Jonas's Personality In The Giver By Lois Lowry

In the novel The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas’s personality is introversion for many reasons. When Jonas gets the job as the Receiver of Memory, he doesn’t like it and he thinks to himself, “No, I don’t. I can’t,” and throw himself on their mercy, ask for forgiveness, to explain that he had been wrongly chosen, that he was not the right one at all”(63). Jonas gets selected as the Receiver of Memory but he doesn’t want to because in his head he is scared of the pain, but his heart is telling him to do it, so he does. It shows that Jonas uses his heart instead of his head. When Jonas’s family was sharing their dreams, and it was Jonas’s turn he said to himself, “He knew he had to tell it all, that it was not only right but necessary to tell all