Character Changes In The Giver By Lois Lowry

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The Giver Essay “But that evening everything changed. All of it---all the things they had thought through so meticulously---fell apart”(Lowry 204). In The Giver written by Lois Lowry, a bad community is created, and the main character tries to fix it in the end. The main character ,Jonas, changes when he is no longer a rule follower and figures out what release is. He started out to be a rule follower, but he changes into not being a rule follower. For example, when Jonas was reading his instructions, he was stunned since he always obeyed the rules; then he read, “8. you may lie”(Lowry 87). He always had to tell the truth ,because it said it in the community rule book. Subsequently,when his mom asked if he dreamed, he lied and said “‘I slept

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