Giving Memories

In The Giver there is no freedom, no choice! Everything is decided for you all you have to do is play along! But someone has to hold the memories that were taken away from them, thats why there had a reciever of memories or in other words The Giver. The Giver has to hold memories like colors and real emotions! The main charactor of the book, Jonas has been selected to be the next reciever of memories. Soon he realizes that there is so much more to the world than what everyone else and for a while he thought. After he got a few memories he accidentally transmits a memory of peace to a little baby that his father had brought home from work! The baby's, Gabriel's reaction was falling asleep. But that is against the rules! Soon Jonas gives Gabriel more and more memories, whats wrong with that? It makes the burden lighter! Then you wonder how this quote:" Gabriel's breathing was even and deep. Jonas liked having him there, though he felt guilty about the secret. Each night he gave memories to Gabriel: memories of boat rides and picnics in the sun; memories of soft rainfall against windowpanes; memories of dancing bare-footed on a damp lawn. "Gabe?" The new child stirred slightly in his sleep, Jonas looked over at him. "There could be love" Jonas whispered. The next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away" relates to the themes of freedom and choice?





I think the relation between the quote and the themes is fairly simple. Its the freedom of choice! Jonas chose to give some of his memories to Gabriel, regardless of what the rules say. He made the choice to let Gabriel into information, he would not have believed if he was Jonas' age! But since Gabriel is only a baby Jonas can tell him things and share his memories with him, and Gabriel can't even say he is crazy because he had seen the memories and he is just a baby! Jonas has the freedom to lie to people! At first he thought that was ridiculos, but soon he realized that its actually very helpful! He can lie to The Giver about not sharing his memories! So this quote is all about the themes of freedom and choice!





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