In Chapter 15, Jonas arrives to see The Giver in significant pain and is given the acutely painful memory of warfare that is overwhelming The Giver. In this memory, Jonas experiences excruciating pain and hears the cries of wounded and dying men around him.
He gives Jonas a memory of a war, a battlefield and men injured and dying. In the memory, Jonas is a young man who gives another badly injured solider water and then stays with the other soldier as he dies. Jonas is himself injured, and the pain he feels is horrifying.
The Giver transmits the terrible memory of a battlefield covered with groaning, dying men and horses.
Answer and Explanation: In Chapter 15, the Giver becomes inadvertently immersed in a particularly painful memory. These episodes, similar to seizures, occur without warning and are an unfortunate part of being a Receiver.
Chapter 15
Memory 11: The Giver gives Jonas a memory of death and warfare. Jonas watches as a young boy slowly dies before his eyes. It is a memory that has been torturing The Giver. After giving it to Jonas, The Giver asks to be forgiven for having imparted such great anguish and pain to Jonas.
In Chapter 15, Jonas arrives to see The Giver in significant pain and is given the acutely painful memory of warfare that is overwhelming The Giver. In this memory, Jonas experiences excruciating pain and hears the cries of wounded and dying men around him.
Next, Jonas receives the memory of sunburn, his first painful memory.
After receiving the painful warfare memory in Chapter 15, Jonas is reluctant to see The Giver again. The pain that he experienced causes him to mature, and, as a result, he loses his innocence and his childhood. He does return to The Giver, though, because he knows that "the choice was not his."
Last two paragraphs of chapter 15. Which words convince us that Jonas has experienced excruciating pain? He would welcome death himself.
What is Jonas' first disturbing memory? How does he react? His first disturbing memory was crashing when riding a sled causing him to break his leg (Lowry 103). He screamed and cried.
At some point in the past the community in The Giver decided to eliminate all pain from their lives. To do so, they had to give up the memories of their society's collective experiences.
Why did Jonas ask the Giver to give him painful memories? Jonas wanted to take away some of the Giver's pain.
To better help Jonas understand colors, the Giver gives Jonas the memory of a rainbow as the chapter ends.
Jonas goes to The Giver and receives his first memory, that of sledding down a hill in the snow. He also receives the memory of sunburn, his first encounter with pain in a memory.
Jonas receives a disturbing memory about elephant poachers and a grieving elephant. He returns home anguished and tries to impart the idea of real elephants to his father and Lily, but he cannot.
The first painful memory Jonas receives is sunburn.
In this chapter, on seeing The Giver in so much pain, Jonas offers to take a hard memory from him. By doing so, he learns about warfare, a bloody and painful experience he has never known before.
The memory Joan's has received from the giver really affects Jonas mentally and physically. Some of the ways Jonas was affected was seeing someone that he was close to him die right next to him. This memory really gets Jonas wanting to let people feel these emotions for the best of them.
Jonas has lost most of the memories he received from the Giver, but he tries to remember sunshine and the feeling of warmth that it gives. When it comes, he transmits the feeling to Gabriel, and it helps them make it up the hill on foot, despite the intense cold and hunger they feel.
What favorite memory does the Giver share with Jonas? The Giver gives Jonas his favorite memory: a Christmas morning with family. The memory has several things Jonas does not understand such as the Christmas tree and candles, but he knows it makes him feel good.
In The Giver, memory doesn't function as it does in the real world. 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.
The Giver decides to give Jonas a memory of strong pain so that he can bear some of the Giver's pain for him.
'' Fiona's hair is red. Skin, though it is not red, does have red tones. In fact, The Giver tells Jonas he will learn from the memories that there was a time ''when flesh was many different colors.
To help explain the pain that awaits Jonas, The Giver transmits the memory of a painful sunburn to Jonas.
Because he never received a memory containing music from The Giver, we can assume that he is not reliving a combination of the sled memory from Chapter 11 and the Christmas memory from Chapter 16.