In the novel, The Giver by Lois Lowry, the community takes away all memories and gives them to The Giver and Jonas. The community also took away pain, personal rights, and memories. Jonas was assigned for his job as the The Receiver. The Giver gave all of the past memories to Jonas and Jonas does not think that his community should live without these happy and traumatic memories. One person should not hold all the memories because people can learn from past mistakes, personal happiness, and diversity

Jonas, a twelve year old boy, is the protagonist of The Giver. He was assigned to be the receiver of memory or the highest position in the community. The people in the community don’t need to make any decisions, their future are all decided by the giver (receiver). Jonas learns that with leadership comes responsibility. Jonas learns that with commitment, he must continue training as the receiver, or else the community will have trouble making a choice. For Jonas to be a good leader, he should try

had to let go of others. (Lois Lowry 95) The central theme of the novel of Lois Lowry, The Giver, is that the humanity of each individuals are more precious and important than a world where things and people are the same. The fact that equality worth more than an emotion and individuality of a person portrays the Community in the novel. Thus, by holding the true pain and pleasure of life alone, The Giver and Jonas decided the future can be changed. As what they

novel The Giver, this theme is demonstrated and it explains that opinions may change when knowledge is gained. Generally, opinions can be changed to be more positive than a person thinks the situation is. This is shown through Jonas, one of the characters in The Giver. In the

your life which you won't be able to share with a family. It's hard, Jonas. It was hard for me (Lowry 103)." For the Receiver of Memory, isolation has to do with the burden of his job. He is isolated by not being able to share the memories that The Giver transmits. If he shares memories with others, it causes them pain. This way, Jonas is self-sacrificed. In their community, they live without color, emotions, and feelings, though there are only two people who know the true past. Being isolated makes

their differences but that doesn't mean they don't have similarities. In the giver, the Family Unit was kinda a big thing like it is in our Society. In the Novel, the giver, it states, “Two children-one male, one female to each family unit”(Lowry 8). Obviously there are differences but if we are talking about family units, both have many similarities. Every Family unit/Society always has their own tradition including the giver. In the text, it emphasizes how “The children all receive their bikes at

says, the protagonist in The Giver, by Lois Lowry. In the community that Jonas lived in, it was very different to have light colored eyes, and different was unacceptable. Like the new child, Gabriel, Jonas also had light colored eyes. Although the community thought that being different was unacceptable, later on in the book Jonas learned to embrace his individuality. He and Gabriel, although there were not a lot, were not the only ones with light colored eyes. The Giver, who passes on the memories

The Giver Autobiography By: Jamie Troxell Language Arts This is an autobiography about Jonas. This is my life that I am about to tell you. The place that I live in is really weird because I am the only one who sees color and feels warmth. So let me tell you how I got that. When I was at the ceremony I was waiting to get my job and I was number nineteen