In the novel The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas had to make dangerous decisions such starving and dying for his own community. Jonas was a normal boy until he got assigned as “The Receiver.” From that point on, Jonas would have to make decisions influenced by the memories he received that would greatly impact himself and the community. He met a man named “The Giver” who would help him make right choices and would be his friend no matter what happened. In The Giver, Lois Lowry reveals the theme of both kindness and accepting change from Jonas assisting the Giver, getting mad at his friends, and leaving the community which proves that he had to make some dangerous decisions that would make him get new friends and focus more on the future than his …show more content…
past life. When Jonas first meets the Giver, they instantly became friends and Jonas would assist him when he was in pain. A Prime example would be when the Giver said “‘Please,’ he gasped, ‘take some of the pain.’ Jonas helped him..”(Lowery, 149) This quote is a very big moment in The Giver, and it also shows how Jonas assisted The Giver. When Jonas helped The Giver, it was an act of kindness. Jonas could have left him suffering from the pain, but it was his choice to assist The Giver. This act of kindness really affected the theme because part of the theme is to be kind. This demonstrates that simple acts of kindness can start something bigger in the future, like a friendship. Another one of Jonas’ largest choices was getting mad at his friends for doing something they didn’t know was wrong. Asher got mad and says “”You ruined it,”...”(Lowery 168) This shows the friends reaction when they get mad because Jonas ruined their game. Jonas knew the game was wrong, but Asher and his friends didn’t. Jonas stopped them and they got mad at him, as the quote demonstrates. This choice also helped develop the theme of the book because Jonas had to let go of his old friends and get new ones. This also illustrates the same concept of accepting change, which is the other part of the theme. The last and hardest choice Jonas made was to leave his community.
He had to make this choice to let the community get the memories back. Jonas made the choice to leave because he said “‘I’ll leave at midnight.’” (Lowery, 198). This shows that Jonas was going to leave at midnight, but we can be also inferred that he hads to do it secretly because he did it at night. This made Gabe and himself experience pain and give back to others. This was an act of kindness because he was giving back the memories to the community. Also, he had to accept change because this would be the last thing he would do before he died. These are both parts of the theme, so this choice helped to develop the theme the most. The theme of The Giver is kindness and accepting change because Lois Lowry revealed from Jonas assisting The Giver, getting mad at his friends, and leaving the community that these dangerous choices can impact your future in both negative and positive ways. These morals can be applied to real life and may have the same effects on real people as Jonas had in the book. Jonas was affected majorly because he made new friends but left others. In the end, having kindness and accepting change can majorly impact your life just like Jonas in the book, The
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Jonas said “I gave him memories along the way to let him survive, but he’s cold.” The giver had started to give Jonas and Gabe memories to keep them warm and alive. Jonas felt the memory of him sitting next to a campfire and it was as hot as a hot bathing room in the house of the old. Jonas had remembered about his friends Fiona and Asher and asked the giver. “Where is Fiona and Asher.”
The Giver is about a boy named Jonas who was chosen to be the community’s next Receiver of Memory. He lived in a community where everything was chosen for the citizens, and everything was perfect. During Jonas' training, he realized that the community was missing something and that there was more in the world. Jonas wanted everybody to know that. The Giver book was then made into a movie.
The essential thing to overcoming adversity is the ability to cause change in yourself and others. In the book, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas is singled out after he isn’t chosen during the Ceremony of Twelve. He has to learn to overcome the pain of being The Receiver of Memory. He also has to face the truth and discover who his real allies are. This helps him to become a changemaker because he grows. He grows by using the pain to become stronger mentally and physically. Ultimately, Lowry teaches us that to make a change, you must display curiosity and determination.
People change over time. It's inevitable, time helps people grow. In the beginning of The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas played it safe, but after being chosen as the Receiver, he becomes more aware of the conflicts in his community.
The theme of The Giver by Lois Lowry is importance of memory. This theme appears in the novel when the main character Jonas gets chosen as the new receiver of memory. He starts of with receiving memories of love, snow, colors, etc. Jonas gets memory of war and hunger and realizes that the community is restricting their freedom and through the importance of memory Jonas decides to run away. This leads me to conclude that the theme is importance of
Jonas is the protagonist in The Giver. He changes from being a typical twelve-year-old boy to being a boy with the knowledge and wisdom of generations past. He has emotions that he has no idea how to handle. At first he wants to share his changes with his family by transmitting memories to them, but he soon realizes this will not work. After he feels pain and love, Jonas decides that the whole community needs to understand these memories. Therefore Jonas leaves the community and his memories behind for them to deal with. He hopes to change the society so that they may feel love and happiness, and also see color. Jonas knows that memories are hard to deal with but without memories there is no pain and with no pain, there is no true happiness.
