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A hero is someone who shows an act of bravery. In the novel “The Giver”, Jonas is the hero. He sacrifices everything he has, so that everyone in his community can enjoy life’s pleasures.
Jonas was really excited about the Ceremony of Twelve. He wanted to know what his assignment would be. He waited anxiously till the day arrived. On the day of the Ceremony of Twelve, he is number nineteen and his friend Fiona is number eighteen. She gets called and then his number is skipped. He got a better, more important job. He is singled out to receive special training from the Giver. He doesn’t know how to feel. He was not looking forward to it. He was beginning to understand that he would
probably have a difficult and lonely life. The Giver holds memories to true pain and pleasure of life. Now Jonas realizes he has to learn the truth about the past. There is no turning back.
The major problem that he faces is that he is given an esteemed internship where he learns secret information about his society, and then he realizes that his people
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are doing terrible things in order to keep everyone comfortable. When Jonas is chosen Receiver of Memory, he is just as ignorant and ambivalent as the rest of the people in his community. He begins to learn the truth about mankind and the past when he receives memories of war, hunger, pain and suffering from The Giver. In the process he dreamed about him and Fiona in the retirement home and he wanted to bathe her but she said no. Jonas remembered the wanting. Jonas is aware that the dream is related to the memory he received about the sled. He also knows that as disturbing as the dream was, it meant something. He describes the place he wanted to go in the distance as “welcoming.” He knows that if he wants everyone to feel the way he feels he must go to “Elsewhere”.
He takes Gabe with him and gets to safety by remembering the memories of warmth to save Gabe as he climbs up the mountain. Jonas feels how close he is and knew that him and Gabe will survive. He tried hard to climb the mountain and behind him, across the vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo.
Jonas had realized that living in his Utopian society had been good until he understood what really goes on. He had to live with out feelings and emotions. Jonas's decision may have affected the community but he did what was right. Living in a community were pain and love isn't felt just isn't normal. He needed to get out of there and he did. After all he is the hero. He gave up his normal and perfect life, to let everyone enjoy life’s
pleasures.
In the end, Jonas, with the help of The Giver, escapes from the community with an infant new-child at risk of being killed (released) and seeks out a life full of feeling and love. While he does get away, we don't know exactly w...
The newchild climbed up to Jonas, and grabbed his ears with his chubby hands. The girl picked him up and Gabe squealed and began to play with her hair. As Jonas closed his eyes, he saw ghostly figures. With his abilities, he saw Rosemary, the twin, Larissa, Caleb, and much more. Then the scene changed. He saw the community. Green grass, blue skies, he knew that the memories had
At this point, Jonas has realized what release really means. He finds out that the little baby Gabe that has lived with his family is being released at the very next morning. And the large plan that has been made with The Giver, to get rid of sameness within his community can’t be carried out because he knows that he must save Gabe’s life. He starts to really understand what it means to truly live and truly love. He knows he loves Gabe and, therefore he must sacrifice himself in order that Gabe might live. So, he quietly leaves in the middle of the night, and takes Gabe with him and they leave the community. Jonas is running for their lives because he knows they’re being hunted down. He hopes that they will just give up and assume that maybe
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
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. When he turns twelve, his job for the rest of his life is decided as the Receiver. His job is to receive all the memories the previous Receiver has held on to. While this is beneficial for Jonas as he is able to leave the society and his job of the Receiver behind and get freedom, the community is left without someone to take the memories from The Giver.
Jonas is eleven years old at the beginning of the book. His twelfth birthday is coming up. All the children have their birthday on the same day. It is held at a ceremony. When they turn twelve, they are assigned jobs. Jonas is assigned the job of Receiver of Memory. Receiver of Memory is a very honored job. The Receiver has to keep the community’s memory. When the community went over to Sameness, what they are now, it eliminated all the memories of pain, war, and emotion. The memories didn’t disappear totally, someone had to keep them, and that would be Jonas’ new job.
The Giver: Analysis of Jonas On the surface, Jonas is like any other eleven-year-old boy living in his community. He seems more intelligent and perceptive than many of his peers, and he thinks more seriously than they do about life, worrying about his own future as well as his friend Asher’s. He enjoys learning and experiencing new things: he chooses to volunteer at a variety of different centers rather than focusing on one, because he enjoys the freedom of choice that volunteer hours provide. He also enjoys learning about and connecting with other people, and he craves more warmth and human contact than his society permits or encourages. The things that really set him apart from his peers—his unusual eyes, his ability to see things change in a way that he cannot explain—trouble him, but he does not let them bother him too much, since the community’s emphasis on politeness makes it easy for Jonas to conceal or ignore these little differences.
What is the basis for being called a hero? Is it as simple as doing good deeds for others without asking anything in return? Or, do we sacrifice our lives to save the others? Empathy may become a standard for heroism. We can all be considered heroes by the small acts that we do, as long as we choose to better our society. In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, Lowry tells the story of a young 11-year-old boy Jonas who lives in “the community.” The people of the community all practice “Sameness,” where there is no war, death, and suffering. There is no freedom of choice in the society, which is why Jonas decides to leave his hometown. Everyone and everything are treated equally. Despite abandoning his community, Jonas is an example of a heroic character and demonstrates true meaning of heroism. Using the outline of The Hero’s Journey, the outline justifies
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.
When he becomes 12, he goes through a huge ceremony and all the elders assign them their jobs. In this community, there is no lying, stealing, racism, pain, sunlight, or color. Jonas was chosen to be The Receiver, and he didn’t know what to do because this job was such a big deal. Jonas then goes through training with the current Receiver, who is now The Giver. Training consists of The Giver passing down the memories from when the community was not what it is today.
Personally, I believe that Jonas and Gabriel ended up dying in the freezing cold, while starving and going insane; I also have various reasons to back this theory up. Firstly, on pages 171-172, it states that Jonas and Gabriel begin to starve; this could mean that they would also end up losing their sanity and even possibly see illusions. Furthermore, all throughout chapter 23, it explains that Jonas and Gabriel are agonizingly cold while surrounded by a snowy environment. This may lead to Jonas and Gabriel to lose their sanity and see illusions as well. At the very end of the story, Jonas is able to see “Elsewhere,” the place they left the community to search for. However, it is possible that Jonas is seeing nothing but an illusion. Along with all of this, Jonas is used to livin...
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.
Jonas decides he has to leave with Gabriel, a baby who had been staying in his family dwelling. Gabriel is scheduled to be released the following day as he is underdeveloped for his age. He has the same pale eyes as Jonas and the two have grown attached to each other. The Giver will make it appear as if Jonas had drowned in the river so ample time will not be spent searching for him and he will be forgotten quickly. Jonas, who had stolen his father’s bicycle, sets out at dusk, with Gabriel, on his quest to find Elsewhere. The Giver gives Jonas strength and courage to sustain, as well as food supplies and
The movie starts when Jonas and his best friends, Asher and Fiona, are graduating from childhood and are founding what part they will take in the community. Jonas feels lost because he feels that he is different. He saw things differently, but he never said anything, because he was never wanting to be different in this perfect world. He felt scared that he does not belong in his community.