(Author's Note: This is a Character development piece)
Jonas is a normal kid living in the future where there is neither pleasure nor pain. That is until he has been given the high honor of receiving all the memories from the past. His mentor, “The Giver”, teaches him about how many necessary things in our time get lost into a future with no difference. Jonas receives memories of sledding, sunshine, sailboats, and other fantastic things, and he is the only one who can actually feel happy. However, he also acquires memory of war and hate, making him the only one who can feel pain. He feels alone, because he wishes some of his friends could comprehend what he is feeling.
Jonas is a normal kid living in the future where there is neither pleasure nor pain. That is until he has been given the high honor of receiving all the memories from the past. His mentor, “The Giver”, teaches him about how many necessary things in our time get lost into a future with no difference. Jonas receives memories of sledding, sunshine, sailboats, and other fantastic things, and he is the only one who can actually feel happy. However, he also acquires memory of war and hate, making him the only one who can feel pain. He feels alone, because he wishes some of his friends could comprehend what he is feeling.
As Jonas’s training goes on, the urge to show people the memories of the past grows. The only time in recallable history where the citizens actually had memories was when the last receiver died. After that, all the memories went loose and the citizens took hold of them. There was much chaos and confusion, and The Giver had to step in to help everybody. Jonas now realizes that this world isn’t worth living in if no one can experience what true love and true pain really is. The Giver feels the exact same way so they devise a plan. Jonas needs to give away all the memories he received from The Giver to the public. The whole purpose of The Giver is to hold all the burdens of emotion, but he and Jonas want to give all of it back. Jonas will be killed if anybody found out what he was doing, so he took his bike and ran for it. He peddled and peddled until he reached a place from his memories, where he finally collapsed.
Jonas came a long way from the small 11 year old he once was. He used to wonder what job the government and was afraid of choices. With such little age, he acquired so much wisdom. He is a dynamic character because his whole perspective of life changes in the span of this book. He realizes there are more important things than work and games, things like love and compassion; things that his world lacked. This novel teaches us that everyone has the right to live and to love, and no one should say otherwise.
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