Jonas Mekas

society, but as Jonas is put into the position of receiver he quickly finds that his community is not what he once thought. After this enlightenment it is extremely clear that Jonas’s community is dystopian. The Giver displays very common themes, tones, and characters that classifies novels in a dystopian genre. The website Read Write Think (2006), explains common characteristics and themes in the dystopian genre. A main characteristic explained as a commonality in the dystopian

left out. After Jonas becomes the receiver, he starts to feel those emotions and physical pain that no one experiences. The Giver shows him death in a war and after that Jonas understands how serious death is and is mentally scarred by it. Jonas gets’ curious about release one day and the Giver shows him his dad doing a release to a newborn twin, Jonas realizes that release means they kill them. Then 2 days later his father said they were going to release Gabriel and now that Jonas knew what happens

reason Sameness is not a good way to live is that with sameness people cannot make any bad decisions. When people make bad decisions you learn from them, and they can help them make better decisions in the future. One example from The Giver is when Jonas takes the apple and the speaker called him out on, after that he never took an apple again. There are not enough opportunities for small choices with small consequences with sameness. When someone experiences consequences or embarrassment they are

on in Jonas's life. Jonas is an eleven year old boy about to be twelve. He has been given a special assignment or job. Jonas changes throughout The Giver and as a result, tries to change the community. In the beginning of the book, Jonas is obedient. At the end of the book Jonas changes and becomes

decisions about anything. That's what Jonas went through in the book The Giver by Lois Lowry; furthermore, he went from being a dependent boy to an independent boy by learning through the Giver when he received memories. Jonas changed drastically in the novel when he become different from the community and gained emotions. In The Giver there was sameness in the community. Throughout the beginning Jonas was like everyone else in the community. For example, Jonas couldn't ask Asher about the pill because

The book The Giver is about people living in this controlled society, but specifically this one boy named Jonas who is with this group of elevens waiting to get a job around the community. Jonas gets assigned to be the receiver which receives all of the memories which that means in this community receiving the memories is very important, because the people live in a controlled society so they don't the know the great things and the awful things in real life. The Giver is the person who transfers

No one else is allowed to have these memories.He gives Gabriel; a baby who his family is taken care of; some."You know about memories,"(Jonas talking to Gabriel[The Giver/Pg.128)Jonas decided to stop taking a pill he's supposed to be taking for his dreams.Like: No real sadness. Dislike: No Color, killed when doing something wrong.Jonas wants people to know what's really right and not like most people.Jonas is the Protagonist in the book "The Giver".In a community where no feelings and/or memories

gentle, but haunted by the memories of suffering and pain. He didn’t do anything except giving memories to Jonas, and letting him know more about the community. But since the Giver was definitely clever, he already realized the dangerous truth of the community, but he couldn’t do anything before Jonas became the receiver. After Jonas was able to understand the community better, he then helped Jonas to change the world, which was also one of his goal in his

said. In the utopian community that Jonas was living in had tried to make everything perfect and people lived like that for years. But, when Jonas becomes the new receiver he looks at this so called “perfect” community in a whole different way. In the giver written by, Lois Lowry, Jonas grows up and becomes a 12 and learns how to see deeper. The theme is growing up and is showed by the ceremony month, December, Jonas’ little sister, Lily, and the protagonist Jonas. Paragraph 1: First of all, December

the only one who knew. The only one who could feel emotions, this is what Jonas went through in the book The Giver by Lois Lowery. Jonas a young boy who thinks he has a perfectly normal life until he becomes the receiver of his community. He learns things like emotions and being different from others . He realizes that his world is a corrupt, a dystopia. No one knows anything, There is no emotion or a way of being unique. Jonas learns that his one memory changes his whole perspective of his community