Imagine living in society with no differences or pain, but with no color or feelings. In The Giver by Lois Lowry a place just like like this exists and it’s a Utopian society in which the main character, an 11 year old boy named Jonas is part of. The society Jonas is living in may seem favorable with no pain, but as a result of getting rid of pain goods things were removed such as climate, color, and feelings. Jonas changes throughout The Giver and as a result, tries to change the community.
Jonas changes from the beginning of the the book to the end of the book in many ways. One example of Jonas changing is in the beginning of the book when he was honest. Jonas began to lie throughout the book and was no longer honest. “ Jonas has,
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just like all of us, committed minor transgressions… we hoped, also, that he would present himself promptly for chastisement.” page.62. This means when Jonas does something wrong and he knows it was wrong he would be honest and receive his chastisement. Jonas changed throughout the story from honest to deceitful. “ ‘Do you understand why it’s inappropriate to use a word like ‘love’? Mother asked. Jonas nodded. ‘Yes, thank you, I do,’ he replied slowly.” page.160. This means Jonas didn’t understand why using the word ‘love’ was inappropriate and meaningless. Jonas had lied for the first time because he didn’t understand. In conclusion this is how Jonas changed throughout the story Jonas changes in other ways throughout the story as well.
One example of Jonas changes in the story is when he was obedient. In the beginning of the book Jonas was obedient because he followed the community’s rules and obeyed his elders. “He paused. He knew he had to tell it all, that it was not only right but necessary to tell all of a dream.” page. 45. This means Jonas knew that not telling the whole dream was against the rules of dream telling, so Jonas told the entire dream. Towards the end of the book Jonas become rebellious. “He thought of the rules he had broken so far: enough that if he were caught now, he would be condemned. First, he had left the dwelling at night. A major transgression. Second he had robbed the community of food. Third, he had stolen his father’s bicycle.” This means Jonas has broken many rules in order to escape the community making him a fugitive. In conclusion these are more examples of changes to …show more content…
Jonas. Jonas begins to change in many ways in the story and wants to help the community change as well.
Jonas changes the community for two reasons. One reason is to help himself and the other reason is to help the community. Jonas helps change the community by making an escape plan so he could leave the community. As a result of escaping the community Jonas would release the memories he was given throughout his lessons to the community. Giving the memories to the community would mean he would be giving them feelings and memories of differences, war, etc., which they don’t have. By leaving the community Jonas helps himself because he escapes the community so he could experience more feelings and live in a society that has differences, no climate control, and color. In conclusion this is how Jonas plans to change the
community. Jonas changes throughout The Giver and as a result, tries to change the Community. Jonas has undergone many changes such as changing from honest to deceitful by telling the truth and then begins lie and be dishonest and obedient to rebellious because he would follow the community rules and then began to break many rules. At the end of the story Jonas becomes aware of everything the committee of elders has been doing and everything he now knows is wrong. As Jonas become more aware of what the committee is doing it affects his view of his utopian community because he realizes everything he believed the committee of elders were doing was for their good and that their society was made to have no feelings, no pain, etc., but as a result Jonas realizes removing pain won’t stop the some people having pain for other things such as pain for feelings and color.
The Giver and Matched are both futuristic societies with a lot of rules. In The Giver the Elders choose their match as well as their children. Jonas starts loving Fiona but isn’t allowed and stops taking the pill. In Matched the officials choose their match but they can have their own children. Cassia is matched with Xander but also loves Ky and doesn't know what to do. In both story they all get jobs for the rest of their lives but in Matched they just call it vocations. Jonas gets the Receiver of memory and Cassia is supposed to be the sorter.
“...Jonas becomes the Reciever of Memories shared by only one other…” (Lowry,4). The author uses allusion throught the entire book almost through evryone and everything. The young boy that Jonas’s family was looking over was named Gabriel. In a biblical view his name is one of god’s messengers and in the end of the giver when Jonas takes Gabe with him to find another community unlike theirs they find it together. In a hebrew relation Jonas is another version of Jonah which is the son of truth were in his community he does not like how his father lied and said that the twin was going to released when he had killed the child. He also wants the community to know the truth of the past and not hide things. The Giver is the book is portrayed as God since he is the presnter to all life. Elsewhere is heaven in the novel when the elderly and the yo...
