Monomyth In Memory By Katherine Bobyak

When all the plotlines have been tied up, the hero has reached the resolution stage of the monomyth. So Jonas reaches the resolution stage when he hears music coming from the community, which symbolizes his success in giving the community the memories. When all the plotlines have been tied up, the hero has reached the resolution stage of the monomyth. So Jonas reaches the resolution stage when he hears music coming from the community, which symbolizes his success in giving the community the memories. The song “Memory” by Katherine Bobyak relates to Jonas’s monomyth and resolution scene.

First, the lyrics describe a circumstance not unlike Jonas's journey to Elsewhere. Where it says ”I traveled long to the ends of the land/ for I had to flee, had to right their wrongs ”, it matches Jonas’s flight from the community in order to fix things. The problem that Jonas needed to end was the euthanization of the weak and the law-breaking. The community
The lines from the song, “Untouched by time,/once locked away in memory,/emotions, colors/freed for all to see” exhibit that motif. Both the song and The Giver exhibit the idea of the sharing of feelings, memories, and colors. The idea of a gray world is a symbol of a dull or dreary, boring life. That is what Jonas had in the community even as the Receiver, for he could not make choices and every day was the same. The colors and emotions were once hidden away, but now they can be experienced as stated in "Memory". The message that runs through both articles is that emotions must be free. The lines “what only existed in memory”, used in reference to a place, also dovetails with Elsewhere in The Giver. Elsewhere is a place outside of the community which has things like love and snow that are only (untold) history for the community. The idea of a place with such things only existed in Jonas’s memories until then (Lowry,