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Jonas Noticed something change about his apple and he has never seen it happen before. The book that i will be doing my character analysis from is “The Giver” by Lois Lowry. My character analysis is on Jonas who is the new receiver in training who learns and sees things that nobody else in his community can. Jonas is emotionally and physically attracted to the color red.
My first piece of evidence to prove my thesis is from when Jonas experienced war. When he was in the war he saw a boy who said “ water, he begged again. When he spoke, a new spurt of blood drenched the coarse cloth across his chest and sleeve. One of Jonas’s arms was immobilized with pain, and he could see through his own torn sleeve something that looked like ragged and
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