seven days at sea and then survived two years in Japanese Prisoner of War camps. Zamperini persisted and never lost faith even when the Bird constantly tormented him till near death. In Unbroken Hillenbrand correctly argues that with perseverance and Christianity one can overcome the most forbidding of obstacles.

Lord, Elyse. "Overview of The Giver." Novels for Students. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Literature Resource Center. Web. 27 Mar. 2016. Elyse Lord is one of the many critics who describe “The Giver” as terrifying but offering “hope and a constructive view” of the Utopian world in the book. She explains that other critics praise the book with many awards such as the Newberry Medal. Lord goes on to reason that the story is favored by different readers for its complexity, symbolism, metaphors, ambiguous ending, and can be compared similarly to classic science fiction like “Brave New World” and “Fahrenheit 451.” Contradicting this statement, Lord says that ‘librarians’, ‘educators’, and ‘students’ debate “The Giver” to be censored from public schools around the world because of its graphic scenes and ideas of infanticide and euthanasia. This includes the time Jonas witnessed his father murder a baby and throw it down a trash chute in cold blood. This is ironical compared to the language, emotion, and behaviors being censored in Jonas’s ‘Utopian’ society. Lord argues this through Anna Cerbasi of Port Saint Lucie, Florida, who asked the school board to remove a book that was about a family murdering their child for crying at night and called the book inappropriate for the sixth grade. Lord raises the question of who is to “decide which books are appropriate for which children,” and argues that it cannot be answered with not one but the many books integrated in school curricula that compose

In her book, Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand vividly illustrates the suffering surpassed by the protagonist, Louie. By doing so, Hillenbrand depicts the cruelty of Japanese prisoner of war detainment camps throughout the duration of the Second World War. Louie's interminable determination and perseverance reveals the concealed dexterity of human nature while exploring not only American political and social values, but also the global spiritual contingency throughout moments of disdain.

In the first chapter of The Giver, Jonas is trying to describe how he feels about the upcoming December. At first he said he felt frightened then he described a time he felt frightened and then took back what he said about how he felt. He felt apprehensive. Then, the next thing that is in the chapter is when they are talking about their feelings. It is a ritual that takes place after every dinner where each person in the family shares their feelings of the day. Lily, the youngest, talks about how other kids her age were visiting their community and they did not follow the rules because they were from a different community. Then, his father shared his feelings about his day. He is a Nurturer and they take care of all of the newchildren. He said

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.

Have you ever considered what happens to a person when they change? In the book 'The Giver', Jonas is similar in a few ways at the end of the book from the start. But why does this matter? When a person goes through difficult experiences, they are still the same in a lot of ways.