Jonas 'Change In The Giver'

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''The Perfect Society doesnt have trouble.'' ''I have Great Honor,'' the giver said. Jonas have the memories of the good , bad , and past .Jonas changed over the course of the whole book from chapter 1 to 23. Jonas had great honor for being the reciever of memory and for being an nice person. Jonas was an obedient kid and mature person, he was also clever and always obeyed the rules in his community. The only thing he was worried about was if he would have a good job. Jonas viewed his society the way everyone else did , but it changed when he first experienced his transference of the memories . At the beginning he followed all of the rules that the leaders ordered him. He went from a undiscovered and unknown person to a person everybody

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