Pain In 'Jonas': A Brief Summary And Film

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The main idea is that people in the community can’t feel pain and the have a lot of different rules and the they have a receiver that is the only person that can feel pain and know what love is. The old receiver will give Jonas a memory and when the old receiver will lose that memory and never remember that memory.

I think that not being able to feel pain is weird cause you not experience the pain or the way you hurt peoples feeling but not knowing you did. “Don’t play it anymore” “I’m the one who’s training for Assistant Recreation Director” Pg 134. We have experience of pain and feelings when we get hurt be feel pain and we sometimes cry but in Jonas’s world that doesn’t exist.

I think that you get assigned your spouse is not get because

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