The Giver Blog: 2

In The Giver we have learned that Jonas is a dynamic character. During the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas’s birth number gets skipped. The chief elder skips him and he starts freaking out. “Jonas prepared himself to walk to the stage when the applause ended and the Chief  Elder picked up the next folder and looked down to the to call forward the next new Twelve. He was calm now that his turn had come. He took a deep breath and smoothed his hair with his hand. “Twenty,” he head her voice say clearly. “Pierre.” She skipped me, Jonas thought stunned.” This shows that Jona is selfless. He doesn’t care about PIerre or what job he is getting. He only cares why the Chief Elder skipped him. He doesn’t pay attention to the Ceremony. He only cares about himself and why he got skipped. Later on in the story Jonas escapes from the community into Elsewhere with Gabe and he changes. “Gabriel had not cried during the long frightening journey. Now he did. He cried because he was hungry and cold and terribly weak. Jonas cried, too, for the same reasons, and another reason as well. He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself.” When Jonas is picked to be the next Receiver he changes. At the beginning he can’t see color, doesn't feel emotions, and doesn’t care about others. But slowly during his training he changes. He starts to see color, feel emotions, and become less selfless. In the memory of war Jonas sees are dying boy on the field. The boy begs for water. Jonas sees his arm is torn into shreds and he can see the bone. Instead of tending to his arm he fights through the pain and gives water to the boy. Then at the end of the story Jonas escapes. But before he goes home to prepare. He learns that Gabriel is going to be released. Instead of leaving him, he takes Gabriel with him saving him in the process. Then in the quote Jonas changes and instead of caring his own well being, he cares about the well being of Gabriel and becomes a dynamic character.
     In The Giver, we learned that he theme of the book is “Looking into the past creates wisdom.” When, The Giver was tell the story about Rosemary he said what happened to the memories. “But there were those few terrible memories, the ones that overwhelmed her. For a while they overwhelmed the community. All those feelings. They’d never experienced that before.” The Giver knew when Rosemary was released there would be chaos in the streets. He knew from the memories. The memories that he had gave him wisdom. From the memories he knew that he would have to fix the community and keep it in order again. During, Jonas’s training he changed. He learned things about the community that he didn't know. During the training Jonas knew that this community wasn't what it looked like. He realized that this is far from a perfect world. Sameness, Jonas found out that no one can see color. He didn't understand it. Then Jonas found out about the things people in the community don't know. They don't know about Christmas, snow, grandparents and much more. He also found out that they don't know about love. The people in the community don't know about love. The don't feel emotions or feelings. Jonas feels love and emotions. Then Jonas found out what release is. Release is the execution of someone in the community. The elder, young, and the troublemakers are all released. Release is also the reason Jonas escapes from the community. This also shows how “Looking into the past creates wisdom.”