The Giver By Lois Lowry

protagonists and antagonists, the plot structure and events of the story and the way he

In this novel, foreshadowing is a crucial literary element that Lois Lowry uses to give the reader hints about what is going to happen later on in the book. Foreshadowing gives the reader an idea of the main character's personality, introduces the conflicts that are yet to happen, and discreetly proposes the main theme: the importance of being an individual. Lois Lowry even chose to begin her book with foreshadowing by saying, "It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to feel frightened." (Lowry 6). For example, at the beginning of the book, Lowry introduces the one thing that makes Jonas physically different than the rest of the population in the community: his eyes. Jonas has pale looking eyes, just like the Giver. This is a way of telling the reader that he is special, and will have significant role in changing the community. Another example of this element in the book is the “seeing beyond” that Jonas starts to experience. This example foreshadows the internal changes that are going occur to Jonas later on in the story. “The apple had changed. Just for an instant. It had changed…” (Lowry, 51). Through these examples, foreshadowing easily gives the reader a better understanding of how important it is to have a unique personality.

1. Jonas is an upstander because he makes the decision to save Gabe's life and flee with him. Jonas risks his life to move to a new society where there are things like color hills and snow. He figures out that Gabe is going to be released in other ways get killed and decides to protect Gabe and give him a better future. Jonas realizes what release means after he watches his father release one of the twins on a screen with The Giver. He decides not to go home and stay and sleeps over with The Giver, upset at his father for what he did. On the journey, Jonas has to transfer memories of heat to Gabe and trying to hide from planes that pass by. At first, it is easy because he has tons of memory but as the journey goes on Jonas continues to risk his life trying to grasp those memories of warmth.

One day, it was time for Jonas to get a job. He was really nervous. His friends went with him and they sat together. When it was Jonas’ number they skipped him. He was getting so nervous that he thought he was not going to get a job. When Jonas’ name got called to be Receiver. He was going to work with an old man. When they met Jonas loved this man, he could show Jonas fun things that kids do, like us! The old man could also show Jonas pain. Jonas wanted to be different from the other people in his town. It couldn’t be that way.if you were different you were released, if there were twins then the one that weighed the most got cleaned and got a new home.if you were the one that weighed the least then you were released.

Point of View: The point of view in the story is third person. It is third person because none of the characters were telling the story. The author was the one telling in the story. There was no I, me, us, you and we included in telling the story.

Lowry, herself even says “she didn't think of “The Giver” as futuristic or dystopian or science fiction or fantasy, it was just a story about a kid making sense of a complicated world” (Ulaby). In his own way, Jonas served as his own protagonist as his mind attacks him with questions and uncertainty. Community elders also pose as a sort of enemy, keeping people away from the truth. Moreover, Lowry also included other characters to contrast Jonas. Firstly, his friends, Asher and Fiona show up as foils. When Jonas learns the reality of release and war, he looks at his friend in horror. Even the Giver reinstates “Fiona is already being trained in the fine art of release” (153). Giver tries to comfort Jonas by saying “listen to me Jonas they can’t help it. they know nothing... it’s the life that was created form them, it’s the same life that you would have, if you had not been chosen as my successor” (153). This shows how Jonas remains set apart because he was selected as the successor. Rosemary, the previous “Receiver of Memory” shows up as another foil. Although Jonas never met her, everyone, even the elders, compare him to Rosemary. They hope they did the make the same mistake again and watch him closely. All of Lowry’s characters are created to support Jonas’ role in the

With no memory or knowledge of pain or true pleasure they live in melancholy monotony. This theory is supported by a quote from chapter four, when Jonas is in the House of the Old’s bathing room; “He liked the feeling of safety here in this warm and quiet room; he liked the expression on the woman’s face… unprotected, exposed” (Lowry, 39). This quote shows how the citizens of Jonas’ community are blissfully ignorant, versus Jonas, who has memory of all the suffering that came before him. This is also sharpened by something the Chief Elder says at the Ceremony of Twelve, “You will be faced now with a pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend, because it is beyond our experience” (Lowry, 79). This sustains the thesis because it restates how unaware the community is.

Jonas, the main character of The Giver, is perceptive from the beginning, which separates him from the others of the community. For this reason, Jonas is assigned to be the Receiver. His perception of the world around him only grows with his new assignment. As the Giver, the man who apprentices Jonas, transmits memories to Jonas he learns of all that is missing from his society; color, emotion, and most of all, choice. Jonas expresses his frustration when he says, “‘If everything's the same, then there aren't any

After reading The Giver you can get to know the characters in a certain perspective. Subsequently thinking I choose Jonas to write about, he is the most unique character. To begin, his pale eyes set him apart from everyone else. Jonas was unlike anyone else in the community except the Giver and Gabe. Jonas was eleven and then he became twelve in the beginning. Jonas was very adventurous and he had many adventures throughout the book. The biggest thing that changed everything was Jonas and Asher was throwing the apple. Jonas saw different colors and Asher didn’t because they could only see black and white. Another enormous action was when Jonas was called up to be the new giver. He didn’t expect to get such a rewarding job. While he saw the

This is relevant in terms of the underlying theme of the importance of individuality. Because Jonas has wisdom he does not conform to society’s norm. Jonas endeavors to make concrete choices that will benefit him and the people around

As jonas was growing he would understand that there was something happening within the city . Well the kids went to school the elders in the community would evaluate the children throughout the school years to figure out where they were gonna be put into society. Once you reached the age of twelve you were given a job that you had to work for the rest of your life until there was an opening for another job. Then you had to talk to the elders because it was up to them If you are able to change their work life. If they were pleased with your choice you’d remain in the same position.

“You have to dream before your dreams can come true.” A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the 11th president of India whose nicknamed,“The missile man” because of his contributions to space and military research , grew up as a poor boy and eventually became the president of India. He followed his dreams that he had set for himself. In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, Jonas, the main character, lives in a society where everything is the same and kids are assigned their job at the age of twelve.

The Giver is about a boy named Jonas who lives in a Utopian style town where the towns have a set job for the rest of there life and there futrue is planned and people do not have any emotion except the Giver and the receiver who is Jonas. The Giver slowly gives Jonas emotion over time and it changes the way Jonas views his community so Jonas decides that the rest of the town needs to have emotion and freedom of choice as well so the Giver and Jonas devise a plan to rebel aginst the restrictions in his town and give the rest of the towns people emotion and freedom of choice. In order for Jonas and the Givers plan to work Jonas must leave the community on his bicycle and he decides to take his little brother Gabriel with him on his

The protagonist is the main character of the story or the 'hero'. The protagonist makes the important choices and experience's the consequences of these choices. Jonas is the protagonist of The Giver. Jonas has light eyes, which are very rare in the community (pg26). He has dark hair which is cut short like the rest of the males. The giver is told in third person limited, since the story doesn’t use the pronoun I, it is in third person, but the narrator only knows Jonas's thoughts, thus,

Jonas is a 11 year old who turns into a 12 year old at the start of the book. He is contemplative and careful. Jonas lives in a community where memory does not exist. The Chief Elder, the leader of the community gives everyone tasks to do. Everyone in the community has an assigned job. Every so often everyone in this community gets their memory erased. In this community everything is perfect and scheduled. People are not allowed to lie and they are watched over by the government, also