The Giver Hero’s Journey "A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself." Joseph Campbell. Jonas from Lois Lowry’s The Giver makes that example true by making the choice to fight against the community. While his journey might differ slightly from what is considered an orthodox Hero’s Journey, he still has a journey consisting of steps and goals.
In The Giver by Lois Lowry, the main character, Jonas, can undoubtedly be considered a hero. Jonas’ actions throughout The Giver are a quality example of the archetypal pattern of the Hero’s journey, and to depict this I used a variety of text, illustration, and color throughout my graphic novel. Jonas undergoes all three stages of the hero’s journey throughout the novel. He experiences the first step in this journey, the call to adventure, when he is selected to be the Receiver of Memory. Jonas, like most archetypal heroes during this step, notes that he believes that his life will change due to this call to a mysterious adventure.
What if you were to get stranded on a island? Would your personality change? Or would it stay the same? In the book Lord Of The Flies by William Golding, a group of British boys crash on an island, with no way out. They can be hopeful, but the situation is not looking good for them.
Change by Taylor W Sometimes rules must be broken in order to be free, even if following the rules was all he has ever known. In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas the main character changed through the novel. Jonas followed all the rules in the beginning but then in the book he changes and realizes he must break rules to be happy. Jonas knew the risk of breaking rules but would the cost be worth the punishment he will face of being released.
Imagine living in a world with no freedom, choice, individuality, and color. Would you want to live in a world like this? Most of you would have said no, but a boy named Jonas has no choice, but to adhere to his community’s rules. In the book and the movie, “The Giver”, by Louis Lowery, Jonas finds it difficult to accept his community’s way of life. However, after he becomes the receiver of memory, he challenges the community after discovering what the world used to be like before sameness.
The Giver and other dystopian novels like Fahrenheit 451 have some similarities and differences in the story line. First, The Giver and Fahrenheit 451 both share the fact that people are being controlled on the amount of knowledge that they know. Additionally, both societies have no idea of how they came to be. On the other hand, in The Giver Jonas slowly starts to realize that something about him is changing because he can see the color red but, in Fahrenheit 451 Guy Montag just wants to take a risk because of his curiosity. Second, in Fahrenheit 451, Montag is a “firefighter” except, in his society he starts the fire instead of putting them out, while in The Giver the jobs/assignments are practical for everyday life in the community.
The Giver To start off, I think that Lois Lowry wrote this book for three reasons. I think she wanted to tell all the children in the world that if we allow too much power, our community will be lifeless, and emotionless. I also think that she wrote this to tell us about what is also happening in our world right now. The last reason that I think she wrote this book is about the condition of her father, who lost his memory and wants to show us that without memories, we are truly lost.
Jonas in the novel “The Giver” goes throughout changes as a character after becoming the receiver of memory in the community. He goes from being oblivious to the past like everyone else in the community, to becoming mature in his knowledge. There are three points on how Jonas changed drastically as a person. For being a young man and being oblivious to all these memories and thoughts, to literally them being transferred to you from a man in quick time can drastically change you and make a person have a different look at things. Let’s follow along as we explore on how Jonas changed in the novel.
The giver by Lois Lowry- Analytical essay ________________________________________________________ What if we lived in a world of peace and equality? What if we lived in a world with no differences? A world with no social classes and inequality. That sounds pretty amazing doesn’t it?
Here are two societies. One is the society in The Giver movie; there is no war, crime, and hunger. Every person has a job although the job is assigned by the government. Another society is the one in “Fahrenheit 451”. Firemen are people whose job is to hunt down and burn books in the society.
Literary Analysis: The Giver Imagine a world where everything seems perfect but truly it is not as pleasant as it appears. In The Giver by Lois Lowry shows us a community in the future with no feelings at all. Jonas a twelve year old boy knows his life as it is and one evening he learns the truth about the community. Jonas set’s off into a adventure to change it all. Character,conflict,and symbolism makes the reader see thru the eyes of a twelve year old in a place of slavery disguised without anyone knowing it.
Modern Society V.S. The Givers Society Imagine living in a world where people have to do and say certain things. In The Giver they have to follow a lot of things, unlike our society where we have lots of freedom. The Giver has many different rules, technology, and precision of language unlike our society. Even though modern day society and The Givers society is somewhat similar, they do have many differences.
Imagine living in a community where one person is chosen to hold all of the world´s memories. Being alone, afraid and separate. Jonas has been through all of these emotions as the Receiver. Jonas's assignment to be the Receiver of Memory is a punishment. Jonas has to receive painful and harsh memories from the Giver, that no one else has to have.
A dystopia and a utopia are two very different things. A utopia is a world where everything is perfect and there is no crime or poverty, while a dystopia is the complete opposite. Both of these words have been used to describe Lois Lowry’s young adult fiction novel The Giver. This novel is a very controversial work, with many wanting it to be banned from schools for exploiting bad parts of government, among other things. Specifically, the bad government in The Giver is the Committee of Elders, who made the choice of moving the community to Sameness, which has parallel views to socialism and communism.
Wars have been fought. People have gone mad. The entire world cannot seem to agree on the answer to one question: what is the meaning of life? In Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver, the community and the Elders who run it have their own answer-- to be a part of society and keep the community “perfect”.
