Outside Reading Blog #8: The Giver

It has been a few weeks that Jonas has not taken his pills and he has pleasurable dreams that make him feel a little guilty, but he refuses to give up the heightened feelings that the Stirrings and his wonderful memories have given him. Now he know that he is feeling new feelings that he had never known before existed. then an unexpected holiday comes up in the community. During the celebration, the kids begin to play a game of good guys bad guys, but Jonas does not participate when he realizes that it is a game of war and the memory of war comes back and haunts him once again. Jonas asks the Receiver on his opinion of "release." The Receiver responds by saying that he always thinks about that when he is in great pain and he can;t apply for release until Jonas has been trained by rule because a failed training about ten years ago. The Receiver had given her some bad memories in which she could not handle and that day she applied for release and never saw he again. Jonas knows that he can't apply and he asks the Receiver what would happen if he drowned himself? the Receiver responds by saying that all the memories that had been transmitted to him and would go all through the community and it would cause chaos.