The Giver Quotes

(MIP-1) Before meeting the giver, Jonas was an ordinary boy who would follow his society’s rules. (SIP-1) Jonas is an obedient boy who would follow any rules that were set for him, he wouldn’t dare break one. (STEWE-1) After he saw the fighter Jet zoom across his community he would hear “LEAVE YOUR BICYCLES WHERE THEY ARE’ Instantly, Obediently Jonas had dropped his bike on its side on the path behind his family’s dwelling” (Lowry, 2) Jonas would immediately obey the voice, even though he doesn’t know who it is, or what is going on. A normal person would have started to question what was going on, and even panic. (STEWE-2) During a game of soccer, Asher would clumsy lose the game for them and Jonas would say to him a prohibited word. “That’s

(STEWE-2) While walking to school, Jonas heard the announcement “Everyone had known, he remembered with humiliation, that the announcement ATTENTION. THIS IS A REMINDER TO MALE ELEVENS THAT OBJECTS ARE NOT TO BE REMOVED FROM THE RECREATION AREA AND THAT SNACKS ARE TO BE EATEN, NOT HOARDED had been specifically directed at him, the day last month that he had taken an apple home. No one had mentioned it, not even his parents, because the public announcement had been sufficient to produce the appropriate remorse. He had, of course, disposed of the apple and made his apology to the Recreation Director the next morning, before school.” (Lowry, 34) Jonas knows that the community uses embarrassment to enforce the rules, he knows that he doesn't want to embarrass himself, and he doesn't want anybody else to be embarrassed, so he thinks in a way that the community is doing a good job.(CS) In this entire section, Jonas is a boy who is like any other in his

(STEWE-1) After seeing an infant being released by his father, he starts to realize that his society is a horrible one “He killed it! My father killed it!’ Jonas said to himself, stunned at what he was realizing he continued to stare at the screen numbly.” (Lowry 151) After seeing an infant being released by his father, he feels disgusted, and sad. He does not believe what his community is doing to infants, and that causes Jonas to reject his society even further. (STEWE-2) Before Gabe’s release ceremony Jonas had to stop and think about gabe. “It’s bye bye to you Gabe.” (Lowry 159) After realizing that Jonas’s father will release the newchild in the house. He doesn’t want gabe to die, and so he takes Gabe with him to the trip to elsewhere. He cares about gabe, and that would even further decrease his interest due to him releasing one of his favorite people, just because he was weak.(SIP-B) After realizing what horrible things the community has done to him and his peers, he decides to run away.(STEWE-1) After finally having the strength and courage to leave the community, he is ready to go Before he leaves, he says his final message to the Giver “Giver’, Jonas suggested, ‘You and I don’t need to care about the rest of them” (Lowry, 156) He says