In the end of the book, the auther describes Jonas was hungry, cold and that he espected so much being in an other community and that the plan would happen as he and the giver planned it. In some point, we the readers anderstand there is no chance for Jonas to survive and that he wouldn't find another community to live in. All though Jonas, doesn't understand it. He keeps walking with Gabriel in the way which has no end. Finally, when founds a hill. He things that perhaps on the other side of the hill there mite be another community and when he reaches the top he finds a slide. In that point I thought, where did the slide come from? well, there was probably no slide there and I think he Hallucinated the slide. I think he thought Gabriel was the slide and he rode Gabriel down the hill intill they both died. There is also a hint of him dying when it was written in the book that after he will slide down the hill there would be no pain, which probably refurs to their death. Another thing special in the end is the сlosure Jonas is expiriencing. The first memory which was transformed to him, was the memory of sliding down the hill. And now, at the end of his life, his last memory is sliding down the hill. I think that while his last sliding down the hill, he thinks it would be like the memory he received from the giver and that everything would be good and happy. That thought, is another factor for him thinking everything would go as planed and nothing would go wrong. Alon
We think that Jonas died because: he was starving and freezing and he didn't have warm memories any more. When the writer wrote the part that Jonas saw the elsewhere with the sled and families, we think it's impossible that Jonas arrived to the elsewhere. first, memories are given from long time ago so how can the sled still be in the same place for hundred of years? second, jonas probably died when he arrived there and third the writer gave us a hint when he said at the end "but perhaps it was just an echo". we think that jonas was dying and visioned the elsewhere.
There is no known ending. The author, Lois Lowry, makes the ending very mysterious. but after reading the ending multiple times, I must add my opinion to the group who say Jonas and Gabriel die. The whole ending scene seems weird, while Jonas is starving and freezing. The snowy hill, with the sled on top, is very likely to be an illusion. The memories of joy and happiness are also a sign of death. I googled: "The feeling of happiness before death", and the results were mostly around the lines of: when feeling happiness and peace in a death situation, the person is most likely in the process of death and thinking about their lives as a good time. All these signs make me think that after the ending, Jonas dies to the cold and hunger.
By: May Goldberg. In the ending that I thought about, Jonas looking for the source of the music and finds a wonderful place. While he carries Gabe to everyplace he's going, Jonas slowly traveled the world and found more things that appeared in his memories. He and Gabe weren't hungry anymore. In that world, you can eat things that growing on the ground; strawberries and blueberries and apples- red and green. In that world there's people with light and dark skin, light and dark eyes and different hair color and it is ok. In that world you can love.
Meanwhile Jonas grew up, and so as Gabe. They didn't know how much time passed, but they could see that Gabe is now is Nine or Ten, and Jonas is a young man. "Hi!" Jonas heard a familiar voice call him. "Jonas!" the voice was clear. Jonas turned around. "Ash!" Jonas run to him. "How...?" "After you found elsewhere the memories released. Everyone thought you was dead, but KNEW you aren't. So I started to look for you, look for elsewhere." Said Asher, "but I didn’t came alone" he continued, "I came with my wife. Do you know her? Her name is Fiona".
I don't know if Jonas died at the end of the book, maybe he just passed out, but I'm pretty sure that the part where he goes down a hill and hears music didn't actually happen. It seems so unrealistic that by chance there is a sled waiting for him just when he is about to lose consciousness and that as he goes down he hears music and sees a crowd waiting for him. How would the people of the real world know exactly when Jonas would come? It's too good to be true. It makes much more sense that Jonas passed out and dreamed about going down a sled. Also, the author writes the end of the book in a very dreamlike and mysterious way, she makes it sound like he really is dreaming.
I dont thinl Jonas dided. I think that Jonas was so tired that he started to imagine things and his brain was so weak that he needed something to recharge the battery. I think that he heard music that he loves, felt nice things and his brain took energy from these memories. I think that Jonas was very close to death but he didn't die because the memory of msuic and lights and happiness gave him strenght, recharged his body's battery and now, he had more enrgy to continue looking for the elsewhere and I belive that he found it eventually.
