The Giver Leave The Community

In the novel The Giver, the everyday life for the characters is like that.There are no colors instead everything is in gray, Nobody has emotions even the word "love" is considered an insult and as for choices, A group of people called the elders, make all the decisions for everyone.Soon Jonas discovers a darker side to his community. I think the question has many elements to it, that lets us further understand the novel and characters, I think Jonas made the right decision by leaving the community because it helped Jonas find a better life and it let the community experience feelings.

Throughout the novel Giver, Jonas was questioning his society and community. Jonas accepting his society because he's unaware of the emotions of the other people in his community. Jonas starts to question his community when Jonas starts to feel emotions from getting memories. Jonas became to reject his society because he finds out what his community actually is. In the beginning of the novel, Jonas accepts his society's rules but once he starts to feel the memories of the past Jonas questions, and if they purposely took that out for the rest of the community.

In my opinion, Jonas left the community because of the memories and the reality presented to him by The Giver. After realizing the truth, he wanted to alter the perspectives of the citizens in the community by releasing his memories, he believed that the way people lived without any knowledge of the world surrounding them was wrong, and wished to live a more meaningful life when he left.

He accepts the role and begins training with The Giver. As time goes by, and he has received numerous memories, he starts to realise how cruel his society is. (SIP-A) In one of his later memories, we see The Giver pass on the memory of a rainbow. Jonas starts to learn about colors and vibrance. (STEWE-1) Jonas is first given the memory of a rainbow. “Days went by, and weeks. Jonas learned, through the memories, the names of colors; and now he began to see them all, in his ordinary life (though he knew it was ordinary no longer, and would never be again)” (Lowry 97). He felt good about what he was seeing, for a good amount of time at the least. (STEWE-2) But, Jonas starts to change his mind, and wonder why people don’t have color. He realizes that people can make choices without having the government do it for them. “‘If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! A blue tunic, or a red one?’” (Lowry 97). Yes, Jonas does agree with The Giver after the fact that decisions can be dangerous. But, Jonas still likes the thought of decisions and colors. (SIP-B) The main reason Jonas decided to flee from his society, is the way that they handled releases. His father had been lying about the process for all of Jonas’s life. (STEWE-1) Jonas asks The Giver about release because of the release his father was doing that

Why would Jonas feel regretful about going out of the community? That is right, because people cannot venture out and “see beyond” of what is after the community. People cannot go look at what is outside of the community, and they cannot take adventures outside. The society is strict about leaving the

He and the Giver wanted the community to hold the memories and then there wouldn’t be sameness. So the Giver and Jonas make a plan for Jonas to escape the community, When Jonas escapes the memories given to him go to the community. The Giver would help the community get over it this time, but by the time there could be a new receiver the Giver would die and he would be with his daughter. To conclude this paper in the end of “The Giver” Jonas leaves the community.

In the book, The Giver, the people in Jonas's community can not make their own choices. Instead, the elders of the community make them for the people. They make the decisions like who you get married to, if you can get married, who will be in your family and your job. Having the elders make choice for the people in Jonas's community didn't always work

The setting in the Giver is this community where the people inside are not able to feel or to have a choice of their own. Could you ever imagine yourself living in a world where you couldn’t be able to feel and have a choice of your own? Well, I really couldn’t imagine myself in Jonas’s position. Jonas’s society is very different compared to our society. One thing which is different from our society than Jonas’s society is that we can have feelings.

The giver talks about how its hard to be a giver because you have no one to share the memories with but Jonas tries to cheer him up by reminding him that the giver has Jonas to share the memories with. "That is true. And having you here with me over the past year has made me realize that things must change. For years I have felt that they should, but it seemed so hopeless’” Says the giver (154-5). This shows that Jonas is not being selfish because the giver agrees and he even says he wanted to leave the community so there would be no sameness but he was not as determined as Jonas. If Jonas was doing it for a selfish reason then, why would the giver support Jonas and think about doing the same thing and not going through with it if it was a selfish idea. Jonas is being selfless by leaving the community because he leaves, for the community members and even the giver thought of the same idea before and he was strongly against sameness too; because he thought that people should have

Lois Lowry’s novel, The Giver, offers a thought provoking, well written story, because it changes the perspective of anyone who dares to read it to. Lowry places her novel, at some point in the future when mankind has gone away with changes and choices in life. She forces readers appreciate, or at least re-think the world they live in today. Her novel presents a fully human created environment where people have successfully blocked out conflict, grief, and individuality. Each person follows the same routine every day. Failure comply with standards, to be different, means death. Jonas, the main character, finds himself trapped in this world.

That feeling of love he had developed with Gabe, made him risk anything to save him experiencing death. By having Jonas escape his community with Gabriel, he will find Elsewhere to return the memories to the

While The Giver and Jonas were discussing their plan to escape to Elsewhere, The Giver mentioned that when Jonas would get Elsewhere, it meant the community would bear the memories that Jonas has, for themselves. Jonas knew he was

In The Giver, the people in the society have no connection with one another because they don’t know how to feel. The families are not chosen by them, but engineered by one of the creators. The “parents” do not love each other nor do they love their “children.” One day Jonas even goes home and asks his parents if they love him. They laugh at him and tell him how meaningless the word love is and how it should not be used (Lowry). The Giver shows Jonas what love is through the pain and emotions in the memories that he gives Jonas. He displayed it to Jonas with his favorite memory that he had which was the grandparents, parents, and children all gathered around the christmas tree with colored lights all around it. The family was gathered around the tree exchanging gifts and hugging each other with a feeling that was in the air. The giver described this as love to Jonas and he felt it many times from that point on. The giver and Jonas end up having a connection with each other and felt love towards each other, just like the giver felt love for his daughter Rosemary. Jonas felt love for the giver and for the baby Gabe. The love they all felt for each other is what drove to giver and Jonas to take the leap to make a change to the society so everyone could feel what they feel. The giver will transfer all the memories to Jonas including bravery and courage, and then Jonas will leave the community. By doing this, all the memories that Jonas has will be transferred to the whole community. The giver will stay back to help them be able to cope with their pain. Right before Jonas is planned to leave Jonas finds out they are planning to release Gabe. In an act of love, Jonas takes Gabe from the house and they flee together. Eventually, Jonas reaches a point where there is no civilization, Gabe and him are weak and exhausted, the planes stop searching for him, and he

Lois Lowry's novel, The Giver, is an amazing story about a boy, trying to figure out his place in society. Jonas, the main character, lives in a society with no weather, color, memories, or emotions. The rules are very strict, and there are lots of them. Jonas's community has the group of elders, run the community. They also have a supreme leader, the receiver.

It was a shame that he had to leave his family and friends, “... the place he had left, maybe heard music too.” (225). But Jonas leaving is the reason the book Son was created. In the book Son it is about another village that Jonas is ruling and Gabe’s mother from the original village tries to find Gabe. If Jonas stayed there could be another book about life after what happened and everyone had the memories Jonas received and see that The Council was lying to them and there was so much more they could do to have fun and that sameness wasn’t