Question

The Giver, Jonas spends some days reeling from the memory of war. However, he returns to the Giver and receives many other memories of happiness such as a birthday party and horse ride. Jonas begins to understand the meaning of individuality and sees art and colors he never knew existed before.

One day, Jonas asks the Giver about his favorite memory. The Giver gives him the memory and asks Jonas to describe what he sees. The memory is in a room filled with people. Jonas feels warmth and notices several strange things about the memory. There is a tree covered with lights, boxes wrapped in strange paper, and fire in the room. He sees a large fireplace and candles on a table. The smell of food is everywhere and he can hear laughter. A child grabs the packages and passes them around the room.
When he awakens from the memory, Jonas has trouble identifying the feelings and emotions he experienced. He finally understands that he saw a family, but he can't understand why there were elderly people in the room as well. In the Community, the elderly live in the House of the Old where they can be properly cared for, but the Giver explains that the people he saw were grandparents. Jonas doesn't understand the term, so the Giver explains that they are the parents of parents.

Jonas finally realizes that his own parents must have had parents themselves. Jonas realizes that, if he ever has children, his own parents will become grandparents. He could go to the Hall of Records to look up the names of his own grandparents, but they would not know Jonas. And when his own parents are released when they are old, Jonas will never even know because he will be busy with his own life.
The Giver tells him that the way they do things now is better. It works. Jonas thinks back to the fire inside the house and how dangerous it could be, but at the same time, he wishes to feel what he felt in the memory again. Despite the impracticality of the life he saw, Jonas wishes to feel that way again.
Returning home, Jonas asks his parents if they love him. They are confused by the question and offer alternative ways of phrasing the query. They finally give an answer, but they have no concept of love like Jonas has, so he lies and says he is satisfied with their answer.
Jonas returns to his room where his family has been keeping Gabriel, a child his father must look after since Gabriel is having trouble. Jonas has been giving Gabriel happy memories to help him sleep. The infant is developing and growing better.
After regretting that Jonas would not really feel love, Jonas forgoes taking his pill the next morning. The pill is designed to regulate his emotions and prevent him from feeling too much.

Describe the Giver's favorite memory that he gave to Jonas. What emotion is attached to this memory?

Answer 1

The Giver gave Jonas a memory of a room filled with people, warmth, and happiness. This memory represents the concept of family and the emotion attached to it is a sense of warmth, happiness, and a feeling of belonging.

Step-by-step explanation:

The memory that the Giver gave to Jonas is of a room filled with people, warmth, and happiness. Jonas sees a tree covered with lights, boxes wrapped in strange paper, fire in the room, a large fireplace, candles on a table, and can smell food and hear laughter. This memory represents the concept of family and the joy and love that comes with it. The emotion attached to this memory is a sense of warmth, happiness, and a feeling of belonging.

Memory is the process of taking in information from the world around us, processing it, storing it and later recalling that information, sometimes many years later.

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