The Giver By Lois Lowry: Chapter Summary

This novel is about a community where each person is the same. Everybody in this community go by certain rules and if they do not follow those rules they are punished. Everyone is to act the same in this book. Every person is assigned a job when they become a twelve and they are to work at the job until they go to the house of the old. This book is explained by Lois Lowry the author is explaining a whole different world than ours in this world he describes a person called the giver who is the receiver who hands off the job to Jonas one of the main characters who asks the receiver about all his memories and about what his job will be like. Jones had become the receiver. the giver gives him training and tells him what memories were like, the giver tells him why were like giver tells him why were like.

Set in a community with no climate, emotions, choices, or memories Lois Lowry tells the tale of Jonas in The Giver. Jonas is selected to be the receiver of memory, which means the memories of generations past, before the community was created, will all be transferred to him to hold. As Jonas receives memories his concept of the world around him drastically changes. Jonas starts out as twelve-year-old boy with perceptions different from those around him, he then begins to see the community for what it really is, and he makes a plan to change it.

Through life, people grow. They feel, learn from their mistakes, though In a boy named Jonas’ community, they do not. Without emotions such as happiness, sadness, fear, and no originality. In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, Jonas is chosen to become the next receiver of memory, he is required to take the burden of memories from his community. This helped him grow into a dynamic character throughout the novel.

The Giver teaches us that love is essential to life. Jonas and the Giver demonstrate again and again how important it is, even though it’s forbidden. The Giver demonstrates love when he declares, “‘I love you Jonas’ he said. ‘But I have another place to go. When my work here is done, I want to be with my daughter’”(202). The Giver is saying goodbye to Jonas, he is practically telling Jonas he is going to finish the things he needs to, then The Giver is going to ask to be released. He says he loves Jonas and you can tell Jonas loves him too. He loves his family even though they don’t know how to love or what love is. He also loves Gabe, Jonas saves him from being ‘released’. Jonas feels accepted, loved, and at home when the giver tells him he

The setting of The Giver takes place in a fictional community known as the “Sameness”. Life here is supposed to be "perfect" because there is no pain or suffering. They don’t have to take

“‘I couldn’t quite get the word for the whole feeling of it, the feeling that was so strong in the room.’ ‘Love,’ The Giver told him” (Page 125). This shows words of the wiser because The Giver explains that love is what completes the feeling of family, and how great it feels. In the life that they are living, Jonas’ parents can’t say if they love him. They are unable to understand what that word means because they are in such a black and white world, where everything is the same. This next example shows us how Jonas wants to let other people

The Giver Review The Giver is an interesting and powerful children’s book written by Lois Lowry, a famous award-winning author. The Giver is about a young boy named Janos who lives in a perfect world with no war, no fear, no pain and no choices. At the age of twelve, every person is assigned a special role in the Community. However, Jonas is “selected” as the Receiver of Memories, who inherits all the good or bad memories of the Community from the Giver. He has all the Memories of the Community.

Jonas is a kid when he received his assignment from the Elder, learns most of the truths he thought to be true were false. This is Jonas and his assignment is receiver of memories. He later learned so many trues that is community knows to be false that he gives all his memories away. He leaves his community to find a better life. The secrecy of the elders control and lying to the citizens about their assignments are seen in the Giver‘s job, what release really is, and their being a place beyond Jonas’ little community.

Through Jonas’ discovery of the hidden truth in The Giver by Lois Lowry, his character begins to change which develops an internal conflict where Jonas struggles with he is told to be true. Jonas seems more intelligent and perceptive than many of his peers, and he thinks more seriously than they do about life. Jonas also begins to think about his purpose in the society and the strict rules that prevent many aspects. Things about the community that used to be mildly perplexing or troubling are now intensely frustrating or depressing, and Jonas’s inherent concern for others and desire for justice makes him learn to make changes in the community. When Jonas was chosen as the receiver at the ceremony, his life had drastically changed as he earns great honor.

Jonas has an elaborate relationship with his Mom,Dad and his Sister(Lily). In the book The Giver Jonas likes his parents and has been with them for a long time, but when Jonas met the Giver he saw a different perspective of his parents and Lily. The reason Jonas has a new perspective of his parent is because , the Giver showed him how to have feelings and show love. When Jonas came home that day from training he asked his parents do you love me then his mom said Jonas better choice of word and then his dad explained why

The three main differences between Jonas’s society and reality are family, feelings, and memories. First, Families is one of the biggest things that can affect the rest of a person’s life.

Throughout the novel The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas makes many decisions that sometimes aid him and sometimes hinder him. The Giver is a novel about a 11 year old boy named Jonas in a community where everything has gone to Sameness, where there is no color and no differences. But at the Ceremony of Twelves where he is chosen for Receiver of Memories that all will change. Jonas’ experiences develop a theme over the course of The Giver by teaching the reader that all actions have consequences. Although some readers may believe that actions don’t always have consequences, Jonas’ experiences clearly show that all actions have consequences weather they are good or bad.

This is a utopia or a perfect society, where there are never any problems. The Giver by Lois Lowry tells the story of what goes on in Jonas's life. Jonas is an eleven year old boy about to be twelve. He has been given a special assignment or job. Jonas changes throughout The Giver and as a result, tries to change the community.

From that night forward, when he discovered that gabe could receive memories, Jonas starts giving him his thoughts to calm him down. He also discovers that the community changed the old way of life, and they became stricter. He also discovered that when they release they just kill the people. The higher people of the area lie by telling them that when they release people they put them elsewhere.

The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is the story of a twelve year old boy named Jonas growing up in a Utopian Society. The story is told in a limited omniscient point of view. It is not told by Jonas himself but through Jonas’s point of view. The narrator gives the reader a closer look into what Jonas is thinking and feeling. It is told through the point of view of Jonas but by someone else who knows Jonas’ thoughts and feelings, as he learns the truth about the world all around him.