The last few chapters
of the giver have been impressive. Jonas found out that releasing meant
killing, he saw a video of his father releasing a twin baby, and he saw it all,
how the little baby suffered. He couldn’t believe that he killed him, he didn’t
want to go back home. Then the giver explained that his father didn’t know it
was wrong because he didn’t have the knowledge. Jonas wanted to get out of this
terrible community, so the giver told him that he could leave but that the
Giver himself couldn’t. So Jonas decided that he was going to leave at midnight.
Furthermore he found out that the Giver had a daughter, her name was Rosemary.
So before in the book Jonas had discovered that before him there used to be a receiver
that wasn’t strong enough to feel that pain and that she asked for release, her
name was Rosemary. The Giver told Jonas that he watched the video of Rosemary realease and he couldnt believe what he saw.
"No one heard that little twin cry,either! No one but my father!" (152)
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| inocent baby |
Jonas is seeing all the truth about his community, how fake
it is. How do people do wrong things without even noticing, he is realizing all
of this now. This shows me the importance of memory, in the book they are
killing people without knowing that wrong they just dint know what they are
doing, so memories are so important for every single person. Furthermore it doesn’t
matter if the memories are happy or painful, pain, or pleasure, they help us in
our daily lives. So this quote is telling me how really this community is.
Here is a link to learn more about the importance of memories http://www.lifestyletherapy.net/the-importance-of-memories/
So
everything in the perspective of the community for Jonas is changing, he is
realizing all of the bad things this community has. So I just can’t wait to see
what happens when Jonas leaves his community, because all the memories are
going to scape so the community is going to be in panic. Maybe because of the
panic that the memories are going to create, every one will know the truth
about the community. I predict that once
they know the truth they are going to get out or released. But I think no one
is safe.
