Dangerous Decisions In The Giver

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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…

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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