It has
happened a lot since Jonas has not been drinking his stirring pill. After some
days the elders declared an unscheduled Holiday in which kids and adults could rest,
After Jonas found his friends he found them playing a warfare game which made
Jonas very disappointed and sad that they didn't know what they were really playing.
Jonas wanted to know about the failure ten years before so he asked the giver
who she was and he told him she was called Rosemary and that she was released
together with the memories which returned to the people. It has been a while
since Jonas has been wondering about what release meant so he asked The Giver
and both watched a video of the release his father had accomplished that
morning. This was the way Jonas
understood that release meant death and became really disappointed with his
father for lying about it. That same night The Giver and Jonas made a plan so
that Jonas could escape to elsewhere and bring all the memories back to the
people. At the end of the chapter the Giver left us with a huge discovery which
states that Rosemary was his daughter.
"As he continued to watch, the new
child, no longer crying, moved his arms and legs in a jerking motion. Then he
went limp. His head fell to the side, his eyes half open. Then he was
still" (Lowry 150).
This is really sad and made think that if they do
not know how to respect a life how they will respect their own life.
But we also have to consider that it is the only reality they know
and they think that what there are doing is right. Even doe if a war
happened they will kill a lot of people and wouldn't have guilt about
it because they don't have a religion to tell them what is
right and what isn't including they don't have
the memories. This shows us the importance of memory cause without
them people do not know what they are really doing and what it means
they don't even understand that it’s a life what they are taking
away. Memories are the ones that tell us what we did wrong on the past so that
we don't do it again and makes us realize the feeling we have
toward that memory.
On the next chapters I predict Jonas will escape safely to elsewhere causing the memories to return to the people who react on panic and cause a civil war. Jonas hearing of what has happened returns to the community to find the giver but he finds himself with the news he has been released. Now it is Jonas job to help the people and find a new receiver so to pass his memories to when he grows , he chooses Gabe and decides to raise him as a son and marry Fiona breaking the rules of the family unit form. All the community while change to how it was before when all the people had the memories available.
