After reading this book for the second time, I am still left thinking what could've happened to Jonas.At the beginning of the book, Jonas's world is perfect. There is no pain, hunger, war, and no love. Every year, when a person turns twelve, they are assigned a job to help the community. Jonas has no idea what job he will get, until he is awarded the job of receiver of memory.
Jonas's instructor, the Giver, holds all the memories of past human life. When there was war, pain, emotions, and color. As the year goes by, Jonas learns all of these memories, and realizes that there is so much more to life than he has been getting in his community, which he once thought was perfect.
Jonas plans to run away, taking a young child with him, (you will understand if you read the book) to find the world he's been missing. Jonas wants to discover what it's like to have feelings, to have joy, to also have pain and sorrow.
At the end of the book, Jonas and Gabe (the infant he took with him), hungry, hurt, and tired, slide down a snowy hill on a sled, seeing twinkling green and red Christmas lights and music in the distance, two things he would have never known in his past life.
The question is, does Jonas make it? Did he actually die and is just in heaven in the world he wanted? Or did he really make it to the world he desired? Lois Lowry has left the story a cliff hanger, letting readers decide what they think the ending should be. Overall, The Giver is worth reading and is one of my favorite books!
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