Thursday, September 10, 2009

In The Giver, does Jonas go to Elsewhere?

At the end of the book, it is safe to assume he reaches Elsewhere. We are never told what Elsewhere looks like, so we have to make this assumption based on other details we do know.


It has taken Jonas days to travel from his community, the search planes are no longer flying overhead, he and Gabriel have passed through several types of landscapes and weather that do not appear within their community, and the house they finally are headed towards has Christmas lights (his community doesn't have these). All of these details lead us to believe he has reached a place different than his own community and not like the surrounding (yet similar) communities in his area - so we think he has reached Elsewhere.

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