Decide if Jonas made the right choice in leaving the community. Did his leaving produce more positive or more negative results?
Jonas should not have left the community.The Giver is in pain and Jonas should be there to help him through it. The citizens of the community are now left with the pain and confusion getting all the memories at once. And the book literally says that he made the wrong choice.
The Giver is in pain and Jonas should be there to help him through it.“Some afternoons The Giver sent him away without training. Jonas knew, on days when he arrived to find The Giver hunched over, rocking his body back and forth, his face pale, that he would be sent away. “The Giver is in so much pain and needs Jonas to help take his pain.“The Giver looked up at him, his face contorted with suffering. “Please,” He gasped, “take some of the pain.””The Giver is in so much pain he, and he needs Jonas there to help him with it. “It’s like going downhill through deep snow on a sled” he said, finally “At first its exhilarating: the speed, the sharp, clean air, but then the snow accumulates, builds up on the runners, and you slow, you have to push hard to keep going, and-”This shows how much The Giver loves the memories and why he …show more content…
They’ll destroy themselves” This shows that this is dangerous and the only reason that they won’t all die is because The Giver is“For a while they overwhelmed the community. All those feelings! They’d never experienced that before” In this quote the people react to memories for 5 weeks, so for a year of memories, they would go insane.“For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing. In Lois Lowry’s Newbery acceptance speech, she calls Jonas’s trip “a circular journey” so there is a possibility that Jonas has returned to the community, and there is joy