The book The Giver is a story written by Lowis Lowry and depicts life inside of a utopian society. The protagonist, Jonas, Is a boy who lives in a community. When the community was founded, the leaders scientifically made it so that all of the people were the same, with the exception of their personalities. This sameness prevented the residences from being able to make decisions on their own by assigning them jobs, spouses, and children. When Jonas came of age he was assigned a job as the giver. This job requires him to receive all of the memories from before the community was set up. While in training he learned that while sameness helped keep everything peaceful, it also kept the joy of having choices. After learning that the child his family was fostering would be killed, Jonas took the child and left the community, causing all of his memories of joy, pain, and sadness to be dispersed into the people living in the community. In this story Jonas’s change in characterization plays a big part in the development of the plot. …show more content…
He is given the job after the Elders notice he has the ability to see beyond, which means he can see colors. With his new job he must receive all of the memories from the giver. He receives both good and bad memories that shape his perspective on life in the community. The Giver started him out with happy memories to help him from being overexposed with the bad ones. These memories had a big impact on Jonas’s views of the community because it made him realize what the sameness was keeping from them “Well... , Jonas had to stop and think it through. If everything’s the same, then there aren't any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things! A blue tunic, or a red one?”(97). That shows how Jonas disagrees with the way the community keeps everyone from making