In my opinion Jonas and Gabe died, even if the book's ending isn't clear, the whole book seems logic and then the end is just some weird dreams coming true, some people say that you see your whole life before you die and I think that's what happened to Jonas, and because his real life started with the sled, he saw it first, and the last thing he heard from the giver was about music, so it was the last thing he heard before he died. I think that some of Jonas's memories he still had came to Gabe and that he survived a little longer then Jonas (maybe 1 hour...) and he died the way of Jonas, and before he died he saw the first memory that Jonas gave him until the last one and then he died from cold and hunger...
in my opinion after the end of the book Jonas is mentally drained and dies. The memories he had received were unbearable without the Giver helping him along the way. I think that at the end of the book Jonas is delirious and start to see things from his past such as the sled. I think that Gabriel froze to death because Jonas fell unconscious into the snow. His only memory before he died was the happy memory that Jonas gave him and the on where he sees Jonas escape with him.
At the and of the book the author lois lowry leaves a very open ending with no clear answer at all. I think there are two ways to interpreted the ending of the book , one of them is the more optimistic and happy and the other one is the one where jonas and gabe freeze to death.
Although happy ending is usally our favorite way to end a story or a book in this case I etempt to think about the less happy end for the giver. After jonas and gabe climbed the mountain on their way to Elsewhere jonas was so exhausted ,dehydrated and half frozen he started hallucinating and imaganing the sled from the memories the giver gave him . He knew his and Gabe's lives are coming to an end. Jonas tried to keep Gabe safe and make him feel happy and warm by giving him memories of sun and summer. Few minutes before they died jonas remembered the memory of music and family at Christmas. After they died the memories of the community came back to them and made a huge chaos and confusion. The giver helped to bring thing back as they were and to lessen the confusion. Gabe's and jonas' family didn't understand were they are but then knew the were gone and mite be dead because the had the memories of jonas.
Lois lowery doesn't make a close ending. She leaves us, the readers to think, ponder and decide what's the ending for each one of us. In my opinion, in the end, Jonas and Gabriel arrive to the place from Jonas's memories. They do hear music and they do see peoples waiting for them. Unlike most of the students, I'm positive, optimist and do believe in happy endings! I think Jonas and Gabriel survived and found their real family, "the light eyes family" and afterwards, they lived happily ever after. THE END
In my mind, after straying, desperately searching for elsewhere, the starvation and cold become intolerable for poor Jonas's body, and he gets very ill and dies later from the sickness. A moment before he dies, he views an illusion in his mind where he and Gabriel both finally arrive to elsewhere. The music he hears is actually the song of the angels, accompanied to him on his way to heaven, and he dies with a smile on his face. Later, a woman wondering in the woods finds Jonas's dead body hugging a crying, starving baby to his own chest and picks him up, bringing it together with her to her own home in elsewhere, where he becomes a part of a loving family, finally achieves Jonas's goal for him to live happily. The name of the woman was Rosemary.
in the end of the book, the author leaves open end with no one right answer. I think Jonas is not dead. I think he reached Elsewhere and he is looked for the music, and who played the music are his real family. With whem he started a new life. much Better life, more FUN with emotions and memories. They live happily ever after.
I might not be right but I think Everybody deserves a happy ending .maybe my theory is not true/ maybe he dead straight he reached Elsewhere or he is not dead but he had a terrible life.Everything is possible and that's what's nice about books with open end. you dont really know the right answer.
1: Jonas actually reaches the village in his memories. I think that a relay long time ago the first giver acquired the memories of the village, and they were transported to him after a very long time. That's how he recognized the village.
2 (the most likely one): Jonas died. before you die, all your memories pass by you and you see them. That's what happened to Jonas, so he saw his memories about the village, love and music.
I cant certainly know what happened to Jonas, but these are my guesses.
