The Giver - Original Writing

Jonas is essentially the only character to realize that choices are made for everyone. He is the only one in the community to realize not everything has to be

Jonas has lost his childhood, his friendship, and his carefree sense of security. His innocence seemed to be slipping away.

Jonas has to learn more about death and pain than he already has. Death was something that wasn’t talked about in the community. The community “releases” members when they are old or if there is a set of twins or something wrong with a baby. Release is something celebrated within the community. Jonas had no idea that what release really means is to murder someone. He watches the release of a baby boy who was part of a set of twins born into the community. His father is the one performing this release because his father is a nurturer. This knowledge left Jonas devastated and in shock that his father could do something so terrible. He leaves the Giver’s and tells him that he can no longer continue receiving the memories. He takes a few days and collects himself. Fiona, his childhood friend talks him into to going back. Love is another emotion new to Jonas. He falls in love with Fiona. Falling in love is a big step that usually happens in adulthood. Another thing Jonas does that proves his progression in maturity is he decides to leave the community. When you grow up, you leave your mom and dad’s house which is how I connected this part of Jonas’ life with that of a real life

Jonas experiences normal feelings during puberty. Feelings of loneliness, feeling unloved, and feelings of rebellion. Jonas is forced to grow up faster then the other children his age, because he experiences memories that the others do not. He starts to become an individual, and begins to see all that is wrong within the community. The revelation that Liberty has not been perfected means other flaws may exist in the community. Jonas is horrified that the community has been prevented from seeing beauty of Liberty.  The knowledge of pain has allowed Jonas and The Giver to form a bond of real friendship. Jonas's selfless choice shows his growing maturity.

The community, according to the Giver, went to the idea of sameness a while ago. It involved the lack of weather (no snow), and the entire community is in black and white. Jonas thinks that the idea of sameness is unfair. Thanks to the memory of the rainbow and him not taking the pill, Jonas can see colors unlike his friends. He says to the Giver that things should be different, but the Giver thinks the idea is good because there will be no conflict. Because of Sameness,....

Imagine a world with no feelings, no color, no choice; a world where individuality and freedom are exchanged for security and sameness. This type of world is a reality for Jonas, the protagonist in Lois Lowry’s The Giver. After being assigned the next Receiver of Memories in the community, where he has the capacity to see beyond. As he begins his works, he gains wisdom and through that wisdom, learned that protecting the community from the memories, their lives lacked understanding and feelings. Jonas goes on an archetypal hero’s journey and chooses to risk everything to restore memories and wisdom to everyone in the community. Throughout this novel, Jonas is represented as a hero considering he demonstrates integrity despite living in a

Jonas receives memories of color, something that is absent from his community. He realizes how absent his community really is. Jonas hurts inside to tell people in his community what they are missing. The only person that he can really open up to is The Giver. They grew really close, and it became like a grandfather, grandchild relationship.

The main character, Jonas gains more knowledge and wisdom of the world and the community around him, from the memories that the Giver gives him from the beginning and end of the book. When the Giver is explaining to Jonas the color red and the seeing beyond he says “When you receive the memories. You will have the capacity to see beyond. You’ll gain wisdom, then along with the colors. And lots more.” This concrete detail shows that the main character is starting to see the color red in different places. It also shows that Jonas is seeing beyond and will see all the colors in the near future. This sentence shows that the Giver already sees all the colors and has gained lots of wisdom from the memories generations back and back. It also shows that the memories will give understanding and intelligence to the receivers. In The Giver after when Jonas receives the memoryof hunger he asks “Why

The Giver is in many ways Jonas’s coming-of-age story. Jonas reaches maturity only when he is given memory, and through memory, experience. In this way, Jonas becomes more mature at twelve than the "adults" of his community. But The Giver also teaches Jonas the wisdom to recognize his own shortcomings. Jonas truly becomes an adult at the

Jonas lives with his parents and one sister. His parents were allowed to have only two children, a boy and a girl. It was one of the many community rules that couldn’t be broken.

Jonas accepting his society because he's unaware of emotions of the other people in his community. Jonas follows the rule of having the share your feelings everyday. Not telling

Jonas found out that the society was wrong and messed up and the relationships with people, around him and ended and drove him to go against society. (TS)During the story Jonas learned more about his society and it changed the relationships

Jonas goes through a lot while receiving the memories from The Giver. He first gets happy memories such as the sled, but then The Giver has to give him painful memories. He first receives the memory of physical pain from sunburn (Lowry 86). The pain is minimal compared to the memory of a broken leg (Lowry 109) and an injured arm during a war. During the war memory, he sees death (Lowry 119, 121). He experiences grief when he receives the memory the shot elephant (Lowry 100). Most haunting of all are the memories of the release of old and the part his father plays in the release of new born (Lowry 150). These trials at first horrify Jonas but he learns to deal with the

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

“’Memories are forever”’ (Lowry). People make new memories every day without even realizing it. Some good some bad, that’s just the way of life, but in The Giver nobody knows what happened before them. People barley remember what their childhood was like, they don’t understand the importance of memory and that memories are forever. Aspects of life, rules, and prosperities between our world and Jonas’ world are very different yet have some similarities. Things that are crucial to the characters in The Giver are not as meaningful to the people in our world.