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
Jonas himself didn't know what was going on. Then it happened again on page 90. “Jonas stood for a moment beside his bike, startled. It had happened again: the thing that he had thought of now as ‘seeing beyond.’ This time it had been Fiona who had undergone that fleeting indescribable change…
When he lies for the first time, Jonas does it to defend love. Jonas realizes that no one in the Community can be truly happy when they are ignorant to love. The dialogue between characters is very important to the development of the plot, but Lowry additionally uses Jonas’
Lois Lowry describes a futuristic world with controlled climate, emotions, way of living and eliminates suffering in her book The Giver. The main character, Jonas, shows the reader what his world is like by explaining a very different world from what society knows today. Everything is controlled, and no one makes choices for themselves or knows of bad and hurtful memories. There is no color, and everything is dull. As he becomes the Receiver who has to know all the memories and pass them down to the next Receiver, he realizes his world needs change. He starts to believe that a world of sameness where no one can decide or make choices for themselves is boring. Lois Lowry is warning readers that living in a world of sameness is not something to create as it is boring and dull, but if the world follows conformity and does not value diversity and difference enough, society could become that of Jonas’s.
Jonas understands the consequences of leaving the community, but wants to be able to experience colors, pain, and love; which he couldn’t have if he stayed. “If it failed, he would very likely be killed. But what did that matter? If he stayed, his life was no longer worth living” (Lowry 155). Jonas is willing to risk the unknown for the idea of finding Elsewhere for himself. He knows how much he does not fit in with the community and wants to be able to be himself, to love, and to share the memories without being chastised. “He felt, surprisingly, no fear, nor any regret at leaving the community behind” (Lowry 164). Jonas was ready for what was ahead of him; even if he didn’t know what that was. He knows that leaving the community is the best option for him and the people of the community, because they need to know about the world’s past and Jonas wants to be able to experience life to the fullest. By leaving the community, he is leavi...
I can assure you that reading this book will make you take valuable lessons with you. Jonas is a really wise, curious and a positive 12 year old boy. I think we should learn to be like him more because in the story Jonas shows how he follows what he thinks is right and not what the society thinks. This helps portray the importance of individuality.
Like any child in the community, Jonas is uncomfortable with the attention he receives when he is singled out as the new Receiver, preferring to blend in with his friends. 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.
Set in a community with no climate, emotions, choices, or memories Lois Lowry tells the tale of Jonas in The Giver. Jonas is selected to be the receiver of memory, which means the memories of generations past, before the community was created, will all be transferred to him to hold. As Jonas receives memories his concept of the world around him drastically changes. Jonas starts out as twelve-year-old boy with perceptions different from those around him, he then begins to see the community for what it really is, and he makes a plan to change it.
In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, the author portrays a utopian society where important items such as emotions, customs, and diversity are lost and forgotten. Universal feelings such as love and hatred are eliminated from Jonas’s community. Jonas is the main protagonist in The Giver. Throughout his journey from a regular twelve year old to the most important citizen in his community, Jonas learns about many important themes, such as the important of love, sameness versus diversity, and the role of memories.
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 short story Harrison Bergeron helps support the idea that all Utopias are going to fail. In Harrison Bergeron characters like him find flaws in their “perfect” community and do something about it. In the Giver, Jonas is the character that rebels against the community because he is able to see past the lies set up by the elders and see the bad parts of it. Another reason it failed was because of the pain from the handicaps. Jonas’s community doesn’t experience any pain,except for Jonas and the Giver, Jonas makes a stand by escaping and leaving the memories of pain for the rest of the community.
Jonas always tells his dreams. He always was there for chastisement. He always shared his feelings at the evening meal. He also always took his pill every morning. “Now he swallowed the pill his mother handed him.”(Page 38). By the end of the book Jonas is rebellious. He stops taking pills for emotions that he is supposed to take everyday. Jonas stays at the Giver’s house when he sees his father kill a baby. Jonas also tries to escape from the community when Giver creates a plan to escape from the community which Jonas barely follows because of Gabe’s release. “But your role now is to escape.” (Page 162). This means that Jonas has to escape and the Giver must stay to help the community after he is gone.
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.”