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Did Jonas Die In The Giver
The Giver: Did Jonas die or go to elsewhere?

In the book The Giver by Lois Lowry, Jonas and Gabriel reach the bottom of the hill and are welcomed to the afterlife with the delicate hand of an angel.

First of all, the author, Lois Lowry clearly states that Jonas didn't have a memory of music. “Music. The giver said smiling....
No giver, I want you to keep that, to have with you, when I'm gone."
Jonas tells the giver in this quote that he must not give his memory of music to him, for that joy was to be used by the giver to cope with Jonas being gone. But at the end, the author says Jonas had heard music. “He thought he had heard music” Weird, huh? How is that possible? It’s not, so that's why I think Jonas’s explanation of reaching the

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