Character Analysis Of Jonas In The Giver By Lois Lowry

Throughout the book, The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas’s character has changed drastically. Once Jonas realized that he was living a lie, he evolved, creating a different personality. He became stronger, more independent, and started to question everything he thought he knew. Jonas lived in a community that seemed to be perfect. The Council of Elders decide every part of the citizen’s lives for them, and everyone thinks it is the obvious way to run things. Transgressions were committed rarely, and when they do occur they are resolved quickly with chastising or in extreme cases release from the community. The community is told that release is a form of letting someone go from the community. When anyone turns twelve, they receive a job placement from the Council of Elders based on their interests and skills. The children are usually always very adept at what they are chosen for. Jonas was chosen for the special job of receiver of memories. He learned about the generations and events that came before the community from the Giver. Some of them good, some of them causing him terrible anguish, but he had to receive them all. He learned about real emotions and
The communities secrets were no longer in the dark for him. He learned about the flaws in his communities system. The most surprising and devastating thing he learned was that they had taken away from them the feelings of love and real emotions in general. He became much more sensitive towards everything. What used to be just innocent games of battle between children, turned into flashbacks of war and terror from the past. He knew that some memories were painful but there was also pleasant ones mixed in. They really opened his eyes to how much the community was missing. He felt sorry for them. This caused him to turn into a person that was emotional, brave, considerate, curios and most of all different or