Jonas's character traits.

Jonas's Character Traits

  'The life where nothing was ever unexpected. Or inconvient. Or unusual. The life without colour, pain, or past'. Jonas has never had anything unusual happen to him, most of his life was decided by others. He has never known about colours, seeing in black and white. He doesn't know anything about the past, until he becomes the Receiver. He is very curious and unsure, but brave.

  He is curious because he is always asking a lot of questions to the Giver, asking about the Receiver before him that didn't 'make' the job and about the Giver's family. He also wonders about a lot of different things. In the beginning, he wondered what job he was gonna get, later he wonders why everyone doesn't have memories and colours. In one paragraph where the Giver is explaining that the memories are the whole past, Jonas asks, "The Whole World? Do you mean not just us? Not just the community? Do you mean Elsewhere, too?"

  He is unsure because he's never really chosen what to do. He's never made his own choices, and never had anything unexpected happen to him. For example, when he's wondering what job he's  gonna get, he isn't sure because he's never focused on one spot. Also, when he got his instructions for his job, he is unsure of some of the rules. The book says that he wasn't quite ready to think about the final rule and he also seems unsure about the exemption from rudeness, as it says that it would be unnerving to ask an intimate question.

  He is brave because when he asked the Giver why the first memories didn't hurt and the Giver said that it need not be painful yet, he said that he was brave and got the memory of sunburn. Later in the book, Jonas knows that the sunburn wasn't great pain that gets the Giver hunched over in pain and he says, "What is it that makes you suffer so much? If you gave me some of it to me, maybe your pain would be less." He also goes on a maybe impossible quest to release the memories to everyone.

  I do not know how Jonas feels, but I have felt unsure before, whether it was about a presentation or making something. I also felt curious about some things, like when people talk and I can only catch a few words or when I find out something and I want to know more about it. So, I believe that Jonas is curious, unsure and brave.