What does jonas learn about what happens during a release

These three chapters focus on release. Up to this point, Lowry has been vague about the concept of release and has not explicitly stated what release means. She has given the impression that release for older people who are no longer useful to the community, for infants who are different, and for people who are being punished simply means going Elsewhere.

Jonas wonders about release. The Giver explains to Jonas that he himself cannot ask to be released until the new Receiver Jonas has been trained. Jonas mentions that his instructions prevent him from asking for release. In a bitter tone, The Giver tells Jonas that the rule about release was added after the Receiver-in-training's failure ten years earlier. At Jonas' request, The Giver finally explains what happened to the earlier Receiver, who was named Rosemary. Rosemary was selected to be the new Receiver exactly as Jonas was.

The Giver began training her, giving her happy, joyful memories until she demanded that he also give her painful and anguished memories. She felt it was her duty to share the burden of pain. But one day, after receiving a few painful memories, Rosemary said goodbye to The Giver, left the Annex, and asked to be released. The Giver never saw her again. As The Giver discusses Rosemary, Lowry provides meaningful details describing The Giver's actions that indicate his overwhelming sadness about Rosemary's decision.

While he is talking, he "painfully" hesitates, his voice trails off, and he sorrowfully closes his eyes. When Rosemary was released after only five weeks of training, the community was in turmoil. All of the memories that Rosemary had received returned to the people in the community. Because memories are forever and are never lost, the people were forced to experience the anguish and the joy contained in the memories.

For the first time in their lives, they experienced real feelings. Grief stricken and angry over the loss of Rosemary, The Giver was unable to help the community through its ordeal. Knowing that memories will destroy the community's Sameness, Jonas asks The Giver a hypothetical question: "What if I fell into the river. Every memory that The Giver has transmitted to Jonas would return to the people, and Sameness would no longer be possible.

The community would have to change, and with The Giver's help, the people would endure the experience and benefit from it. Again Lowry foreshadows the future as she concludes Chapter 18 with The Giver deep in thought about Jonas' suggestion to help the community experience freedom once again. The topic of release is on Jonas' mind because his father was scheduled to release a newborn twin earlier that morning. To Jonas' amazement, The Giver informs Jonas that he can watch the twin's release because all private ceremonies in the community are recorded on video, and being The Receiver, Jonas can ask for anything.

Jonas is unaware that the community's every activity is taped. Videotaping everything that goes on in the community is yet another way that the Committee of Elders maintains control of the people.

Concerning the twin's release, Lowry describes in detail the release room in the Nurturing Center. Jonas learns that the Old are Released, or euthanized, when they get too old. Jonas describes Release as occurring in three situations: with the old, with infants, and people who break three rules. Note how he starts off ironically desiring to see the release of the twin that his father was going to perform that day: He liked the thought of seeing his father perform the ceremony, and making the little twin clean and comfy.

His father was such a gentle man. Rosemary was a Receiver-in-Training, the daughter of the Giver, who imparts his knowledge to Jonas, his new trainee. Why did they kill the baby in the giver? Now Jonas knows that his father has killed the baby. Release means death. After the video ends, The Giver tells Jonas that Rosemary asked to inject herself at her release. The reason that infants are killed is because they are different in some way. What happens when you get released in the giver?

In The Giver, when a person is "released," they are killed through a lethal injection. During the early parts of the story, readers know that being released is not a good thing, but the term doesn't immediately carry the connotation of death. What was the previous receiver's job with Jonas? When Jonas arrives at the Annex to begin training for his new Assignment, the previous Receiver of Memory informs Jonas that he is now the Giver of Memory.

The Giver's job is to transfer the preserved memories of humanity's past to Jonas, who is the community's new Receiver of Memory. What happened in Chapter 6 in the giver?

As the sixth chapter of The Giver opens, Jonas's mother is tying ribbons into Lily's hair, which the young Seven dislikes. Lily craves to be independent and adult, and she is very pleased that today is the last day she has to wear ribbons. Jonas has also been looking forward to this day, the Ceremony of Twelve. Is Rosemary really the giver's daughter? The Giver passes this trait down only to his children.

We also know that the Giver calls Rosemary his daughter. I believe Rosemary was the Giver's biological daughter not only because of her eyes, but because the Giver says he loves her, something Jonas' own parents do not tell him. Why are there no grandparents in the giver?