Chapter 16/17 Summary + Song "FEEL" by Robbie Williams

In this chapter Jonas get to know his first memory of love. He get wonderful memories of birthday parties, paintings in museums, horseback riding, and camping trips. None of these things exist in real in the community. Very important in this chapter is that when Jonas asks the Giver to describe his favorite memory, the Giver tells Jonas he wants to give it to him, not just describe it to him. The Giver shares the memory of a group of people, very young and very old, opening presents under a tree covered in lights. He tells Jonas that the memory is of family and love. Jonas wants to know who the two old people were and the Giver told him that they were grandparents.Jonas has never heard this word. Jonas wishes aloud that his own family could be more like the family in the memory and that the Giver should be his grandfather.At home that evening, Jonas asks his parents if they love him.They laugh about this question and they anwered that they took pride in his accomplishments and they enjoyed having him aroud but they couldn't say that they love him. That night Jonas gives Gabriel another happy memory that he can sleep better and he tells the sleeping newchild Gabriel that he wishes he could change the community to make it have colors, grandparents, and love. In the next morning happen a very important thing for the story , Jonas decides to stop taking his pill for the Stirrings.
Four weeks later, the community loudspeakers declare an unscheduled holiday. Jonas doesn't have to go to school.His Stirrings have returned because he had stopped taking the pills.He feels a little bit embarrassed about the dreams he is having at night, but also has no intention of giving up the pleasure that the dreams give him.The memories that he has got from the Giver have given him the depth of feeling and he becomes annoyed when people use expressions like sadness and anger because he knows that only he has actually felt authentic emotions because the other "normal" people can't feel the things like Jonas can feel the different things and feelings.When Jonas rides his bike along the river he saw Asher who is playing a game of war he tries to explain Asher that the game is a cruel mockery of the terrible realities of war.But Asher doesn't understands him and he answers him angrily that he has to do this for his job as a director of recreation.
Fiona arrives and tries to comfort Jonas because Jonas is sad about his conclusion  he loves Asher and her, but that they can't love him back. When Jonas arrives at home he pays attention at Gabriel because he had learned to walk and to say his own name.Besides Jonas asks his dad about the identical twins who will be born the next day.His father told him that the boy with the lower weight will be fetched up by someone from elsewhere.Lily comments about the strangeness of two identical twins growing up separated, one in the community and one in Elsewhere.





I think I will give the link to the video and the songtext in a second link with a little interpretation because this will be to full ;)