Who is the giver in the giver
The Giver by Lois Lowry | Characters
[Music]
there are three key characters in Lois
Lowry's powerful novel The Giver
Jonas begins the novel as a bright
inquisitive boy who's curious about what
he observes but who really doesn't
question the overall structure or rules
of the society he lives in but once he
begins training with the giver Jonas
becomes aware of everything the
community has sacrificed in order to
avoid pain and achieve a tranquil
efficient way of life they've
relinquished all memories
to the care of the receiver because
memories can cause suffering jonas
becomes increasingly frustrated with his
community and eventually angry at their
willingness to settle for a bland
meaningless existence jonas realizes
that release which he thought was just
leaving the community is a euphemism for
death jonas runs away with gabriel a new
child his father has been caring for and
searches for the elsewhere where people
care for each other and love still
exists the giver is the most important
of the community's elders the receiver
of memories a position responsible for
storing the collective memories and a
history of the world going back
generations
and for advising the Council of Elders
when important decisions have to be made
that are beyond their experience this
burden of keeping memories has made the
giver somewhat bitter and resentful of
his role feelings that grow nearly
unbearable after his daughter rosemary
chosen at one point to be the next
receiver of memories killed herself
through Jonas the old man finally sees a
way to force the community to take back
its memories and regained both its
freedom and its individuality at the
beginning of the story father is
portrayed as a kind man and a source of
affection and wise advice for Jonas and
his sister father gravitated toward the
job of nurturer when he was a youngster
himself but toward the end of the novel
Jonas realizes that father has no real
capacity for love his complete lack of
emotion and his ability to kill the
innocent show how the strict control by
the
government can turn even an essentially
gentle man into someone who can behave
as if gutturally lacking in humanity
you
