The journey

After Jonas finished asking and inquiring about Rosemary The Giver insisted that he should watch the release of the twins. Jonas agreed and watched. At the end he realized that "release" was actually killing someone. Jonas was disgusted by everything.His mind had opened up and he saw things differently about how the community runs. He saw his father as a killer. The giver tried to calm down Jonas. He told him that it is not his father's fault and that his father doesn't understand or know what is death. Jonas was so overwhelmed about this that he decided he had to change how things work in the community. So Jonas stayed the night with the giver and they started planning a way that Jonas could leave the community and all of his memories will go to the people. They eventually plan it all. The day Jonas will leave was the night before the ceremony that way no one will know were Jonas is and no one can stop this ceremony. By that time, Jonas will be already on his way to elsewhere. The night that Jonas and the Giver planned for him to leave, Jonas's parents told him Gabriel was going to be released. Jonas didn't want Gabe dead so he took him. Jonas had to travel at night and sleep at day because the search planes looked for them at day. Days passed and the number of planes decreased until they were gone. When the planes disappeared Jonas and Gabe could travel safer. In the journey they saw woods and animals. Their food eventually was gone and both were very weak. They were trying to get to their destiny. Suddenly they found a sled and they used it. When the sled stopped they saw lights and windows and perhaps they heard music.

"And he had taken Gabriel,too." (166,Lowry)

I think that Jonas did the right thing by taking Gabe with him. If he hadn't taken Gabe with him he was going to leave him and someone was going to kill him. I also think that Jonas would have felt very guilty if he left Gabe behind.

"Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo." (180, Lowry)

This last quote of the book haunts me with so many questions. I wonder of Jonas and Gabe accomplished their mission. I don't know if Jonas was hallucinating because of the lack of food and water. What I think the end was, is that Jonas an Gabe were traveling in circles and by the time they completed the circle they got to their community and  that it had homes and music.

In conclusion, I think this was a very good book. Lois Lowry created a very good ending because she gave you the freedom to choose the ending you want. This book has a very good message and a very good theme.