The Giver Change Analysis

During his training with the Giver, Jonas mentions his father was having a release for twins. The Giver shows Jonas the video of the release. Jonas realizes that his father just killed the child. The Giver and Jonas are start talking during the beginning of his training and the Giver says, ”My job is important and has enormous honor. But that does not mean I am perfect,”(73 However, Jonas doesn’t know how much pain he is going to experience during his training. As the Giver said he isn’t perfect, Jonas will think differently, and everything around him will feel abnormal about things, and will experience hate and hunger. Jonas will know things that no one else knows. Jonas realizes that his job is an enormous responsibility , but he will have to face a great deal to get through it all . Jonas had no idea of how much pain there could ever

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

This starts making Jonas wonder why his dad was going to release a newborn twin, Jonas realizes that release means they kill them. Then 2 days later his father said they were going to release Gabriel and now that Jonas knew what happens in a release he takes Gabriel and runs from the community. Many people have said that Jonas did the right decision and left so that people can have feelings for each other and not just kill cause that what they were taught to do.

Wouldn’t it be great to live somewhere where everything is perfect? Well that's what Jonas’s community in The Giver wants to be. Many people believe it is a utopia, but it is quite the opposite. The community is a dystopia because they slaughter all of the citizens, restrict knowledge, and constantly watch them through surveillance cameras.

Jonas wants to make things change in his community. He wants everyone to be able to choose what color they want to wear, want to do, who they have a family with, what they are allowed to get, and wants the release process to change. The most important thing that Jonas wants to change is that he wants everyone to have their own feelings. Jonas demands these changes to The Giver. Then they start working on a plan for Jonas to escape the community. Jonas leaving the community is the only way for the community to be free because as he leaves the community the memories will be returned to everyone so they have to deal with all feelings. Jonas’s plan is to have The Giver transmit memories of courage, and strength to him over the span of two weeks so he won’t give up. At midnight on the night before the Ceremony, Jonas will slip out of his house with an extra set of clothing, which he will hide by the riverbank next to his bicycle. The next day, the Giver will order a vehicle for a visit to another community, hide Jonas in the storage area, and give him a head start on his journey to Elsewhere. The Giver will tell the community that Jonas has been lost in the river, they will perform the Ceremony of Loss, and he will help them bear Jonas’s memories. Jonas then finds out that Gabriel is scheduled for release, so he decides to take him with him. After they set out Jonas is forced to use all his memories of warmth to keep them warm.

To begin with, Jonas lives in a world where everything seems to be perfect. Jonas’s community doesn’t get pain, suffering, or violence, but what they do have is no freedom, choice, or individuality; it’s called Sameness. The Giver gives Jonas memories of sadness, happiness, and love. As Jonas takes on the training, he soon wants to make the world better, and changes it back to the perfect place (to him), like it was in the past. In the book, The Giver the main character, Jonas influences me in many ways. They are being open minded, see what the world can become, being determined, seek the past as you seek the future, being courageous, proving a point, and taking something good and making it better. The community doesn’t get to feel any of

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

Throughout the book The GIver the main character Jonas goes from accepting his society to greatly hating his society because of the natural traits of a human. From the start of the book Jonas accepts his society how it is and he enjoys it there. In the middle of the book Jonas starts to realize what is happening in his society and starts to question them and starts to not enjoy it. Towards the end of the book, Jonas realizes what his society is doing and he starts to not like it and wants to leave, he starts to hate the society and doesn’t care for them.

Imagine wanting to learn something, but not being able to. Imagine wanting to share something, while being incapable of doing so. Imagine knowing the truth, while other people are dying to find it. In a world of complete equality, traits that create humans are removed in order to create a better society. Your feelings. Your thoughts. Your emotions. All this is gone for the so-called “greater good”. In both The Giver and “Examination Day,” the main characters differ from other citizens within their societies. However, being different is not always a good thing. Lois Lowry and Henry Slesar signify how a world of complete equality is a world without emotions because a world without emotions is a world without humans. Emotions are the main ingredient

In the beginning, Jonas was your average 12 year old tween who was sensitive, polite, and compassionate. When Jonas was selected from to be the New Receiver, he felt “alone and apart” (77) as he spotted his fellow Twelves who received more of a ‘normal job’. Jonas is a perfect example of a dynamic character; a character in a piece of literature who changes in the book. The protagonist of The Giver, Jonas, changes his perspective throughout the novel. At first, Jonas believed his community was almost perfect until he learned about the choices that he, himself could make instead of having someone superior to him make the choices. For instance, Jonas “wanted to wake up and decide things like choosing a red or blue tunic” (123). Jonas could not because it was all the same old colorless color. Jonas didn’t have the ability to make decisions for his tunics seemed to be

The Giver has a unique community where everyone is almost the same, and they do not get freedom of choice. The people in Jonas’ community do not get to experience things we have in our world, too.

Moreover, Jonas meets the Receiver whom he is to call the Giver now because the roles have changed. Jonas will receive all the memories of the past because they are to be kept secret from the community’s people. When Jonas received the images of war or starvation, he could feel the pain. During the trainings “The Giver led Jonas firmly, little by little into the deep and terrible suffering of the past” (Lowry, 1993, pg. 139). He also received beautiful memories of love and pleasure after to help with the bad memories. He is very

If I lived in Jonas’ community, I would feel angry, as Jonas did in chapter 13. He said that he was often angry with the people in his age group, for they did not feel an emotion and he did. I think that is the same way I would feel. I would be angry that I wouldn’t be able to explain emotions or feelings and I would be angry that they don’t understand. I would also feel lonely because nobody would understand how I would be feeling besides me. Along the feeling of difference between me and the society, I would miss having my own freedom. I would miss being able to create who you are as a person, by choosing your own job or by how you express your own feelings. In The Giver, Jonas felt this same way, as if he was separated from the rest of his

Imagine a world without any pain, any complexities, and everything that makes life bitter. But imagine that world where they sacrifice color, common holidays, freedom, music, and the true meaning of life to make life safe and easy. In The Giver, a book written by Lois Lowry, Jonas is the one person who stopped all of this and gave all those painful and amusing memories back to the people in the community by leaving the community. Jonas did the right thing due to the fact that the community needs to know all the memories that the Giver transferred to Jonas to deal with the meaning of life, since Gabriel was going to be released, Jonas saved his life, and after Jonas escaped, the community will know how much better and worse life can be.

The society in The Giver is essentially a dystopian society, in which the people live a life where they lack showing or having human emotions, communication, and are controlled by Sameness. In the beginning of the novel, Jonas seems like any other person in the Community, as he always makes sure to obediently