Book Project #2

Individual Reading Project #2

 The Giver by Lois Lowry

Key Events

Effects on Character

Jonas gets elected to be receiver of Memories in the ceremony of Twelves. He learns that he will no longer have to follow directions like everyone else in the community and also learns that his job will be extremely painful which causes him anxiety and curiosity.  The Giver begins to transmit memories to him. Gabriel is sent to stay with Jonas's dad for a couple of days. Jonas shares few memories with Gabriel. Jonas is aware that his fathers job is to "release" babies in which he becomes very emotional with the idea. Jonas escapes with Gabriel (who will be released.)

Jonas is terrified of how will it affect him and how much pain will it cause. Jonas feels curious as if why is he being treated differently. He's nervous on how will the memories be and how they will feel. Jonas begins to be extremely curious and begins to give little Gabriel some of his memories Jonas becomes very angry at his dad when he finds out that his father murders babies in order to keep the town from over population. Jonas doesn't want Gabriel to be murdered so he decides to run away with him in which the Giver helps them but, they where never able to reach another community.

Written Response:

     In the story The Giver by Lois Lowry, the theme in this realistic fiction novel is to learn from mistakes and without the constant teachings and memories of those mistakes we cannot act. Throughout the book you can see that the community was all the same they didn't accept change they wanted everyone and everything to be the same and a community cannot work like that. A community becomes stronger by learning from mistakes and how can there ever be mistakes if everyone is forced to do the same things. I say this because since Jonas was never prepared to follow such an important role in the community and the community didn't learn from their first mistake then the second outcome would be no different. In the story the author portrayed the theme in every character in Jonas it made him know that the community would go in to chaos if he left and so did the giver. Since the community was never prepared for something like that to happen they didn't know what to do.