The Giver by Lois Lowry

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“What happened ten years ago?” Jonas asked. The main character in Lois Lowry novel, The Giver is Jonas, who lives in a Dystopian Society. The problem he forces is that he realizes that the community is hiding many secrets such as what release truly is. During the course of the story Jonas became conscious of what his community is doing to his life. Jonas inherited many different types traits, learning many life lessons and enduring horrible secrets from the community. He thoroughly shows that he was proud of what he is accomplishing such as becoming receiver, sympathetic toward the cruel tactics of releasing the innocent or the guilty, and curious to know how his life is going to change after being presented with his job in the society. Throughout this astonishing novel, Jonas shows many qualities, one of them being curiosity. Jonas is just receiving his job in his community as the Giver, but for now, he stays as the Receiver. As stated in the book by Jonas, the new Giver/Receiver in training, “Giver, how did it happen to you when you were becoming The Receiver.” ( ) This shows that Jonas is very inquisitive to know more about the Giver. Also, due to the fact that he is a receiver in training, he wants to know whether his training is worthwhile. As quoted in the book by Jonas,” Do you love me?” (127) Jonas is showing that he did not know what love really is before he is given the memory from the Giver. This event also proves that does not know much about the pastimes of his community. Although Jonas was curious, he also was very thin-skinned. After Jonas stopped taking the stirrings pills, he felt a mixture of different emotions, one of them being sympathy. As Jonas had requested to see the release tape, one thing ... ... middle of paper ... ...accomplishment for him to endure and to be proud of. To close, Jonas is experiencing a handful of traits and emotions along his way from being an eleven, to becoming a twelve. This astonishing novel shows a perfect example of a dystopian society, with the community starting off as a “perfect” neighborhood, and ended up being the complete opposite. Jonas showed his inner self throughout the story with the help of the Giver, and these magnificent traits is curiosity, to know and to improve his inner strength. As well as being proud of himself when he had just been awarded the superb job of being the Giver of the community to escaping with Gabriel on a treacherous journey to the next community. Lastly, sympathy got in the way of Jonas at any precise moment of the day. Thus, Jonas had undergone many obstacles, he ended up being able to bring about his goals.

The Giver
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Jonas is made to bear the truths of the world alone and is troubled by what he should do with it. Jonas at first doesn't want the memories because after receiving several of them, all that Jonas has known is being questioned and his world turned upside down. 'He is angry and afraid after receiving his first set of memories. Angry because of what has been kept from him and afraid because now he doesn't know what to do. Jonas is uncertain whether the world he learns of is best for his community and if people can be trusted to make decisions on their own. In a conversation to "The Giver" (person passing down the memories) about whether or not it is safe to allow people to make their own choices, Jonas say, "What if they are allowed to choose their own mate? And chose wrong? . . .
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Jonas 'Bravery In The Giver'
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In the book “The Giver” Jonas is a character of many great traits, but one of his traits that stands out throughout the book is his bravery. He shows bravery when he takes on the challenge of being the next receiver of Memory which takes physical and mental pain. He shows how brave he is when he runs away from his community with Gabriel on his father’s bike, as well as when he faces his father everyday after knowing what his father does to “release ” people.
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The Giver by Lois Lowry
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Jonas is the boy child in his family unit. He has a younger sister and a mother and father (Overview: The Giver). At dinnertime, the family units sit at the table and have a time where they share their feelings that they felt during the day. Usually, as children, Jonas and his sister, Lily, have a small argument as to who would share first that night at dinner; but this time Jonas wanted to wait (Overview: The Giver). He was not sure of how he was feeling. Lily went first and told how she was angry with some kids that came to visit that day and how they were not following any of the rules (Lowry 5). Their father went next and told his family unit about a child at the nurturing center he works at (Overview: The Giver). Their mother took the next turn and told them about a repeated offender and how seeing him a second time made her angry, guilty, and even worried for him because there are not third transgressions (Overview: The Giver). Jonas went last, but he did not want to share his feelings that night. It was against the rules not to do so, so he had to. Jonas told his family about his apprehensiveness with the upcoming ceremony of twelve (Lowry 9). After Jonas confessed his feelings,...
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Memories Back Then
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In the book The Giver by, Lois Lowry, the reader is introduced to what seems overall to be a perfect community although somewhat unusual and perplexing. As the story progresses, the reader learns things that seem unsettling even though this utopian society is supposedly “perfect”. As Jonas begins his work as the new receiver of memory, he gains wisdom and through tat wisdom learns that in protecting the community from the memories, their lives have lacked feeling and understanding.
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Character Analysis: The Giver
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In Lois Lowry's book, The Giver, there abides a dystopian community, Jonas matures over the year, after receiving a very important assignment. This assignment is called “The Receiver,” in which he receives memories that he did not experience, but in a way experiences when his mentor, The Giver gives him the memories. He has to be very mature for this assignment, because he has to experience extraordinary amounts of pain. Jonas is very naive to start out with, later on he starts to understand his community better, by the end of the book he see the truth and realizes what was actually happening. Jonas changes, and matures throughout this book, ultimately realizing how selfish his community is, and decides to go elsewhere because he knows how wrong and dysfunctional their community is.
