Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Chapters 17-23 Character Analysis By: Jessica Avilezj

Chapter 17
Jonas is beginning to become overwhelmed with feelings. Jonas is seeing colors for longer periods of time. Jonas feels distant from his friends because he cannot hang out with them or play their games with them.
Father is to decide which twin is to be released.
Chapter 18
Jonas wants to know what exactly does release mean. He is never allowed request a release but he knows all the memories.
The Giver is not allowed to request release either. The Giver cautions Jonas about him being released because all of his memories will be released to the community.
Chapter 19
Jonas wants to see the release of the twin baby. He is informed that he can watch it because he is Receiver of Memory. After watching the video of the baby being released Jonas becomes angry. He also, feels betrayed.
Chapter 21
Jonas leaves the community and begins breaking all the rules. He took food, is making decisions by himself, and ignoring the community. He took baby Gabriel with him because he does not want him to be released. He begins giving his memories to Gabriel again.
Gabriel is to be released.
Chapter 22
Jonas becomes hurt and injuries his leg. He also, becomes hungry and starts to wonder if he made the wrong choice by leaving, but knowing what would have happen to Gabriel, he knows he did the right thing. Jonas is worried that he will not be able to take care of Gabriel.
Gabriel is also hungry, but he is also cold and wet.
Chapter 23
Jonas hopes that sunshine and warmth will come soon because it is now snowing. Jonas does not have much strength left and wants to give up. Jonas keeps giving Jonas memories of warmth and sunshine to Gabriel.

5 comments:

  1. Jonas' character dramatically changed with the witnessing of the twin baby release. I feel this is the climax of the novel.

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  2. Thank you very much this helped me on my test, Their are a few spelling erros though.

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    1. bruh how is you gonna have spelling errors in your own comment

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