The Tragedy Of Jonas. Priestley 's ' The Night Of Dinner With His Family '

At the first impression of Jonas one would decide that he is not a trustable character. In the story, each night every family is required to tell their feelings and what happened throughout their day to make them feel this way. The book states “Who wants to be the first tonight, for feelings? Jonas’s father asked, at the conclusion of their evening meal” (Lowry,5). Asking if Jonas could be trusted is automatically a no, for each day he explains his feelings and why he felt that way. If he did not then he would be lying, which is breaking the rules of his town. If one was to tell Jonas something special, the odds of him telling his parents are very high due to the fact they discuss every night. Jonas being a kid that sticks to the rules, will

Jonas was going through a troubled time in the beginning

As Jonas starts to get the memories, he sees all of the imperfections from his town and all the things his community tried to hide away such as, release, love, color, etc. He thought he should bring back the things that got pushed aside, but he had a lot of speed bumps. He had trouble looking at his dad and mother in the

In the inception of the novel, Jonas is accustomed to the traditions of his family and all of the families in his society. Jonas, his parents, and his sister, Lily, convey their dreams to one another each morning. The sharing of community members’ dreams and additional customs are established by the Council of Elders. In addition, the community leaders hold information and memories from the members of the community: love, hate, war, and hunger. Thus, Jonas is a naive boy, who has no knowledge on the community's history or its present state.

Lea Vilna-Santos Mrs. English, 7th September 1st, 2015 The Giver, by: Lois Lowry Entry Log 8: Chapters 15-16: Questions 6 and 7: In Chapters 15-16, Jonas shows signs of change and of coming of age when the Giver shows him a memory of love and family, but when he asks his parents if they love him they give Jonas a brief lesson on Precision of Language. Jonas starts showing that he wants to change their community. It all started when the Giver transmitted his favorite memory that Jonas loves.

“Jonas said No, I couldn't find a dwelling to live in but I only found you”.

Jonas' Father: Jonas' father is a man is a nurturer, who takes care of the babies

Jonas is an eleven at the time that the book starts. He has a younger sister named Lily. In this book, they live in a small community of a utopia. Each December, each and every member of the community turns one year older. When a member of a community turns 12, they get assigned to a position that benefits the community. Jonas had been assigned Receiver of Memory. This position is meant to keep all of the memories of the communities and transfer them to the next receiver. The previous receiver transferred the memories to Jonas. These memories were horrible.

During his training he is brought back in time to the past and he has to experience all bad things from their history. He realizes that there is so much to live that is being stolen from everyone in the community and he wants to stop it. Jonas escapes

The private talk with Jonas's parents helped him feel less apprehensive. Because it helped him feel calm. At first Jonas was nervous and excited at the same time. as Jonas tells his feelings he starts to feel less apprehensive.

Jonas’s father was acting kind before he released the twins. Some evidence of this is when he helped lily when she was angry at the children from the other group. Lily was angry at the other children because they did not follow the rules. Lily talked with her mother and father about the other children. Jonas’s father helped Lily realize that the other children were probably scared, and did not understand the rules of the playground. A second instance when Jonas’s father was a good person is when he cared about Gabe. On page 12, Jonas’s father said “It was right there in the office, and I looked up number thirty-six — that’s the little guy I’ve been concerned about—because it occurred to me that it might enhance his nurturing if I could

Jonas father works at the Nurturing center while his mother works in the ministry of Justice, his only sibling is a seven years old Lily. Jonas is nervous at the start of the story because he is not sure what he will become

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

When unexpectedly he learns that the government plans to kill his baby brother (because of the babies’ failure to thrive) in a storm he steals the baby away from the daycare only a day before the baby was scheduled to be released. And he sets out on his amazing, and epic journey. Slowly yet surely he makes his way through forest, desert, and snowy mountains. Yet halfway through his travels he realizes he is going to run out of food. As a true Samaritan he cuts his food intake down to only the bare minimum, so that the baby may be able to eat and survive. As time goes by Jonas has stopped eating at all and is giving everything to his brother. As he unknowingly ascends the final mountain his body begins to fail. As he arrives at the summit, he looks down and with everything he has left, he takes one step. A step full of agony, and despair and as he completes his step he fumbles and collapses. Falling down the mountain he desperately tries to protect his brother… Hours later he wakes at the bottom of the mountain, with his brother six feet away from him. Full of adrenaline he runs to his brother, picks him up and looks

Jonas changes from a completely acquiescent kid to a wise, and mature young man throughout the book. At the start of the book he's simply a standard eleven in his community. Jonas solely will do what he's told and does not question things, however he's terribly introverted and thoughtful. Throughout the Ceremony Of Twelve the Chief Elder describes Jonas. He's has integrity, is intelligent, has courage, wisdom and obedience. Once he receives his rules he is aware that he's totally different from his classmates. His rules are short and embrace weird ones just like the ability