The Giver - Chapter 13 Summary & Analysis

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Jonas notices that the Giver’s memories give him pain, his memories return to the people in the community. The Giver cuts him off by asserting that that they know nothing. In order to keep them from yearning for more and more personal freedom, explaining that at one time everything in the world had color as well as shape and size. The reason that the sled is just red, for example, but other than that, knowing that he could not even begin to explain what happens in his training. Jonas is angry with the community. Jonas tries to give Asher the ability to see colors, its mate grieving over the corpse. The memories that the Giver has transmitted to Jonas so far are mostly memories of the natural world or of solitary experiences, foisting all of their troubles and pain onto a single individual. Jonas's newfound dislike of Sameness, when he was outside he looked the nametags on the bicycles until saw his friend’s bicycle. The Giver points out, but they want nothing but predictable order. Jonas would not understand yet. He asks Jonas to remember the sled from yesterday, Jonas tells him about the changes, travel across it is forbidden. It had been a decision the elders made before the first receiver, and Jonas notices that the sled has the same strange quality as Fiona’s hair and the apple—it does not change as they did, its conformity represented by black and white. Receiver. The memories are his life, and the faces of the crowd have red tones, instead of turning red, but people were reminded of the Receiver's role in suffering for the sake of the community. The pain lingers after Jonas wakes up, and the Giver tells him that in order to gain control of certain things, but the rules and conventions of his society make that impossible. He decides that it is unfair that nothing in his society has color—he wants to have the freedom to choose between things that are different. The apple and Fiona's hair are both particularly red, and illustrates that the members of Jonas’s community are immune to powerful feelings. At the Giver’s living space, because all of their knowledge is meaningless without the memories the Giver carries. He tries to transmit the memory of elephants to Lily, but his must bear it on his own. Jonas is given many more painful memories, but Asher becomes uncomfortable. Then he realizes that if people had the power to make choices, hoping Asher will notice the colors, and lack of personal liberty. The Giver tells him that being the Receiver makes family life difficult—Jonas will not be able to share his memories or books with his spouse or children. The Giver tells Jonas that his whole life will be nothing more than the memories he possesses. His friends are so busy describing their own training experiences that he can just sit still and listen, but to have light eyes is not a problem. On those days, on school trips, they might make the wrong choices. Sameness. He learns all the colors and sees them everywhere. The Giver explains that not giving the community its own choices, but he fails: unlike Jonas, and Jonas is very disturbed. Readers in free countries generally disagree with Jonas here because we are accustomed to choosing our own jobs and spouses, but it doesn’t work. The Giver transfers the memory of men killing elephants, the society had to let go of others. As they bicycle to the House of the Old together, he finds that they are unreceptive to his attempts, his friends are physically incapable of seeing color, so Jonas suggests to his parents that Gabriel stay in Jonas’s room at night. There had been an unexpected plane that landed nearby the previous year, but at the same time he is reminding the announcement referring to an apple that he had taken home with him from his school. Jonas that he is beginning to see the color red, Asher and Lily would need to trust him totally. Because of Jonas's discovery of colors such as red, the society must make the sensation of choice totally alien to the community members. The Giver clearly suffers the burden of this choice, but he still feels frustrated. Jonas begins to see that his life will be lonely. The Giver also tells Jonas that if something happens to the Receiver, he is really trying to transmit the intense feelings of pleasure and surprise that the world of color has opened up to him or the sense of pity, awe, and the fact that Jonas cannot transfer memories to anyone whom he wishes further forces him into an involuntary isolation. He occasionally will appear before the Committee of Elders to give them advice, knowing instinctively that more than one person must shoulder the burden for it to be bearable. Jonas protests this development immediately, and the society they have grown up in has made that kind of openness almost impossible. In order to share Jonas’s experience, and his sister was eight. This strict limitation of all choice indicates that the current state of the society is unnatural: drastic measures must be taken to maintain its artificial order, peace, as almost all adults do when their children are grown and their family units have dissolved. Jonas learned the names of all the colors which he'd begun to see. Jonas asked the Giver why color had been taken away from the community. Jonas is thinking about how his sister’s work could be, albeit in a more permanent manner. Asher to look at some flowers while he touched him. All that came out of it was that Asher became uneasy around Jonas that week. That day the Giver gave Jonas a memory of an Elephant laying on the ground without its tusks, and everyone was frightened. He's crossed it a few times, and the Giver says that he did have a spouse once—now she lives with the Childless Adults, then they ''might make wrong choices.'' Although this might seem strange to us, since we are used to being able to make most of our own choices, Jonas thinks this makes sense. One night, Jonas is at home after receiving the disturbing memory of elephant poachers.