Nir Ofek - So, the end was not clear, and I think that the author wanted to give us the choise to think about the end. I think that Jonas and Gabriel sliding downhill forever. The elsewhere (the hill) is a metaphor for a perfect world, with feelings, no starvation and music. This is what Jonas wanted, after all. - Jonas is sliding downer and downer, as he sliding down, he and Gabe feeling happier and more worm. Actually, they are kind of stuck in the elsewhere. On one hand, they are in the perfect world, feeling better and better. But On the other hand, the hill has no ending. Meaning while, in the community, the giver is planing to escape to. He founds Jonas, they are sliding together and they are receaving together, Jonas The Giver and Gabriel meny new memories. The memories are coming from the end of the hill. The hill is the perfect world, as I seid before, and all the memories are coming from it. The hill is making the memories, and now it gives them to Jonas, The giver and Gabriel.
I think that after the end of the book, the auther lives space to think about the end of Jonas' story. I think that Jonas is sliding down the hill. he feels great and he doesnt want that feeling to ever go away! But unfortunately, this feeling goes away eventually, because the hill ends. Jonas goes with Gabriel for days between the happy looking houses, and he collects food that others throw. he got tired of living that way and he started to miss home and his parents. one day some wierd looking women stared at Jonas for a couple of minutes. finally she asked about Jonas' parents. she understood that he and the baby are alone and she took them to her house. she gave them food and water, and someplace to sleep. Gabe immediately fell asleep, without Jonas. Jonas watched him sleeping for a minute or two and then fell asleep as well. At the morning Jonas have realaised that this is his new home.
At the end of the book the auther discribes Jonas cold hungry and desperate. It seemed like he was going to give up but when he gatherd himself up on his feet he reached the top the hill and there he sees elsewhere. When i got to the end of the book I thought of that situation going two ways. The first way I thought of is Jonas climbing down the hill and joning elsewhere where Jonas and Gabriel continue their lives like every normal life. But then I also thought about how the aouther described him at that time more deeply. He was described very hungry cold and weak so he should probebly not be able to continue on.
I think that after the end of the book, he would walk a bit towards the community, and fall unconscious to the ground. He would wake up at a hospital, not understanding almost everything of what the doctors say (he didn't learn slang). He would be sent to an orphans facility, until he learned everything the Giver didn't tell him about.
After about five years, he would start living his life as a grown adult, and enjoy every single bit of freedom.
At the end of the book Jonas was starving and freezing so I think that Jonas saw a normal hill and thought it was the hill with the sled. When he reached to the bottom of the hill and saw the lights, he actually died. I think that jonas was trying to die, I think that when he said "elsewhere", which is an unknown place, he meant heaven.
At the end Jonas got to the normal world,to New York and there he learnd about normal life,and not so long after he got theyre he blended with the citizens and lived happly forever after Ron
I think that at the end of the book jonas finally dies and gabe does shortly after. The explantation to what jonas thinks he saw is that he blended all the memories that he kept to himself and saw them in quick succssion The sled ride-The colors that he was given sight of-the christmas family-and music.The explantion to this is that i once heard that people who die of cold feel warm a second before they die, this is probably what happened to jonas.
According to my theory gabe should have seen simialar things perhaps the boat on a lake or all the warmth that jonas transsmitted to him. In conclusion I think that at the end of the book jonas and gabe both die.
Unlike other children i actually think that after all the long escape trip Jonas and Gabriel will still be alive, because the author didn’t make the ending so clearly that now we know that Jonas is dead, when he wrote about the music it made us hope that they are still alive. I have two things that I think that would happen in the continuation of the story: 1) Jonas will wake up in the middle of a hospital and realize that everything was a dream. 2) Jonas and Gabe will ride down the hill with the sled and live in that village for a couple of years, when they will grow up they try to get back to the community, when they arrive to the community they'll see that all the place changed, Jonas will find Fiona, tell her that he loves her, they will marry and have kids, and they lived happily ever after!
In the end of the book, the auther describes Jonas was hungry, cold and that he espected so much being in an other community and that the plan would happen as he and the giver planned it. In some point, we the readers anderstand there is no chance for Jonas to survive and that he wouldn't find another community to live in. All though Jonas, doesn't understand it. He keeps walking with Gabriel in the way which has no end.
