Through Jonas's Eyes

Authors Note: I would like this graded for point of view.

What if you lived in a world where everything was plain, then you had to all of a sudden see all the good and bad things that aren't part of life? In the book The Giver, by Lois Lowry, we see Jonas's point of view, which is an important part of the story.

In the story, we see what happens though the main character Jonas's eyes. We see the good and bad memories that he receives from The Giver. The plain and simple world that Jonas has to live in is shown as a bad thing and as something that should be avoided.

If the story had been told from a different characters point of view, it would be very different. Asher's point of view would show the opposite of Jonas's. We wouldn’t see a different view of the world or the memories of pain and happiness that Jonas receives. At the end we could have seen what it could have been like when the community had to get all the memories Jonas had.

Jonas's point of view is an important part of the book. If the story had been told from a different person's point of view, like Asher's, the book would be boring like Jonas's community.