When Jonas and Gabriel opened their eyes from the exhilarating sled ride, they saw something they had only seen through the memories. A town, full of people walking the streets, laughing, holding hands. A town full of children running, playing games. Jonas was in complete awe. Music was playing everywhere. Lights were strung from the snow covered rooftops, old men dressed in red were asking young children what they were wishing for.
“Of course Gabe. It is Christmas,” Jonas told the young boy. It took all his might, but Jonas transferred the joyful memory of a family at this time to lull him into a deep sleep. As reality settled in, Jonas realized that Gabe wouldn’t be able to take one more night alone in the cold and that they had to go into
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“Yes. We did. I was Receiver of Memory and Gabriel was to be Released shortly. Are you……the failed Receiver?” Jonas questioned. Elsewhere, people aren’t killed when they are released, simply put to sleep and shipped off to live somewhere new. “Now I see why you were elected to be the next Receiver. You, Jonas, are quite intelligent for a child. To answer your question, yes, I am the ‘failed’ Receiver. My father trained you and I know this because there is a camera in the Annex for me to see what is happening. I have been waiting for your arrival to Elsewhere for sometime now, Jonas.” Rosemary replied answering his question in significant detail. Someone was watching the whole time? I thought she was dead? Jonas couldn't get his thoughts straight. “If you have a camera in the Annex, then I can see Giver? I need to make sure that he is okay.” “Yes, Jonas, you can see him, but please, from now on call him Oliver,” Rosemary said, in a calm manner. “Oliver is his birthname. When you are assigned Receiver of Memory, other children are not to be named your name ever again. Oliver, Rosemary, and Jonas. Those names will never be used
Jonas wakes up in a home made out of logs. The man, who saved Jonas and Gabe, was making a fire. "Who are you?" Jonas asked the man. "I'm John and you and the little one with you are lucky to be alive." Jonas paused for a moment "Thank you for saving us." "What were you thinking when you went out in that blizzard?" John asked. "Its a long story." Jonas said in a scared tone.
“They’re gone, we’re gone, this is elsewhere,” the giver explained. Jonas then turns and looks out the
“Don’t bother trying to talk to him Rein,” said Tracer with venom in her voice, which socked everyone, even Reaper raised an eyebrow under his mask. “This isn’t Gabriel anymore. The Gabriel we once knew wouldn’t do the horrible things Reaper has done.”
The newchild climbed up to Jonas, and grabbed his ears with his chubby hands. The girl picked him up and Gabe squealed and began to play with her hair. As Jonas closed his eyes, he saw ghostly figures. With his abilities, he saw Rosemary, the twin, Larissa, Caleb, and much more. Then the scene changed. He saw the community. Green grass, blue skies, he knew that the memories had
You know everything about the past and the present from your life, but the citizens of Jonas’ community don’t. Everything is hidden from them, except for Jonas and The Giver, who have all
Jonas decides to leave and change the lives of his people so that they can experience the truth. “The Giver rubbed Jonas’s hunched shoulders… We’ll make a plan” (155). Their plan involves leaving sameness and heading to Elsewhere, where Jonas knows the memories can be released to the people. He has a connection with Gabe, a special child who has experienced the memories, unlike the rest of the community. Jonas has a strong love for Gabe, and he longs to give him a better life. “We’re almost there, Gabriel” (178). Even with a sprained ankle, Jonas keeps pushing forward because he wants everyone to experience what The Giver has given him. He wants them to have a life where the truth is exposed. His determination allows him to make a change for a greater future in his community. This proves that Jonas has the strength to change his community for the
He had no reason to. Jonas even gave memories of snow and sunshine when they were running away to elsewhere. On page 175 Jonas and Gabe are both freezing, “ He pressed his hands into Gabriels back and tried to remember sunshine.” Jonas soon made it to elsewhere with Gabe still
Rosemary failed as Receiver in Training and it is now up to Jonas to become the next Receiver. Rosemary was a sweet and gentle girl, though eager to learn. The Giver gave her horrid memories of anguish which caused her great pain. He said, “I gave her loneliness. And I gave her loss. I transferred a memory of a child taken from its parents” (Lowry 178). Out of love, The Giver couldn’t bring himself to inflict Rosemary with physical pain, though he gave her “ Poverty, and hunger, and terror” (Lowry 178). This internal affliction gave her the motive to apply for release. After Rosemary was injected, the memories she held were released into the community. Consequently, utopia was in disarray with people in distress and no one to comfort them.
