The Giver

The Giver is a book written by Lois Lowry. This book is very intriguing. The end of the book leaves us wondering where the main character, Jonas, is headed. Lois Lowry is a great author. She was able to make the book come alive. Even though it was confusing at some parts, all the mysteries worked out in the end. Except for if Jonah was alive. The ending of this book is a cliffhanger. It leaves us wondering, where is Jonas and if he is still alive. There is enough evidence, though, at the end of the story to safely say that Jonas is alive and that he has made it to Elsewhere.

This story takes place in a Utopian society. Everything outside this community is called Elsewhere. There’s also a concept of release. Release is when you are injected with something and you die without pain. No one in this community knows about this though. Jonas is a eleven year old, waiting for the time of the year when he will be given his job. Whenever a child turns twelve, they are given a job, a job that they have for the rest of their lives. Jonas gets a special job called Receiver. The Receiver is the person who has all the memories from the past. No one knows anything about the past, except for the Receivers. The current Receiver, The Giver, takes in Jonas and starts giving him all the memories. Jonas doesn’t know about release and when he does find out, he gets too overwhelmed by it all. Jonas and The Giver make a plan to escape to Elsewhere. But there’s a catch. When one, or both, of them get out of the community, the memories in them get released out. This is known to The Giver because 10 years previously, the receiver-in-training died and all her memories got released into the community. The Giver decides that he will stay behind and help the c...

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...rom behind him, probably the community. The Giver has either started his journey to Elsewhere or died. The memory would be let out either way. If The Giver died, that means the community found the memories of the past too hard to handle and killed The Giver in confusion. If The Giver started his journey to Elsewhere, that means that he was successful at calming the community down from all the emotions and memories that Jonas let out. It also means that The Giver was on his way to Elsewhere to meet Jonas.

The ending to this story leaves us hanging, but with the right evidence, it’’s easier to understand. There is a sufficient amount of proof saying that Jonas and Gabriel are still alive and that they did make it to Elsewhere. All you have to do is reread and look into the text more to find the proof needed to satisfy our cliffhanger that Lois Lowry has left us with.