Response For The Giver

In The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas has a lot of different character traits. However, most of all, Jonas is determined. He shows this throughout the story. Jonas is determined because he wants to find out more about the community, he is determined to help the community, and above all, he takes risks to save Gabe from release.

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.

Imagine having everything you wished for. You would live in a perfect world. But every world has imperfections and you come across to realizing...a perfect world doesn’t exist. Within time, you come from an illusion to reality. You choose your journey and it starts here. The community is a separate environment from the world and has many rules to live by. The rules can vary to be severe consequences. It includes sameness, no memories, and family unit regulations. The kids end their childhood at the age of 12 by receiving their life assignment. The main character, Jonas is chosen to be the receiver of memory. He is reliable to hold everyone's feelings, hopes, and devotions. In The Giver the author Lois Lowry uses the theme of change to reveal that growing up in “the community” is a non-stressful and organized environment but Jonas finds the real world a whole different place when he receives memories about strong feelings and hardships, intellects the word “love”, and how important it is to be an individual.

The Giver, by Lois Lowry is about a young boy named Jonas who is growing up in a utopian society. In The Giver they have no memories of anything that has pain even involved which meant that the community had to get rid of some joyful things also. Jonas, the receiver, and The Giver himself are the only two that know the memories. The author, Lois Lowry, was given the Newbery medal in 1994. In her acceptance speech of the medal she stated things in her life that influenced her book, The Giver. Many of the events in Lois Lowry’s life had really influenced many of the big events in The Giver.

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

This is dystopia because if it would be a perfect society then everyone would be treated equally and they would know what it's like to have memories. In document b “that burden” it states that Jonas and The Giver have to bear themselves so much and they spend so much time together and if the memories were shared with people then they wouldn’t have to bear so much and they wouldn’t have to worry about the memories. This document talks about how even Jonas and The Giver do not agree with the memories being taken away from the other members of the community. In order for Jonas to receive the memories sometimes we will have to deal with pain so he can feel the experience of the memory. The community members aren’t able to have feelings they have no emotion and don’t know what pain feels like.

The Giver is about a young boy of twelve named Jonas who lives in a utopian/dystopian future in which everything is “perfect” and controlled by something called “Sameness.” There is no color, no music, no anything that creates individuality. When Jonas is chosen to receive the memories of the past from a person called the Giver, he begins to see what society has lost and learns dark secrets about what officials do to keep it that way. At the end of the novel, Jonas runs away with an unusual child named Gabriel, who is marked for death, in an attempt to share his newly found memories with the world and find the place called “Elsewhere.” “The majority of the bans on this book are because of children issues instead of grown up ones.

In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, a 12-year-old boy named Jonas gets selected to be the new Receiver of Memory in a utopian society of Sameness. Throughout his experience as Receiver of Memory, he learns and discovers things that make him flee his community. Jonas affects his own actions and the actions of other characters because he is courageous and soft-hearted.

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.

The Giver, published in 1993, is an American, young adult, dystopian, science fiction novel. This is the twenty-second book Lois Lowry has written. According to Marie C. Franklin, Children’s Literature: Debate continues over merit of young-adult fare (The Boston Globe, February 23, 1997, p. G1), some reviews have criticized The Giver for lacking originality. Set in the future, the society described in The Giver has eliminated war, pain, hatred, and fear. It is in the point of view of an eleven-year-old boy named Jonas.

Without choice, one loses their individuality and cannot develop a personality. For Jonas, his pale eyes and ability to see in color makes him stand out in the community. At first Jonas is uncomfortable with these traits but the traits give him the power to escape the community. Jonas thinks, “If everything is the same, then there are not any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! A blue tunic, or a red one?" (123). For Jonas, color is not just a vibrant aspect of nature. It represents a type of individual freedom that before he had no idea of in his society. This is a clear indicator that Jonas is coming to see the society does not allow people to make their own choices and the society makes it for them. The society fears that if people had the power to make a choice they would choose the wrong one. Yet how does one learn and progress without making mistakes. It may be much simpler to force

Jonas's first stance on the community was different then it will later become he feels everybody should fit in no matter what. People from the society all get selected assignments that are supposed to be perfect for the person, because the elders watch the citizens to look at their strengths. This is why he feels everyone should fit in. Jonas had a baby come from his fathers work to live with his family for a while, this baby reminded Jonas of himself. Jonas gets a special feeling from this baby.

‘But it’s all the same, always. ’(page 97)” In this part of the book Jonas is already feeling that the rules the Elders put forward are making him feel alienated because he knows so much about the real world. He, apart from The Giver, is the only person who is capable of seeing colors in his society, so this makes him notice how much of the world everyone doesn’t know about. This goes to show that the Elders aren’t letting people be humans because they are getting rid of their genetics to see colors.

At the beginning of the novel, Jonas is childish and has a low maturity level. Jonas does what all kids his age do. He volunteers at many places, plays games, and goes to school. Like his peers, he yields to the rules given to him by the community. For example, he conforms to what he is told to do each evening by sharing his dreams and feelings. Jonas’s juvenile state is displayed at the beginning of the book.