The GIVER PAPER ASSIGNMENT

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February 09, 2020

In the novel, Jonas is the main character. He's a 12-year-old sensitive, friendly,

compassionate man. Jonas is a creative personage. Due to its experiences and actions, he

changes during the novel. Toward the beginning of the novel, Jonas is similarly as indifferent

about how he lives as anyone else. He became matured with rules, the right language and a

family that is not physically (biologically) related. He grasped (embraced) the style of life since

he knows no other sort of creation.

The Provider is the present "Receiver of Memory", an old man with facial hair and pale

eyes similar to Jonas. He worries about the concern of the world's recollections (memories) and

experiences the discomfort of recollections. The Giver is lonely on the grounds that he can't

impart his work to anybody in the society (they could never comprehend). His life in the

community eye is completely unique from that of others. He remains in the room, which is

known as the Annex, room, unlike the other group members' dwellings. He can lock up his

entryway (door) and switch off the loudspeaker; he has luxurious materials (fabrics) fixed with

racks through and through (top to bottom), holding plenty of books on his furniture, and walls.

These amenities isolate The Giver from other community-dwellers.

Jonas happens to be chosen at the December Ceremony latest (new) 'Receiver of

Memory', the community's extremely respected status (position). At the point when he receives

the memories and knowledge of 'The Giver', he finds reality with regards to his culture, that

happens to be a lie, and that the individuals have surrendered their freedom and dignity to live

like machines on their own. Jonas' character changes and turns out to be increasingly

unpredictable. He is having an internal clash since he comes up short on his previous lifestyle,

youth, and guiltlessness, but since he has found out a lot about delight, love, and color, he can't

come back to his previous lifestyle. Jonas recognizes his life could never be anymore "ordinary".
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Jonas was thinking and acting like every other person before turning into the 'Receiver of

Memory'. At the point when he began encountering the recollections, he realized his group was

having a major issue. Nobody felt torment, either, however, nobody felt joy. The Jonas' first

insight (realization) came too was that his colleagues didn't comprehend the idea of war. finds

disappointment about playing the game of war with his friend Asher. "You didn't have any way

to know this. Until recently, I didn't know it myself. But it's a cruel game. There's been" (Ch. 17)

in the past. Asher does not comprehend. It allows the boys to isolate themselves.

Jonas continues not being like anybody else. Jonas is horrified when he discovers what

'Release' actually implies. He called for a ceremonial function and watches his dad euthanize a

child that is alive and well since he is a twin. He just killed it! My father killed it! Jonas said to

himself, stunned by what he knew. He'd looked insensibly at the screen (Ch.19). At this point,

Jonas chooses he needs to give individuals the recollections so they can feel affection (love) and

acknowledge what suffering truly is. He does not want his men to be oblivious anymore. For this

to occur, he needs to leave. Jonas and 'The Giver' plan to get him to get away and have 'The

Giver' assist individuals with managing the reestablished recollections from which they were

protected.

Jonas is additionally baffled and irritated as he needs to change his associates and, in this

manner, leave Sameness. He realizes that if only they would—or could—reclaim their

individuality the community and the life of each person will benefit. Jonas knows that if he

continued to live within the world as it is, his life would never again worth living. Jonas, an

extraordinarily gutsy and daring character, endangers his life to prevent the individuals in the

society from their own ridiculous cruelty. He and baby, Gabriel, flee from the town. Jonas stays

frightened yet he is ready to go into battle for their survival. Despite the fact that we don't have a
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clue how the experiences of Jonas at last influence him or his locale (community), we do realize

that he is developing (maturing) and that he feels thrilled and glad as he and Gabriel ride the sled

down the hill.

The society (community) was not worthy of being held together for one thing, because it

was predicated on cruel falsehoods and cruel regulatory controls. It would have been enough of a

justification for Jonas to take Gabriel away from the community to a better life to find that his

father was a little better than a killer. Jonas had learned enough from The Giver to understand

that out of their tiny world there must be life, and he hoped to raise his brother in a place where

freedom and individuality were important.