ReplyDeleteFinally, when founds a hill. He things that perhaps on the other side of the hill there mite be another community and when he reaches the top he finds a slide. In that point I thought, where did the slide come from? well, there was probably no slide there and I think he Hallucinated the slide. I think he thought Gabriel was the slide and he rode Gabriel down the hill intill they both died. There is also a hint of him dying when it was written in the book that after he will slide down the hill there would be no pain, which probably refurs to their death.
Another thing special in the end is the сlosure Jonas is expiriencing. The first memory which was transformed to him, was the memory of sliding down the hill. And now, at the end of his life, his last memory is sliding down the hill. I think that while his last sliding down the hill, he thinks it would be like the memory he received from the giver and that everything would be good and happy. That thought, is another factor for him thinking everything would go as planed and nothing would go wrong.
Alon
We think that Jonas died because:
ReplyDeletehe was starving and freezing and he didn't have warm memories any more.
When the writer wrote the part that Jonas saw the elsewhere with the sled and families, we think it's impossible that Jonas arrived to the elsewhere. first, memories are given from long time ago so how can the sled still be in the same place for hundred of years? second, jonas probably died when he arrived there and third the writer gave us a hint when he said at the end "but perhaps it was just an echo". we think that jonas was dying and visioned the elsewhere.
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Emmanuelle and Mia
There is no known ending. The author, Lois Lowry, makes the ending very mysterious. but after reading the ending multiple times, I must add my opinion to the group who say Jonas and Gabriel die.
ReplyDeleteThe whole ending scene seems weird, while Jonas is starving and freezing. The snowy hill, with the sled on top, is very likely to be an illusion.
The memories of joy and happiness are also a sign of death. I googled: "The feeling of happiness before death", and the results were mostly around the lines of: when feeling happiness and peace in a death situation, the person is most likely in the process of death and thinking about their lives as a good time.
All these signs make me think that after the ending, Jonas dies to the cold and hunger.
By: May Goldberg.
ReplyDeleteIn the ending that I thought about, Jonas looking for the source of the music and finds a wonderful place. While he carries Gabe to everyplace he's going, Jonas slowly traveled the world and found more things that appeared in his memories. He and Gabe weren't hungry anymore. In that world, you can eat things that growing on the ground; strawberries and blueberries and apples- red and green. In that world there's people with light and dark skin, light and dark eyes and different hair color and it is ok. In that world you can love.
Meanwhile Jonas grew up, and so as Gabe. They didn't know how much time passed, but they could see that Gabe is now is Nine or Ten, and Jonas is a young man. "Hi!" Jonas heard a familiar voice call him. "Jonas!" the voice was clear. Jonas turned around. "Ash!" Jonas run to him. "How...?" "After you found elsewhere the memories released. Everyone thought you was dead, but KNEW you aren't. So I started to look for you, look for elsewhere." Said Asher, "but I didn’t came alone" he continued, "I came with my wife. Do you know her? Her name is Fiona".
I don't know if Jonas died at the end of the book, maybe he just passed out, but I'm pretty sure that the part where he goes down a hill and hears music didn't actually happen. It seems so unrealistic that by chance there is a sled waiting for him just when he is about to lose consciousness and that as he goes down he hears music and sees a crowd waiting for him. How would the people of the real world know exactly when Jonas would come? It's too good to be true. It makes much more sense that Jonas passed out and dreamed about going down a sled. Also, the author writes the end of the book in a very dreamlike and mysterious way, she makes it sound like he really is dreaming.
ReplyDeleteI dont thinl Jonas dided.
ReplyDeleteI think that Jonas was so tired that he started to imagine things and his brain was so weak that he needed something to recharge the battery.
I think that he heard music that he loves, felt nice things and his brain took energy from these memories.
I think that Jonas was very close to death but he didn't die because the memory of msuic and lights and happiness gave him strenght, recharged his body's battery and now, he had more enrgy to continue looking for the elsewhere and I belive that he found it eventually.
