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Always appreciate those who guide you along the way of your journey, because you'll never know if their time is to come sooner or later. I bless you in the name of all that is good and strong and beautiful, Antonio. Always have the strength to live. Love life, and if despair enters your heart, look for me in the evenings when the wind is gentle and the owls sing in the hills. I shall be with you—Page 255.Compared to Jonas in The Giver, once Jonas was being trained with the Giver he had to adapt to perceptual powers and just as Antonio had to be trained by Ultima to have his own perceptual faith. Antonio is just like Jonas in The Giver, once Jonas was being exposed to the Giver he had to adapt to perceptual powers. Just as Antonio had to be trained by Ultima to have his own perceptual faith. …show more content…
He did that to let others know he wasn’t afraid of them. His free-thinking allowed him to help Ultima too, by gathering her medicines, and herbs to take them beside the river, burned them, and buried Ultima's owl by the juniper trees. To help Antonio threw Lucas exorcism, she breaks it down for what a spike to see what was his first decisions to come. Antonio had to maintain the status of focusing on his being of on his

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