After becoming his community's Receiver of Memories, Jonas has a very difficult time feeling like a part of his community or his family. While he is experiencing the pain of knowing all the sorrow, war, grief and cruelty that has happened in the past, he sees that the rest of the people of his community are concerned with things that don't really matter. He begins to see them as protected, shallow beings and feels that he is no longer able to relate to anyone except the Giver. He understands why the girl selected before him to be the Receiver of Memories killed herself. Not only is the pain horrible to bear, but no one else understands any of it. Jonas initially decides to leave the Community because he believes that will force the others to remember, and experience both pain and joy. When Jonas realizes that Gabriel, the "new child" he has come to consider a brother is to be released (killed), his plans for escape expand to include taking Gabriel with him.
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