In the novel The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas had to make dangerous decisions such starving and dying for his own community. Jonas was a normal boy until he got assigned as “The Receiver.” From that point on, Jonas would have to make decisions influenced by the memories he received that would greatly impact himself and the community. He met a man named “The Giver” who would help him make right choices and would be his friend no matter what happened. In The Giver, Lois Lowry reveals the theme of both kindness and accepting change from Jonas assisting the Giver, getting mad at his friends, and leaving the community which proves that he had to make some dangerous decisions that would make him get new friends and focus more on the future than his …show more content…
He had to make this choice to let the community get the memories back. Jonas made the choice to leave because he said “‘I’ll leave at midnight.’” (Lowery, 198). This shows that Jonas was going to leave at midnight, but we can be also inferred that he hads to do it secretly because he did it at night. This made Gabe and himself experience pain and give back to others. This was an act of kindness because he was giving back the memories to the community. Also, he had to accept change because this would be the last thing he would do before he died. These are both parts of the theme, so this choice helped to develop the theme the most. The theme of The Giver is kindness and accepting change because Lois Lowry revealed from Jonas assisting The Giver, getting mad at his friends, and leaving the community that these dangerous choices can impact your future in both negative and positive ways. These morals can be applied to real life and may have the same effects on real people as Jonas had in the book. Jonas was affected majorly because he made new friends but left others. In the end, having kindness and accepting change can majorly impact your life just like Jonas in the book, The
Jonas, the protagonist, is assigned the job of holding memories for the community. This is so that not everyone has to experience sad or painful memories. The Giver's job is to transmit these memories to Jonas and, in doing so, reveals the wonders of love, and family, and pain, and sorrow to this young boy. Jonas begins to resent the rules of sameness and wants to share these joys with his community. After receiving his first memory, Jonas says, "I wish we had those things, still." (p. 84)
He had no reason to. Jonas even gave memories of snow and sunshine when they were running away to elsewhere. On page 175 Jonas and Gabe are both freezing, “ He pressed his hands into Gabriels back and tried to remember sunshine.” Jonas soon made it to elsewhere with Gabe still
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
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. Jonas is also very determined, committing to a task fully when he believes in it and willing to risk his own life for the sake of the people he loves.
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.
Jonas said “I gave him memories along the way to let him survive, but he’s cold.” The giver had started to give Jonas and Gabe memories to keep them warm and alive. Jonas felt the memory of him sitting next to a campfire and it was as hot as a hot bathing room in the house of the old. Jonas had remembered about his friends Fiona and Asher and asked the giver. “Where is Fiona and Asher.”
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.”
Jonas hates how his society decides to keep memories a secret from everyone. Jonas says: “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared” (Lowry 154). Jonas feels that memories, whether it be good or bad, should be shared with everyone. Furthermore, memories allow the community to gain wisdom from remembering experiences of the past. As for The Giver, The Giver disagrees with how the community runs things. He believes that memories should be experienced by everyone as well, because life is meaningless without memories. The Giver says: “There are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don’t want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable–so painless. It’s what they’ve chosen [...] It’s just that… without memories, it’s all meaningless. They gave that burden to me” (Lowry 103). The Giver is burdened with the responsibility to not share memories even though that is what he feels the community deserves. In addition, he believes the community lives a very monotonous life where nothing ever changes. Everything is meaningless without memories because the community does not know what it is like to be human without feelings. Overall, Jonas and The Giver’s outlooks on their “utopian” society change as they realize that without
The Giver is about a boy named Jonas who was chosen to be the community’s next Receiver of Memory. He lived in a community where everything was chosen for the citizens, and everything was perfect. During Jonas' training, he realized that the community was missing something and that there was more in the world. Jonas wanted everybody to know that. The Giver book was then made into a movie.
The people in the community have absolutely no choices what so ever. The people already have their whole life rolled out in front of you without even knowing it. The council chooses your spouse, your family unit, your job, what you do everyday and how to do everything everyday. The rules that Jonas gets restrict him from doing certain things. “1. Go immediately at the end
Some of the significant themes that Louis Lowry deals with in this novel include the importance of memory and individual, the value of freedom to make choices and the relationship between pain and pleasure. Importance of memory is one of the most important themes in The Giver. Lowry was inspired to write The Giver after visiting her aging father, who had lost most of his long-term memory. She realized that without memory, there is no pain. At some point earlier in the past, Jonas’s community decided to give up their memories in order to eliminate the pain and regret that came with them.
In The Giver, Lois Lowry uses cultural and physical surroundings to shape psychological and moral traits in Jonas as he struggles in fitting into his assignment that he will pursue for the rest of his life: the receiver.
Movie The Giver, directed by Phillip Noyce, is based on Lois Lowry’s book and tells the story how the perfect world would look like. Where everyone is happy, safe, and there is no pain. Jonas is the main character and I will be analyzing how his values and beliefs changes though the movie. This movie is interesting because everyone lives within boundaries where past memory does exist just for the chosen ones. Jonas is one of those people who learns past wisdom and suffers while trying to understand what is the right thing to do.
“...[Jonas and the Giver] had talked and talked…. It was possible, what they had planned” (Lowry 155). In this segment, Jonas and the Giver—the only forward-thinking individuals to be found in their area—put their heads together to find a way for Jonas to evade living the remainder of his life in his deceptively benign community. Lowry shows how dependent we are on each other’s feedback by having Jonas collaborate with the Giver to make a plot for Jonas’s flight from the community.
Jonas plans to change the community by escaping and releasing all of the memories to the community. Jonas thinks for himself he will accomplish escaping and giving himself a chance to go to elsewhere. Jonas hopes to accomplish change throughout the community by releasing the memories if he left so everyone could gain wisdom. In the book Giver says this a way to change the community. Jonas wanted to go to elsewhere and see snow as like he did in the memory. Giver also said the memories had to be shared so leaving would share the memories with the rest of the