Lois Lowry’s story, “The Giver,” takes place in the winter there is no direct location of where the main character named Jonas is at. Jonas lives in a community where there is no fear at all no pain or war. No one has to make their own decisions or get to pick their own job. Everything is under control. Jonas is living a perfect life in his community when something changes when he reaches the age 12 he realized that he is someone is calling him, it was the Giver. Jonas finds out that he is the receiver and he must know the truth about the past and the only way Jonas can is if the Giver shares his memories with Jonas. One lesson that the story suggests is that when you are younger you don’t have anything to worry about until you are older.
From the very beginning, the description and details in the story shows how jonas doesn’t have to worry about anything. He was on his bike to school when a jet zoomed over his head. He didn’t get scared he just stood in one place and watched as the jet went by and went to his class at school. Once he got to class he did his work like nothing happened. He talked to his friends and not about the jet.
When he got older the things that Jonas has to go through is the Givers memories, those memories that Jonas had to go through were difficult because Jonas witnessed pain, hatred, sadness, and even his own death at one point of the givers memories. But he then gets to the point of where he finds out the truth about the reason of why the there is no pain. Jonas talks to the giver and realizes that the history of the world is being hidden from the public. It is being hidden from the public because the government don’t want the public to know the truth about what is outside the community like no pain, no fear, it sounds too good to be true right.
Now Jonas realized that the truth about this world, “he must tell the people of his community, the truth about the government. Jonas never know that he has to make this hard of a decision. To break his promise with the giver or show the public that ever thing is not true. He really doesn’t know what to do.