According to author and entrepreneur Jim Rohn, “Character isn’t something you were born with, like your fingerprints. It’s something you weren’t born with and must take responsibility for forming.” Jonas, the protagonist in Lois Lowery’s The Giver, acquires the feelings and memories that his society has willingly forgotten. As Jonas changes and learns of true feelings, colors and the pain that his community doesn’t want to endure, he realizes that without the pain of the memories, the people of his world can never be truly content.
The people of the past in The Giver have taken away almost all of the choices for the people of the community. Jonas realizes this when he wants to keep the colors that he begins to see, and he subsequently discerns that he wants to make choices of his own. “If there everything’s the same, then there aren’t any choices! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!”(123) Jonas had said to …show more content…
With these new feelings swirling through his mind, Jonas has to navigate through this new perspective that has changed him from a bland person of the community to a captivating young person. Jonas begins to show these feelings, specifically astonishment and anger, when events take place derived from the pain that the people wanted to forget. " "(). Of course, feelings of merriment and love are also feeling that Jonas exerted throughout the story of The Giver; Jonas feels love for the newchild Gabriel, who is one of the only people with the compacity to "see beyond". Jonas feels merriment when he is with The Giver, most of the time, or with his friends Fiona and Asher. Being the new Receiver of Memory can be tiring, but the feelings that Jonas is able to experience grants him individualism, which he doesn’t want to give