Memories are Forever

trust the memories and how they make you feel

Jonas keeps receiving painful memories such as war but these memories helps Jona’s knowledge to increase. The giver transmits his favorite memory to Jonas witch mainly consisted of “love” the love between a family, that afternoon he decides to ask his parents if they loved him but they told him to use precise language (they didn’t know the beauty of what love means). Gabe was improving he cried when he didn’t sleep with Jonas and that was because Jonas kept transmitting memories to Gabe (happy memories) but this started to  create a need of  parents and love inside Gabe. Something inside Jonas told him to stop taking the pill he wanted to feel. The community gave one day of holiday and Jonas want to see Asher, he realized that he was playing a game of war, they always used to play that but know it seemed real to Jonas. He tried to make Asher and his other fiends witch include Fiona to stop playing but they were very angry and left him behind, he felt he had lost his friends, once again Jonas felt lonely. He learned that the last receiver in training name was Rose Mary she had applied for a release after 5 weeks of training, she couldn’t handle all the lies and pain that came with the memories, so when she was released all the memories came back to the community it was a chaos people felt things they had never felt before there was pain and confusion, the giver had felt Rose Mary wasn’t the failure he was.

“Something within him, something that had gown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away.”(129)

I think this moment when Jonas decides to stop taking the pill is  very important because is when he makes his first choice. I feel he has grown up with the memories and  is starting to gain knowledge .He now feels the need to feel love and all those feeling that are banned with the pill. He is starting to realize all the things and feeling the government took away. But I also feel like he is having a very hard  time assimilating all this new and different aspects of his  world.

“Jonas knew  with certainty that he could change nothing.”(135)

Jonas said  this when he realized that he was a different person know and he will never be the same again. He had lost his friends  because they see the world differently now.  He is feeling very lonely and the idea that one day(soon) he won’t have the giver any more terrifies him because that mean that no one will understand him. I feel sorry him he will suffer too much and its not fare for him. He feels useless  because he knows that sameness is done he can’t undo it he can’t change reality.

We can see hoe Jonas is continuing to grow on this last chapters and with the memories he had continued to receive and everything starts to make sense but also millions of new questions rise. week bu week he feels more and more lonely he knows he will soon loose the giver and he will handle all by himself.we have also seeing how Jonas is able t transmit more and more memories to Gabe and we steel have no clue of why that is possible. I guess will just have to wait and see what will be the final destination for everyone.....