Important Quotes (The Giver)

Author's Note: This piece is written to analyze two quotes that I think are very important. Also, it is written to improve my score in conclusions.

Jonas was selected to become the receiver of memory and  learn what life was like generations and generations ago. In this piece I will describe a few of the key events that make Jonas' job so unique and different from everyone else's. He is only twelve, but he is taking over the job of an old, wise Elder.

The first quote that I'm going to be explaining, is one of the more important facts in this book because it keeps reoccurring. " - well this was the part that he couldn't adequately understand - the apple had changed". I think this is a key element of the story because it shows that the Elders were one-hundred percent legitimate with their decision of Jonas as the receiver of memory. What I mean by this, is the fact that Jonas is learning his job even though the ceremonies haven't even started yet. This quote appears near the end of chapter three (page twenty-four). This is only one of the two most important quotes that I have chosen to describe about his novel.

Moving on, this is a mildly important event that gave Jonas a good feel of what life used to be like. This event was the first time Jonas felt real pain in a sunburn. Here on modern-day Earth, most of us already know what that feels like; not the best. The actual quote is: "'It hurt,' he told the old man, 'and I couldn't get the word for it.' 'It was sunburn,' the old man told him". This was important because it gave Jonas a sort of pain he has never encountered before. The quote was part or chapter eleven on page eighty-six. It is sort of astonishing that only on  Jonas' second day of training, he asked for a painful memory instead of a happy vision.

As you can most likely see, Jonas has a very special job that allows him to do way more things that he wasn't allowed to do before he got selected. He is permitted to lie, ask questions, see and feel things that most everyone else in the community hasn't ever even thought about experiencing. I think Jonas will eventually slip and tell the whole community what life was like and take action to recreate what life was like generations ago.