The Giver, TRJ #1

WRITER'S CRAFT(characterization)- Who is Jonas?

Jonas is the protagonist of this novel. He seems like the other peers his age, but he has special abilities. At the Ceremony of Twelve, he gets an unusual job which is The Receiver. The Receiver is supposed to receive memories from the past for wisdom from the previous receiver, The Giver. Jonas was chosen to be the new Receiver because he had intelligence, integrity, and courage, which a Receiver must have. When the Twelves start to go to their work, Jonas meets The Giver which he has only seen once before. Jonas’s life starts to change totally when he starts receiving the memories from the past. Within a year of training, he becomes extremely sensitive to beauty, pleasure, and suffering, deeply loving toward his family and the Giver, and fiercely passionate about his new beliefs and feelings.
The old people, the criminals, and the babies who doesn’t seem to adapt to their society are supposed to be released and the citizens thought that the people who were released was sent to another society. But one day, Jonas was so curious about how babies are released so he asked The Giver if he could see releasing a baby for himself. The Giver shows him a video of releasing. Jonas, too, thought that releasing was a very comfy ceremony. When Jonas sees the video, he sees his father, the nurturer, injects the baby’s forehead and after a second, the baby dies. Jonas was so shocked by this and he decides he has to do something about it. Maybe Jonas was too brave to be The Receiver, since The Receiver has to restrain himself after seeing all of those memories of the past, but Jonas decided to live the society and go look for Elsewhere, where he thought things might be different.