The Giver Hero's Journey Analysis
Through Jonas’ Eyes In Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver Jonas, the main character, goes on an astonishing adventure to discover his destiny and save Gabriel. Jonas’ journey fits into the hero’s journey in many aspects. This essay will analyze Jonas’ adventure in relation to the hero’s journey, and will explain the color, angles, and framing of the adjacent graphic novel titled Through Jonas’ Eyes. Departure is the first stage in the hero’s journey. This consists of the call to adventure, refusal of the call, and the beginning of the adventure. The call to adventure in The Giver is when Jonas is selected to be the Receiver of memory in training during the Ceremony of Twelve. There are five qualities that a person needs to be the receiver: intelligence,
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The refusal of the return, the magic flight, the rescue from without, and the crossing or return threshold are the steps to the return stage. The refusal of the return is when Jonas thinks about what life would be like if he had stayed in the community. While he is outside of the community he faces terrain, weather, new things, and search planes. These collections of obstacles are examples of the magic flight. Jonas and Gabriel are starving and cold while they are on the way to Elsewhere, so Jonas uses the memories to keep them warm and safe. That is the rescue from without. The final step is the crossing or return threshold. Jonas and Gabriel had felt that they had come close to Elsewhere, and were sledding down a snowy hill. That is the final part of Jonas’ journey in Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver. Christopher Reeve once said, “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” The journey of Jonas’ fits into the archetypal pattern of the hero’s journey as depicted in this essay. Heroes come in all different sizes, shapes, and colors, but one thing is for sure; they save the people that we
The refusal of the return, the magic flight, the rescue from without, and the crossing or return threshold are the steps to the return stage. The refusal of the return is when Jonas thinks about what life would be like if he had stayed in the community. While he is outside of the community he faces terrain, weather, new things, and search planes. These collections of obstacles are examples of the magic flight. Jonas and Gabriel are starving and cold while they are on the way to Elsewhere, so Jonas uses the memories to keep them warm and safe. That is the rescue from without. The final step is the crossing or return threshold. Jonas and Gabriel had felt that they had come close to Elsewhere, and were sledding down a snowy hill. That is the final part of Jonas’ journey in Lois Lowry’s novel The Giver. Christopher Reeve once said, “A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.” The journey of Jonas’ fits into the archetypal pattern of the hero’s journey as depicted in this essay. Heroes come in all different sizes, shapes, and colors, but one thing is for sure; they save the people that we