The Giver by Lois Lowry Chapters 17-20

Right after Jonas was at the war game and had a fight with Asher, Fiona asked him to ride along by the river. Jonas was so sad that he denied and went back home, during his walk home he started to think about his friendship with Asher and Fiona as he felt the feeling of loss. At diner time, the family had a talk about the twin baby to be released the next day. Jonas´father explained that he was sent to Elsewhere and would find the peaceful place. The next day, Jonas asked the Giver about release, as they talked about release he bringed up the "failure" Reciever and what happended to her. The Giver talked of how she was and told Jonas that her name was Rosemary, he also explained what was good about her and he loved Rosemary. After they talked about how was she a failure, the reason was than she chosed to be released:


"Finally one afternoon, we finished for the day. It had been a hard session. I tried to finish-as i do with you- by transferring something happy and cheerful. But the time of laughter were gone by then. She stood up very silently, frowning, as if she were making a decision. Then she came over me put her arms around me. She kissed my cheek." (Lowry 142)

After that, Rosemary was released.

Jonas begged the Giver to him the releasing of this mornings baby. While Jonas saw the video and learned that "release" is actually murder. The baby was injected with a needle, causing his death. Jonas was frightened too see his dad kill a newborn baby, so he stayed with the Giver for the night

The Giver by Lois Lowry Chapters 13-16

Jonas can now see a full perspective of all colors that surround him. After many weeks of training with The Giver, he’s starting to wonder where the pain of the whole training is. Then, the Giver gave him a memory which involved the same hill from the memory of snow, only that this has much steeper and felt more dangerous. Jonas had rode down the cliff and couldn’t handle the sleigh very well.  After a while of riding down the cliff, Jonas landed violently on ice, making his leg break. After the memory, at home, he still felt his leg sore for such pain the memory involved. Jonas had returned once more to the training even if he didn’t want to and saw the Giver with a sad look on his face. The Giver told him to retrieve the memory he was having, and then that was how he learned about the memory or warfare, which disgusted Jonas. That evening when Jonas was walking back home, he noticed Asher and all of Jonas´ friends where playing. They had all making what happened to be the sound of gunshots and men falling down. Jonas was invited to play, but he simply stood in the middle, in shock, remembering the warfare memory he had retrieved. He ignored all that happened at that time and he just remembered, Asher was upset of how Jonas had ruined the game for him. In desperate frustration, Jonas tried to explain his friends how is it wrong, the problem is, none of Jonas’ friends can see beyond.