Personally, I believe that Jonas and Gabriel ended up dying in the freezing cold, while starving and going insane; I also have various reasons to back this theory up. Firstly, on pages 171-172, it states that Jonas and Gabriel begin to starve; this could mean that they would also end up losing their sanity and even possibly see illusions. Furthermore, all throughout chapter 23, it explains that Jonas and Gabriel are agonizingly cold while surrounded by a snowy environment. This may lead to Jonas and Gabriel to lose their sanity and see illusions as well. At the very end of the story, Jonas is able to see “Elsewhere,” the place they left the community to search for. However, it is possible that Jonas is seeing nothing but an illusion. Along with all of this, Jonas is used to livin...
In the book, The Giver, Jonas is portrayed as a kind, curious and rebellious individual with a keen sense of awareness. The beginning chapters revealed Jonas as a very naive and compliant person, similar to everyone else in his community. Instances, when he was a child and got reprimanded for small misunderstandings, made him like this. However, throughout the book, Jonas has grown into an independent and determined person, someone who wants to make a change. Jonas finds new strengths in his character which forms him into someone spectacular and distinctive.
The people in the community have absolutely no choices what so ever. The people already have their whole life rolled out in front of you without even knowing it. The council chooses your spouse, your family unit, your job, what you do everyday and how to do everything everyday. The rules that Jonas gets restrict him from doing certain things. “1. Go immediately at the end
Jonas hates how his society decides to keep memories a secret from everyone. Jonas says: “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared” (Lowry 154). Jonas feels that memories, whether it be good or bad, should be shared with everyone. Furthermore, memories allow the community to gain wisdom from remembering experiences of the past. As for The Giver, The Giver disagrees with how the community runs things. He believes that memories should be experienced by everyone as well, because life is meaningless without memories. The Giver says: “There are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don’t want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable–so painless. It’s what they’ve chosen [...] It’s just that… without memories, it’s all meaningless. They gave that burden to me” (Lowry 103). The Giver is burdened with the responsibility to not share memories even though that is what he feels the community deserves. In addition, he believes the community lives a very monotonous life where nothing ever changes. Everything is meaningless without memories because the community does not know what it is like to be human without feelings. Overall, Jonas and The Giver’s outlooks on their “utopian” society change as they realize that without
In The Giver, Lois Lowry uses cultural and physical surroundings to shape psychological and moral traits in Jonas as he struggles in fitting into his assignment that he will pursue for the rest of his life: the receiver.
Jonas’ community chooses Sameness rather than valuing individual expression. Although the possibility of individual choice sometimes involves risk, it also exposes Jonas to a wide range of joyful experiences from which his community has been shut away. Sameness may not be the best thing in the community because Jonas expresses how much he feels like Sameness is not right and wants there to be more individuality. Giver leads him to understand both the advantages and the disadvantages of personal choice, and in the end, he considers the risks worth the benefits. “Memories are forever.”
“...[Jonas and the Giver] had talked and talked…. It was possible, what they had planned” (Lowry 155). In this segment, Jonas and the Giver—the only forward-thinking individuals to be found in their area—put their heads together to find a way for Jonas to evade living the remainder of his life in his deceptively benign community. Lowry shows how dependent we are on each other’s feedback by having Jonas collaborate with the Giver to make a plot for Jonas’s flight from the community.
Movie The Giver, directed by Phillip Noyce, is based on Lois Lowry’s book and tells the story how the perfect world would look like. Where everyone is happy, safe, and there is no pain. Jonas is the main character and I will be analyzing how his values and beliefs changes though the movie. This movie is interesting because everyone lives within boundaries where past memory does exist just for the chosen ones. Jonas is one of those people who learns past wisdom and suffers while trying to understand what is the right thing to do.
Some of the significant themes that Louis Lowry deals with in this novel include the importance of memory and individual, the value of freedom to make choices and the relationship between pain and pleasure. Importance of memory is one of the most important themes in The Giver. Lowry was inspired to write The Giver after visiting her aging father, who had lost most of his long-term memory. She realized that without memory, there is no pain. At some point earlier in the past, Jonas’s community decided to give up their memories in order to eliminate the pain and regret that came with them.