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Analytical Essay On The Giver
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Everyday Jonas has to be apart from the rest of the community and train with The Giver, so that he can receive the memories from the community’s past. There are many different things that happens to Jonas when he receives the memories. Jonas has fear which no one else in the community has, dreams which he can't share, and beliefs that changes what he thinks about the community. In the novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas the main character, is chosen to be the most important person in the society as The Receiver of Memory.
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The Giver By Lois Lowry: Theme Analysis
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In conclusion, the setting, plot, and conflict of The Giver support the overall theme that learning from others’ mistakes from the past helps people improve in the future. Altogether, the setting, plot, and conflict show how Jonas learns the value of the experiences from the memories. Jonas also learns about the negative effects of all the emotions they do not feel such as losing a loved one. Even though he knows that the feelings can be painful at times, he understands that feeling them is more important than not having them at
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What Is The Conflict In The Giver
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Jonas and the giver come up with a plan to get jonas to go over the boundary of memories and bring them back into the community so that everyone can experience the joy and happiness of the past and make it the present. I think that the book really can relate to society today because our world is cayotic and dysfunctional. We tend to focus on only our country instead of others. We judge people and discriminate people just because of gender, the color of their skin,or even just because of their sexually interest. In the book they explain how they want everyone to be the same because it can cause conflict and dysfunction in the society and I think that in our world today being different can cause dysfunction in our society and it has before we have discriminated, murdered and had conflict for more than 200 years just over the difference between
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Examples Of Sacrifice In The Giver
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Although he did not understand the role as a receiver, he knew it was an important job that require a relentless amount courage. Without a Receiver, when the giver dies, the memories will be released throughout the society and cause a great amount of chaos for the people. Therefore, this sacrifice prevents the community from being interrupted and disturbed from their regular life. They are able to live their life without any pain, while Jonas keeps the agony to himself. His job as a receiver also helps to remove torment for the Giver because the Giver could transmit some of the aching memories to Jonas. As the novel progress, the responsibilities Jonas has to deal with increases. In order to keep the community under control, he has to live up his role as a receiver. He grows distant from his family and friends, but because of Jonas, the people don’t have to face
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The Giver Essay: Character Analysis
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Human's are not perfect, but in Jonas's community you can say that they are because nothing goes wrong, you can even say it's a normal community even though normal isn't very descriptive. Jonas has changed through The Giver by Lois Lowery in multiple ways, but now he has a better understanding of them and why things are the way they are. He knows that his community isn't like the past because he was chosen to be the receiver which he had no idea what he would have to do, but over time the Giver gets him through everything. He gets memories about the past and he isn't allowed to tell anyone about them because the community doesn't want the people knowing about what the past was like. Jonas will be getting memories that will include pain, which
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Jonas' Courageous Transformation in 'The Giver'
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In the novel, “The Giver” by Lois Lowry, Jonas is the protagonist living in the community. He is an Eleven, and is about to receive his permanent assignment. Until the Chief Elder skips him and leaves him dumbfounded. After everyone is done, he is called up to the stage. Jonas is the new Receiver of memory and has to hold the memories that the Community can’t. He starts to see colors and the truth behind the closed doors that no one can see. I believe that through the novel Jonas’ courage became stronger, and it develops him as a character.
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The Giver Hypocrisy
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At the December ceremony, Jonas is selected to become the new receiver of memory the most honored position in the community .As he receives the Giver's memories and wisdom, he learns the truth about the community that it is hypocrisy. Jonas' character changes and becomes complex .He experiences an inner conflict because he misses his old life , his childhood and his innocence, but he cannot return to his former way of life because he has learned too much about joy, color, and love. Jones knows that his life can never be ordinary again.
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The Wrong Choice In The Giver By Lois Lowery
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― Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. In the Giver by Lois Lowery, Jonas feels prideful because he is the Receiver of Memory and does things without thinking and that way of thinking is what influenced him to make his choice. But making choices based on pride and without thinking is hazardous because people may make the wrong choice and someone will get hurt, or even worse, get killed. In this case Jonas made the wrong decision when he took Gabriel when he fled the community. Jonas made the wrong choice because he did not take in thought that he was endangering his and Gabriel’s lives, that he was breaking major rules of his community, and the safety
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The Giver by Lois Lowry
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One of Jonas’s character traits is curiosity, which at times useful and at times a bother. An example of curiosity from the text is one of Jonas’s flashbacks, when an airplane had flown over his community, Jonas thinks “At first, he had been only fascinated. He had never seen an aircraft so close, for it was against the rules for Pilots to fly over the community” (1). This shows that Jonas is curious because he wants to know about the aircraft and what it’s purpose was. An additional example of Jonas’s curiosity is when he receives the first memory from the Giver, a foreign memory of sleds and hills. Jonas asks, “‘Why don’t we have snow, and sleds, and hills?’” (83). This proves Jonas’s curiosity because he wants to know; he likes knowing things. Through the painful discoveries from his own curiosity, Jonas uses his most oblivious yet necessary character trait: bravery.
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Life In A Dystopian Society
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So Jonas, being a teenager, naturally rebellious and thinking he knows best; decides to share all his memories with his society. All the memories, good and bad. Like in our modern day society teenagers also are rebellious and think they know what’s best for everyone. So Jonas decided to leave into elsewhere. By doing that it would automatically send all the memories of grief, love, and war. Sometimes it’s good when teenagers do what they think is right but sometimes it can have consequences.
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