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The Giver By Lois Lowry: Summary

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Summary - December, the beginning of a change The Giver, a novel by Lois Lowry that has elements of both mystery and science fiction, keeps the reader engrossed to the end. Events of the novel are written from the point of view of Jonas, an eleven- year-old boy living with his parents and his seven-year-old sister Lily in a society that has eliminated all pain, fear, war, hatred, and memories. Not only that, but it has also eliminated choice; at the age of twelve every member of the community is assigned a job based on his or her abilities and interests. Rules are set and citizens who violate rules are released and release in the community is death. Birthmothers never see their babies because they spend their first year in a Nurturing Center …show more content…

He thinks more seriously than the others do in his community about life, worrying about his own future as well as his friends. He enjoys learning and experiencing new things: he chooses to volunteer at a variety of different centers rather than focusing on one because he enjoys the freedom of choice that volunteer hours provide. Not only that but he also likes to be in contact with other people than his society permits or encourages. Virtually, Jonas is unique and unusual in a good way. At the Twelve Ceremony, he is selected to be the new Receiver of Memory, the most honored position in the community. Jonas by receiving these memories from the Giver has to retain all the abandoned memory of pain, war, and emotions and bear the pain alone so that the community can avoid the pain. Within a short time he gains wisdom from the memories he receives and realizes that people have given up their freedom for Sameness. He becomes angry and frustrated that is why he Risks his own life to save the citizens in his community. That is what I liked about Jonas’s character. He saw something different, something that would make the community he lives in better, so he decided to take an action and change the community forever. Even though he knows that he might be released for doing so because it is against society rules. However, his will and determination were the main motivation for

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The Giver is a novel by Lois Lowry, about a dystopian society. At the beginning of the book, Jonas was obedient and loyal to his community; but when he gets assigned the job of the receiver he gains knowledge about his community which including colors, animals, and most of all, feelings. When Jonas learns these things, his opinion about his community changes, and he starts to feel resentment, anger, and hatred. At the beginning of the book, Jonas felt loyal and obedient toward his community.

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Jonas as a character shows bravery or courage throughout the story in many different ways. To begin, he shows bravery and courage because he was told that he was able to take on what no one else in the Community could. Lois Lowry states in the novel, “‘But you will be faced, now,’ she explained gently, with pain of a magnitude that none of us here could comprehend because it is beyond our experience”(63).Lois also wrote, “‘But we feel certain that you are brave,’ she said to him”(63). These quotes are saying that they think that he is brave enough to face the pain of a magnitude or extent that only he and the Giver could understand because they in the Givers case was the receiver or in Jonas’s case is the

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This was when Jonas realized how important his new feelings were, “These were deeper and did not need to be told. They were felt.” (125) Jonas is the only person besides The Giver who can feel any feelings. Although this separates him from everyone else, it makes him different and he actually has emotions and he’s not living a dull life like everyone else. He gets to have memories like this, “I have many other memories of families, and holidays and happiness.

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As he believes that everyone choosing is bad but also thinking that choosing is important. After Jonas received the memory of war he “did not want to go back. He didn't want the memories, didn't want the honor, didn't want the wisdom, didn't want the pain. He wanted his childhood again, his scraped knees and ball games”(121). So Jonas is starting to push back and drift away from his society.

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The memories that Jonas is exposed to cause him to wish to escape his “perfect” community that has been kept the same for years. Once Jonas experiences these true emotions, he realizes that the feelings expressed in his society are nowhere near the level of depth that true feelings possess, thus reinforcing the theme. “But now Jonas had experienced real sadness... He knew that there was no quick comfort for emotions like those. These were deeper and they did not need to be told.

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Jonas goes through all the archetypal steps to become a hero. He goes through trials, love, and in the end the ultimate boon, where the goal of his journey, or quest, is

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He committed several transgressions during his revised escape plan: he stole food, he left his dwelling at night, and he stole his father’s bicycle so Gabe could be in the child seat. After receiving some of the memories, Jonas quickly knew things had to change, despite knowing he could never come back once he left. No one knows what would happen if Jonas was caught, though Jonas thought he would most likely be killed; in fact, the Giver even stated he didn’t have a memory for an escape like this. Jonas took a big risk in escaping like this, especially since he left two weeks before he meant to leave because of Gabe’s release. His rebellion was through taking Gabe so he wouldn’t be released, and forcing the community to bear the memories themselves.

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The Giver has some great giving news! Phillip Noyce is “movie crazy” which is a good thing because he’s unique compared to other directors! Since a early age Noyce, has experience with using cameras in his teenage years. Noyce has continued to make short documentaries on the more offbeat aspects of Australian life. The author Lois Lowry is a successful woman because she has written more than 20 books and with some novels, she has received award-winning awards.

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Literary Analysis: The Giver Imagine a world where everything seems perfect but truly it is not as pleasant as it appears. In The Giver by Lois Lowry shows us a community in the future with no feelings at all. Jonas a twelve year old boy knows his life as it is and one evening he learns the truth about the community. Jonas set’s off into a adventure to change it all. Character,conflict,and symbolism makes the reader see thru the eyes of a twelve year old in a place of slavery disguised without anyone knowing it.

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Jonas hates how his society decides to keep memories a secret from everyone. Jonas remarks: “The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared” (Lowry 154). Jonas feels that memories, whether it be good or bad, should be shared with everyone.

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3. I think that Lois Lowry chose Jonas as the main character's name because in the bible Jonah was commissioned by the lord to proclaim judgment upon a sinful city, and i think that jonas is going to realise that the communities way of life is very unfair and is not okay. I think that Jonas will try to change how the community is. Just like how Jonah proclaimed judgment upon a sinful city in the

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