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How Does The Giver's Perception Of The Community Change

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“Take the trouble to stop and think of the other person's feelings, his viewpoints, his desires and needs. Think more of what the other fellow wants, and how he must feel.” --Maxwell Maltz. This quote means that you need to follow your path of what is in your own eyes. 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 …show more content…

Jonas is finding out that not everyone in the community can see color or know about the past at all: “‘But I want them!’ Jonasretortedy. ‘It isn't fair that nothing has color.’ ‘Not fair?’ The Giver looked at Jonas' curiosity ‘Explain what you mean’ ‘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?” (Lowry 122). After the Giver transmits Jonas the memory of sunshine Jonas is now starting to get angry at the fact that the other people in the community can't see color or make their own choices. So now he is starting to feel unsure about the community because the community decided to go to the Sameness and took that right away from them and he is not happy with …show more content…

Jonas is starting to realize that he has saved everyone by giving the people in the community the memories he had: “He heard people singing. Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo” (Lowry 225). Jonas just got to the top of the mountain with Gabe and is starting to hear people singing. Jonas is starting to realize that there is more than what is just in the community. Jonas is also starting to realize that he can save the people from Sameness by releasing the memories back to

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As Jonas gains more and more wisdom from the memories he starts to realize the flaws of society, leading him to start pushing back. After gaining the memory of color Jonas starts to realize that “ ‘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).

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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.

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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.

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