“He killed it, my father killed it”

                 

Authors note: this is a three paragraph response to a quote from the book the giver He “killed it, my father killed it”  

 “He killed it, my father killed it” that what Jonas says after he sees his father release a child in the story The Giver. This is an important point in the story because he sees that his world is not perfect that child could have gone on to do great things. He starts to have this feeling that everybody should see what he saw.

If everybody saw what he saw things would not be as happy when people get released. They might be afraid to be released because they want to spend more time with their family. They would be experiencing fear which is an emotion they are not allowed to experience emotion. They can’t even see colors how will they respond to emotions will there be a mass suicide or will they just live with it or with they just live with the pain and suffering of their lost loved ones.

In all I think this is a really good quote in the story because you can see how shocked he is to see his father kill a child. Jonas is really complex character to try and understand. Because we can feel emotion we don’t know how it is to see/feel these things for the first time ever. If I was to have to feel every emotion for the first time I would probably commit suicide it would be too much to handle for one person to take in at once.