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Jonas becomes very attached to Gabe throughout the time they care for him. When Jonas’ dad reveals that Gabe is going to be released, Jonas jeopardizes the plan of escape and leaves early with Gabe against his instinct so Gabe is saved from release. In The Giver, it says “First, he had left the dwelling at night. A major transgression. Second, he had robbed the community of food, a very serious crime...Third, he had stolen his father's bicycle. He had hesitated for a moment, standing beside the bikeport in the darkness, not wanting an thing of his fathers and uncertain as well, whether he could comfortably ride the larger bike when he was accustomed to his own. Bit it was necessary because it had the child seat attached to the back. And he had taken Gabriel, too.” This shows that Jonas is determined to save Gabriel, so determined that he broke 3 major rules in the community, all which could get him in serious trouble. However, regardless of that, he saved Gabe despite how risky it was. Jonas was only able to take huge risks like this because he was determined. After escaping the community, Jonas still shows his determination to help Gabe and bring him to Elsewhere when he takes Gabe on his bike through many different places, just to help Gabe. When they are in the freezing cold, Jonas gives Gabe memories of warmth to give him strength. Jonas also catches food for Gabe so he is not hungry. Jonas’ determination to save Gabe gives him the strength and motivation to continue, and eventually get Gabe to

When the community was first started leaders created the rules for him to follow. Jonas's father has no choice to kill the children or not too. If Jonas's father had a choice he would not have killed one of the twins or even thought of killing Gabe. In The Giver Jonas's father always woke up in the middle of the night to care for Gabe. He would also play with Gabe and even brought him home for a year to help him. A person who cares and loves people is not evil, but many people’s opinions might have changed about Jonas’s father

“’Memories are forever”’ (Lowry). People make new memories every day without even realizing it. Some good some bad, that’s just the way of life, but in The Giver nobody knows what happened before them. People barley remember what their childhood was like, they don’t understand the importance of memory and that memories are forever. Aspects of life, rules, and prosperities between our world and Jonas’ world are very different yet have some similarities. Things that are crucial to the characters in The Giver are not as meaningful to the people in our world.

At the beginning of “The Giver”, the reader is to believe that the community Jonas lives in is a utopia. It’s later revealed that this is quite the opposite of what it really is. A dystopia. Along with Jonas, the reader finds out how in Jonas’s community they they give the elderly and newborns lethal injections, constrict feelings, and prevent any form of decision making. When Jonas discovers these things through memories, he is distraught, and he has the right to be. He wants to show everyone what has been taken away from them, and what they are being lied to about. This is why I believe it was completely justified for Jonas to leave the community.

“Jonas has not been assigned,” She informed the crowd, and his heart sank. Then she went on. “Jonas has been selected.” The quote pertained to this story due to the significance that Jonas had differentiated from his peers that had their differences acknowledged by the Elders themselves, each with their own desires within a career. The quote influenced Jonas his decisions within the chapters beyond the quote within the story, nevertheless brought Jonas his viewpoint of the situation and his decision into escaping from the community with Gabe to journey off Elsewhere. For example, Gabe had been planned for release the same day Jonas had escaped from the community, due to Jonas’ significant viewpoints he couldn’t bare the loss of Gabe, especially since he would be the only few to discover the true meaning behind being “released.” In the end of “The Giver,” Jonas and Gabriel had hallucinated while freezing to death because of the wild berries, the memories, and the physical limits of his human body.

“If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are forever.” (144) This is a quote that the Giver said to Jonas and it means that whatever happens a person has they will never lose your memories no matter how sad they are they will always stick. Because people know that the memories they hold are very precious to you. Memories are very important because they make a person who they are. And losing those memories and without them people wouldn’t know who they are. And people can also look back when a person is older to all of those happy moments that they have had and they also teach them lessons like mistakes they have had in the past. With everyone knowing that they have memories they will most likely live a happy life but they aren’t all happy ones there may be sad, infuriating moments and those memories may make them a bad person sometimes like getting revenge on someone else. And Jonas community doesn’t have those happy memories about the happy life of the

Would you die for something you believe in? “ I won't ! I won’t go home ! You can’t make me (p.109).” Jonas is distressed after seeing the release of a new born baby after his father told him the releases were good. This is why Jonas wants to leave the community because he believes it's full of lies. In addition the ending of the Giver is open ended. This means that there are two options for an ending one is that they are physically and emotionally dead. Or they have lived to see Elsewhere. I have evidence that they have officially died.

Jonas could make the memories of the community come back to the citizens. "Memories are forever"(Lowery ). Things end, but the memories last forever. Memories are moments that people have had and shared with friends and family. Then these friends and family

The first reason why Jonas was right to leave was that he saved his younger brother Gabriel. Jonas’s father had just announced that Gabriel was going to be released (put to death). Gabriel stayed a night at the nurturing center and cried the whole night so even Jonas’s father voted to release Gabriel. “Gabriel was very cranky…even I voted for Gabriel’s release.” If Jonas hadn’t left and taken Gabriel, then Gabriel would

Jonas wishes he could have had those memories of warmth, happiness, and family. He has never experienced a real family, and he wishes that the community would change back to how it was years before. As Jonas receives memories he has more experiences to live a more abundant life. He wants these memories to be shared. Nonetheless, Jonas thinks that individuals should have their own

When Jonas leaves the community, the farther he gets, the more distant and less precise his memories become. There is an idea that Jonas hallucinated before he died, giving him a false perception of reaching the village. Though Jonas did not hallucinate, in fact he did reach the village he described. In the book, the author states he saw a red sled at the top of a hill, one of his favorite memories. Since it was one of his most fond memories, he could hold on to that memory more than others. When he and Gabriel saw it, Jonas recognized it. And since he would only have fragments of his memory, there would

In the story, the old giver mentioned that when a receiver of memories leave the memories that the receiver had come back to the community. When the last person was selected she decided to be released and her memories that she had come back to the community and it was hard for them. Also that when Jonas left everybody would start getting back the memories so when he circled back all the memories had came back to the community and it had started snowing. Jonas had the memories so when he left all the memories were being pulled out of him so they were becoming weaker because the community was getting them. The memory that came back when he came

want to go home. He is tired of listening to all of the community’s lies and following their rules. He plans to run away and shed the memories so they return to the community. By doing this, Jonas hopes to change the community and give everybody the memories. Later, Jonas learns that his “little brother” Gabriel, is about to be released. He has no choice but to take him along with him.

He left Gabriel on the doorstep of the house, because he didn’t know what to do with Gabe’s lifeless body was pale and his body was extremely cold. In that moment Jonas was no longer sad or grieving, but now he was enraged. “AAHHHHH!” Jonas let out a barbaric scream showing his rage.

Eventually, Jonas found out that the community was committing euthanasia. As such Jonas decided to run away to another community with a baby that the community was planning to kill. Whereas Jonas leaving means that killing will get reintroduced to the community, Jonas was definitely right in leaving for another community given that