Dear Giver,
I have written this letter 100 times and yet I can't express how much I will miss you. You have given me courage and happiness in my life. Thank you. For me what you have taught the most is choice and freedom. These two key concepts have now been attached to me and I will keep them in mind forever. I have the privilege to know what these mean and I think that choice and freedom have impacted me a lot during my training. I will never forget the love you gave to me and the freedom and choice I got. My knowledge about choice and freedom is huge and I didn't know that much before I was The Receiver. My life has immensely changed by your wonderful memories and now I finally understand the concept of life and society and what is wrong in our society. Colour, freedom, belief and choice. Those are the things you have given me and now I can direct them into my new life. Thank you so much Giver. You have taught me a lot. With my knowledge of choice, freedom and society I will now stride forth and become an even better citizen in a better community. I am mournful that you can not come with me to the new community because of your great knowledge but it is for the best of things, and you said yourself you are so stuck to this community.
I am going to leave because I can't stand it anymore. Now that I have the wonderful memories from you and the knowledge I see what a bad community this is. I think that people like you and me deserve a better life and deserve a community where there is colour and liveliness. You have given me information on choice and freedom and those two concepts should be involved in our life and in the community we are living in now we have no choice and freedom and i think this is unfair. I am taking Gabriel with me because heal also deserves another chance at life and he should not be released. I think you also deserve a better community. You have been a wonderful man. Thank you so much. You taught me so much that I can now have the courage to save Gabriel's life and bring him to a better community. I am scared but at the same time excited to leave. Your wonderful memories have led me to this hard decision. I am leaving. I will miss you so much I can't describe my feelings for you. You are like my second father. I love you.
Yours Truly,
Quotations:
"Gabriel's breathing was even and deep. Jonas liked having him there, though he felt guilty about the secret. Each night he gave memories to Gabriel: memories of boat rides and picnics in the sun; memories of soft rainfall against windowpanes; memories of dancing bare-footed on a damp lawn.
"Gabe?"
The new child stirred slightly in his sleep, Jonas looked over at him.
"There could be love" Jonas whispered."
Page 128-129 of The Giver by Lois Lowry
"Jonas went over the plan in his head. It seemed startlingly simple. Jonas and The Giver had gone over it and over it, late in
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o the night hours.
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Then, in the middle of the night before the Ceremony, Jonas would secretly leave his dwelling. This was probably the most dangerous part, because it was a violation of a major rule for any citizen not on a official bu
s
iness to leave a dwelling at night.
"I don't know what you should do if you are seen, Jonas," The Giver had said. "I have memories, of course, of all kinds of escapes. People fleeing from terrible things throughout hist
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ry. But every situation is individual. There is no memory of one like this."
"I'll be careful," Jonas said. "No one will see me."
"As Receiver-in-training, you're held in very high respect already. So I think you wouldn't be questioned very forcefully."
"I'd just say I was on some important errand for the Receiver. I'd say it was all your
fault I was out after hours," Jonas teased.
They both laughed a little nervously. But Jonas was certain he could slip away, unseen, from his house, carrying an extra set of clothing. Silently he would take his bicycle to the riverbank and leave it there hidden in the bushes with the clothing folded beside it.
Then he would make his way through the darkness, on foot, silently, to the Annex.
"There's no nighttime attendant," The Giver explained. "I'll leave the door unlocked. You simply slip into the room. I'll be waiting for you."
Page 158-159 of The Giver by Lois Lowry
These are quotations of freedom and choice.