In my opinion Jonas and Gabe died, even if the book's ending isn't clear, the whole book seems logic and then the end is just some weird dreams coming true, some people say that you see your whole life before you die and I think that's what happened to Jonas, and because his real life started with the sled, he saw it first, and the last thing he heard from the giver was about music, so it was the last thing he heard before he died.
ReplyDeleteI think that some of Jonas's memories he still had came to Gabe and that he survived a little longer then Jonas (maybe 1 hour...) and he died the way of Jonas, and before he died he saw the first memory that Jonas gave him until the last one and then he died from cold and hunger...
in my opinion after the end of the book Jonas is mentally drained and dies. The memories he had received were unbearable without the Giver helping him along the way. I think that at the end of the book Jonas is delirious and start to see things from his past such as the sled.
ReplyDeleteI think that Gabriel froze to death because Jonas fell unconscious into the snow. His only memory before he died was the happy memory that Jonas gave him and the on where he sees Jonas escape with him.
At the and of the book the author lois lowry leaves a very open ending with no clear answer at all. I think there are two ways to interpreted the ending of the book , one of them is the more optimistic and happy and the other one is the one where jonas and gabe freeze to death.
ReplyDeleteAlthough happy ending is usally our favorite way to end a story or a book in this case I etempt to think about the less happy end for the giver.
After jonas and gabe climbed the mountain on their way to Elsewhere jonas was so exhausted ,dehydrated and half frozen he started hallucinating and imaganing the sled from the memories the giver gave him . He knew his and Gabe's lives are coming to an end. Jonas tried to keep Gabe safe and make him feel happy and warm by giving him memories of sun and summer. Few minutes before they died jonas remembered the memory of music and family at Christmas.
After they died the memories of the community came back to them and made a huge chaos and confusion. The giver helped to bring thing back as they were and to lessen the confusion. Gabe's and jonas' family didn't understand were they are but then knew the were gone and mite be dead because the had the memories of jonas.
Lois lowery doesn't make a close ending. She leaves us, the readers to think, ponder and decide what's the ending for each one of us. In my opinion, in the end, Jonas and Gabriel arrive to the place from Jonas's memories. They do hear music and they do see peoples waiting for them. Unlike most of the students, I'm positive, optimist and do believe in happy endings! I think Jonas and Gabriel survived and found their real family, "the light eyes family" and afterwards, they lived happily ever after.
ReplyDeleteTHE END
In my mind, after straying, desperately searching for elsewhere, the starvation and cold become intolerable for poor Jonas's body, and he gets very ill and dies later from the sickness. A moment before he dies, he views an illusion in his mind where he and Gabriel both finally arrive to elsewhere. The music he hears is actually the song of the angels, accompanied to him on his way to heaven, and he dies with a smile on his face.
DeleteLater, a woman wondering in the woods finds Jonas's dead body hugging a crying, starving baby to his own chest and picks him up, bringing it together with her to her own home in elsewhere, where he becomes a part of a loving family, finally achieves Jonas's goal for him to live happily.
The name of the woman was Rosemary.
Additionally, Lois Lowry agrees with me!
ReplyDeletein the end of the book, the author leaves open end with no one right answer. I think Jonas is not dead. I think he reached Elsewhere and he is looked for the music, and who played the music are his real family. With whem he started a new life. much Better life, more FUN with emotions and memories. They live happily ever after.
ReplyDeleteI might not be right but I think Everybody deserves a happy ending .maybe my theory is not true/ maybe he dead straight he reached Elsewhere or he is not dead but he had a terrible life.Everything is possible and that's what's nice about books with open end. you dont really know the right answer.
I have 2 theories about what happened in the end:
ReplyDelete1: Jonas actually reaches the village in his memories. I think that a relay long time ago the first giver acquired the memories of the village, and they were transported to him after a very long time. That's how he recognized the village.
2 (the most likely one): Jonas died. before you die, all your memories pass by you and you see them. That's what happened to Jonas, so he saw his memories about the village, love and music.
I cant certainly know what happened to Jonas, but these are my guesses.
Nir Ofek
ReplyDelete- So, the end was not clear, and I think that the author wanted to give us the choise to think about the end. I think that Jonas and Gabriel sliding downhill forever. The elsewhere (the hill) is a metaphor for a perfect world, with feelings, no starvation and music. This is what Jonas wanted, after all.
