1. The Giver by Lois Lowery is in a futuristic community wheres theres no color, no feelings, and everyone is pretty much the same. The main character, Jonas, however has always felt like he's different from everyone else, but doesn't quite know how to describe it. At the age of twelve, every twelve year old in the community gets placed in a career that the government assigns them for the rest of their life. Jonas was the last one called, and finally he was called up to be the new Memory of receiver because he's "different" from everybody else. On his first day, the receiver gives Jonas a happy memory, and Jonas wonders why the government took this away from everybody. Throughout the book, The Giver shares sad, happy, exciting nervous, traumatizing, and horrid memories of the past. Jonas isn't aloud to share these memories of the past with anybody because it causes pain and indifference. He didn't think this was right and wanted to create a plan to cross the border of his community and release all memory back to the people. Jonas and the Giver plotted a scheme for Jonas to escape and risk his life. After almost getting caught, and escaping a near death experience, he lived a memory that the Giver gave to him to give him strength. Jonas crossed the border, and finally all the memory was released.
2. The theme in this book is, memories and individuality is what makes the world unique. I believe Lowery chose to write about this because so many people want to be like each other or copy one another such as celebrities. However, if everybody was the same the world would be so boring. Also, I think Lowery wants us to cherish and share our memories especially the happy one, so that they will never be forgotten.
3.The protagonist is a dynamic and round character because he changes throughout the course of the story. For example, in the beginning of the book, Jonas had no problem with his community, however by the end he though it was wrong and awful, which made him set a plan to change the community. This sparked after the Giver had shared with him all the past memories of the world that nobody knows about.
4. The major symbols in the story include the senses such as hearing, seeing, and feeling. No one could see color or feel feelings such as frightfulness and happiness except for Jonas. Another huge symbol was Jonas's first memory of him sledding down a hill in the snow because by living this pacific memory, is how Jonas escaped his society.
5. I chose this book because my friend had read it and told me good things about it. Also, it had recently came out in theaters and the previews had appealed to me. However, I wanted to read the book first, so that I'm able to compare the book to the movie. When I began the book, it made me want to keep reading because it started as a sort of suspense of why Jonas was different from everybody else and I wanted to find out why.
6. It's hard to personally relate myself to this book because I and most everyone around me can see color as well as have our own feelings. However, everybody is different in looks and personality kinda how Jonas felt toward everybody else.
7. A part I expect to remember was when Jonas took Gabriel, the baby who has the same "ability" as him, with him when he escaped. Jonas could have gotten away a lot easier and faster, but instead he saved from dying and took him with him. "For Gabriel there would have been no life at all. So there had not really been a choice."
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