Currently the book I am reading The Giver by Lois lowry is an interesting book based on the setting where life is perfect and where new things aren't experienced to the people. The way the life in this book is controlled is because of the "The Comittee"(group of officials), the comittee is never defied by the people because of there accustom to the way of life they have always had for generations. Yet even though the charecter follows this way of life he learns new things about the community, which is met by the meaningful interactions with charecters.
One meaningful interaction with a charecter is when he meets Larissa. Jonas learns more about "release" which is where people go once they are considered old enough or when babies aren't healthy enough. It is described as going somewhere else, but this is a guess that is made by the peolple of the community. The people don't reall.y know what release is,it is ironic for the fact that the community is very specific, but they describe release as such a broad term. In this part of the book Larissa describes release as a mysterious sort of thing, quote "Nobody knows where they go". Which Jonas finds strange because of the fact that release was just a pleasant leave from the community. This scene is very meaningful because this is where Jonas first learns that the community isn't a place where everything isn't kept a secret, which is ironic for the fact that the community's important moral is to not lie, even in the sense that you are saying a hyperbole like "it's a million degrees outside". Which is punishable in the community.
Another meaningful interaction Jonas encounters with another charecter is with the Giver. This is probably the biggest interaction Jonas has in the book. The first meeting Jonas has with the Giver is meaningful because Jonas learns that the perfect world he's living in isnt always the perfect world he thought it was. Jonas learns about pain that he has never experienced in the community besides pain, like falling of a bike or crushing your finger in the door. Jonas also learns about the original land it used to be before the perfect land he lived in was made. Jonas learns of the climate change that was made, how natural landscapes were broke down just to make there life easier. Which kind of describes the way there community is run. If your not good enough your released just how babies are if they don't reach the requirements that considers them a healthy baby. Also if your not good enough your kicked out, or released to anohter territory. The Giver takes away Jonas's imaginary blindfold and shows him reality.
Jonas also has a meaningful interaction with the charecter Fiona. Fiona is the girl that Jonas volunteers with for the old care takers. Fiona is where Jonas first describes his feelings of want. Jonas volunteered with her for the old and has a dream about it almost as a dream about sexual intentions, about him wanting to get Fiona to get in the bathtub so he could wash her. Which is normal, but the community takes precautions by giving them medicine, which shows how the lives of the people in the community is controlled by the commitee. It shows how the commitee only cares about the order of the community and not the wants of the people. It shows that the commitee cares more about the town then the actual people living in it. This is also a surprising interaction between Jonas and a charecter because Jonas finally expresses a want for the pleasant feeling he had of the dream of Fiona in the bathtub. Which is surprising because wants aren't heard of in the book becasue everybody obeys the order of the commitee and never asks for anything else, yet Jonas defies it.
Jonas has meaningful interactions throughout the whole book, that shows Jonas's growth as a charecter. Perfectness is the life that is described in the book, the perfectness that Jonas is starting to subside. As well as learning things of the community he has never known or thought to have exist.
