THE RECIEVER OF MEMORIES

                 

Jonas has already received his assignment as the Receiver, he realizes that his job would be a very strange and unique experience. When he looks at the responsibilities of his job he realizes that his Job is required to break many rules that he has been thought not to break since he was a little boy. On his responsibilities folder he finds that he cannot participate in the dream telling if he wished not to. He can actually lie to other people! :O ----------------->

 

He can actually break one of the most important rules of the community rules. On his first day of training Jonas meets with the Receiver, he notices that the door of the Ammex building has an actual lock. Jonas has rarely seen a door with locks, mainly because the community is safe there are no locks, but also lock symbolize secrets and privacy, something that the citizens of the community are forbidden to have. The Receiver greets Jonas and tells him to lie down without his shirt. The older man puts his hands on Jonas’s bare back. The Receiver transmits the memory of snow. Jonas is amazed by the new experience. The old man tells him that every thing had to be eliminated, snow, hills and sleds.

 

 

 

 The old man explains that they all took that away because of Sameness, climate was unpredictable and affected the agricultural system. The Receiver also gives Jonas the memory of sunlight and sunburn.

“It was sunburn, the old man told him. “It hurt a lot, Jonas said, but I am glad you gave it to me. It was interesting. And now I understand better, what it meant, that there would be pain. The man didn’t respond. He sat silently for a second.”

The Giver probably stayed quietly because he knew that sun burn was nothing compared to the pain that is yet to come to Jonas. Jonas probably think that sunburn is the kind of pain that was categorized as physical pain. Does the Giver know that there are much greater pain than sunburn? If does why does not say anything to Jonas that there would more pain and that it will be much worse than sunburn?

“But the Chief Elder had said that they had made a selection before, that it had failed. What was she talking about? Both of his parents hesitated….What happened to her? He asked nervously. We don’t know, his father said uncomfortably. We never saw her again. ”

 Why don’t they just tell Jonas what happened, why do they hesitate? Why would the elders make an incorrect or wrong selection, haven’t they spent their whole life watching and observing kids to place an assignment for them? Isn’t this supposed to be a perfect community? Jonas parents are probably hiding something from Jonas, they know something about the incorrect selection that Jonas doesn’t.  Disappeaaaarrrrrr????? Seriously how does any one just disappear???? :O

Jonas has many secrets yet to discover, like the real meaning of pain and what really happened to the female that was chosen and just disappeared. There is something about the community that isn’t right something is happening.