What was Jonas chosen to be?

What was Jonas chosen to be?

Jonas is selected to be the Receiver-in-Training because he has been observed by the elders, especially by the current Receiver of Memory, and has demonstrated that he has all of the qualities needed in order to be successful.

What does Jonas decide to do for the community?

The Giver and Jonas come up with a plan: Jonas will escape from the community, leaving all his memories for the people of the community. Jonas begs the Giver to come with him, but the Giver explains that someone needs to stay to help the others deal with those memories, or the community will be thrown into utter chaos.

How did the community react to Jonas assignment?

Everyone, including Jonas, is surprised when the Chief Elder announces his role in the community. As the Chief Elder explains that the Receiver-in-training will be alone and apart, “Jonas listened with increasing unease” (62). This means that he’s not feeling too confident about his new responsibility at the moment.

How does Jonas feel about his community and how it operates?

Based on chapter 2, Jonas generally has positive feelings for his community and how it operates. For example, he remembers Lily being assigned to his family with fondness and does not seem to question or wonder why children must be assigned to families.

How did Jonas’s memories go back to the community?

On a long and treacherous journey Jonas tries to make to Elsewhere. As he travels on his memories are slowly fading away from his grasp.Just as they, the Giver and Jonas, planned the memories went back to the community and he Giver helped them receive the memories just as he had done with Jonas.

Who is the giver in Jonas’s community?

The current Receiver, now known as the Giver (since Jonas is the new Receiver), must transmit the memories of the whole world to Jonas. The Receiver’s chief role is to use the wisdom these memories give him in order o advise the committee in shaping future policy for the community.

What are the jobs in Jonas’s community?

In Jonas’s Community everything is laid out for them. There are no choices jobs are chosen for them, to have a spouse (wife or husband) you have to apply and the match has to be perfect. One of the many jobs is laborer, a women assigned to have three children then work in the community for the rest of her life till she reaches the house of the old.

Why was Jonas chosen to be the receiver in training?

Jonas is selected to be the Receiver-in-Training because he has been observed by the elders, especially by the current Receiver of Memory, and has demonstrated that he has all of the qualities needed in order to be successful.