Literature Circles 4 Blog

The author Lois Lowry did described the freedom and choice between these chapters a lot. In the part where he stopped pills, expressed his freedom and choice by thinking of a choice that people had never thought of. This shows that he had gained power of choosing a right thing for his own. By this, it provided a glimpse of Jonas's change by the memories and how powerful the memories are. As a result from his change, his opinions became more effective and reasonable.

Giving the memories to Gabe was also his own choice. He didn't have to send them to Gabe who didn't knew anything. Maybe, he wanted him to have different opinion of his own life starting from the young age. Or, he just wanted to share any memories he absorbed from the giver. No one forced him to give up having the nice memories, but he gave them to Gabe. Which he felt guilty about.

He refused riding bike along the river with Fiona who wanted to comfort him because he wasn't acting like the old Jonas. Now he knew that he couldn't share or explain any memories to them by Asher's rude reply. It was his choice riding with Fiona. He was keeping himself from blurting out the memories to her because she was on of his friends who talked a lot with. By being the receiver, he had lost his freedom communicating with people. Will his choice of freedom increase? or decrease?