Receiver Of Memories In The Giver By Lois Lowry

What if you were the only one that had to bear pain like no other out of your whole city? Would you be able to do it or would you crumble under the pressure? Well this is what the main character, Jonas, in Lois Lowry’s The Giver, faces every day. The Committee in Jonas’s community decided that taking away choices and feelings would create a utopia to live in. This made everyone in the community the same which helped to provide a more peaceful world. Even though the book begins with what seems to be the perfect place to live, it turns out that the people in the community are just going through the motions of life. As Jonas begins his assignment as the Receiver of Memories, he learns that in protecting the community from the memories, they do not have real feelings. In my opinion, Jonas’s assignment as Receiver of Memories is ultimately a punishment because he has to receive very painful memories plus he can’t relate to anyone in the community and he can’t tell anyone else about it.
Jonas is forced to receive painful memories as part of his assignment. In the
As a result of his assignment, Jonas has more knowledge than almost anyone else in his community, however, he does not know what to do with all of his new knowledge. At twelve years old, Jonas cannot control his emotions that the memories cause him to feel so he needs the guidance and life experiences of the Giver to help him sort through it all. Things about the community that used to be somewhat confusing are now very frustrating to Jonas, and he wants others to be able experience the real world too. The memories have forced Jonas to experience real love. To most of us, the way of life in Jonas’s perfect world would be difficult to accept because we value our differences and our freedom to