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Jonas Has stirrings for the first time, seeing first hand real emotion.
the stirrings leave him wondering him if there's more to life.
Jonas sees color in the apple for the first time.
Jonas has his name skipped over at the ceremony of the 12, where he should be assigned his job in the community.
This heaps suspense onto the story, as Jonas lets his imagination get the best of him as to why he was left out.
Jonas is called up after everyone else to receive special recognition and a folder with special instructions to become the next receiver of memory.
The story takes place in a community where everything is exactly similar, with nothing out of place, nothing different, nothing, and nothing valuable emotionally.
He is given permission to break many rules, including lying. he and a select few are the only ones allowed to do so.
The main characters in this novel include Jonas and his family of four, his two best friends Fiona and Asher, a struggling baby by the name of Gabe who had started living with Jonases family at night to boost his chances of survival, and The Receiver and giver of memory, responsible for training Jonas.
The conflict starts when the main character, Jonas notices things in his community, leading him to believe something may be missing.
The Giver, or current receiver, is responsible for transferring memories, good and bad, to Jonas so the memories are kept away from the general people.
Jonas meets his mentor and the incumbent receiver of memory and receives his first memory, one of sledding down a snowy hill.
The father of Jonas, a caretaker of newborns, brings home a struggling child named Gabe, who has unique eyes like Jonas.
The giver tells Jonas one day about the previous receiver in training, who had failed. The pain was to intense for her and she embraced an early death, releasing all the memories she had back to the people.
Jonas and Gabe conduct their highly thought out escape, and their initial bust out runs seamlessly. Then, hunger and other problems related to traveling into unknown territory with little to no supplies on a bike. With a toddler. But our heroes press on, none the less.
Jonas and the giver decide that its time for Jonas and Gabe to break out of the community and find something more, make a real living. This is spurred by Jonas learning that the common practice of releasing people to elsewhere is nothing short of murder. The worst part is that the executioners dont know what they're doing.
Resolution.
Jonas and Gabe, inches away from death with only warm memories from Jonases banks keeping them relativity warm in the tundra they stumbled into, come upon a familiar scene, the sled. They see a source of warmth and light ahead, and naturally, sled don towards it. That concludes the novel.
As Jonas and Gabe get farther and farther away and their supplies begin to dwindle down, their spirits start to as well. Jonas begins to shut down out of hopelessness, and it begins to show physically during what seems to be the home streach of their journey.
Conflicts
Jonas, through out the novel internally wonders about the topic of release. When he finally finds out what really happens, how romanticized it is sickens him.
Point of view
Theme
The point of view in this story is third person limited as the narrator only knows and expounds on Jonases Thoughts.
Jonas Finds himself repulsed by how naive everyone else emotionally. This is solidified when he asks his parents if they love him, and they simply state that they enjoy him.
One apparent theme in this novel is that in theory ignorance is bliss. Granted, the ignorance of "sameness" went overboard, but the people didn't know that they were really just cogs in a grey, uniform machine.
The main real world connection that I see is the concept of "why do something when I'm not hurting" because even though you may be getting cheated by the authority figures, some people will just "drink the Kool aid" instead of doing something. That connects to our nations voters, to clarify.
A third conflict is when Jonas stumbles upon his group mates playing a game of good guys and bad guys with imaginary guns. He is horrified that the children were glorifying the disgusting thing that is war. His position is firm in that school of thought because of some memories he had received.
The unit theme of blending cultures fits in because it was Jonases and the giver to take old memories, store and interpret them and every once and a while provide advice to the elders.
The story is effected in the sense that in large part, the ulterior motives (or lack there of) aren't known to the reader immediately. we only see Jonases thoughts throughout