How does Jonas feel about this memory?
How does Jonas feel about this memory? The Giver’s favorite memory was Christmas with a fire, a Christmas tree, a dog, presents, and a family (Lowry 116). Jonas likes the memory because for the first time he understood love (118 Lowry).
How did the new memory make Jonas feel?
When Jonas joins The Giver for training, he experiences memories for the first time. Some of these exhilarate him, such as the sled ride. Some scare and sadden him, like the battlefield. Some perplex him, like the memory of grandparents.
What did Jonas realize in his memory?
When Gabriel wakes up crying, Jonas pats his back while remembering a wonderful sail on a lake transmitted to him by the Giver. He realizes that he is unwittingly transmitting the memory to Gabriel and stops himself. Later, he transmits the whole memory and Gabriel stops crying and sleeps.
What does the giver tell Jonas about his favorite memory?
When Jonas asks The Giver to describe his favorite memory, The Giver tells Jonas he wants to give it to him, not just describe it to him. The Giver transmits the memory of a group of people, very young and very old, opening presents under a tree covered in lights. He tells Jonas the memory is of family and love.
How does Jonas feel about fully experiencing his first memory?
Be sure you understand the implications of this event and more by taking the eNotes quiz on Chapter 11 in The Giver by Lois Lowry. How does Jonas feel about fully experiencing his first memory?
What was the deceptive thing that Jonas did?
Another deceptive thing that Jonas does is when he accidentally gives Gabe, the baby, a memory to calm him in the middle of the night. “He wondered, though, if he should confess to The Giver that he had given a memory away. . .
How does the giver feel after he transmits the first memory?
The Giver feels lighter after giving his memory to Jonas. He says, “‘even transmitting that tiny memory to you – I think it lightened me a little,'” (p. 82). The memory of the snow is now in Jonas’s possession, and the Giver no longer has that memory.