Jonas is the main character in The Giver by Lois Lowry. In Jonas’s community it’s natural to be doing everything the loudspeaker says, it is the way to surrvive. Only Jonas and the Giver can see in color. Everyone in Jonas’s community thinks it is natrual that the leaders can listen to every conversation. All adults have to apply for a spouse and children. Which means you get assigned to a family unit. Not very many people are even aware there is much life outside of the community because it is so closed. But, most of all no one even knows that when someone is to be released it means you are killed with euthanasia, except for Jonas and the Giver. No one even knows of the concept of death.…
In conclusion, Jonas’ society was striving for a utopian society, but after taking away color, making all the weather the same, and revoking memories all of this turned into a dystopian society so when Jonas finally decides he wants to escape to make it all equal again. While in modern day society everything’s already the same our colors, we all have our own memories, and have bipolar weather, but that’s what makes our society unique. It’s all…
The residents in Jonas’ community living in an oppressive and deprived world are treated less than a human being throughout the book. As Jonas gains more knowledge, Jonas and The Giver discuss the big flaws of the community and during the first couple months of training, he is very uncomfortable talking about the flaws of the “perfect” community that he believed in and breaking the rules that he had followed for twelve years of his life. For example, while having a discussion with The Giver during his training session, “[Jonas] glanced quickly at the wall speaker, terrified that the Committee might be listening as they could at any time” (Lowry, 132). Every house has a speaker and the speaker is used to make announcements and enforce rules; the community members are used to their every move being watched and scrutinized by the speaker. While Jonas never addresses the role of the speaker, he shows discomfort with speaking about things that he does not want The Elders to know about during…
Jonas was now twelve, which meant he was an adult, just like his parents. He was given an assignment, which would be his job for the rest of his life. When you became twelve you, were officially an adult and were given a job. Unlike in society today you officially become an adult when you turn eighteen. That is when you can make your own dissentions and work were ever you want to.…
Jonas lives in a "perfect" world. The Community has eradicated war, disease, and suffering. Everything is in order; everything is under control. The people have no worries or cares. The Community strives for "sameness," in which everyone and everything are the same and equal. Each member is assigned a position in society to help the…
4. What is “Sameness?” Come up with a definition of the word! In this community, the government wants to have total control over everything to make it the same. Sameness is…
The Characters in The Giver and Pleasantville are both alike for many reasons. One example that they are alike is the main focus; they both are about their own version of perfect worlds. In The Giver, the society has no pain or fear everything in the society is controlled and planned out. “How could someone not fit in? The community was so meticulously ordered, the choices so carefully made.” In Pleasantville the town has no emotion other than happy and perfect. In gym class all the boys make perfect shots in the basketball hoop, nothing is out of place or goes wrong in this world.…
Jonas was walking out of the auditorium and people were looking at him gruesomely and avoiding him and he is thinking, “ Jonas felt separate, different. He remembered what the Chief Elder had said: that his training would be alone and apart. But his training has not yet begun and already, upon leaving the Auditorium, he felt the apartness.” (62) Therefore, when he got his assignment, he felt separate from all of the other kids who got regular jobs and not the greatest job of the whole community and he felt apart from the other kids and even his family. When Jonas had a day off because of a holiday, he went to the park and he saw the kids playing a game of war, and when he confronted Ashur, Ashur said, “ Whatever. [he] cannot say what we play, even if [he] is going to be the new Receiver.” Ashur looked warily at him. “ I apologize for not paying [he] the respect [he] deserve.” (127) Therefore, Jonas feels separate from his peers, because they do not know what actually happened and what that game used to be. When he confronted them, they made fun of him for being the Receiver and that he cannot just stop their game just because he is going to be in the highest job in the community. In his directions that he got, because he got the assignment to become the Receiver of Memory, the directions say, “ Do not discuss [his] training with any members of the community, including…
Rules on bikes, lying and clothing are all examples of how are and jonas’s societies are different.…
In chapter 12, on page 88, the book states “again and again, as he slept, he had slid down that snow-covered hill. Always, in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something-he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place where the thickness of snow brought the sled to a stop.” In chapter 16, on page 129, the author writes, “the next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take the pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away.” The ‘something’ that Jonas could not grab was most likely the feeling of all those emotions in the memory, the feelings he incapable of feeling clawing out at him, muffled by the communities influence. The second piece of evidence shows something vital-Jonas’s first time breaking a major rule. The Dominoes are nearing the final piece. Not taking the pill as seen is the cause of the memories influencing him, isolating him from the community, not physically but…
Imagine a perfect society where there is no lying, and no war. Pretty awesome society right? One thing, they don’t have emotions, color or fun. Think would you like to live in this society and why or why not? Jonas lives in a society that isn’t very interesting.…
Jonas realizes and chooses to leave the town, but as he does, he hears that Gabriel, a child his father is currently in care for, “will…be released... First thing tomorrow morning”, as he is an underdeveloped infant. Jonas takes Gabriel with him as he bikes off out to “Else-where” (165-166). As they reach “Else-Where” Jonas remarks about himself being able to “remember [this] place” but the experience “was not the grasping of a thin and burdensome recollection…[the experience] was different” and “for the first time” he “heard something he knew to be music… he heard people singing”(178-180). Jonas realizes the fallacies within the dystopia of the “town” he lives in, and runs away, reliving the town of an important role they rely on. As he finally reaches elsewhere with the baby, he realizes that this was familiar in a way unlike the memories he was given, however, this was something else entirely, a memory he has actually experienced. He begins to fathom…
Jonas lives in a community where pain, rudeness, and war are non-existent. All children undergoes a ceremony in December every year until they reach twelve years of age, at which point they receive their Assignments, the jobs they will perform as adults. A committee of Elders carefully watches each child in order to determine which adult occupation best suits his or her talents and interests. The committee also takes the greatest care in matching spouses in order to ensure stable marriages. No couple is allowed to raise children until the committee determines they are capable of being good parents. Every day, families undergo rituals of sharing, in which they analyze their feelings and dreams with one another. As his Ceremony of Twelve approaches, Jonas is apprehensive because he has no idea what Assignment he will receive. His parents try to allay his fears by explaining that the committee takes Assignments very seriously, so they rarely make the wrong choices. Meanwhile, Jonas' family begins temporarily caring for a newchild, or infant, named Gabriel. Gabriel is lagging behind the other newchildren in development, so Jonas's father, a Nurturer, decides to care for Gabriel in his home at night in the hopes that it will help Gabriel catch up with the other newchildren.…
What if people lived in a world where there was no cultures, no religion, no languages, no races, a world where everything was the same? In the futuristic world of the Giver all the people wear graym with the same haircut and no colors. Although some people may claim the world in the fiction novel The Giver by Lois Lowry is a utopia, it is a dystopia because sameness means there is no diversity which takes away from being human. Although sameness solves many of this world’s problems, it is not worth giving up diversity. In the story, as Jonas continues with his training he starts a conversation with The Giver about sameness. The Giver says “It wasn’t practical so it became obsolete when we went sameness. (...) Trucks; buses, slowed them down.…
Sameness is bad because there is no emotion. Everyone would feel no emotion toward each other. In The Giver, Jonas likes Fiona but she does not like him back, and Jonas loves his family but it is hard for them to love him back. So there is no emotion. And in our world there is no emotion.…