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Why are memories eliminated for everyone else in the community?
Memories have been eliminated for everyone else because of “sameness” and everyone else aren’t the Reciever(s). Jonas must experience the memories because The Giver wants Jonas to feel not hear.
Why didn’t The Giver help the community when the memories were released to them last time?
When Rosemary was released, the memories that she had received were returned to the community. Chaos resulted. The Giver was distraught and in morning, so he was not able to guide and comfort the community members. Although her memories were mostly positive, the community was not used to having memories.
What was eliminated when the community went to sameness?
Humans cannot escape them. When the Giver explains that snow, hills, and sleds all vanished when the community went to Sameness, he gives a name to Jonas’s society for the first time.
Why did the community not allow choices?
In Chapter 13 Jonas questions why people in the community cannot make their own choices and The Giver provides one main reason: they might make the wrong ones. As a result, no individual feels the disappointment that comes with making an incorrect choice.
Why does only the giver get to keep the memories of people?
The community has decided, generations before this story, that they don’t want everyone to share all the pain that comes with the memories of an imperfect past. They moved all that responsibility to a single individual, the Giver, who is honored but also isolated form the rest of the society.
When does the giver tell the receiver about hunger?
For example, the Giver is able to tell them about hunger when the committee considers increasing the population. Only when they are faced with something that they have not experienced before. Then they call upon me to use the memories and advise them. But the Receiver also shields the community from painful memories.
Why did the giver give Jonas a torturous memory?
You can find the answer directly in the book. The Giver explains this in chapter 14. “Why?” Jonas asked him after he had received a torturous memory […] “Why do you and I have to hold these memories?” “It gives us wisdom,” The Giver replied.
Why are blue eyes important in the giver?
Certain people have the power to transmit memories to others, and this ability is connected to the trait of blue eyes, which Jonas, The Giver, and Gabriel all share. Memory is also not just a mental exercise.