The Giver Sameness Quotes

The Giver is set in a community where there is sameness which is everything being the same, and the community also didn’t have feelings or colors. Every kid in the community is selected for a job and this year a kid named Jonas, who is the main character in the book is given a very special job, that doesn’t happen very often. In this community the people don’t have memories and so Jonas is the Receiver of Memory and he receives memories from the Giver who gives memories. Jonas’ feelings have been changing a lot in The Giver. Jonas’ feelings first start out apprehensive, then humiliation and terror, then surprised, then scared, and lastly he felt sad.

Everyday Jonas had to share his feelings with his parents. Jonas decided he was feeling apprehensive because the Ceremony of Twelves was coming, which is the ceremony when eleven year olds turn twelve and get their job. Jonas thought in his head’’, But there was a little shudder of nervousness when he thought about it, about what might happen.’’(6) This quote expresses that Jonas is apprehensive. It expresses that because Jonas felt a tingle of nervousness which meant that he was apprehensive as it said in the book. The Ceremony of Twelves

In the warfare memory, Jonas saw people fighting and also perceived the word fire in this memory too. Jonas had felt physical pain and asked if he can get instant relief. The Giver said no because Jonas has rules to follow, and one of the rule states that Jonas can only get medications unrelated to his training. In the starvation memory, the people in The Giver can have one more child to make your family unit count three kids and in this memory since there were so many people, people had to face hunger which is when you haven’t had food for a long time. Jonas reacts to these memories and says,’’I was scared” (141). Jonas expresses fear in this quote. He expresses fear in this quote because it says he is scared in the