The Giver's Description

Jonas’s experience in The Giver molds him into the classic archetypal hero. The journey includes both positive and negative experiences from his call to duty, training, departure, and the return home. Through these experiences, Jonas grows into an archetypal hero.

Jonas is the protagonist of the novel and a third-person narrator tells the entire story from Jonas perception of things. He is intelligent, curious, caring, and his thought process is very mature for being 11-13 years old. A good quote portraying both his matureness and his intellect is “If everything's the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things”(97). This is also one of the first signs that he is displeased with the community. Another quote showing his courage and curiosity is "It hurt a lot," Jonas said, "but I'm glad you gave it to me. It was interesting. And now I understand better. What it meant, that there would be

     This book is about a boy names Jonas. Jonas lives in a futuristic society where there is no pain, fear, war, and hatred. There is also no prejudice, since everyone looks and acts basically the same, there is very little competition. They have also eliminated choice.

Jonas is very mature at the beginning of the novel. For example, he volunteers at many places, plays games, goes to school every day, shares his dreams and feelings, and most importantly follows the rules.

This is something that Jonas has never felt before, that is until he becomes receiver of memory. The giver transmits to him the memory of love. “ The Giver hugged him. “I love you, Jonas.” he said. The giver loved Jonas just like he loved his daughter, Rosemary. Jonas feels love for Gabriel, a newborn that is living in his dwelling temporarily. This love makes Jonas want to leave the community in order to keep Gabriel safe. Jonas feels that love is so important to human life, he leaves the community so that the memory and feeling of love may

Jonas wanted to live a different life. In his journey, Jonas travels with Gabriel, the child that was being nurtured by his family. He needed to saved him from being “released”. Together they faced danger and fear but it was just the beginning of a new life in the land of Elsewhere.

Jonas starts out with a very low understanding of what it means to be mature. He has no knowledge of pain, love, or any other emotion. He proves this by acting like a normal child. He plays with his friends after volunteer hours. He attends school on a regular basis. Jonas is a stickler for the rules. He has been told that it is wrong to not follow rules and that there

Lord, Elyse. "Overview of The Giver." Novels for Students. Detroit: Gale, 1998. Literature Resource Center. Web. 27 Mar. 2016. Elyse Lord is one of the many critics who describe “The Giver” as terrifying but offering “hope and a constructive view” of the Utopian world in the book. She explains that other critics praise the book with many awards such as the Newberry Medal. Lord goes on to reason that the story is favored by different readers for its complexity, symbolism, metaphors, ambiguous ending, and can be compared similarly to classic science fiction like “Brave New World” and “Fahrenheit 451.” Contradicting this statement, Lord says that ‘librarians’, ‘educators’, and ‘students’ debate “The Giver” to be censored from public schools around the world because of its graphic scenes and ideas of infanticide and euthanasia. This includes the time Jonas witnessed his father murder a baby and throw it down a trash chute in cold blood. This is ironical compared to the language, emotion, and behaviors being censored in Jonas’s ‘Utopian’ society. Lord argues this through Anna Cerbasi of Port Saint Lucie, Florida, who asked the school board to remove a book that was about a family murdering their child for crying at night and called the book inappropriate for the sixth grade. Lord raises the question of who is to “decide which books are appropriate for which children,” and argues that it cannot be answered with not one but the many books integrated in school curricula that compose

You are about to experience a brief compare and contrast paper between reality and a fantasy. In which our world is no long a mass chaos but everyone is equal to each other. I am going to compare the book to the movie. Many things are different and most are the same, but i'm going to point of the differences today between the movie and the book.

Throughout the book Jonas discovers his true identity. I will show how throughout the book Jonas’s true identity develops. And makes Jonas who he

The next day, Jonas's father tells the family that Gabe, a newborn living with them, is scheduled for release. This is the last force that brings about change in Jonas's

Jonas makes a journey and breaks the barrier letting all those components back into the society. Jonas goes through a long, dangerous journey to make a better tomorrow for his society. By choosing to save his community, Jonas jeopardized his life because if the Elders caught him he would have been released, which means prosecuted. In his community there is no love and passion. After the Giver gives Jonas the memory of love he is confused about why his community does not have it.

In The Giver a boy named Jonas finally got chosen by the Elder/The Giver. Jonas has to work with the Giver and find out what the people be doing by following the Elder rules. The Elder controls the people so she can make a better world. He cares the community and his parents and the giver and the people because how she treats them is not right.

Over time he learns to value memories and that they should be cherished instead of forgotten. As his successor, Jonas is shown by the Giver new ways of thinking and feeling, but ultimately, Jonas makes the choice to make his life his own, an option only he has been

After Jonas watched his father ‘releasing’ a newborn child, he decided with the Giver to escape this community that are all the same and find his way to elsewhere and get beyond. Jonas does this because he wants the memories to go back to the people and allow them to choose their own life. The Giver said to Jonas: “If you get away, if you get beyond, if you get to elsewhere, it will mean that the community has to bear the burden themselves…… ” Jonas replied: “I think that they can, and that they will acquire some wisdom…… ” From this we can see that Jonas wanted everyone to have their own life and learn to bear the pain and frustrations. This proves that Jonas is an important character in The Giver by showing us that we should let everybody take the pain and all the other bad feelings together, not put it all on one's person.