Have you ever thought your life can't get any worse? Well, I can't be worse than Jonas's life. In the dystopian book The Giver by Lois Lowry. Jonas lives in a similar environment. In the giver, everyone lives in a community that is regulated by the elders. While they have food and water and all they need to survive, they are missing many things needed to live. In the community, there's no color, rain, snow, emotions, or even freedom, but this is how they have lived their entire lives. This is why Jonas, who is the receiver of memory learns of these things and decides to run away. It was a good choice for Jonas to leave the community because of the community's lack of freedom/choice and the absence of emotions.
The first point on why Jonas
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In the community no one has emotions while they can be happy that's it. “If he had stayed, he would have starved in other ways. He would have lived a life hungry for feelings, for colors, for love.”(173). This shows that their community has no feelings. Once Jonas knows feelings exist it makes him sad that he doesn't have them. feelings also make us human and without them were more like robots. This shows another reason for Jonas to …show more content…
For example, Some people may disagree and think “but overpopulation is a huge problem and they don't have that” and while that is a good point they are still wrong to think he should stay. To combat overpopulation the elders have to do something unthinkable, killing children they limit a family unit to one boy and one girl so when someone has twins, they just can't have that. While viewing a group of twins ``release” he realizes something “as he continued to watch, the new child, no longer crying, moved his arms and legs in a jerking motion. Then he went limp. His head fell to the side, his eyes half open. Then he was still.” Jonas realizes in a couple of seconds that the child has been killed, they do this to new children who don't pass the test, lowest weight twins, and the old. Killing other humans is their solution for overpopulation and Jonas was right to run away from that. Others may also say “but they don't have to worry about food” and while that is also true, Jonas still should have left. While they don't have to worry about the food they gave up the entirety of the weather for it. The elders decided that it was a good idea to start what they call “climate control”, this allowed them to stop rain, snow, and all the other bad weather that could interrupt the growth of crops this caused a cascade effect that stopped many different things from existing, like sledding, which you can't do without
It was now that Jonas was informed of his duty as receiver of memories. Jonas was forced to leave his place of comfort and leave the safe world that he had been in up until this point.
He was often overwhelmed with the feeling of loss and loneliness. But without the memories, other people like Asher and Fiona couldn’t give back the love Jonas had for them. If memories could be shared and remembered, everyone would have real feelings, whether that’s love or happiness. At this point in the story, Jonas realizes that there were many memories, both good and bad, but in the end, Jonas had gained knowledge, things he had never imagined of. The Giver tells him that “‘There are so many good memories,’ The Giver reminded Jonas.
(TS): Throughout the entire book the one thing that Jonas wants is relationships, he goes through many different ones in the book, but in the end the reason for everything is based around Jonas 's desire to have somebody to be with. (MIP-1) Jonas is happy with his world because he believes that he has the relationships that he wants, so he listens to the government so he can keep these relationships. (MIP-2) Jonas begins to question the government and moves on to questioning his relationships. (MIP-3) Jonas is rejecting his world and abandoning his meaningless relationships in order to get
On the other hand, Jonas dedicates himself to making a change in his community, even if it means that he must leave behind everything he has ever known. Jonas selflessly takes on the burden of carrying the weight of the past and the responsibility of enlightening his people. Like when he was running to find Elsewhere, he shares that last memory of sunshine and warmth with Gabe just to help Gabe survive (Lowry, Ch. 23) --because Jonas loves him. Both characters possess a heroic spirit and demonstrate this by putting others' well-being before their
In the novel The Giver, by Lois Lowry, a boy named Jonas is chosen to be the next receiver of memories that they keep away from the people of the community. In Lois Lowry’s The Giver, Jonas’s perception of the community changed because, in the beginning, he viewed the community as being safe, in the middle he felt unsure about the community, and in the end, he realized there is more to life than what’s in the community. At the beginning of the novel, Jonas feels safe in the
Jonas knew what love was, but he didn’t know the feeling of warmth and adoration. His family never felt compassion towards Jonas either. This was the same with the whole Community, no one felt love. When people do feel a sense of intimacy, they have to take a pill to get rid of their feelings. Mother explained, “...You’re ready for the pills, that’s all.
The final reason was when Jonas escaped from the community. According the the author, “ It was possible, what they had planned. Barely possible. If it failed, he would very likely be killed” ( The Giver, 155). Jonas knew that his community needed the memories to feel feelings; as a result, Jonas and the Giver made a plan for Jonas to escape to Elsewhere so the memories would return.
Just think. Nobody has any knowledge of the past. You do not know what color is, you have no emotion, and everybody is the same. The world that you live in is colorless, emotionless, drab, even lifeless. This is the type of world that Jonas and The Giver live in.
They even do not have their biological parents and could never know them. The kinship is acute absent in the community. Therefore, all the citizens in Jonas’ community cannot feel the emotion called
He hesitates to congratulate Jonas for his selection, because he received such an honorable role in the community. Jonas’ selection places him farther away from other children, like his friends, Asher and Fiona. His knowledge of his community and its flaws makes him feel isolated. For example, when Jonas was playing a game with his friends, he realized that he was playing a game of war. It says, “It was a game he had often played with other children, a game of good guys and bad guys, a harmless pastime that used up their contained energy and ended only when they lay posed in freakish postures on the ground.
He is under sameness and the influence of the community. Jonas is chosen to receive feelings, colors, and emotions from memories. As time goes by Jonas sees the community not as a utopia but a horrible place. Jonas wants to change
Jonas felt anger for his father and the pain he feels for the baby twin. On page 168 in the giver,Jonas realized that they been playing a game of war ( Lowry). Jonas feel sad and misunderstood for the boy in war. Jonas sadly understood that no one know what he is feeling. These are like real life because some careless people don 't think about others and think that everything is just a joke.
Feelings and Emotion Different feelings and emotion are not known in the community within the people. The Giver and Jonas are the only true people that know how to feel the different emotions. Every night at the conclusion of their evening meal one of the rituals is the evening telling of feelings. In the very first Chapter Jonas talks about how it was almost December and Jonas was beginning to be frightened. But then thought that was the wrong word to use.
Jonas thought that after they received their assignments, him and Asher, his best friend, he thought that they would grow apart and no longer be friends. Throughout the beginning of the book, Jonas kept worrying about how they might grow apart from each other. In the book Jonas thought to himself “...but what would become of me and Asher and the assignments we received”. Jonas did not want them to grow apart because they have been best friends since they were little. This was hard for him because he didn't know what would become of them and what would become of them.
Imagine living in a perfect society. No pain, everyone is equal, and perfect laws that every person follows. Now imagine being exactly like every other person with all your daily choices being made by someone else for you. In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, this is exactly how they are living. The author writes about how Jonas’ perfect society is not so perfect after all.