Jonas’s experiences throughout the Giver go from being a normal everyday boy in this “perfect” community to becoming The Reciever, which is the highest honored job in the community. The ups and downs of learning the truth about the community in which he lives forces him to make some tough decisions for himself and others. In this essay I will be talking more about how Jonas’s stance on the communities ideals of peace over freedom, sameness, and the communities love of rules changes after gaining feelings and memories.
In the beginning of the Giver Jonas believes that peace is better than freedom. He believes this due to the large amount of influence that the community has on its inhabitants. He thinks that if you don’t have to make these decisions and basically your life is planned for you, (giving them no choice or freedom over what they want to do), that is better than having to make decisions for yourself. Many of the realizations and new knowledge Jonas receives from the memories make him see the bigger picture. He sees how the community's way of managing people is not letting them have their own freedom, which Jonas now craves after getting the memories. This reflection causes Jonas to change his stance on the community’s view of peace over freedom.
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Jonas lives his whole life in sameness. Everything is in black and white, no one sees color. When he begins to get the memories, he sees all of these things for the first time. Green,blue and red are things that he didn’t know existed. Osce he sees these things he realizes how much everyone is missing out on wonderful things that they’ll never know existed. In the beginning of the Giver, Jonas believes that sameness is a great way of life. And at the end, he realizes how terrible that sameness really