Character Changes In The Giver By Lois Lowry

The Giver Essay
“But that evening everything changed. All of it---all the things they had thought through so meticulously---fell apart”(Lowry 204). In The Giver written by Lois Lowry, a bad community is created, and the main character tries to fix it in the end. The main character ,Jonas, changes when he is no longer a rule follower and figures out what release is.
He started out to be a rule follower, but he changes into not being a rule follower. For example, when Jonas was reading his instructions, he was stunned since he always obeyed the rules; then he read, “8. you may lie”(Lowry 87). He always had to tell the truth ,because it said it in the community rule book. Subsequently,when his mom asked if he dreamed, he lied and said “‘I slept

very soundly’”(Lowry 111). This is a lie since, he really did dream about his first memory of the sled and snow. As Jonas is going through his training he is starting to question his community.
Jonas did not know what release really was; he thought it was them going to another land. For example,his father told him that he was going to release a twin, “‘I wish I could watch’”he said(Lowry 182). He thought release was a good way to help people go to the next community for the old and the other people. He learned otherwise; however, after he saw the footage, “‘I WON’T! I WON’T go home! You can’t make me!’ Jonas sobbed and shouted and pounded the bed with his fists”(Lowry 190). He now understands what release really is; Jonas knows it is death.
Jonas has developed from being a naive rule follower person into a disillusioned rebel. He use to think his society was good and now he realizes that the Elders were killing people and that people lie to each other. When Jonas left the community at the very end of the book, everything has changed for the best of the community. Everyone had color, feeling, and family just like today’s community.