![]() Given that for the last leg of their journey, Jonas has been relying on memories of sunshine to keep himself and Gabriel alive and happy, it would make sense that Jonas relies on the most pleasant memories he has when the cold and exhaustion grow too much for them. It is extremely unlikely that Jonas would come upon a hill that looks just like the hill from his memory of the ride on the sled, and then come upon an identical sled waiting to take him to the bottom of the hill. ![]() ![]() In order to argue that the two children freeze to death in the snow and that their vision of the village is only an illusion, we can rely on the uncanny similarity between the landscape Jonas sees-or thinks he sees-and the memories the Giver has transmitted to him in the past. Answer for Study Question 1 > The two major interpretations of The Giver’s ending are that (1) Jonas and Gabriel have truly escaped the physical boundaries of their society and discovered a real village in Elsewhere, and (2) Jonas’s vision of the village is only a hallucination that he experiences as he and Gabriel freeze to death in the snow in the middle of nowhere.īoth arguments can be solidly supported by references in the text. ![]() ![]() Choose one possible interpretation of the ending and argue its validity, using clues from the text to explain your conclusions. The ending of the giver has been interpreted in a few different ways. ![]()
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