The Giver Reflective Essay In the Giver the main protagonist, Jonas, who lives in a mundane world without differences, follows the path towards the archetypal hero's journey. Jonas begins his call for adventure with being specifically selected as the next receiver of memory. This job entitles him to memories from the Giver to help the community continue to thrive. His deep thought and reflection against it shows his refusal of the call until he is finally able to accept this responsibility. Finally he begins the adventure. As shown by other common heroes, Jonas also goes through many trials. Throughout the story he experiences pleasant activities and the perils of the past. Through this he is able to obtain more heroic qualities to further
himself on his journey. His new feelings of love and joy, lets him appreciate all the Giver has done this far, thus bringing his experience with unconditional love. With his goal of obtaining true feelings completed he is now able to help the community by preventing hardships and instability. Then, the Giver shows him the horrifying truth of what the community means by released. Though no one understands what their actually doing is essentially killing someone. Jonas experiences the refusal of the return by not wanting to help the community because of this. The Magic Flight occurs with Jonas escapes the community with a child who was sentenced for release; by escaping he will be able to release all his memories to the community for true feelings to exist. He manages to survive and achieve a rescue from without by using the memories that the Giver had bestowed upon him. Jonas' story ends like every other hero, with the crossing or return threshold. He achieves this by arriving to Elsewhere. Overall Jonas can be classified as a hero because he follows the common path and achieves something truly heroic.
What are memories to you? In the book The Giver, by Lois Lowry. There is a boy his name is Jonas. He is the Receiver of Memories. Jonas experiences the memories over the course of the book. Memories help us understand there are consequences to your actions. Although some readers may believe that memories are not important. The memories Jonas had helped him with the journey at the end of the book.
Jonas, the protagonist, is assigned the job of holding memories for the community. This is so that not everyone has to experience sad or painful memories. The Giver's job is to transmit these memories to Jonas and, in doing so, reveals the wonders of love, and family, and pain, and sorrow to this young boy. Jonas begins to resent the rules of sameness and wants to share these joys with his community. After receiving his first memory, Jonas says, "I wish we had those things, still." (p. 84)
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.
Jonas decides to leave and change the lives of his people so that they can experience the truth. “The Giver rubbed Jonas’s hunched shoulders… We’ll make a plan” (155). Their plan involves leaving sameness and heading to Elsewhere, where Jonas knows the memories can be released to the people. He has a connection with Gabe, a special child who has experienced the memories, unlike the rest of the community. Jonas has a strong love for Gabe, and he longs to give him a better life. “We’re almost there, Gabriel” (178). Even with a sprained ankle, Jonas keeps pushing forward because he wants everyone to experience what The Giver has given him. He wants them to have a life where the truth is exposed. His determination allows him to make a change for a greater future in his community. This proves that Jonas has the strength to change his community for the
Throughout the history of the world, there has been many societies. All these societies had similar structures and ideas, but they all are different by their own special traditions and ways of life. Similarly, both our society and the society in The Giver share similar ideas, but they are different in certain areas. For example, they both celebrate birthdays and have family units, but they have their own way of doing so. Based on the celebration of birthdays and the formation of family units, our society is better than the society in The Giver by Lois Lowry.
In The Giver, a narrative by Lois Lowry, Jonas’s father illustrates his feelings during his Ceremony of Twelve and Jonas tells about his own feelings concerning the forthcoming event. In the text it states, “‘But to be honest, Jonas,’ his father said, ‘for me there was not the element of suspense that there is with your ceremony. Because I was already fairly certain of what my Assignment was to be,’”(Lowry, paragraph 3). This segment of text elucidates the reason of Jonas’s father’s lack of surprise of his Assignment. As stated above, Jonas’s father was already certain of his Assignment, which he continues to explain to be a Nurturer. Jonas’s father explains that as a result of the love he showed all the Newchildren and the time he spent at
Even though The Giver is and the The Son are two different books there are many similarities in the books. One main reason is how the story takes place in the same place,however, there are many differences too, with the two books. The Giver is about a boy named Jonas who lives in a perfect community where everything is decided for the community,in addition,Claire lives in this community. Claire and Jonas are after Gabe however, for different reason Jonas wants Gabe because he has grown attached to Gabe and does not want Gabe to be released because he did not reach the qualifications to live in the community. Claire however, is after Gabe because Gabe is her son and she never got to see him, in fact, she thought that Gabe was dead.
Once Jonas begins his training with the Giver, however, the tendencies he showed in his earlier life—his sensitivity, his heightened perceptual powers, his kindness to and interest in people, his curiosity about new experiences, his honesty, and his high intelligence—make him extremely absorbed in the memories the Giver has to transmit. In turn, the memories, with their rich sensory and emotional experiences, enhance all of Jonas’s unusual qualities. Within a year of training, he becomes extremely sensitive to beauty, pleasure, and suffering, deeply loving toward his family and the Giver, and fiercely passionate about his new beliefs and feelings. Things about the community that used to be mildly perplexing or troubling are now intensely frustrating or depressing, and Jonas’s inherent concern for others and desire for justice makes him yearn to make changes in the community, both to awaken other people to the richness of life and to stop the casual cruelty that is practiced in the community. Jonas is also very determined, committing to a task fully when he believes in it and willing to risk his own life for the sake of the people he loves.
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.
Evelyn Sanchez (esanchez47@student.cccd.edu) Professor Leighton English 143, Final Essay 21 May 21, 2014 What the heck happened to Jonas? Topic #2. The Giver is actually one of my all-time favorite books, so I’ve looked into why she left the book so inconclusive in the past. The Giver is basically about a boy named Jonas who lives in a perfect society. He lives in a household with his two parents and his little sister Lilly.
This book is about a community where everything is stainless. It is a blank world with no color or feelings. At the ceremony of Twelve, everyone is accepting their Life Assignments as they are going to the path of maturity. However, a boy named Jonas is instructed a special job with The Giver to learn about the power of feelings and lies. When he puts his power at his own risk, he gets his family and everyone he loves in danger.
In addition everyone’s life has a story filled with good and bad memories and that is what makes it so distinguished from Jonas
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
I read the book The Giver by Lois Lowry. This book was really good and shows what life would be like if everything were a utopia. This book is really engaging and almost has you engaged from the beginning to end. I like the way it was written out and it really shows what life can be like in the future. However, It does show negatives about everything being the same and that was something I thought really stood out. The Author gives great detail about the way of life.
Characters in both of the novels Code Talker and The Giver have different personalities, but also are similar in ways as well. In the novel Code Talker, Ned Begay is looked upon differently since he is Navajo. At a young age Ned had to leave his family to attend boarding school, but returns later to go to the Navajo High School. As he took a liking to studying maps of islands, he was laughed at by the teachers and even students for being a Navajo who imagined traveling to far away places. Jonas from the novel The Giver, grows up in the Community, which is a society that lives by strictly implemented rules. He starts to see things that are strange to him, like the time he saw an apple change while tossing it with his friend, but the Community wants everyone to live and feel the same. Every year a ceremony is held that recognizes the children from newborn to age 12, and those turing 12 are given an Assignment. Jonas receives a very rare and special Assignment, The Receiver. He gathers memories from the Giver and starts to put his life in the Community and the memories of the past together. He realizes that there are some things in the Community that need to be changed, and is look strangely at when asking for others to change their way of play.