Alejandro saldana final exam essay

The Giver is a book about a” hero", a young boy named Jonas. Jonas's world is nothing like the world you and I know. His journey begins with him feeling apprehensive about a ceremony that is held for every child that turns 12 that year. This special ceremony is his calling to receive his"assignment" in the community. The "Receiver of Memories" is the special role the council of the community gives to Jonas. Jonas knows this title is very important and when he accepts it from the council, it is his threshold.The society that Jonas lives in, is a place where equality or "sameness" have been achieved. A place where war, hatred, and violence have been made obsolete. Love, unfortunately has also been wiped out. But memories of what life was like still exist to an individual who has the title of "Receiver of Memories". So Jonas who has been chosen to become the new receiver must go to the current receiver to start his training. His descent takes place when he goes to see the receiver for his training.The current receiver becomes Jonas's mentor. But now since Jonas is the new receiver his mentor is now the "Giver". The giver explains to him what Jonas's assignment is for, the memories he is to receive and why? Jonas at first doesn't understand what the giver means by memories, the giver then gives him a memory of going down a hill on a snow sled. This was something he never experienced and as his training went on, Jonas started to understand these memories and why only he and the giver had them. As time passed on and the memories that he had received about love and the joy life could be, he started to think about releasing the memories to the community. The reason for this is because the community doesn't know anything about the memories that the giver and he possess and Jonas wants everyone to experience the way life used to be.Jonas and the giver then start talking about this matter and the giver agrees that they should go ahead and release the memories to the community. Jonas decided that he should release the memories because of what he witness his father doing. He killed the lighter of two baby twins and Jonas knew this was wrong and he realized how the community doesn't have real feelings of right and wrong. The giver explained to him how he can release the memories by simply leaving the community and all the memories he had would be released to the community. As Jonas prepared to escape he found out that his father was going to release another baby named Gabriel that Jonas had grew quite fond of. So his organized plan to escape was rush to save the boy and as he managed to retrieve the boy he made his way on beyond the community.This was his transformation as he escaped and decided that releasing the memories would be best for the community. On his journey to escape he didn't knew exactly where he would go and as he went on to find a new home, he finally reached a snow covered hill like the one in the first memory he had received. He then went down it with Gabriel and slowly started to drift into unconsciousness. But with all the knowledge he knew he would create a new and better world for himself, Gabriel, and anyone he would encounter.