Jonas’s World

If our country was completely dominated by the government, have you ever thought about what kind of life you have? What if every day is the routine decided by our leaders? The life we ​​know will be perfect. Jonas of The Giver lives in a world very similar to this. His leaders have created a system that forces the community totally emotional, and its citizens did not have the ability to make decisions for themselves. Compared to us, there are many differences in the unified world of Jonas, but there are some similarities.

In Lois Lowry 's novel The Giver, Lori is discussing the concept of utopia, but that approach caused a big controversy. He announced Jonas' society in a way to challenge this idea. The world of Jonas is safe without pain and conflict, but it is also a world without emotion, diversity and choice freedom. In this way, Lori regards the concept of utopia as a mistake, and the world of Jonas is like a utopia distropia. When Jonas first introduced the world I had lived as a reader, it seemed like it was ideal.

Lois Lowry is located in a community with no climate, emotions, choices, memories, etc. and talks about Jonas' The Giver story. Jonas was chosen as a recipient of memory, which means that the memory of the past generation will be transferred to him before the community is created. When Jonas got memory, his concept of the world around him changed dramatically. - Perfect: Toward a dictatorship system. The only way to have an ideal world is to have no world. The reader will quickly discover this in Lois Lowry's publication The Giver. In this book, a boy named Jonas has made a journey to shape his destiny through his trials and challenges faced in the ideal world.

In the perfect future of Jonas' life, a 12 - year - old child will receive the mission of life at a 12 - year - old ceremony. When Jonas was chosen as a recipient of a new memory, he was shocked This is a strange honor's position held at the same time by only one person. He has received training from previous recipients and is now known as a donor. Training included transferring past memories - before doing the same thing - other people in the community can not even imagine war, hunger, disease, and color, weather and strong emotions did. Gradually, Jonas gradually resented with the choices that had to be made to create his world and the terrible secret behind his perfection. He and the donor cooperated to make plans to change the structure of his world, but before Jonas can do it, Jonas is strong to make a decision that may ruin them all It was done.