The Receiver Of Memory In The Giver By Lois Lowry

In the first few paragraphs, Jonas appears to be nervous as his father talks about how his ceremony of twelve felt like and how it went. In the movie “The Giver”, Jonas is nervous and anxious. He states in the movie that he feels like no position is meant for him, that he sees stuff other people don’t. His parents comfort him by saying that whatever assignment he gets it will be the right

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 saw his father kill a little baby and realizing that when people are released, it means that they are killed. This is important because the only people that can understand death are Jonas and The Giver. One day, The Giver showed Jonas a memory of love. “He felt such love for Asher and for Fiona. But they could not feel it back without the memories.

Jonas, the main character of The Giver, becomes different by being an intellectual (pg. 127). He knows more than most and therefore feels

Nevertheless, the community featured in The Giver does not allow its citizens to feel love. The community sacrificed the feeling of love to spare its citizens the pain and warfare that comes along with it. Although this may seem like a good idea, the feeling of love is one that should not be taken away because it further isolates the only people in the community that can feel it. As conveyed in the novel, “Jonas trudged to the bench beside the Storehouse and sat down, overwhelmed with feelings of loss… He had felt such love for Asher and for Fiona. But they could not feel it back” (Lowry 135). Jonas feels alone because only he can feel love for the people in his life, but they will never feel that same love for him in response. Another event that further intensifies Jonas’s feeling of loss and confusion is when he asks his parents if they loved him, and they blatantly say that love is a meaningless word (Lowry 127). This deeply hurts Jonas because he knows what the feeling of love truly is and he does not believe that it is useless, as his parents do. Knowing that his parents do not “love” him as he loves them, Jonas is further isolated and misunderstood. These negative emotions that Jonas is feeling are not emotions that a citizen of a utopia should be feeling, considering that a utopia should be a happy place without any negative feeling. In addition, love is a feeling that is valued by the Giver, as the Giver’s

“‘I couldn’t quite get the word for the whole feeling of it, the feeling that was so strong in the room.’ ‘Love,’ The Giver told him” (Page 125). This shows words of the wiser because The Giver explains that love is what completes the feeling of family, and how great it feels. In the life that they are living, Jonas’ parents can’t say if they love him. They are unable to understand what that word means because they are in such a black and white world, where everything is the same. This next example shows us how Jonas wants to let other people

However, in the novel, the Giver represents all aspects of the human condition. The Giver is genuine saying he had never shared memories before. He was slow to expose Jonas to the memories and wanted to show him something thoughtful and innocent before the hard truths. He knew the burden that he was demanding of this 12-year boy, and was understanding that this journey was not a simple one. The Giver gave Jonas a memory of a sled, it was something fun, and something

This shows that no one is truly delightful because they don’t know what feelings are and they don't feel the feeling because they don’t know what the feeling is.This is true because in the text it says,”Precision of language, please (p 127 Lowry).” This shows that people in The Giver don’t know certain words so they might not know what feelings mean so they can’t be horrible, delightful or anything and they can’t feel feelings. This also shows that people use great grammar but they don’t have a big vocabulary so they use the words they can use for talking. Moreover, his father doesn’t know what he has done and Jonas is getting very angry over it and his feelings are getting raged because of his dad. Because in the text it says,” He killed it! My father killed it!” (Lowry p. 150). This shows people have used equality wrongly so horrible things happen just like this and they don’t know what they've done. This is a problem because Jonas now might not forgive/ like his father because he is furious about what his father did because he did something wrong and he thinks he did nothing wrong. This shows that people who know the truth feel horrible about the people who are released. In conclusion, equality is greatly misunderstood in The Giver, and lots of things turn out horrible and they are not truly delightful because they

Jonas has a very good relationship with the Giver and loves him very much. Jonas has a very good relationship with the Giver because he does not lie to him and they can share their feelings with one another. When Jonas learns that he can share feelings with the Giver he learns that other people can not do what he can. The citizens in the community do not know what feelings are and how to love someone as Jonas and the Giver do. So this related to the Giver and Jonas to have such a depth relationship because they can talk to each other and not lie, they can trust each other. Also they know how to be truthful to each other and love each

In the book, The Giver, the author describes a young man, Jonas, struggling with his feelings. He quickly realizes he has one thing no one else in his community has: the feeling of emotions. As Jonas went to the ceremony of the twelves, he was assigned to the receiver of memory. During training, the Giver shares memories with Jonas. In training, Jonas experiences many things: love, music, color, and the sun.

There are similarities and differences in the book and movie The Giver. In the book and the movie, the word LOVE was inappropriate because it was like describing something a lot because-because with love you can suffer and the elder don’t want that to happen. Also, Jonas felt pain and one of the memories they were fighting and killing each other and Jonas didn’t want that to happen because he didn’t think that was right. So then in both the story and movie, Jonas got away to Seeing Beyond. When Jonas got there “Seeing Beyond” in both he saw the light in the houses and also he heard the music and the families having a great time together.

The giver actually helped Jonas a lot because through the memories that the giver gives to Jonas he gets courage and strength. “‘You have the colors’ The Giver told him.’And you have the courage.I will help you have the

Jonas’s father said.”. Jonas’s father had never felt love just like the community therefore could never love anyone. If jonas’s father didn't know what love was Jonas wouldn't really feel as attached to Jonas as he could be if he had the memory of love. ”You can understand then, that’s what I felt for Rosemary, I loved her.”. The Giver had the memory of love and had true love for Rosemary.

The Giver shows us that love is an essential part to this world. The Giver shows Jonas the memory of pain and suffering and reacted in a way that made him upset, expressing love to Jonas as well as regret. Jonas was “no longer enjoying the freedom but instead, terrified…”(137). The Giver knows what Jonas is experiencing and regrets it although it is what he is told to do. The Giver took a liking to Jonas but couldn’t bare to watch him in pain. Jonas sacrificed his own comfort so the Giver could be relieved of these memories for himself. These same memories were given to the Giver because it was his job. The Giver of each generation feels love toward the new Receiver because the Giver knows what pain is like. Love is essential in this moment, especially for Jonas, because he needs a person to help him to start a new, more utopian society. People show love by sacrificing themselves for

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