Essay on The Giver by Lois Lowry

E.E Cummings, a famous American poet from the mid-1900s, once said, “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” In The Giver by Lois Lowry, the main character Jonas makes the right decision by choosing to take Gabriel and running from the community. His courageous act helped Gabriel, benefited himself, and assisted the community. When Jonas makes his brave choice, he transitions from a child to an adult.

So he lied and pretended he took them. He also breaks the rules again through the book. Jonas passes on memories the Giver had passed him that were from love and warmth. Even though no one else had the right to see those memories, Jonas passed them on to Gabe. He passed them down because it was helping Gabe fall asleep and he also quite enjoyed helping Gabe. Especially as Gabe and Jonas’s Bond got closer. By doing so, this is one of his ,Jonas’s, first acts of rebellion. He also breaks the rules again through the book. Even though it is dangerous, Jonas does so anyway because he wants Gabe to be able go through the ceremony of ones. Lois Lowry herself writes, “....though he felt guilty...Each night he (Jonas) give Gabriel memories.”(Lowry, 128) Even though Jonas does not want to be caught, by the committee elder. Jonas acts unruly anyway because he feels he has to do it in order for Gabe to stop crying. This also shows how loyal Jonas is. Throughout the book, Jonas starts to have a character change/ In the beginning of the book starts as being naive. Through the book, he starts being more heroic, bold, and daring. Jonas used to be so naive until he became the receiver and gradually started to

Even though, Jonas has a high honor in his community, it is a punishment because of all the pain he has to endure and also having to keep all the memories and his training to himself. During break time at school, all the students were talking about their first day of training, but Jonas stayed calm and listened to everyone "He was aware of his own admonition not to discuss his training" (Lowry 112). This shows that Jonas’s selection was a punishment because he could not be a normal kid and fit in with everybody else, making different. Also, after the Giver gave Jonas some painful memories he felt lonely because he was not allowed to talk about it and no one knew how he felt.

To begin, He is rebellious. All the citizen must take medication of anti-dreaming. Jonas doesn't take it because he learns all the feeling from the memories and he wants to keep all the feeling with him. Furthermore, He is courageous. Once he knows everything about his community that his father kills the twin and going to release Gabriel. Jonas says that" No fear, nor any regret at leaving the community behind. But he felt a very deep sadness that he had left his closest friend behind"(Lowry 163). It indicates that he is going to escape to elsewhere. he knows that he will never come back to the community again and see his friends again. He decides to steal his father's bicycle, steal food from the community, leave his community in the middle of the night, and take Gabriel with him. Last, He is strong. On his way to elsewhere he suffers with problems for instance, running out of food and running out of energy because of travelling in a long distance. Also, the condition of climates. Snowing almost caused him to death finally he tries hard and makes it to elsewhere. Accordingly, in the end of the book. Jonas is courageous, rebellious, and

Like how you must take your daily medication once you leave the house”. The society doesn’t get a choice on what te should feel. Everyday as a routine the people before they leave their dwelling have to take this medicine which controls how they should act internally This quote shows that the people in the society don’t get a chance to be unique and act in the act in their own way but have to do whatever the government and the chief Elder tell them to do. This over shows 12 years old Jonas made the right decision to give the memories

Imagine being chosen a job for a lifetime, but this job had a lot of pain, and loneliness. Well that what it was like for Jonas. Which makes Jonas being selected to be the receiver of memory is more like a punishment than an honor. Jonas has to deal with the pain that comes from the memories. He is missing out on things others can do. Jonas knows things and he can't tell anyone about them.

In The Giver, the community decides to make everything the same. There are no differences. No color, no major or minor distinctions, and no feelings. The community believes that this leads to perfection. The people living there believe that the community is perfect. In the book, The Giver, the main character, Jonas, lives in this utopian society. Utopia means an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. In Jonas case, he lives in a place that everything is not just “perfect”, but well planned. Jonas is an eleven-year-old boy (known as an “Eleven” in the community) and is a very honest and obedient boy. Lois Lowry, the author of The Giver, changes Jonas’s character as the story advances. Jonas changes throughout The Giver and as a result, he tries to change the community.

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

At last, Jonas figures out how to esteem his better approach for seeing and decides to hazard everything to restore care and insight to everybody in the Community. The individuals in Jonas' Community impart their

Lois Lowry was born on March 20, 1937, in Honolulu, Hawaii. Lowry spent a fraction her school years in Japan she ended up graduating from a New York City high school. Then she spent two years at Brown University before dropping out. when she was 19, she married naval officer Donald Lowry.they had to move a lot because of donald's career as a naval officer. On the road they had four children. at a young age she lost her older sister Helen. She was also going through some personal changes in this time she and her husband got divorced. Years later Lowry published one of her best known novels, The Giver. The story takes the reader to an imaginary community where there's no war and poverty but everyone's lives are controlled. A young boy named Jonas

The Giver by Lois Lowry, shows us the importance of our emotions and freedom to our lives. The message is shown through Jonas’s journey and his perspectives. Jonas starts off as an obedient young boy that goes on to be a mature, wise young adult. He wonders whether war and pain are worth existing if it means love and joy can exist as well.

Choices and decisions help in tough situations, but a wrong decision can potentially limit opportunities in life. The Giver, by Lois Lowry, is centered around a twelve year old boy named Jonas, who is selected to receive memories about the whole world, color, and feelings, which are concepts that are so new to him. After he learns, he must decide to remain safe at home or to explore the outside world. This choice defines his whole life and his safety. Jonas realizes that so much information is being kept, information that nobody except him and the Giver knows.

In chapter 6 pages 52-53, There's a certain innocence and faith in Jonas's blind trust in the Elders to make the right decision for him. This is probably because he has no conception that things could ever be otherwise. So Jonas changed a lot from chapters 6 to 11, like his feelings and other things like in chapter 9 pages 42-43, It was the first moment when Jonas first lies; it is when his Mother and Father ask him if he understands why they don't use the word "love." Lying is tied to language in that to use language incorrectly is to lie. But Jonas is actually defending the integrity of language—of the word "love"—when he first lies to his parents;-;.

As in The Giver, Jonas leaves his world of Sameness to live a life that is full of love and also pain. He chooses this because his family lives the same life as everyone in his community, with no emotion and connectivity with anyone. Jonas makes this extremely difficult decision to pursue a life with love, passion, and pain. He is courageous enough to accept and experience the feelings his community has deemed unnecessary, and would agree with E.E. Cummings in that “It takes courage to grow up and become who you really

What if everyone was the same and being different was unacceptable. In The Giver by Lois Lowry Jonas lives in a community where emotion, color, and family, are eliminated from society, but when Jonas is “selected” for a job his life changes, and he becomes different. While the novel progresses Jonas learns three important moral lessons including, take risks to grow, being true to yourself take great courage, and knowledge is useless without memories.