Chapter 17-20

In these chapters we start with an unscheduled holiday, it means that Jonas and the rest of the community is free to rest or do what they would like, but never broke a rule, in these holiday Jonas decides to go with he´s friends to play, Asher and other children where playing a war game, pretending to shoot with imaginary weapons. Then Jonas realize it was a war game, he had never notice until he got the warfare memory, in that moment Jonas was in shock. Some days later when Jonas was with the Giver they started talking about release, then the Giver told him about Rosemary the receiver before Jonas and who she fail. While they where talking about releasing Jonas remembered about the releasing of the twin that he´s father had told him, then the Giver turn the speaker on and order to see the release of the twin baby, that day Jonas realized that realizing was actually killing them.

kids playing 

releasing the baby 

These chapters are amazingly interesting and are difficult to stop reading. The word choices are really variated, mostly we all know those words and we must have not problem understanding.
"Once again, as he had on the playing field, he felt the choking sensation. Once again he saw the face light-haired soldier as life left his eyes." (Lowry 151)
This quote here shows the power of memories, the pain they can cause, I thing these quote made me feel empathy towards Jonas and understand the experience he is feeling, the choking feeling of deception, of sadness and pain.


As i said before the book is in its most interesting part, on the final part.