Response To Jonas's Death In 'The Giver'

Has your personallity ever changed overtime while envolved in your community? In the book, "The Giver", this happens to the main character, Jonas. Jonas's personallity changed overtime as the story progressed through abundant obstacles. Jonas faced various challenges, such as dodging spy aircraft, in and out of his community.

In the book, The Giver, the main character Jonas makes a lot of important choices. But the most important was his plan to escape with baby Gabriel. When Jonas is given his job at the Ceremony of Twelve, he becomes The Giver. He must make important decision based on past events only he will have. He soon is given memories of the past and can see the colors. After Jonas finds out what happens during a “release” and is given memories of war he no longer wants his job. His father's’ job requires him to take care of the newborns. One newborn could live in the nursery so Jonas’s father takes care of him. The baby's name is Gabriel. When Jonas catches wind about Gabe’s release he asks the Giver what he can do to stop it. Finding nothing he can do,

First, the value a society places on human life can be revealed in how it mourns death. For instance, in Jonas’s society, when the old die there is a celebration. Early in the story, Jonas explains how release of the old is no time for grief, “Release of the elderly, which was a time of celebration for a life well and fully lived” (7). While Release for the elderly is celebrated, the elderly do not know that they are about to be euthanized. As a result, the death is not truly acknowledged and certainly not mourned. In contrast, in modern society, when someone dies it is a time of grief and sometimes people can never truly move on from the loss. The modern society counterpart to the Release ceremony, also, is a funeral, which is held after

Imagine living your life with no feelings, no choices, and no individuality; that is what it is like living in Jonas’ community. Visualize being only one of a few that knows what the world used to be like with joy, excitement, sadness, and fear; but you cannot change anything. All you can do is receive more memories of freedom, love, war, and happiness. Would that not haunt you? You can just watch the people of the community and know moat of humanity has been stropped of them like a band aid on a cut after it has healed, and only a scar is left; but the skin will never be the same.

Jonas discovers what is really beyond his community, beyond all the rules and policies they have to follow; he decides to leave and give all of his memories to the rest of the community so they would know about what they have not seen or experienced before. Jonas discovers that the community has decided too many things for everyone. He realizes Sameness is not right, that it cannot last any longer. He thinks of all the what-ifs. What if the Elders choose a wrong spouse? What if the Elders choose the wrong job for someone?

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

In my opinion, Jonas left the community because of the memories and the reality presented to him by The Giver. After realizing the truth, he wanted to alter the perspectives of the citizens in the community by releasing his memories, he believed that the way people lived without any knowledge of the world surrounding them was wrong, and wished to live a more meaningful life when he left.

Jonas has to learn more about death and pain than he already has. Death was something that wasn’t talked about in the community. The community “releases” members when they are old or if there is a set of twins or something wrong with a baby. Release is something celebrated within the community. Jonas had no idea that what release really means is to murder someone. He watches the release of a baby boy who was part of a set of twins born into the community. His father is the one performing this release because his father is a nurturer. This knowledge left Jonas devastated and in shock that his father could do something so terrible. He leaves the Giver’s and tells him that he can no longer continue receiving the memories. He takes a few days and collects himself. Fiona, his childhood friend talks him into to going back. Love is another emotion new to Jonas. He falls in love with Fiona. Falling in love is a big step that usually happens in adulthood. Another thing Jonas does that proves his progression in maturity is he decides to leave the community. When you grow up, you leave your mom and dad’s house which is how I connected this part of Jonas’ life with that of a real life

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.

Jonas died in Lois Lowry’s dystopian novel, The Giver. Jonas is dead because the text says “But he began to, suddenly to be happy. He began to recall happy times. He remembered his parents and his sister.” (223) Jonas was flooded with happiness and remembered his family as his eyes were shutting. He was losing consciousness as he sledded down the hill. He also misinterpreted the memory of Christmas wrong because his brain was becoming weak he saw different color lights. Jonas is dead because his life flashed before his eyes, he was losing consciousness, and he saw different color lights during Christmas than he did in the memory, Lowry here is trying to tell us that he is dead because he saw them different and he knows that they aren’t real.

The feelings Jonas has developed throughout the story has changed Jonas as a person, as a result Jonas develops feelings. One example of Jonas being feelingless is on page 131 in the small book, “... he couldn’t go back to the world of no feelings that he had lived in so long.” This quote show Jonas regrenting living in a world with no feelings and to remember a world with no feeling he has had to livid in a world with no feelings. This quote show Jonas living without feelings. A quote too show Jonas with feelings is on page 151 in the small book, “Jonas felt a ripping sensation inside himself, the feeling of terrible pain clawing its way forward too emerge in a cry.” I chose this quote because this quote show Jonas feeling pain.

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.

Even though, Jonas has a high honor in his community, it is a punishment because of all the pain he has to endure and also having to keep all the memories and his training to himself. During break time at school, all the students were talking about their first day of training, but Jonas stayed calm and listened to everyone "He was aware of his own admonition not to discuss his training" (Lowry 112). This shows that Jonas’s selection was a punishment because he could not be a normal kid and fit in with everybody else, making different. Also, after the Giver gave Jonas some painful memories he felt lonely because he was not allowed to talk about it and no one knew how he felt.

In the book The Giver Jonas has a really complicated relationships with his father. It all started when his father told him about release but lied about it. Jonas thought that the people getting released would go to a happy place, but actually his father kills them with a shot then dumps them in the garbage. The Giver showed Jonas a video about the truth of the release because his father told him a lie. Jonas was very displeased when he found out what his dad does at a release and could not get pass the thought that his dad was a liar. Jonas can trust the giver because the Giver has never lied to Jonas and his dad has. This related in Jonas to have trust issues with other people.

Jonas's first understanding of release was that he didn't really know what it was because he has never been to a releasing ceremony. He thought that someone from elsewhere would come and take the person somewhere else away from the community. That is what everybody in the community thinks because they don't understand the concept of death because they have never been introduced to death before. There have been instances in where death has occured but nobody knew what it meant. When jonas from the memorizes experienced the feeling was devastated.