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The Giver 

Lois Lowry 

    While finishing reading The Giver I realized how much Jonas has changed throughout the book. At first Jonas would question certain things in his community once he started his training with The Giver, but when he got the answer he’d apologize for asking the question and would agree with them. After more, and more training The Giver would explain to Jonas what happened within the community and Jonas would disagree and want change like not having Sameness. Also, when Jonas found out what a Release was he wanted a real change and so The Giver and him made a plan. Two weeks later they had a plan set out and brought it to life as Jonas escaped the community with Gabe at midnight the day he’d be released. I think that Jonas had so much courage to go find Elsewhere to set the memories he had free so everyone in the community could have them, but not knowing a hundred percent if Elsewhere really did exist. I really like the abrupt ending where you can interpret it in a way you feel is the way the book ends, because to me their really is no end but a beginning of a new future to this community.

   One theme this book carries out is to persevere. I feel like Jonas had a lot of perseverance going on while fighting to get to Elsewhere. He had to go through different climates and areas he’d never been and had to ride his bike a lot through the rough areas even twisting his ankle at one point. He’d gotten exhausted from riding the bike, was starving, and felt like maybe he would not be able to save Gabriel or find Elsewhere but would not stop and keep going on because he knew it was there and he’d be able to get there if he kept going. Jonas told himself to stop thinking of “what ifs” and kept going on never stopping. This message was very positive, and it just shows that we can do many things if we stop thinking of those “what ifs” and just go on like Jonas did because their is something waiting at the end.