Isolation In The Giver

“So there will be a whole part of your life which you won't be able to share with a family. It's hard, Jonas. It was hard for me (Lowry 103)." For the Receiver of Memory, isolation has to do with the burden of his job. He is isolated by not being able to share the memories that The Giver transmits. If he shares memories with others, it causes them pain. This way, Jonas is self-sacrificed. In their community, they live without color, emotions, and feelings, though there are only two people who know the true past. Being isolated makes people feel lonely and it affects them. Isolation can affect people in several different ways like it affected Jonas. Jonas is a normal kid, though he does not know he is going to have such a job. He has the

When Jonas’s dad brings Gabriel home, Jonas realizes that Gabriel has blue eyes, which means he has wisdom. To clarify this, it means that Jonas and Gabriel can both see beyond like The Giver. Jonas finds out that Gabriel will be released because he is not sleeping well during the night. He knows that Gabriel is the meaning of the new generation; so he has a plan to escape from the community and go to Elsewhere with Gabriel. Jonas and Gabriel go through several obstacles during the journey. For example starvation and lack of sleep. Jonas is riding on a sled with Gabriel giving him memories of family, love, and happiness so they can survive. He is able to transmit these memories to Gabriel because Gabriel is a new child, and he has not lived in the community for a period of time. When they are going downhill on a sled, they get to the border where everyone in the utopia society can now see color and feel such powerful things. Everyone in the community can see the past and feel things that they have never felt. Jonas wants the community to have all these adventures and journeys and not be isolated from all this. Jonas is willing to die for the community so they can have color and be able to see red or green in an apple and the color of books. Jonas