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Jonas 'Change In The Giver': Chapter Summary

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Is a perfect world worth living during slavery or under control? An example of Jonas was changed to be from an Eleven to a Twelve .Also when he started to see them as strings.Are when he began receiving memories of other peoples past lives. Jonas was a kid who didn't know anything . He never knew what were colors nor what an airplane was.Jonas was very intelligent, he had a bright future.Chapter 6 he was at the ceremony of Twelves.He was nervous and scared ! Jonas got chosen to be the new receiver of memories .That's when his challenge finally began.Jonas immediately knows his challenge is not going be easy. When Jonas received his rules were very difficult.Jonas had hours of training .He had pain he couldn't explain, but he couldn't …show more content…

Jonas challenge continued when he had to go through physical and mental pain.Jonas had a hard time keeping his training as a secret . He wanted to tell all his friends and family about it .he started wondering what happen to the previous girl recovers. He started having weird dreams.But he liked them then because they had a certain girl name Fiona in the dreams. They gave him some pills to stop them, but he didn't take them .He developed colors in his eyes ! During Jonas new task he begins to form into a mature young man. Joas evolves into a mature young adult after all the pain .He gets help turning into a man by a man named the Giver . After watching his father releasing a twin baby, Jonas wanted to kill him. Jonas had to man up ,forgive his father and get ready to take up on a big task .Feelings are not a part of his life during training . Jonas thinks his world is really perfect until he realized it's really not . Jonas change in a lot of ways .He had to become mature at a young age.He had a lot of challenges to complete.He had to achieve hard goals in life that he didn't know about. Jonas had to really realize what's real and what's not , he gained a lot of memories . He got memories of things he never heard or knew about , he found out what

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He had to face the trials of his new job. He must complete the task that were give to him. This meant accepting memories that were both joyful and painful. He also had to overcome the fear of being the receiver which wasn’t always easy for him. “Jonas did not want to go back.

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He also commented that people had said that she asked for release, the memories were transmitted to the citizens, leaving them with pain and anger, also the giver was left with a little sadness and anger too. Jonas thought that he would never disappoint the giver, also he would never ask for release, but still he felt lonely

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It is obvious that even the smallest mistake- the removal of an apple from the playard- caused a public announcement to be made directly at Jonas causing him embarrassment and the sense that he should never do anything like

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This knowledge of pain changed Jonas's likes because when he was told that his training would include pain, he was not so sure that he wanted to receive memories. Now that he knows what pain is, he still wants to receive the memories that The Giver has to offer. Right after Jonas was given a memory of love, he said, "I liked the feeling of love. I wish we still had that."(158). Ths memory in particular is one that Jonas cherishes.

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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.

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Slavery: Negative for slaveholders, as well as, slaves. In the mid 1800s Frederick Douglass grew up, suffered, and conquered slavery. He matured into a brave young adult and went forward with writing his personal experience of slavery, and shared with the readers how slavery impacted his life, his family’s lives, and the slave-holder’s lives. This Narrative has truly been a blessing to generations, and has opened the eyes of all ethnicities around the world.

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Jonas also found out what it means to starve. This was very hard for him, he now realized that all places are not like his community where everyone is all the same and had everything provided for them. If Jonas had had lots of innocence, he would not have been starving, he would of stayed in his community. This is shown in the following quote, “Jonas remembered, suddenly and grimly , the time in his childhood when he had been chastised for a misusing a word. The word had been “starving.”

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The last extreme change is that we have emotions, feelings and we can see color, Jonas’s society is so much about equality that they don 't want anyone to be different or they fear that the people will have the power to chose what they want to do. Today 's society and Jonas’s have some similarities. Such as, in both children are given comfort objects to help them through rough times. Well just like in The Giver all children go to school in our country too.

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Outline Imagine being chosen a job for a lifetime, but this job had a lot of pain, and loneliness. Well that what it was like for Jonas. Which makes Jonas being selected to be the receiver of memory is more like a punishment than an honor. Jonas has to deal with the pain that comes from the memories. He is missing out on things others can do.

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