New Fellings.....

Lastly in this last chapters in the book The Giver Jonas has been selected for be the receiver of memories, and he is starting with his trainings, he is knowing, learning many things of how his job would be and how does it works. Also Jonas is learning how it feels to be the receiver of memories.  As every twelve had already start their own training and to know how to work as an adult.  Jonas meets the previous reviver, the Giver.  It’s an old man that had many things to say about the past and how the previous civilizations were and how things do had change like climate. Over time they have lost snow and climate, also they lived in a place in black and white.  Jonas had experience different feelings such as pain and pleasure. When the giver gives Jonas the memory of snow he felt so many pleasure, he enjoy it so much, but after that, he give him the memory of the sunshine a sunburn that was painful but at the same he like it.

´´And he could see, though his eyes were closed. He could see a bright, whirling torrent of crystals in the air around him, and he could see them gather on the backs of his hands, like a cold fur. Beyond through the swirl of what he now, somehow perceived was the thing the old man spoken of snow, he could look out and down a great distance. He was up high someplace. The ground was thick with the furry snow, but he sat slightly above it on hard, flat object. Sled, he knew abruptly. He was sitting on a thing called sled. And the sled itself seemed to be poised at the top long, extended mound that rose from the very land where he was. Even as he thought the word ´´mound´´, his new consciousness told him hill´´. (Lowry 80-81)

When I read this text I immediately connect to my own experience in the Cotopaxi when I was 4-5 years old, for the first time, the first time I touch snow, I watch that huge mountain covered with a white surface, I thought that it was his clothing, I thought that ´´she´´ cause at the end is a ´´he´´ was going to marry. I thought that HE was a bride. I felt so good breathing the cold air, feel the snow running down my hands   was amazing I felt free and special because I thought that anybody else had the chance I had to play with the braid before her weeding.