The Giver tells Jonas that it would not be safe if Sameness was replaced with individuality and freedom. He explains that allowing people to make their own choices and experience emotions would bring about risks and challenges that the community has avoided by enforcing Sameness.
The Giver (old Receiver of Memory) felt that the community had made a number of mistakes. He demonstrates this by helping Jonas escape, knowing that he would be taking the memories with him, and that with his death and not having given the memories to anyone else, they would return to the community.
Jonas was apprehensive in The Giver at the beginning because in the upcoming Ceremony, he would find out his Assignment.
Jonas's assignment was chosen to be the Receiver of Memory, a position where he would receive memories of the past from the Giver. This task was crucial in the community as it allowed someone to hold the memories and wisdom of the past, ensuring that important lessons and experiences were not lost to the residents.
The Giver's plan was to let Jonas attempt to reach Elsewhere. When Jonas left the community, all the memories that were given to him by the Giver would have returned back to the community. When the community had these memories, they hoped that their way of life would be changed into Jonas' Utopia.
The Giver would say that Jonas had escaped to Elsewhere, which suggests that he had left the community to start a new life beyond its limits. The Giver would likely emphasize the freedom and potential for growth that Jonas now had outside of their controlled society.
At one point in the novel, Jonas and the Giver are discussing Sameness. Jonas says that he would like to have a choice in some thing for example he would like to choose the color of the tunic he wears (remember he can see color and others can't). They discuss a few other fairly trivial things. But then they scoff at the idea (and the chaos it would cause) of people being able to choose their mates or their jobs! The community chooses Sameness because they believe that if everything is the same and people don't have any choices that bad things won't happen. Now obviously the whole point of the book is to question this and as Jonas learns more and more, he comes to realize that his community is a disaster. The advantages would be that if everyone is the same, there won't be prejudice, etc. But of course on the flip side of that is that there is no diversity.
One example of irony in "The Giver" is when Jonas discovers that the seemingly perfect society he lives in is actually built on the suppression of emotions and freedom. The irony lies in the fact that the community's quest for sameness and stability comes at the cost of individuality and genuine human experiences.
Volunteer hours help decide what Jonas' assignment would be. The Elders would observe Jonas' volunteer hours to see what Jonas is good for.
The Giver has not shared the memory of war with Jonas. He keeps this memory hidden because it contains intense pain, suffering, and violence that he believes would be too much for Jonas to handle.
The sameness of the community and the chooses that they made. Like how they didn't want everyone to have memories like the Giver did or how the wanted everyone color blind so that there would be difference in between everyone. Almost everyone looked alike because the birthmothers had to resemble one another.
The Giver would announce to the community that Jonas has left to help them understand the truth and experience their memories. He might explain that Jonas is on a journey to bring back love, pain, and color to their colorless society through his memories.
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