Some people may wonder if Jonas, whom has taken the honor to be the new Receiver, is going through major punishments or is endowed with major honor. Being selected as the Receiver is a punishment considering that there are excruciating amounts of difficult, painful work to do. It is also a punishment for whoever gets selected will experience pain that nobody else has experienced. Not only that, but the Receiver will feel feelings that other people don’t feel, including pain. Being selected as the new Receiver is a Punishment.
Being selected as the Receiver is a punishment seeing that there are great quantities of strenuous, painful work to do. According to The Giver, ”We have [grueling] and painful work to do, you and I.” (Page 73) What this means is that The Giver is telling Jonas that he has to endure hours of tiring, painful work every day for a long time. Since he is the Receiver, he must undergo memories of pain.”But you will [be challenged] now, [against] [the] pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend [since] it is beyond our …show more content…
As Lois Lowry wrote in The Giver, ”Overwhelmed with pain, he lay there in the fearsome stench for hours, listened to the men and animals die, and learned what warfare meant.”(Page 113) The Giver transmits a memory of “warfare” to Jonas, bringing him into a pit of excruciating pain that was a battlefield. He listens to men and animals dying, begging for water. People who think that being the Receiver is an honor could say that the memory that he experienced wasn’t what happened to him in real life, it wasn’t from his generation, therefore he didn’t quite feel what actually happened. Since the memory didn’t exactly happen in Jonas’s generation doesn’t mean he didn’t feel it happen. He knew that it was real at one point, and it was so detailed and gruesome that Jonas felt every bit of the
Being selected as the Receiver is a punishment seeing that there are great quantities of strenuous, painful work to do. According to The Giver, ”We have [grueling] and painful work to do, you and I.” (Page 73) What this means is that The Giver is telling Jonas that he has to endure hours of tiring, painful work every day for a long time. Since he is the Receiver, he must undergo memories of pain.”But you will [be challenged] now, [against] [the] pain of a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend [since] it is beyond our …show more content…
As Lois Lowry wrote in The Giver, ”Overwhelmed with pain, he lay there in the fearsome stench for hours, listened to the men and animals die, and learned what warfare meant.”(Page 113) The Giver transmits a memory of “warfare” to Jonas, bringing him into a pit of excruciating pain that was a battlefield. He listens to men and animals dying, begging for water. People who think that being the Receiver is an honor could say that the memory that he experienced wasn’t what happened to him in real life, it wasn’t from his generation, therefore he didn’t quite feel what actually happened. Since the memory didn’t exactly happen in Jonas’s generation doesn’t mean he didn’t feel it happen. He knew that it was real at one point, and it was so detailed and gruesome that Jonas felt every bit of the