The Transformation Of Jonas In The Giver By Lois Lowry

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

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

In the novel “The Giver,” written by Lois Lowry, Jonas is a boy who follows the rules, spends time with friends and family, goes to school, and at the Twelves Ceremony is given the job as the Receiver of Memory. At the end of the novel, Jonas learns information that makes him leave the community to save the people he loves. As Jonas becomes older, he acknowledges that he is different from his family and the people surrounded by him. Once Jonas got his assignment as the Receiver of Memory, his maturity became inconsistent throughout the novel.

Jonas discovers what is really beyond his community, beyond all the rules and policies they have to follow; he decides to leave and give all of his memories to the rest of the community so they would know about what they have not seen or experienced before. Jonas discovers that the community has decided too many things for everyone. He realizes Sameness is not right, that it cannot last any longer. He thinks of all the what-ifs. What if the Elders choose a wrong spouse? What if the Elders choose the wrong job for someone?

Imagine having everything you wished for. You would live in a perfect world. But every world has imperfections and you come across to realizing...a perfect world doesn’t exist. Within time, you come from an illusion to reality. You choose your journey and it starts here. The community is a separate environment from the world and has many rules to live by. The rules can vary to be severe consequences. It includes sameness, no memories, and family unit regulations. The kids end their childhood at the age of 12 by receiving their life assignment. The main character, Jonas is chosen to be the receiver of memory. He is reliable to hold everyone's feelings, hopes, and devotions. In The Giver the author Lois Lowry uses the theme of change to reveal that growing up in “the community” is a non-stressful and organized environment but Jonas finds the real world a whole different place when he receives memories about strong feelings and hardships, intellects the word “love”, and how important it is to be an individual.

In my opinion, Jonas left the community because of the memories and the reality presented to him by The Giver. After realizing the truth, he wanted to alter the perspectives of the citizens in the community by releasing his memories, he believed that the way people lived without any knowledge of the world surrounding them was wrong, and wished to live a more meaningful life when he left.

Jonas is just another member of his community. He spends his life following the rules that his community has imposed him. In all his life, he has blindly followed the rules and has never questioned them. For that reason, it comes to a shock when he receives new instructions that go against everything he has been taught:

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

The unfolding of events, the conflict that occurs with self, nature, society and man, are all important parts of the plot and understanding the changes that happen to character(s). No matter the conflict that occurs in a story plot, the character typically goes through changes. The changes could be good to bad, but usually bad to good. As you continue to read, write down the different conflicts that Jonas has in each chapter and make prediction on how he will deal with these conflicts.

Jonas’s society has many rituals some of them are the telling of feelings and dream telling. Telling of feeling is when your family unit sits down at dinner and shares there feelings about the day and say if anything is bothering them. Dream telling is when your family unit sits down in the morning and shares if they had any dreams that night before. In the beginning of the book, Jonas explains “It was one of the

Jonas is the protagonist, or main character, in the novel. He is a sensitive, polite, compassionate 12-year-old boy. Jonas is a dynamic character. He changes during the course of the novel due to his experiences and actions. We know how Jonas changes because Lois Lowry narrates The Giver in the third person, limited omniscient viewpoint in order to reveal Jonas' thoughts and feelings.

Death and sadness are the worst thngs in life, but life cannot be full if people don't go through suffering. Jonas went through his life with a much suffrage and pain. When Jonas received the memory of death he finally realised the importance of life. The fact that no one in the community can understand death means they cant respect life. On page 113 Jonas sees a young soldier boy die, “The boy sighed. His head fell back. his lower jaw droping… A dull blankness slid slowly across his eyes. He was silent.” After this memorie he knows how horrible death and war is. Later on he sees his friends play a game of war. They didnt know how grousome a game they were playing. Without memories thyedidnt undertant why Jonas was acting strange when he was

He left the community because he could not stand to live with people who did not have the emotions and feelings that he had. He also did it because if he left the community the memories would go to the people of the community. Jonas thought that this would make their lives so much better. Jonas was really brave at this time because he left the community where everything was always fine and they were never hungry to go to Elsewhere where nothing was for sure there. He could die of anything. Jonas thought, “Together the fugitives slept through their first dangerous day.” This quote shows that not only did they have to worry about running out of food or water in Elsewhere. He had to brave getting caught by search crews or planes, unless he would be condemned. Just as important Jonas was brave to leave his friends behind. “He felt such a love for Asher and Fiona.” This quote shows that he really loves his friends and it was extremely brave for him to leave them behind. Perhaps he did it because he thought that it would be better for him to leave his friends and the community, and maybe die, for the betterment of the