In one paragraph, explain why you think Jonas and Gabriel don’t survive, and include details from the book to support your opinion.
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- explain why you think Jonas and Gabriel don’t survive, and
- include details from the book to support your opinion.
I think they die because he said he was losing concens ness and maby he was halusanating
ReplyDeleteI think Jonas and Gabriel do not survive. I think this because he was hallucinating. In the text it states ¨Behind him, across vast distance of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo¨. So I think hes hallucinating because he thought he heard people singing but it wasn't real.
ReplyDeleteI think Jonas and Gabriel don´t survive because it says ¨Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he head music too¨ ¨But perhaps it was only an echo.¨ SInce it mentions space and time i think he is just hallucinating.
ReplyDeleteI think Jonas and Gabe died. One reason I think this is because on page 224 it starts saying he was losing consciousness: and considering the fact he was cold, couldn't find food and struggling in general its a very likely case that they died. Now from what I know people without the proper equipment can start seeing things that are not real (same with people in hot temps) So I think Jonas was hallucinating seeing the lights.
ReplyDeletei think they didn't survive because he is hallucinating and he was losing consciousness while sleding and he was going faster and faster down a hill so he probably died while going down the hill
ReplyDeleteI don't think he survived and I think he is just going crazy because he says he sees light threw the windows and joy. And it also says people are waiting for him. And when people pass away they will say I will see you later like once you die. So I think the people that have past away before jonas are now waiting for jonas and gabriel to come and that's why people are waiting for him.
ReplyDeleteWhy I think Jonas and Gabriel don't survive is because he is starting to feel himself losing consciousness that means your not dying but it didn't say anything else about him losing more conciseness so that must means that he must have died. On page 225 it says "ahead they were waiting for him; and that they were waiting too, for the baby." So that means they are waiting for him some where else and not Elsewhere. Also it says he heard singing and The Giver is the only one who could hearing singing so it might have been passed down to him because maybe The Giver got released or Jonas is dying and starting to get new senses he's never had before.
ReplyDeleteI think they died because in the book on page 224 it states " Joas felt himself losing consciousness and with his whole being willed himself to stay right atop the sled" so I think at the end he tried his best to stay awake but gave in and let go.
ReplyDeleteJonas did not survive because it is talking about how he is like being lost in space and time. and in the book it says behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. but perhaps it was only an echo.
ReplyDeleteI don't think Jonas and Gabriel survived. One piece of evidence that supports my claim is from the book; the book states, "Jonas felt himself losing consciousness" this supports the fact that he knew that he was fading away. Another piece of evidence that the book states is "he settled himself on the sled." Before they were on the "sled" which is most likely a memory given to him from the giver. Evidence that this is a happy dream/memory is that, one day a guy went to get a checkup who had died during a scan showing his brain in the process, The brain released dopamine in the part of the brain that relates to dreams and memories. This helps prove the fact that when you die happy memories reappear before you die. This is why I think Jonas and Gabriel died.
ReplyDeleteJonas and Gabriel do not survive. My evidence from the book is the quote "and all at once he could see lights, and he recognized them now. He knew they were shining through the windows of rooms, that they were red, blue, and yellow lights that twinkled from trees where families created and kept memories, where they celebrated love."
ReplyDeleteThe lights must've been a hallucination, and when you are so cold, close to dying, you start to hallucinate.
I believe that Jonas and Gabe don't survive because when people get extremely cold and starve they tend to die because of the frigid temperatures that can freeze you to death and the fact that you have very little energy to warm your body up or even do anything can also lead to death. In the Giver it says on page 224, " Jonas felt himself losing consciousness..." This shows that he is gradually, but surely on the brink of dying. On the last page it says that Jonas sees lights of red, blue, and yellow shows that maybe he is hallucinating because of the starvation he has endured for so long.
ReplyDeleteJonas and Gabriel didn't survive as in the book it states, "He hugged Gabriel and rubbed him briskly, warming him, to keep him alive." In addition, it states, "Using his final strength, and a special knowledge that was deep inside him." Using these quotes we can infer that Jonas and Gabriel didn't survive as if he was running out of strength Gabriel wouldn't find the ease to sleep and have a cold ; disease, from the temperatures. Moreover, he was having hallucinations at the end of the book on page 225. In the text it states, "he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo." Thus, by running out of strength a side-effect was hallucinations.
ReplyDeleteI think Jonas and Gabriel don't survive because in the book they talk about how divided and small the portions of food and water were and an average teenager and a baby who was only a few years old can't go that long without good portions of food and water also they were going in the snow that makes it worse because it is freezing cold and you get all numb. also on page 224 it says that Jonas was slowly losing his consciousness. Also going on a sled and snow was Jonas's first memory that the giver gave him so he might've just been thinking about this as he died or after he died, Near the end of the book they only talked about how Gabe was held tight by Jonas but we don't know whether he was alive. However since they talk about Jonas in the sequels then maybe he was rescued or maybe he was alive but as far as this book a lot of evidence pushes towards Jonas and Gabriel not surviving.
ReplyDeleteJonas and Gabriel don't survive I know this because in the text it says "the place he had always been waiting for,the Elsewhere that held their future and their past"(224). This means that Jonas was ready to go to Elsewhere(heaven/hell) because it says it had his future and past. In the text it also says "the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo" (225). This means that Jonas was still alive but Jonas was hallucinating and he was on his verge of dying. And when he realized that he only heard an echo it was his last breath or words. So this concludes that Jonas and Gabriel didn't survive.
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