The Giver Strengths

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There are many traits to describe the dystopian protagonist, Jonas, in the story The Giver, by Lois Lowry. Even though there were so many to character traits to choose from, the best one, was that Jonas was strong. Jonas is strong because he accepted a position of being the Receiver of Memory, even though he was sitting there after everyone else was called, he also is able to take the memories in without applying for release or giving up his job, like Rosemary did, and lastly, he was strong enough to get Gabe and himself to the outer boundaries of the community without giving up.

At first, in the beginning of the book when Jonas was at Ceremony of Twelve. The Ceremony of Twelve is the final Ceremony after 12 years. The Ceremony of 12 is also …show more content…

Rosemary was also the giver’s daughter. About 10 years ago from that time when Rosemary was the receiver she applied for release because she took in the memories too quickly. From that day forwards the receiver of memory could not apply because all of her memories were released to the community. In the book Jonas Asks for he name, this is how the giver responds, “My parents said it wasn’t to be spoken again in the community.” This shows Jonas is strong because he is eager to learn and take in the incident strongly, that had happened to Rosemary about 10 years ago. Jonas is also strong because he hasn’t had the feeling that he wanted to apply for release even though in chapter 18 Jonas asked about it, but suddenly realized that it was in the rules that he couldn’t, but this doesn’t mean that he ever did want to. Jonas was still very eager and strong enough to receive the memories from the giver. Jonas is stronger than Rosemary was also, once the fifth week came after showing cats, picnic’s, etc, once she received pain, she didn’t take it as well as Jonas did. In the end Jonas had never applied for release, which means to kill. He made a strong

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