Jonas Mekas

The Giver by Lois Lowery centers around twelve-year-old Jonas, who exists in a society which, at first, appears to be utopic. But is revealed to be dystopic. The society has eliminated pain and suffering by converting to Sameness, which is total control over everything in order to make it the same. The government wants total control over everyone and everything, however, there are some who may disagree with this approach due to the lack of individualism and emotion. By the novel’s definition, Sameness

Lois Lowry, the citizens try to make a utopian society. Jonas, a member of the society, was chosen as the Receiver of memory. The elders would watch Jonas and the other eleven to see what job they are right for. Then at the Ceremony of eleven Jonas saw Fiona's family get a child which was a boy. When Jonas gets to know the giver he starts seeing color and then the Giver accidentally gives and gives him a memory of Pain. after all that Jonas leaves with Gabe. This all shows factors that The Giver

Noyce. “The Giver” is a must read, about a teenage boy, 16 years of age, Jonas (Brenton Thwaites) living in a far futuristic dystopian society where everything seems to be a “PERFECT” life with “Sameness.” But when Jonas is selected instead of assigned a job, he is to receive memory from the Giver (Jeff Bridges) as his assigned role. Jonas realises the bright and dark factualities of his community. And with the dark truths, Jonas decides to try to escape from the society to elsewhere, releasing all

The Giver world is a dystopia because they have to release some kids because they aren't good enough. It would also not be a very good place to live in because when some people fail they have to be released, a release is when they inject a shot into your head and you die. It also would not be a very good place to live in because some people want to run away because they are afraid of where they live. These are the reasons why the Giver is a dystopia. The first reason is that they have

instance, Jonas and Asher were playing catch with the apple when “suddenly Jonas noticed… the apple had changed” (30). The apple showed the color red, proving Jonas is different from all the other kids in his community who cannot recognize colors. Jonas, however, is different since he can distinguish colors and is able to receive memories from the Giver. Afterwards, the shocking truth from the memories led him to rebel against his community by escaping. By departing from the community, Jonas changed

that we interact, but there are many differences to our society’s family life which is better because we are free to have our own kids, marry the spouse of our choice, and be able to run our families the way we want to. Marriage in the society where Jonas lives is another difference between the two societies. “Sometimes an adult who applies to receive a spouse could wait months or even years before a match is made and announced (pg 61).” However they have no say in who their future spouse will be.

Would you like to live in a community where everything is the same? In The Giver, Jonas lives in Sameness. In Sameness, they have no memories of what it is like outside of Sameness except for the Giver and the Receiver. From the memories, they believe there is an Elsewhere. All of these things are in Jonas’ community. I do not support Jonas’ community and their way of living. Sameness is where there is no weather, no color to see, and no memorizes. I enjoy being able to see colors and to have

"It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened." In the novel, "The Giver", by Lois Lowry, young Jonas was a normal child. Everything changed when he turned twelve. He was choosed to be the special one. Jonas, as a result of the conflict with the beginning of his life's story to the end of the novel. In the beginning of the novel , Jonas faced many stages. Based on what I read," After the ceromony of twelve, you'll be with yous assignment

In the novel The Giver, by Lois Lowry, the main character, Jonas is assigned the job of The Receiver, the most important job in this community. In this dystopian society, no one had memories because they did not want anyone to know about anything other than the here and now. However, once Jonas experiences the memories of love, pain, music, and starvation, he decides that a life without feelings is a life not worth living. In the novel, everyone in the community never experienced love, happiness

shown to all of the community.It proteins to the story by that the Chief elder had keepin all of the secrets of the real world out of everyone's life.In the end of the story Jonas and Gabriel died by that they were starving,Hyperthermia,and that he was having visions of all the memories. One reason that i think that jonas and gabriel had not survived by that he was always taken care of from the committee then having to go into taking care of himself.One detail from the story is that he remembers