The Giver Sameness Quotes

The Giver is set in a community where there is sameness which is everything being the same, and the community also didn’t have feelings or colors. Every kid in the community is selected for a job and this year a kid named Jonas, who is the main character in the book is given a very special job, that doesn’t happen very often. In this community the people don’t have memories and so Jonas is the Receiver of Memory and he receives memories from the Giver who gives memories. Jonas’ feelings have been changing a lot in The Giver. Jonas’ feelings first start out apprehensive, then humiliation and terror, then surprised, then scared, and lastly he felt sad.

Everyday Jonas had to share his feelings with his parents. Jonas decided he was feeling apprehensive because the Ceremony of Twelves was coming, which is the ceremony when eleven year olds turn twelve and get their job. Jonas thought in his head’’, But there was a little shudder of nervousness when he thought about it, about what might happen.’’(6) This quote expresses that Jonas is apprehensive. It expresses that because Jonas felt a tingle of nervousness which meant that he was apprehensive as it said in the book.

The Ceremony of Twelves

comes, and in this ceremony, twelves are given numbers The Chief Elder who calls numbers skips Jonas. Jonas felt confusion, humiliation, and terror because the Chief Elder had skipped him. Jonas said in his head,” Now he felt only humiliation and terror” (74). Jonas said this because normally no one gets skipped and now he got skipped, which made him feel humiliated because this is not normal and maybe this bad or good. He also felt terror because Jonas thought this was bad and might lead to bad things Jonas was now the Receiver of Memory.
Jonas received his first memory in which he rode a sled, felt the cold air and snow, went downhill and saw runners on the sled. Jonas was amazed with memories. Jonas thought in his head,’’ He opened his ordinary eyes, and saw that he was still on the bed, that he had not moved at all ,’’ (104). Jonas was surprised by this because he was mesmerized of how he can see a memory without moving or nothing happening to him besides seeing the memory. Jonas was surprised by these memories. The Giver would give him the good memories and bad memories. The Giver would always would end his session with Jonas with a good memory so that Jonas didn’t think of bad memories and instead he would think of the last good memory the Giver gave him at the end of the session.
Some of the bad memories were starvation and warfare.

In the warfare memory, Jonas saw people fighting and also perceived the word fire in this memory too. Jonas had felt physical pain and asked if he can get instant relief. The Giver said no because Jonas has rules to follow, and one of the rule states that Jonas can only get medications unrelated to his training. In the starvation memory, the people in The Giver can have one more child to make your family unit count three kids and in this memory since there were so many people, people had to face hunger which is when you haven’t had food for a long time. Jonas reacts to these memories and says,’’I was scared” (141). Jonas expresses fear in this quote. He expresses fear in this quote because it says he is scared in the

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Jonas had wondered what release was and what it looked like. In The Giver, the author would use the term release when an elder or newborn got released, or when someone broken the rules repeatedly and when someone made a big mistake. An example of newborn getting released is when they don’t develop normally and they get released because sameness exists in this community. An example of an elder getting released is when they have fully lived, and they are ready to be released. Being released means getting an injection to your head and immediately dying. When Jonas heard that you get an injection to your head and died, he got really depressed.,” Jonas sobbed and shouted and pounded the bed with fists’’ (190). This is expressing anger and depression because he sobbed and pounded on the bed. When a person sobbs it expresses that they are depressed and when someone pounds on an object that person is expressing
Jonas had transitioned from being apprehensive to feeling humiliation and terror to being surprised to being scared and being sad and angry. Jonas started out like his childhood and what that means by Jonas started out like his childhood is that he was naive and not experienced in the life of the Receiver yet, then he progressed into being surprised and scared which his him getting skipped in the Ceremony of Twelves and then he became mature and started getting bummed out by how life in the community was because when he learned there was no colors, feelings, and memories, those made him bummed out about how there was no memories, feelings, and colors in the community and also showed his maturity by taking care of Gabe, a kid that would get released ,and escaping to Elsewhere and Jonas wanted to escape to Elsewhere a place that existed beyond all the communities that they knew of. Jonas had escaped with a kid named Gabriel that was going to be released, but he saved him and they escaped. Jonas had developed new character traits such as maturity,courage, and wisdom. He was mature because he saved a life and wanted to escape from a community. Jonas had courage because he showed his courage through finding food and through making Gabe and him turn cold so the helicopters didn’t detect them or else he would be caught and dangerous things would have happened to them. Jonas has also developed wisdom by doing things that a person with wisdom would do, such as being aware of what is happening around him and understanding the meaning and importance of memories. Jonas being aware of what is happening around him means that he could decode his way through this community that contains sameness and no feelings, colors, and memories. Jonas understanding the importance of memories means that he has the wisdom of knowing what happened before him, how the people felt about these things that happened to them, and also perceiving what these memories meant and what they represented.
Jonas’ feelings have changed a lot in The Giver. Jonas had feelings that transitioned from being apprehensive to feeling humiliation and terror, to feeling surprised, to feeling scared, and to feeling sad and anger. Jonas was apprehensive at first because the Ceremony of Twelves were coming. Jonas felt humiliation and terror because he got skipped. Jonas felt surprised because of the memories the Giver transmitted to Jonas. Jonas felt scared because he hadn’t experienced a lot of bad things in his life and in the bad memories he saw bad things which scared him. Jonas felt depression and anger because he saw his father release a kid and at this point Jonas saw only one release which was this video. Jonas has showed his maturity, courage, and wisdom all throughout The Giver. Jonas showed his maturity by saving Gabriel and by escaping to Elsewhere. These show maturity because only a mature person would do that. Jonas has showed his courage by finding food and showing Gabe and himself the memory of snow so they don’t be detected by the helicopters and these actions show courage because if a person didn’t have courage they couldn’t have done any of these actions. Jonas shows wisdom by being aware of what was happening around him and also by understanding the importance of memories. These show wisdom because only wise people can perceive the things Jonas has perceived.