"'Jonas,' she said, speaking not to him alone but to the entire community of which he was a part, 'you will be trained to be our next Receiver of Memory. We thank you for your childhood.'" This moment in time would forever change his life. He became "different" right away because all of his peers were chosen for different life paths, but Jonas was "selected" as a member of the Committee. This was the end of his childhood and the beginning of him being different from everyone else in his society.
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"Do you mean that now you don't have the memory of it-of that ride on the sled anymore?" This is the moment after his first memory transfer when Jonas first realizes that as he receives the memories, the Giver loses them. He begins to find out the extent of the cover-up that the elders have gone through to make what they believe is the perfect society.
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"He killed it! My father killed it! Jonas said to himself, stunned at what he was realizing." This is when Jonas realized the cruelty involved in what his society called "release." This was the pivotal moment when Jonas decided that change had to take place and that the memories needed to be released to the people so they could truly experience life.
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"Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too." This is the final moment in the book where we must believe that Jonas was successful and released the memories back to the people of his society and now they would experience all the ups and downs that he had become so enthralled with throughout his training.
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