Jonas is continuing to receive
more memories every day and has almost been a year since he started his
training. One day was declared an unscheduled holiday and Jonas rushed to go
play with his friends; he couldn't wait to go play with his best friends ASHER and FIONA and as soon as he saw them he dropped his bike and went to
play the game he had always played in his childhood that was based on warfare.
As Jonas realized what was the real concept of this game a painful feeling came
into his mind and body reminding him of the wounded soldier he saw on a memory and
decided to stop playing the game confusing all of his friends. The Giver and
Jonas continued the training until one day Jonas asked him about release and
what happen to the previews receiver and the failure; he told him all about it
and told him that her name was Rosemary and that she applied for release
because she couldn't handle the pain she was receiving. Jonas wanted to know
what release was so The Giver showed him the ceremony of release his father was
preforming that morning were he killed the smallest of both twins and Jonas
felt a lot of pain inside. That night, Jonas refused to go back to his dwelling
because he was angry and hurt with his father, so he stayed the night with The
Giver were they decided to create a plan for escape and leave the community were
life is meaningless.
 |
| LIFE IS MEANINGLESS IF YOU DON'T HAVE THE OPTION TO CHOOSE |
“The worst part of holding the
memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness
of it. Memories need to be shared.” (154)
Memories need to be shared by
all. A memory is an important piece of fact that includes many knowledge and
information that everyone should be able to know. Memories should be known by
all so they know what their actions are and how they should feel or react
towards sad or happy moments. As the Giver once told Jonas “Listen to me,
Jonas. They can’t help it. They know
nothing.” (153) people don’t have knowledge from memories to know what they
do is right or wrong. An example would be Jonas’ father preforming the ceremony
of release to the little twin by killing him, but he didn’t know what he was
doing because he doesn’t have the memories to realize his actions and feel what
a terrible thing he has done. Jonas community lives a life were very decision
is made for them and everything is sameness.
With all the pain and memories Jonas
has received until now, he is starting to realize the terrible world he lives
in and how nobody has the option to choose anything in his life. When Jonas and
The Giver came up with the escape plan I thought that this is going to be a big
risk for Jonas and his whole life will depend on it. Even though this will be a
big risk, Jonas has enough courage, strength and knowledge from memories to
survive and find out his way to Elsewhere. Since Gabriel has played a big role
throughout the book, I think the Jonas and Gabe will stay together and run away
together since they have so much in common such as the ability to receive and
transmit memories and because Jonas loves Gabe too much to leave him behind.
