Jonas Decisions In The Giver, By Lois Lowry

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This essay discusses Jonas’s decisions and why people should support it. In Lois Lowry’s book, The Giver, Jonas decides to leave the safety of the community to allow Gabriel to live, to allow the memories to return to the community, for Jonas to live a meaningful life and for the Giver to have a second chance at helping the community at a time of distress when Jonas’s memories return to the people. Jonas’s decision was the preferred one. How and why is releasing Jonas’s memories to the community better than not releasing the memories to the community? Releasing the memories back to the community is solid, because of two reasons. One reason on pg. 195, “ They will acquire wisdom.” (they refers to the community). The wisdom they acquire will allow them to think more independently and it will allow them to comprehend emotions. Also, another one on pg. 193, and 195,” People once felt things once… But it will be desperately hard for them.” (things refer to emotions). This evidence shows us what people probably felt like happened when Jonas’s memories returned and how the experience might not be completely alien. Why did the Giver receive a second chance? …show more content…
On pg. 180-181, “ I was so devastated by my own grief at her loss, and my own feeling of failure, that I didn’t even help them through it. I was angry too.”. The evidence provided proves that the Giver regrets the past when Rosemary was released and her memories were released. On pg. 195, “ When your memories return, they’ll need help… You needed me then. And now they will.”(“you” is Jonas) The evidence shows that the Giver wants a second chance to help the people like how he helped Jonas. How was Jonas’s dangerous life better than a safe

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