The Giver theme

      In the book that I have been reading, The Giver, the main character, Jonas, is a dynamic character because he grows and changes as a person through the book. For example when Jonas shared his emotions with his family about the ceremony he said, “But it’s the ceremony that I’m apprehensive about. It’s almost December.” (9.) This shows Jonas being a little bit selfish because he is only worried about how the December ceremony is going to go for him. But towards the end of the book when he is on his journey to Elsewhere and realizes that Gabe is cold and weak he says, “He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself.” (174.) This shows a drastic change from Jonas because he went from only worrying about himself to only caring about Gabe,

                                                           

    One of the many themes found in The Giver by: Lois Lowry was the importance of choice. We can all agree that making a simple choice can basically define our future. But for Jonas and everyone else in his community choices are made for them. For example when Jonas talks about how much time he will be able to have after the ceremony he says, “The freedom to choose where to spend those hours had always seemed a wonderful luxury to Jonas; other hours were so carefully regulated.” (26.) Jonas practically says that being able to finally chose what to do with those extra hours is a privilege since every other hour of the day he already has a chosen task. Another example of importance of choice is when Jonas realizes that he might of used this privilege to make a wrong choice he says, “Then, when he had the choice, he had made the wrong one: the choice to leave. And now he was starving.”(174.) Jonas does think that there's importance when making your own choice, but in this quote he kind of says that even though he got to make a decision he feels as he did the wrong one.