Moala Fakava - Final Exam Essay

The Hero’s Journey relates to The Giver really well. It develops the works dealt with The Giver through out the whole process of The Hero’s Journey. Like the separation, the calling, the threshold, the descent, the abyss, the mentor, the transformation and the creation. If each of these were filled out, that’s basically the whole book without reading it.
The separation is where Jonas has to go to the house of the old to do his volunteer hours. The calling is where Jonas is called to his new job as The Receiver. The threshold is where Jonas sees colors in people because in his organized world, no one or nothing has color. The descent is where Jonas is always going to The Giver and he starts to like his job.
The abyss is where Jonas takes his baby brother Gabe and they leave their organized world into the free world. The mentor is The Giver giving Jonas memories about the free world that The Giver has experienced. The transformation is where The Giver wants to change their organized world due to the releasing of his daughter. That’s where creation comes in and that’s where The Giver and Jonas create a plan where Jonas leaves the organized world to the real world so that the people in the organized world can experience the feeling of lost, just like The Giver.
This is the whole Hero’s Journey process and how it relates to The Giver. Maybe it didn’t really explain the whole book, but the important parts of it. The Hero’s Journey was one of the most difficult lessons I must’ve learned , but I did it anyways.