On page 166-169 of the hard back edition of the book, the children are playing a war game and Jonas stops playing in the middle of the game. He finally realized that the game that they were playing, people actually did that in the past. That those people were actually hurt but the kids were just playing. So when Jonas didn’t want to play the other children kind of just freaked out and left. Which made Asher very angry so he started to fuss at Jonas, when Jonas tried to explain the actual hurt that people were going through in the past it didn’t work out. Neither one of his best friends understood what was going on but, only Fiona was willing to actually listen to him. Asher was just too mad to listen after Jonas told them they shouldn’t play that game anymore. See I would have been like Fiona, and try to understand what he was telling me about the game that I was playing.

Before Jonas knew what release meant, he was willing to watch any person release party. But on pages 180 -189 of the hardback edition he had a total change of mind. He seen how his father had killed the smallest twin then threw its dead body down a chute. But the Giver said that he wasn’t aware of what he was doing. Now I don’t care whether I know what I’m doing or not, I’m not throwing no baby down a chute and he shouldn’t have did it either. Jonas he was so mad after he had found out the truth, he couldn’t even go home that night. Even though I can see where he’s coming from, they don’t know that what they’re doing is wrong so I can’t be fully mad at them for that. See this is why he wouldn’t have been better off not knowing. Since he found out what releasing true meaning was, the book ended the way it did.

See somethings we may be better off not knowing.