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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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.
Andre, I have the same prediction, maybe everyone is going to know the truth but do you think they will get out or released? if they know the truth that world will be like our world so I think that maybe they will have a better world if they know all the truth so his life will not be a fake one.
ResponderBorrarsofi, I think you bring up s really good point about my prediction, maybe the will end up having a real world
BorrarAndre, I had a similar thought while reading the book in the part of the release of the twins. The lack of memories can make you a monster without you even knowing, this community lives ''peacefully'' but really is based on fear and perfection
ResponderBorrarI totally agree with you Amalia, thank you for reading my blog
BorrarAndrea, I really liked reading your blog and mostly the part when you tell us abut the importance of memories. I agree with you that memories help us in our daily life and if we didn't have them we will be basically not so intelligent because we wouldn't know how to do certain things that we do in our daily schedule. I also think they are important because from them we can learn our mistakes and make them write if we are presented a second time the same task. It also made me think the same as you did of what will happen when Jonas goes away but do they are willing to kill all of their community because they know the truth?
ResponderBorrarGabriela , I think that they will be able to kill almost all of the community because they don't know they are killing them
BorrarAndre, I think that your blog is awesome! Also I think that Jonas starts seeing that once he lived in a community that there were all lies and didn’t know anything and he is tiring to make Asher see it but he couldn’t. I think that the memories change the people like Jonas that over the time he became brave and wiser, I think that the memories change us too and make us who we are! So like you said the memories are very important fore everybody!
ResponderBorrar