First, I will order our evening meal. Then we will eat.Jonas found himself using the nasty, sarcastic voice again.
Then we’ll have a sharing of feelings?The Giver gave a rueful, anguished, empty laugh.
Jonas, you and I are the only ones who have feelings. We’ve been sharing them now for almost a year.
“I’m sorry, Giver,” Jonas said miserably. “I don’t mean to be so hateful. Not to you.”
The Giver rubbed Jonas’s hunched shoulders. “And after we eat,” he went on, “we’ll make a plan.”
Jonas looked up, puzzled. “A plan for what? There’s nothing.
There’s nothing we can do. It’s always been this way. Before me, before you, before the ones who came before you.
Back and back and back.” His voice trailed the familiar phrase.
“Jonas,” The Giver said, after a moment, “it’s true that it has been this way for what seems forever.
But the memories tell us that it has not always been. People felt things once.
You and I have been part of that, so we know. We know that they once felt things like pride, and sorrow, and—”
“And love,” Jonas added, remembering the family scene that had so affected him. “And pain.”
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