In the book the Giver gets an emotional bond with his receiver in training named Rosemary. As he was training rosemary, he only gave her happy and uplifting memories for a very long time, and when Rosemary received a bad memory she applied for release. After the failure of Rosemary the giver had to change his methods so Jonas was ready or brave enough to receive a bad or painful memory. One of his new methods was to give a painful memory early in his training. Different from Rosemary Jonas received a painful memory in the first two days of his training. The memory that Jonas had received was a sun burn. This to him was very painful because he has …show more content…
The bad memory that Rosemary had received did not give her physical pain but made her apply for release. The reason why Rosemary had applied for release is because she had only gotten happy memories until till that point. One thing the Giver changed so that Jonas did not fail as the receiver was to give him physical pain. In the book The Giver Jonas had received the memory of a sun burn. This was the first time he had received a memory that involved physical