Like any child in the community, Jonas is uncomfortable with the attention he receives when he is singled out as the new Receiver, preferring to blend in with his friends. Once Jonas begins his training with the Giver, however, the tendencies he showed in his earlier life—his sensitivity, his heightened perceptual powers, his kindness to and interest in people, his curiosity about new experiences, his honesty, and his high intelligence—make him extremely absorbed in the memories the Giver has to transmit. In turn, the memories, with their rich sensory and emotional experiences, enhance all of Jonas’s unusual qualities. Within a year of training, he becomes extremely sensitive to beauty, pleasure, and suffering, deeply loving toward his family and the Giver, and fiercely passionate about his new beliefs and feelings. Things about the community that used to be mildly perplexing or troubling are now intensely frustrating or depressing, and Jonas’s inherent concern for others and desire for justice makes him yearn to make changes in the community, both to awaken other people to the richness of life and to stop the casual cruelty that is practiced in the community.
The day arrived for the Ceremony of Twelve, which Jonas had been waiting for. As Jonas watched his friends receive their assignments, he realized that he was skipped over. Although he knew that he got skipped over, he waited until the end of ceremony in order to show respect. Therefore, he is a good role model to his community. Later, at the end of the ceremony, the Elders explained that Jonas has been selected as the Receiver. “In a firm, commanding voice she announced, Jonas has been selected to be our next Receiver of Memory (pg 60).” “He has shown all of the qualities that a Receiver must have (pg 62).” The Elders believed that Jonas had the qualities for the task, which includes intelligence, integrity, courage, wisdom, and the capacity to see beyond. As a Receiver, he had rules to follow: he could ask any questions, he was not allowed to discuss his trainings to family and friends, he was not allowed to share his dreams, he could not apply medication to training injuries, he could not ask to be released, and he can
As December approaches Jonas feels apprehensive because this year his group will be given their assignments (Lowry 9). He is chosen as the receiver of memory. While this position holds high honor it is also a painful load to hold. Jonas will hold all memories of the past. Receiving memories is not like watching a movie, as Jonas soon expe...
Personally, I believe that Jonas and Gabriel ended up dying in the freezing cold, while starving and going insane; I also have various reasons to back this theory up. Firstly, on pages 171-172, it states that Jonas and Gabriel begin to starve; this could mean that they would also end up losing their sanity and even possibly see illusions. Furthermore, all throughout chapter 23, it explains that Jonas and Gabriel are agonizingly cold while surrounded by a snowy environment. This may lead to Jonas and Gabriel to lose their sanity and see illusions as well. At the very end of the story, Jonas is able to see “Elsewhere,” the place they left the community to search for. However, it is possible that Jonas is seeing nothing but an illusion. Along with all of this, Jonas is used to livin...
Jonas has always been an inquisitive and curious person, even more so when he obtains the role of Receiver of Memory. One example of this important trait occurs after the Ceremony of Twelve. Jonas was still confused about his role, but he was anxious to learn about the incident involving the previous girl who was supposed to take the position of the
Nobody in the community knows what feelings or real, deep emotion is. They can’t live with music or color. They live in a bland community where everybody wears the same things. They live in a world of different shades of grey. They don’t have seasons, what would life be like without summer? Summers without sun wouldn’t be a problem in their community either because they have no weather. “‘What did you perceive?’ The Giver asked. ‘warmth’, Jonas replied, ‘and happiness’. ‘And--- let me think. Family. And something else--- I can’t quite get the word for it’. ‘It will come to you’. ‘Who were the old people? Why were they there?’ It had puzzled Jonas, seeing them in the room. The Old of the community did not ever leave there special place, the House of the Old, where they were so well cared for and respected. ‘They were called Grandparent.’ ‘Grand parents’” (123)? In this quote about Christmas Jonas learns more about family and being together, joyful. It’s sad that the community does not have anything special such as Christmas. Jonas learned the new concept (to him), of grandparents. He thinks grandparents are special but he doesn’t have real parents. At this point in the book Jonas understands real emotion and feeling for someone else, such as loving your family members, and he longs for that
Time passed and with it came disappointment. The city began to put up old school buildings to provide a “sense of home” or at least that is what we were told. Even though we were moving forward it seemed as though our quality of life had regressed. We went a year with no trace of Eli. Julia cried every hour of the day. Purpose, meaning, the point of life had been stolen along with Eli and I couldn't let it go.