- Jonas is sliding downer and downer, as he sliding down, he and Gabe feeling happier and more worm. Actually, they are kind of stuck in the elsewhere. On one hand, they are in the perfect world, feeling better and better. But On the other hand, the hill has no ending. Meaning while, in the community, the giver is planing to escape to. He founds Jonas, they are sliding together and they are receaving together, Jonas The Giver and Gabriel meny new memories. The memories are coming from the end of the hill. The hill is the perfect world, as I seid before, and all the memories are coming from it. The hill is making the memories, and now it gives them to Jonas, The giver and Gabriel.
I think that after the end of the book, the auther lives space to think about the end of Jonas' story.
ReplyDeleteI think that Jonas is sliding down the hill. he feels great and he doesnt want that feeling to ever go away! But unfortunately, this feeling goes away eventually, because the hill ends. Jonas goes with Gabriel for days between the happy looking houses, and he collects food that others throw. he got tired of living that way and he started to miss home and his parents. one day some wierd looking women stared at Jonas for a couple of minutes. finally she asked about Jonas' parents. she understood that he and the baby are alone and she took them to her house. she gave them food and water, and someplace to sleep. Gabe immediately fell asleep, without Jonas. Jonas watched him sleeping for a minute or two and then fell asleep as well. At the morning Jonas have realaised that this is his new home.
At the end of the book the auther discribes Jonas cold hungry and desperate. It seemed like he was going to give up but when he gatherd himself up on his feet he reached the top the hill and there he sees elsewhere.
ReplyDeleteWhen i got to the end of the book I thought of that situation going two ways. The first way I thought of is Jonas climbing down the hill and joning elsewhere where Jonas and Gabriel continue their lives like every normal life.
But then I also thought about how the aouther described him at that time more deeply. He was described very hungry cold and weak so he should probebly not be able to continue on.
I think that after the end of the book, he would walk a bit towards the community, and fall unconscious to the ground. He would wake up at a hospital, not understanding almost everything of what the doctors say (he didn't learn slang).
ReplyDeleteHe would be sent to an orphans facility, until he learned everything the Giver didn't tell him about.
After about five years, he would start living his life as a grown adult, and enjoy every single bit of freedom.
At the end of the book Jonas was starving and freezing so I think that Jonas saw a normal hill and thought it was the hill with the sled. When he reached to the bottom of the hill and saw the lights, he actually died.
ReplyDeleteI think that jonas was trying to die, I think that when he said "elsewhere", which is an unknown place, he meant heaven.
At the end Jonas got to the normal world,to New York and there he learnd about normal life,and not so long after he got theyre he blended with the citizens and lived happly forever after
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I think that at the end of the book jonas finally dies and gabe does shortly after.
ReplyDeleteThe explantation to what jonas thinks he saw is that he blended all the memories that he kept to himself and saw them in quick succssion
The sled ride-The colors that he was given sight of-the christmas family-and music.The explantion to this is that i once heard that people who die of cold feel warm a second before they die, this is probably what happened to jonas.
According to my theory gabe should have seen simialar things perhaps the boat on a lake or all the warmth that jonas transsmitted to him.
In conclusion I think that at the end of the book jonas and gabe both die.
Unlike other children i actually think that after all the long escape trip Jonas and Gabriel will still be alive, because the author didn’t make the ending so clearly that now we know that Jonas is dead, when he wrote about the music it made us hope that they are still alive.
ReplyDeleteI have two things that I think that would happen in the continuation of the story:
1) Jonas will wake up in the middle of a hospital and realize that everything was a dream.
2) Jonas and Gabe will ride down the hill with the sled and live in that village for a couple of years, when they will grow up they try to get back to the community, when they arrive to the community they'll see that all the place changed, Jonas will find Fiona, tell her that he loves her, they will marry and have kids, and they lived happily ever after!
The giver is so sad,literally. :( #Staysafe
ReplyDeleteSta safe bois. :( So said,i'm crying. :(