The Giver is a book about community that has no color, no thoughts, no feelings and you live a life that no one has Had. When he turns twelve he receives the job of receiver of memory. His job is to receive all the memories for the community. This is when Jonas's Hero's Journey begins.
The ceremony of tadre's is when all the kids turning receive the job that they will have the rest of there lives. The Giver chosen to stay behind to help the community. After Jonas left, his memories would scare the community and the Giver wanted to stay and support them. Now that Jonas was the receiver he had lots of things to do and take care of. In the meantime Jonas was testing his follower by bringing Gabe through freezing cold and starvation. The ending is both sad blissful. Either way the reader interprets it through, Jonas and Gabe were still free.
There is somethings romantic in the way the readers see the hero. he goes through the same framework of the romance motif. This story, just like many others, wouldn't be great without blueprints of the romance motif. So he finally gets to the top of a snow covered, and he remembers one of the memories that the Giver once shared with him, he then slides down the hill, and gets to else where, that's how the book ends.
Quite interesting, but it also leaves us waiting to know more about it. Maybe it didn't really explain the whole book, but the important part of it is that the Hero's Journey was one of the most difficult lessons I most learned. No matter what the Hero's Journey makes you a Hero.
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