giver

Jonas got a folder with the instructions for his training and he was surprised by how little there was. some people had gotten thick folders with complex rules and procedures, but all that was in his was one sheet of paper with 8 simple rules;
1. Go immediately at the end of school hours each day to the Annex entrance behind the House of the old and present yourself to the attendant.
2. Go immediately to your dwelling at the conclusion of Training Hours each day.
3. From this moment you are exempted from rules governing rudeness. You may ask any question of any citizen and you will receive answers. (this startled Jonas. his whole life he had been trained not to be rude, so the thought that now he could was unnerving.)
4. Do not discuss your training with any other member of the community, including parents and Elders.
5. From this moment you are prohibited from dream-telling. (no problem; he rarely dreamed anyway)
6. Except for illness or injury unrelated to training, do not apply for any medication. (he was nervous of this, as he had never really felt pain, but he realized that was only work injuries; he could still get medication for normal accidents
7.You are not permitted to apply for release. (he wouldn't dream of doing so in the first place)
8.You may lie.
that last part was most unnerving of all. as with the rudeness laws, he had been told not to lie his whole life, so this was a shock. he had never before needed to lie either. than he had a though- what if others got that same new rule? what if all the adults could lie. if he could be rude he could just ask, but how could he trust the answers?
The next day he went to the annex with Fiona, who was also training there. the attendant greeted him, calling him Receiver, and directed him to the locked door and unlocked it, explaining that the Receiver needed privacy to help him concentrate (locks were rare in the community, so Jonas was surprised and discomforted). everything in the Receiver's room was slightly different from the normal houses. a little higher quality. but the main difference was all the books. most houses just had a dictionary, the rule book, and a thick book with info on all the parts of the community. but this place had hundreds, maybe thousands of books of all kinds! the walls were covered with them! then he noticed the man sitting on the chair watching him. he greeted Jonas, again as the Receiver, and again Jonas was confused- he thought that he wasn't Receiver yet, that he was just a trainee, but the Receiver said that from then on Jonas was the Receiver. he said to call him the Giver.
They talked, and the giver mentioned some unfamiliar concepts: snow, sleds, runners, and hills. So he decided to transfer the memory of snow. Jonas lied down, closed his eyes, and the Giver put his hand on jonas' back, and he felt like he was on a hard flat piece of wood. he opened his eyes and saw white... snow swirling around him. he also knew that he was on a sled going down a hill. the giver finshed giving him the memory and asked if he saw the sled. they went back to the memory and Jonas looked at the sled, and gasped. it was like the apple, but it didn't change, it just was that way. he told the giver, and the Giver said that Jonas was starting to see red.