Change over time
In the beginning of the novel Jonas was just another person in
the community, brainwashed since birth to believe that sameness was the only
way, but after he is chosen as the receiver, he begins to realize the true
beauties and pains in life and questions everything that he has been
taught. An example of him
questioning these teachings is on page126, after Jonas get his first glimpse of
love “’But anyway, I was thinking, I mean feeling, actually, that it was kind of
nice then. And that I wish we could be that way, and that you could be my
grandparent. ‘”
the community, brainwashed since birth to believe that sameness was the only
way, but after he is chosen as the receiver, he begins to realize the true
beauties and pains in life and questions everything that he has been
taught. An example of him
questioning these teachings is on page126, after Jonas get his first glimpse of
love “’But anyway, I was thinking, I mean feeling, actually, that it was kind of
nice then. And that I wish we could be that way, and that you could be my
grandparent. ‘”