Should The Giver Die

Jonas feels the warmth of the sun, the joy of sledding, and love of a family. He also begins to see color and soon the color transfers over from the memories to his everyday vision. Jonas, already a curious boy, wonders why the elders would want to take away such wonderful experiences. He thinks everybody should experience these extraordinary emotions and senses. Jonas’ passion soon overwhelms his actions. He tries to allow the people close to him to see and feel what he does. He asks his parents if they love him but they say love is a meaningless word, that instead they enjoy him. Jonas also tries to discuss things with his friends, only they do not understand the things he says. Jonas does find someone to share his memories with though, Gabriel. He helps Gabriel sleep by transmitting peaceful memories to him.

He looked around some What happened to my parents and lily. He wondered what happened to them. Did they miss Jonas? Did they truly care about Jonas?

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.

Throughout the novel Giver, Jonas was questioning his society and community. Jonas accepting his society because he's unaware of the emotions of the other people in his community. Jonas starts to question his community when Jonas starts to feel emotions from getting memories. Jonas became to reject his society because he finds out what his community actually is. In the beginning of the novel, Jonas accepts his society's rules but once he starts to feel the memories of the past Jonas questions, and if they purposely took that out for the rest of the community.

There are many ways that a right choice and a wrong choice are determined in today’s society and how they were determined in the giver. In society, leaders often ask for the opinion of the citizens. They go through the process of voting or asking a random sample of citizens or people on what they think about the choice. In The Giver, they do not ask the community about what they would like or if it is a good idea. They go ahead and ask The Giver for advice and based on what he advises they listen and agree. For example in The Giver, they seek advice from the Giver about adding an additional child to each family unit. When the Giver advises against all they do is agree on it. In conclusion, now you can see how the choice of right and wrong is

Can you imagine a life without color, feelings or choices? Would anyone be able to live happily under these circumstances? In the novel The Giver, the everyday life for the characters is like that.There are no colors instead everything is in gray, Nobody has emotions even the word "love" is considered an

At the beginning of “The Giver”, the reader is to believe that the community Jonas lives in is a utopia. It’s later revealed that this is quite the opposite of what it really is. A dystopia. Along with Jonas, the reader finds out how in Jonas’s community they they give the elderly and newborns lethal injections, constrict feelings, and prevent any form of decision making. When Jonas discovers these things through memories, he is distraught, and he has the right to be. He wants to show everyone what has been taken away from them, and what they are being lied to about. This is why I believe it was completely justified for Jonas to leave the community.

The echo continued to ring in Jonas’s ear, a sound of hope. It seemed unimaginable in the vast empty landscape that stood before him.

“Gabe we made it!” Jonas cried. A man comes out of his house rushing to save the starving children and offers them food and shelter they kindly accept. Jonas and the man have small talk for a few minutes,

The book The Giver is a neat book. We all know some of us cry when reading or watching The Giver. The Giver takes place in a little society with so many rules. I mean who goes and killed babies and old people (evil). The Giver utopia or dystopia? In my opinion I think the giver is a dystopia because you will have no choices, you will go through pain and if you become a nurturer you will kill babies.

Can the society in The Giver be considered an utopia or dystopia? Lois Lowry, the author of The Giver got her idea in 1992 when she went to go visit her father. She then discovered that her father was losing his memory, but her mother wasn’t. This then made Lowry questions if live would be easier if all the painful memories disappeared. Is The Giver's community an Utopia or Dystopia? The Giver’s community is a dystopia because there is limited freedom, people of the community are oblivious to what is happening around them, and the Committee of Elders are abusing their power.

"All knowledge hurts." — Cassandra Clare (City of Bones, The Mortal Instruments, #1) Knowledge may hurt, if the truth is discovered, but the knowledge and truth can give wisdom among other traits, but in the novel, The Giver wisdom gives honor. Knowledge can also change the way one may feel towards something. The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is a novel which portrays the notion that knowledge can change someone's opinion. Knowledge may change your likes, dislikes, and fears.

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

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.

“Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo” As Jonas look at Gabe he realized that he and Gabe had finally made it. Jonas then glanced up from Gabe's