Summary

After he leaves the community, Jonas faces a whole new threat. Him and Gabe need to go through a really tough Journey in Elswhere. After experiencing hunger, weakness, and pain, Jonas finally reaches the final hill. This would mark his destiny and the whole community's destiny too. When he reaches the top, Jonas finds a sled, which he uses to get to the bottom. But it doesn't end here. We are still left with one question- Does he leave or does he die?

"He forced his eyes open, as he went downward and downward, sliding, and all at once he could see lights..." Did Jonas live or die? In my opinion, he lived. I think that Jonas was able to reach his destination. This question is left to every reader, but this might not be the end. Many people think Jonas died because the place he arrived seemed like a "Description of heaven". For me, It should be better for Jonas to live because if not, all this trip would have been for nothing. 


Why did Lois Lowry leave an unclosed ending? If there is an ending for the book, did she ever reveal it? I would personally lime to keep the ending as I want it to be. This way, the experience of reading this book would be better and not ruined.

Stepping in War...

Summary

Jonas walks in to another day of training with the Giver. When he arrives, the giver is feeling a lot of pain, which he transfers to Jonas. This pain turns out to be the memory of WAR. After this, the Giver feels really bad for Jonas, so he transfers him the memory of Christmas and Love. This was really new to Jonas, he had never felt such strong feelings as Love. Thinking about it all day, Jonas finally makes his own decision when he stop taking the pills. Finally, after a talk with the Giver, the Giver confesses a thought he had: What if he could help people get memories back?

"If you floated off in the river, I suppose I could help the whole community the way I helped you.  It ´s an interesting concept. I need to think about it some more. Maybe well talk about it again sometime. But not now".(145)

I wonder what is the giver planning. Will the community get the memories back? Or will the plan not work if they try it? This chapter has let me a lot to predict, but it is also showing that something strange will happen in just a few chapters. I think that the climax might happen when this event occurs. What will Jonas do when it happens?

It could be probable that the plan won´t work. What would happen if instead of helping people, it destroyed them? There could even be a darker purpose on the story and turn the whole book around. Maybe I could find out on the last few chapters. The question comes again; What will Jonas do?