People Change Over Time In The Giver By Lois Lowry

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People change over time. It's inevitable, time helps people grow. In the beginning of The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas played it safe, but after being chosen as the Receiver, he becomes more aware of the conflicts in his community.
The community Jonas grew up in were very strict about rules and laws, use of language being one of them. For example, “I want my smack!...Asher had asked for a smack… The discipline wand...came down across Asher's hands.”( page 55) Asher and Jonas were 3s when this happened, as threes, their job is to learn proper diction, Jonas learned at a young age but, Asher didn't. Jonas thought about what he was going to say. “... Jonas was beginning to be frightened. No. Wrong word… Frightened meant that deep, sickening feeling …show more content…

That piece of fruit had- well… the apple had changed.” (Page 24) Jonas had started to see color, in the apple. No one else in the community could do this-see color. Other than The Giver. Jonas himself didn't know what was going on. Then it happened again on page 90. “Jonas stood for a moment beside his bike, startled. It had happened again: the thing that he had thought of now as ‘seeing beyond.’ This time it had been Fiona who had undergone that fleeting indescribable change… It wasn't Fiona in her entirety. It seemed to be just her hair.” Fiona had a special part in Jonas’ life, she was his crush, so I believe that Jonas seeing Fiona’s red hair was symbolic, it was also after The Giver started giving Jonas the memories. Jonas seeing color helped him grow in many ways, he understood the diversity of people and different objects, which helped him escape to …show more content…

Gabe was restless. “... The noise of Gabes restlessness woke Jonas. The new child was turning under his cover, flailing his arms, and beginning to whimper. Jonas rose and went to him. Gently he patted Gabriel's back...He was not aware of giving the memory; but suddenly he realized that it was becoming dimmer, that it was sliding through his hand into the being of the new child… He wondered, though, if he should confess to The Giver that he had given a memory away… He decided not to tell.” (Page 115-117) Jonas didn't lie very often even though he was permitted to do so. 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

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