" Gabriel's breathing was even and deep. Jonas liked having him there, though he felt guilty about the secret. Each night he gave memories to Gabriel: memories of boat rides and picnics in the sun; memories of soft rainfall against windowpanes; memories of dancing bare-footed on a damp lawn.
"Gabe?"
The new child stirred slightly in his sleep, Jonas looked over at him.
"There could be love" Jonas whispered.
The next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to the pill away"
In two (or more) well structured paragraphs explain how the above quote and the rest how chapters 16 ~ 18 relate to the themes of freedom and choice.
I'll start my blog post of by talking about the quote from the book "the Giver" above. This part of the book was very descriptive and interesting. It made me feel so many emotions that revolved around the word peaceful. It flowed so well with all the thoughts the author was trying to express. I think that this section of the story relates to free rights because Jonas was able to experience things that no one else was. He was able to feel things unknown to anyone else in their community and he had the power to send it through to others. Normally people in Joneses community wouldn't no of such things but if they did it would give them a sense of freedom because it would be something that they would have never felt before. It would be like man on the moon or man flying. A completely new experience that would change life in itself. Overall this passage relates to freedom because Jonas was able to break the laws of the community in any one else's minds by experiencing something unknown to Joneses community. He was also able to transfer this but this wasn't seen so big as freedom apart from the fact that Jonas was once again doing something thought to be impossible by a normal citizen.
Throughout chapter 16, 17 and 18 I have picked up a lot of different things that orbit around the word freedom. In the following paragraph I will talk about, simplify and explain my ideas on how chapters 16,17 and 18 relate to freedom. Throughout these chapters I have noticed once again a variety of memories that Jonas has experienced. Read the paragraph above for a description on how the memories Jonas has received relate to freedom. These chapters also relate to freedom because Jonas was also able to understand things at a high level more then any one else in the community. Examples of this are when Jonas is at the scene of his friends play fighting and when the Giver gives Jonas the memories. When Jonas intruded on the fake war that was taking place he began crying. This was because he understood the true meaning of the game from one of the memories he interpreted. As for the fact that Jonas could clearly understand most of the memories given to him, this related to his understanding of things because he was able to identify things that he had never seen or heard of, like when he was receiving the memory of snow earlier on in the story, he could match up names with things in memory. His understanding of things related to freedom because he was unique. Over others he could do things that were strange. This was a not necessarily a good thing. There were somethings that would have been best not to tell Jonas.
Overall freedom is seen in two ways throughout chapters 16,17 and 18. The first being that Jonas was able to experience things that no one else knew of and he had a good understanding of everything going on. It was as though he had powers. As for the part of the story this related to freedom because Jonas was once again able to experience things that one one else could as well as transfer them to others.
Throughout chapter 16, 17 and 18 I have picked up a lot of different things that orbit around the word freedom. In the following paragraph I will talk about, simplify and explain my ideas on how chapters 16,17 and 18 relate to freedom. Throughout these chapters I have noticed once again a variety of memories that Jonas has experienced. Read the paragraph above for a description on how the memories Jonas has received relate to freedom. These chapters also relate to freedom because Jonas was also able to understand things at a high level more then any one else in the community. Examples of this are when Jonas is at the scene of his friends play fighting and when the Giver gives Jonas the memories. When Jonas intruded on the fake war that was taking place he began crying. This was because he understood the true meaning of the game from one of the memories he interpreted. As for the fact that Jonas could clearly understand most of the memories given to him, this related to his understanding of things because he was able to identify things that he had never seen or heard of, like when he was receiving the memory of snow earlier on in the story, he could match up names with things in memory. His understanding of things related to freedom because he was unique. Over others he could do things that were strange. This was a not necessarily a good thing. There were somethings that would have been best not to tell Jonas.
Overall freedom is seen in two ways throughout chapters 16,17 and 18. The first being that Jonas was able to experience things that no one else knew of and he had a good understanding of everything going on. It was as though he had powers. As for the part of the story this related to freedom because Jonas was once again able to experience things that one one else could as well as transfer them to others.
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