Examples Of Hallucinations In The Giver

“Memory creates a hallucination of the past, Desire creates a hallucination of the future.” - Jaggi Vasudev. Seeing memories are events that have happened in relative time, but seeing the future will guide you on what might take place in your life. Jonas is being taught to be the receiver of memory. The giver is sharing memories with him so the community doesn’t get them. He has hallucinations of the past. Near the end, Jonas gets the desire to leave and get his plan accomplished. He might be seeing events of the future. In the end of The Giver, Jonas and Gabriel are just hallucinating about making it to the house because they have a desire, the travel was very hard on them, and he and Gabe are hiking through freezing temperatures and deep snow. Jonas’s desire pushes him to keep going even when it will get hard on him and Gabriel. “It had become a struggle to ride the bicycle as Jonas weakened from lack of food.” “His sprained ankle throbbed as he forced the pedal downward in an effort that was almost beyond him.” This shows that when someone has desire pain can’t stop them. When Jonas was on the mountain he and Gabe were freezing to death. Then Jonas started feeling warm, he was hallucinating about making his way to the beyond. The memory of …show more content…
He didn’t eat very much and neither did Gabriel. “It was harder, suddenly, to balance the bike, as the front wheel wobble over stones and ruts. He and Gade stop every once in awhile at a stream of a river. Once they got so desperate they made a makeshift net and caught a fish, they had to eat it raw. They slept during the day and rode during the night. When sleeping Jonas would just transfer memories of relaxing, safe places, but it was hard for Jonas to sleep. There were search planes always flying in the air during the day making noise. At night they were able to ride sheltered from other people seeing