Memories In The Giver

In the world of the giver memories were a thing of the distant past, lost to the effect of sameness, sameness was a choice that the people decided to enact making all equal to avoid potential conflict, but in the process the denizens of these communities were stripped of one of the most important human abilities, the ability to feel deep emotions. Along with these emotions, memories were seen as dangerous to the community’s way of life, so they created the position of receiver of memories to hold all the memories that the communities could not stand to have. Jonas just happened to be an eligible candidate, and under the apprenticeship of the previous receiver of memory who was to be referred by as the giver. Under the givers guidance Jonas
In chapter 12, on page 88, the book states “again and again, as he slept, he had slid down that snow-covered hill. Always, in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something-he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place where the thickness of snow brought the sled to a stop.” In chapter 16, on page 129, the author writes, “the next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take the pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away.” The ‘something’ that Jonas could not grab was most likely the feeling of all those emotions in the memory, the feelings he incapable of feeling clawing out at him, muffled by the communities influence. The second piece of evidence shows something vital-Jonas’s first time breaking a major rule. The Dominoes are nearing the final piece. Not taking the pill as seen is the cause of the memories influencing him, isolating him from the community, not physically but