Jonas Mekas

Stan Brakhage’s Cat’s Cradle took me on a ride of ecstasy that I can never forget I have taken. After viewing this quick-cut, fast paced, and slightly unnerving piece, my mind did not ever want to view the film again but for some reason I could not resist. This film has no clear throughline narrative, but beautifully illustrates a dreamlike feeling that usually cannot be articulated. The six minute and nineteen second film has so much dense material that needs to be unpacked in order to attempt to

living in ignorance be a burden for someone else? Lois Lowry gives us a glimpse into what life would be like in a world where conflict does not exist and shows us what this type of world would do to our humanity. In The Giver, she introduces us to Jonas, an eleven-year-old boy who starts off as an oblivious member of his

emotions. They are all assigned jobs at a young age and Jonas is assigned as the receiver of memory. He keeps all the memories of the past to provide wisdom for the future. Once the current receiver of memory (the giver) gives him all of these memories and emotions he realizes that keeping all of these things from the community is wrong. He sees his father releasing (killing) babies and his father did not realize he was killing them. Jonas’ family was caring for a child that was not mature enough

slowly slid to a stop. Light snowflakes fell in dizzying patterns around Jonas, blurring his already troubled vision. The ground seemed to sway, to turn, to move. His head felt light, his limbs numb, and his body cold. He tried to stand, to get off of the sled, but his body refused to listen. Jonas felt something moving in his lap, and Gabe 's blond head popped up in front of him, his features fuzzy and his voice incoherent. Jonas tried to talk to him, to comfort him and tell him he was alright, but

By Lois Lowry How to Become the Receiver of Memory Book Talk Script What does the Receiver of Memory do in the book? The Giver took place in a community where there are no emotions and they all wore white clothes so no color inside the community. Jonas was the main character in the book and was a twelve year old waiting to be told what his adult job was going to be. He was nervous for December to come around because that’s when the ceremony was being hold for all the age groups. Jonas’s dad title

interest and what intrigued me the most. Just from something as simple as a name I knew I would be able to relate to this novel, in some kind of way. I was right! Equally important, the main character is an eleven-year-old by the name of Jonas. He is like no other child in this monotonous world. The protagonist of this book, has the ability of perception that is

In some distant future of humanity there lies a community in which its members live a “life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvenient. Or unusual. [a] life without color, pain, or past.” Exemplifying the aimlessness of human intellect that Nietzsche explains, this dull community is the main setting of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. This community is a supposed utopia where feelings, history, and even color are kept from its members in order to ensure peace and “sameness.” Although this fictitious

any unfair between the citizens ostensibly, the book reveals the dark side of it and later turns to a dystopian one. Jonas is a special boy because he has the 'capacity to see beyond' which can see colours when others cannot. Since he is one of a kind, he is chosen to be the giver to receive the feeling from the receiver. However, the more feeling Jonas knows, the more

Lois Lowry’s “The Giver” in which main character Jonas is put into a position where he must rise up to save his society, government and friends from themselves. Jonas challenges several aspects of government that his society had dealt with for years, such as everybody’s lost sense of individuality, societies’ banishment of the world outside from daily life and a society run by a government with few democratic ideals. An aspect of society that Jonas challenges is everybody’s lost sense of individuality

dystopia because they are isolated from everything. The citizens of the community have no knowledge of what animals are and when Jonas tries to tell his sister, Lily, she laughs as stated on page 127 in the novel… “—did you know that once there really were elephants? Live ones?’. She glanced down at the ragged comfort object and grinned.’Right.’ she said, skeptically. ’Sure Jonas.’”. This comes to show that Jonas’s sister has no clue that there were once living, breathing animals. The inhabitants of his