Jonas In The Giver

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Introduction
Throughout the entire book of the giver, jonas goes through a lot of character change. But will he be able to recover from the changes that he goes? What will happen to jonas as the story begins? Jonas is a person just like everybody else in his community, and he is no different than anybody else. When Jonas's training starts, he received his rules, he was very surprised to see that one of the rules told him to do something that he wasn't allowed to do his whole life, this raises a lot of questions and suspicion for Jonas, and he starts to question his society. After Jonas has been at his job training for at least a year and he has gotten more experience, he tries to give other people experience too, but he was unsuccessful, he …show more content…

Jonas use to believe in everything that his society told him. That is until he received the memories. He started to realize things that no one else in his community realized. Then he was isolated.

Jonas is living a happy little life in his society and he feels like he fits in. Jonas feels like he fits in with the rest of his society because he thinks that he is just like everybody else. At the beginning of the book Jonas is very comfortable with his society, because he feels like he fits in, and he is very happy. "Jonas rode at a leisurely pace, glancing at the bike ports beside the buildings to see if he could spot Asher's bike (26).” This shows Jonas at the beginning of the book as a very happy little dude and he has a friend named Asher, and he is biking at a leisurely pace looking for this friend, so that just shows that as of right now he fits into his society and he is very happy just like all of the others people. Jonas enjoys the community and the fact that since he fits in he has the freedom to do a lot. "The freedom to chose where you want to spend those hours had always seemed a wonderful luxury to Jonas(26).” This shows how Jonas is enjoying his society and how he loves the luxury to choose where and what he wants to spend his hours on, so that right there is proof that right now he likes …show more content…

Once Jonas gets his new job as the new receiver he receives his rules for during training, some of the rules on his rule sheet raises questions about his society, and once he has more experience, more and more questions pop up about his society. Jonas also starts to realize that he does not fit in liker his friend Asher. It was the sort of thing one didn't ask a friend about because you might have fallen into the uncomfortable category of 'being different'. Asher took a pill every morning, Jonas, did not (38).” This is the stage were Jonas is starting to realize that he does not fit in, because his friend Asher takes his pills like everybody else his age, but ten there is Jonas who does not take his pills, and this is the point in the book were Jonas starts to go downhill on the whole fitting in thing. Jonas is now questioning the society he use to trust, because he does not like the thought of lying and he is afraid that other people received the same rules. "Now Jonas had a thought that he never had before. This new thought was frightening. What if others-adults- had, upon becoming twelves, received in their instructions vote same terrifying sentence (71)”. Jonas is again questioning his society. He is questioning whether everybody has the same rule in their book of rules, if they can lie. Jonas also wants to make decisions and his society does not allow the people in the community to make decisions, so that

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