I will most likely remember the scene where the old man Roberto is released and walks through this ‘special door’ to be released. They celebrate and toast this murderous release, and yet the rules that state that the children cannot attend, almost leaves the children to remain pure until they are of age to be corrupted. It is entirely a gross tale to tell. All I could think about was how cruel this world has become or shaped to be. I also wonder about the passage before Roberto’s where Asher is giving some elderly woman a bath and how the difference between my reality and in the book. Whereas I would be bashful, but dutiful about cleaning, seeking, and seeing a naked person, that was not apart of my family, Asher feels safe and peaceful in a way, there, bathing a woman voluntarily, with any motive but to be of help. “The Giver” has definitely evoked an array of emotions within me. I am uncomfortable and angry, full of condemnation and yet pity these robot people. It is almost like pitying the Germans during the Holocaust; there is a want to feel for those who just did not know, who followed because their loyalty belonged to their country and their people, but to destroy another, because of their suppose inability to be seen as valuable, to die because of rules that have no explanation, and no humane values attached, is almost unthinkable to my reality and the morality set before me by my fore parents. Who are we to play God; yet who are they to play God with us? I will definitely remember this book five years from now and hope to revisit it in that time span as well.
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