Summary Of The Giver Chapter 1-5

In the book “ The Giver “ written by Lois Lowry, the chapters 6 - 11 were fascinating , I could see that Jonas were changing very rapidly, he was an innocent child that never lied to anyone, who shared his dreams every morning with his family, but when Jonas turned 12 things started to change in his JAUNTY live. Jonas had to take the rules very seriously in his job,because if he didn’t respect the rules he might lose his job. Some of the rules that Jonas had to respect was that he could lie to everyone in the entire community even the family members, Jonas actually never but he has the opportunity now.

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.

Imagine yourself in a world without feelings, colors, and basic things in our world. That is called sameness-- a word all too familiar to the people in a community. The Giver by Lois Lowry is the basis of this topic. The genre of The Giver is science fiction. The story is set in a place that has sameness. The community has receivers and the elders of the community pick jobs or assignments that the younger people of the community do for the rest of their lives. There is a twelve year old boy named Jonas that is trying to change his community back to a normal forever. Jonas is the real giver in the book because he gives to Gabe, the Reviver and his community.

In Chapter 13, The Giver transmits a painful memory of an elephant hunt to Jonas, during which an elephant is shot and killed for its tusks. Another elephant walks up to the dead elephant's mutilated body and seemingly comforts the elephant by stroking the dead animal with its trunk and then by covering the elephant with branches. Jonas has never before witnessed or experienced the raw emotional pain that is often felt as a result of the death of a loved one; Jonas has never experienced death.

In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, the biggest flaw in Jonas’s community is their awful idea of hiding the past from the citizens to create an unreasonable world with no disappointments. They almost never admit that a mistake had been made, and they wiped away memories of the past, like war.

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

In The Giver, Jonas’ world is turned upside down when he is chosen to be the next receiver of his community. The ceremony of twelves is the last ceremony of the day. Jonas waited anxiously for his name to be called; he never hears it. The chief elder has made a mistake. Jonas now has to learn that everything he has been taught was not always the same and it ages him years.

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

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.

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

People have trouble understanding the last chapter in The Giver. Readers are not sure if Jonas and Gabe made it back to the house safely or were just seeing things.

in the book the giver the author Lois lowry tells about a dystopian society and about a boy named jonas and his friends fiona and asher. in a dystopian society you can't do what you want and there are very many rules you have to follow. jonas lives with his MOMMY, DADDY, and his sister. even though that's not jonas's real family it's the family he was chosen to go live with.

Jonas is an eleven year old boy who lives in a community where everything is the same. Jonas has a flashback seeing a jet fly over the community, and everyone was frightened. The speaker comes on and tells everyone that a pilot in training was lost, and was to be released. Jonas says that being released was an “Overwhelming statement of failure.” Jonas' family has to tell their feelings every evening. His sister Lily talks about a visiting group of sevens’ who went to the school who had not obeyed the rules. She implied that they behaved like animals. Jonas’ father, who is a nurturer, tells them about a baby boy who doesn't seem to be growing and developing, as he should. He then states that the baby may be released. Lily wants to

But perhaps it was only an echo. Sitting there in the sled looking upon the people in his Christmas memory but this time it wasn’t a memory it was real life. His parents & grandparents were was standing there in the night holding candles singing carols of old. He got out and they hugged him as if they got back from a trip far away and finally returned. All the sudden the parents grabbed Gabe while the grandparents grabbed Joneses hand and they walked to their house that was just around the corner. At that moment neither Gabe or Jonas were cold or scared of these people. In fact they forgot they lived in the community. They felt as if those were their real family members. On the way to the house they asked where the two went and why they didn’t

Sara Smolinsky, protagonist in the novel Breaad Givers, is one of the most successful characters in the book. Although her father, Reb, is financially dependent on his four daughters, Sara is determined to become an otherwise independent woman, contrasting with her sisters, who follow in their father’s wishes of becoming a wife and/or mother. Analysis of the book reveals that, despite Reb Smolinsky’s oppressiveness and dependence on the rest of his family, Sara’s success can be attributed to her morals of independence, extreme determination, and her impoverished youth. Sara shows her morals of independence and determination while working towards he college degree, and her troubled childhood is explained in the beginnings of the novel. While Sara’s circumstances are extremely difficult, she proves that anything is possible if one is willing to work for it.