The Giver Character Analysis Essay

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The Burden of Being a Receiver The truth of painful memories, a colorless world filled with sameness, and of a thing called Release, from which you have been sheltered from, is now revealed. In the novel, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas is chosen to be the Receiver in training, yet with this job he must be burdened with horrible past memories. Through this process, he must tell no one of the things he has experienced, and Jonas may not apply for release from this duty. He soon comes to find his community is not what it has been made to seem. Therefore, being a Receiver is a great burden that only he must endure. Firstly, during training, Jonas learns of the pain he has been hidden from, such as a sunburn, starvation, and war. One day Jonas receives the memory of a light sunburn saying, “It hurt, ...it hurt a lot” (86). Then again during training, The Giver gives Jonas a memory of a horrible war saying, “Forgive me” (120), because he knew the pain was more than he should have transmitted to him. Since Jonas had been sheltered from this pain for so long, his reaction was expected, saying, “Jonas did not want to go back. He didn’t want the memories, didn’t want the honor, didn’t want the wisdom, didn’t want the pain” (121). Another …show more content…
One night Jonas’s father tells of twins being born, and how one will have to be released, because no one in the community can look the same. Jonas goes to training the next morning and asks The Giver about Release. The Giver does not answer Jonas, but instead shows the Release of the newborn. During the video after the process, “ he continued to watch, the new child, no longer crying, moved his arms and legs in a jerking motion. Then he went limp.” (150). Jonas felt, “an odd shocked feeling, he recognized the gestures and posture and expression” (150). When the baby is put to death by Jonas’s father he reacts by saying “He killed it! My father killed it!”
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