Jonas faced the adversity of understanding war and death which others did not in his controlled society, and deciding whether to stay or leave with Gabrielle. He overcame this by gaining forbidden knowledge from the Giver and escaping the society. Rose faced thinking her family would not survive on a sinking ship. She acted quickly to get on a lifeboat with her children. Jimmy faced being a bank robber but overcame it by marrying the daughter of a bank owner he had robbed.