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Dylan Wonnum
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- 2. Jonas Jonas is elevenhe is chosen to become the next Receiver of Memories in his community. His assignment is the most honored and respected one. Jonas has the intelligence, integrity, and courage needed to become a Receiver. Chapter 8 Jonas Adversity When Jonas first started training with The Giver he gave Jonas happy memories. Jonas was very happy and excited to be able to take on a new challenge. But when The Giver gave memories of distress, anger, and sadness . Jonas realizes things he didn’t know about the community. He realized that it was unfair to take away people’s true feelings and very unjust for people to be unable to make choices for themselves about their own lives. He learns the community has no true feelings and that feelings has never been apart of their lives. Through the memories he sees people in the past living differently and feels the community must change. Chapter10
- 3. Jonas Perseverance Jonascame up with a plan to change the entire community. He decided to leave the community to go to Elsewhere. Once Jonas flees the community he realizes the further he goes away from the community he is shedding the memories and they are transmitted back to the community. Chapter 21
- 4. The Giver The Receiverhas the access to all the memories of the past. He is an old, grave man who has been wearied by the burden of carrying alone the sorrow and the pain that memories bring. He is a Father figure to Jonas who provides guidance as well as wisdom. Chapter 10 The Giver’s Adversity When The Giver admits to Jonas that transmitting the smallest memory relieves a slight burden off of him.
- 5. The Giver’s Perseverance TheGiver has come to realize that he and Jonas should try to change the community. The Giver understands that memories are best when shared among people. The giver comes up with a plan with Jonas to change the entire community, he feels that his work would be completed if he helps Jonas escapes and the community would change and become whole. The Giver feels without Jonas he would have never figured out a way to bring about the change
- 6. Gabriel Gabriel is anewborn who is one of several children being taken care of at the Nurturing Center. Gabriel is placed in the 'extra care section for supplementary nurturing' because he does not grow normally like other children and does not sleep well.
- 7. Gabriel Perseverance Since Gabrielis a troubled child Jonas seems to be the only one to calm him down. One night Jonas is able to transmit peaceful memories to Gabriel to calms him down. To prevent Gabriel from being killed, Jonas takes Gabriel, whom he loves dearly. Gabriel life is spared because they leave for the community for Elsewhere.
- 8. Reflection How all charactersovercame their adversity There are a few undeniable things about this book, but no one except the Giver and the Receiver can comprehend. They have the advantage to see beyond, and receive the memories which show emotions, colors, music, places and weather-changes that don’t exist in their community. Jonas and the Giver are the only people in their community who actually know, with the help of the memories, how awful their community actually is . The most important, is that the Giver and the Receiver are the only ones who can change their community, who can change sameness. Gabriel with the help of Jonas was also able to persevere through this.
- 9. Works cited Lowry, Lois“Dell-Laurel leaf, 1993 www.dictionary.com