Within two weeks, Jonas planned to escape from the community, during the annual

Ceremony. He and the Giver had carefully planned it all. The Giver would give him memories of

courage and strength to manage the challenges he would face during and after his escape. The

Giver would also save Jonas food from his own meals so he could take it with him for two weeks

to get enough sustenance. He'd ask for a vehicle and hide Jonas in their storage area. Then, he

would drive him out of the community. A search would be made, and the bicycle and clothing of

Jonas would later be found next to the river. The Giver would then report losing himself in the

river.

The plan appeared to be good and would work. However, when his father said at the

evening meal that Gabriel would be released first thing the next morning, Jonas took the decision

not to wait. Jonas had learned that release would kill Gabriel. The Giver had shown him a

recording depicting how his father released a smaller twin. Jonas was shocked when he saw his

father by lethal injection kill the baby and then disposing of the body. As his father announced

that Gabriel, the troubled infant they had been caring for, had his chance and that his time was
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up, Jonas wanted to save him. Jonas loved Gabriel and took special care of him by giving

pleasant memories to the newborn, which calmed him down and eased his sleep. Before it was

collected, Jonas took leftover food from the doorways of the neighbors and decided to escape by

stealing his father's bicycle.

The individuals have sacrificed their liberty and autonomy to the society in which Jonas

resides. At certain ages, kids are provided with specific things, their hair is worn by one way or

another at a specific age, and when they become aged (old), their lifestyle is selected for them in

an anonymous, everlasting society. Nevertheless, after Jonas has been decided to turn into 'The

Giver' who is the storeroom of recollections of the previous defective world, he begins to recall

what was relinquished for their comfort and security in the lives of the citizens. For some time,

he is feeling suffering now; however, he knows prettiness and pleasure as well. Likewise, he's

not the same as others, an individual with his own thoughts and emotions, not mutual ones. Jonas

experiences he's truly alive for the first time, and he's shocked at other people who are happy

with their lives that didn't take on any of the vibrancy his own had.

Since Jonas knows "reality and creators"— altogether which has been real with his

possibility of creativity in the other world—he despises (hates) living in the dull, colorless

universe of conformity. He in this way protects Gabriel from being rejected as substandard

(inferior) and escapes from his fake (artificial) society. They hide from the search planes until

they enter the real world of birds and deer and wind, and snow and light and vibrant life with all

their possibilities. This was entirely new to him. He was awakened after an existence of

Sameness and consistency by the astonishments that lie further than each twist of the road-he

had never experienced such ordinary instants of elegant gladness.

Throughout the novel, the author portrays the dangers that exist when individuals choose

conformity over individuality and unexamined security over liberty. The people who inhabited

the community of Jonas at one time in the past intended to create a perfect society. They thought

the community would be safe by protecting the citizens from making the wrong choices (through

having no choice). But the utopian ideals went awry, and through social conditioning and

language, people became controlled and manipulated. Even the word "love" is a hollow dream,

now. For example, when Jonas asks his parents whether they love him, he is scolded by his

mother for using imprecise language. She says "love" is "a very abstract term, so meaningless

that it's almost obsolete." But love is a very real feeling to Jonas, though (Ch.21).

Lowry highlights the point that people should not be blindly obedient to societal rules.

They have to be aware of everything about their lives and have to question it all. The citizens

passively accept all of the rules and customs in the culture of Jonas. They never question the fact

that they kill certain babies simply because such babies are different, or that they kill old people

whom they determine are no longer productive for the community. The members of the

community unquestionably follow rules; over time, as killing has become a routine practice, they

are not spiritually, emotionally or ethically disturbed by terrible and senseless acts. As ‘The

Giver’ says of the killing of the lighter-weight twin male by Jonas' father, "It is what he was told

to do, and he knows nothing else" (Ch. 20). It is clear then that the situation is not as

straightforward as it first appears. To sum up, a person has to experience pain and happiness to

really live; he/she has to make choices and have free will. A person is no more than a mere

automaton without those basic elements of life. So, when Jonas flees with Gabriel, they choose

to leave Emerson's "conspiracy of society" because they discover a world in which they can

control their own destinies and live as free human beings.

Work Cited

Lowry, Lois. “The Giver (Newbery Medal Book)”. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, April 26, 1993.