The Giver Conflicts

This chapter is all about Jonas. He is the main character in the book “The Giver” and he is the one that dares to be adventurous. This chapter will help you become more aware of Jonas’s relationships, his feelings and his thoughts. So if you want to know more about this interesting character, I suggest you train your eyes on this chapter.

In the next piece, Jonas had to deal with the hardship of feeling love for the first time. When the elders made the decisions for the citizens of the community, they took away all feelings, even love. Even though the feelings had been taken away for almost everyone, Jonas had received the job of the receiver of memory [ a job where he receives the memories that have been taken away from the citizens], and after he felt love for a girl in his age group, Fiona. Jonas finally feels love for the first time: “[...] I am left with a vague wisp of that one [the memory]; and I have many other memories of families, and holidays, and happiness. Of love” (Lowry 125).After The Giver gives the memory of love, Jonas actually feels the emotions, and he knows what holidays are and what happiness feels like.

This contrast and contradiction moment may relate to the theme of love and pain, that there’s always a price to pay when you love someone. Another element of literature it may relate to is the conflict because The Giver may not want to hurt Jonas the same way

His mentor is known as the Giver, he possesses all of the memories of the past. While the Giver’s task is to pass on the memories it is up to Jonas to interpret how they intertwine with his society. Jonas must stop wondering why he has been chosen for such a position and figure out how to navigate the knowledge that is being given to him. Jonas lives in a society where each member of the society is required to act, speak and dress in an identical manner.

In the inception of the novel, Jonas is accustomed to the traditions of his family and all of the families in his society. Jonas, his parents, and his sister, Lily, convey their dreams to one another each morning. The sharing of community members’ dreams and additional customs are established by the Council of Elders. In addition, the community leaders hold information and memories from the members of the community: love, hate, war, and hunger. Thus, Jonas is a naive boy, who has no knowledge on the community's history or its present state.

Jonas eventually learns to accept these consequences and learns more of the brutal truth that the Giver has to

During the story Jonas grew as a person through bravery, love, and risks. The love that Jonas had made him braver and he took more risks. Now think, would would you actually want to live in this community where everything and everyone was the same every day. The lesson of this story was without memories, knowledge is

Jonas challenged his society by wanting everyone to know the truth about his society because, he watched his dad “release” one of the twins (which is actually killing them), he stops taking his pills so he could have feelings, and he left the society so all of the memories he received would return to the people so they could

79). His new job and training would prevent him from being able to discuss anything with others and it would cause pain. The community had many rules, from the way they dressed to how they can behave; however, Jonas would not be able to share anything with his two friends Asher and Fiona. He was very close to his friends and even shared his fears for Asher’s assignment because “Asher’s such fun. But he doesn’t really have any serious interest” (pg.21). The author made him seem like a caring and grounded person because he thought about others. His rules were more open in other areas, for instance he could lie, didn’t have to share his dreams, and he could not apply to be released (Lowry, 1993, pg. 86-87). Those new rules give more insight into the controlling nature of their life and environment because even their thoughts were to be disclosed.

Jonas turned around, listening to the bells ringing all around him. He woke up, as it was all just a dream. Everything from escaping-- his plans, gone. He struggled in the Giver's room to get up and was thinking all about how it could of gone down if it was somehow real. The Giver was awake reading a book. I said hello, and he turned around as if he was shocked to see me. "Are you okay? What happened, I heard you mumbling in your sleep". I told him about my crazy dream of running away from the civilization. He warned me not to, or else everyone would know I am a savage and that I left. "How are you feeling about your father? Are you ready to go home?", he asked me. I said "I guess"-- still feeling puzzled about that dream. Later, I arrived

Jonas begins “The Giver” feeling uneasy about the upcoming ceremony of twelve, where he will receive the assignment that determines his vocation for the rest of his working life. That night, at the nightly sharing of feelings, after his sister, father, and mother discuss their emotions, his parents comfort him about his worries. They remind him that his life will change after the ceremony, but they reassure him that the committee of elders has been watching him closely and will give him an appropriate assignment.

After given this information and another viewpoint of life he realizes that life is not everything that society believes it to be. This is where the idea of individuality beings to come into play. Jonas is given this different view on life that allows him to be different, think different, and interact with the world differently all while the others interacting within this community show no signs of emotion. Often times in today’s society people get caught up in the idea that there is a set way to live, and this novel is showing that this is not the case through this theme. Lois Lowry is attempting to show the reader that it is okay to be different than those surrounding you. Each and every individual is different no matter what society is attempting to depict to be ideal or

Jonas was special like the giver, he began to hear beyond a long time ago. Despite, that capacity first appeared in a different way. Jonas could see beyond and saw color for the first time in a apple; on the contrary, the giver heard music. He was a old man who had wife and a daughter he loved more than everything. Unfortunately, his daughter died in a way that made him feel the worst. As his father Rosemary was special but differing from Jonas she could not live with what she knew and applied for release. As a result, he felt it was his fault for giving to her a big weight and not realizing it was getting to the point of death. In general, he was like those grandparents that tell us stories and experiences. For this reason, they loved each other, they shared everything. Furthermore, they could only talk to each other what happened in that room. Summing up, the giver was a wise man who sacrificed himself for his society. More men like him are

Jonas’s feelings about the community change throughout the book by in the beginning he thought that one there was never any differences in their community. Secondly, he thought that his community was perfect nothing could make him think it was not, but he always knew something was strange. At the end Jonas knows how the community used to be

He felt no emotion, saw no color and heard no music. Jonas lived in a community of “sameness”. This community was a perfect place isolated from every other place in the world. No evidence of disease, hunger, poverty, war, or lasting pain exists in the community. Jonas' family, like all other families in the community, include a mother, father and two children. One male child and one female child. Jonas followed orders and did what was expected of him without questioning it just like everyone else in the community. Throughout the story he changes from an obedient little kid to a wise and independent young adult. Many incidents prompted his growth throughout the story but they are the chain reactions of one specific event, the ceremony of twelves.