"There could be love"....HOW CORNY. What else? There could be chocolate??

Although, I may not be the smartest person on earth, but in my opinion I think that the theme of freedom is more thoroughly shown in the opening scenes of chapter 16. How I know this? Simple. As mentioned on the opening scene's of the book (Page 121-124), it explained how Jonas went through a variety of different types of memories that each had there very own taste of freedom in it. For example, "In one ecstatic memory, he had ridden a gleaming brown horse across a field that smelt of damp grass" Page 122. When reading through this, I had a somewhat good idea on how Jonas has experienced freedom for a brief moment.

This is because Jonas is riding a horse in the middle of a field. Unlike our community, the people who control Jonas's community wouldn't really allow such behavior within there vicinities. This is because actions like this could lead to conflict or accident by A) Someone else want's to ride on the horse, or B) Jonas could somehow fall of the horse and break his arm into little bits and pieces (Ow). Overall, I would say that Jonas has experienced freedom for a brief moment by riding a horse in the middle of a brown field (Sounds a bit awkward in a way). This however, is the sort behavior that the community elders don't want to have. After all, the community is inherited with "sameness".

Other examples, include the scene on page 122-126. The scene in this part of the chapter shows Jonas experience another memory that was based on the celebration of Christmas Eve. Like mentioned on page 122-124, "He was in a room filled with people, and it was warmth, with a firelight glowing on a hearth. He could see through a window that outside it was night, and snowing. There were colored lights: Red and green and Yellow, twinkling from a tree which was, oddly, inside the room. On a table, lighted candles stood in a polished golden holder and cast a soft, flickering glow. He could smell things cooking, and he heard soft laughter. A golden-haired dog lay sleeping on the floor. On the floor there were packages wrapped in brightly colored paper and tied with gleaming ribbons. As Jonas watched, a small child began to pick up the packages and pass them around the room: to other children, to adults who were obviously parents, and to an older, quiet couple, man and woman, who sat smiling together on a couch".

Reading this, I realized that this could be another example of how Jonas experienced freedom for the first time. Though, this scene didn't really carry on until the next page