The Giver by Lois Lowry describes how Jonas is chosen to be the Receiver of Memory but there is something called being released. In the beginning, Jonas was chosen to be the Receiver of Memory. After that , he starts his training. While he was training, he is receiving memories from the Giver. Another thing that happened during his training was that he starts to see colors. On his journey to prepare to be the Giver, he found out what being released actually means. In the end, Jonas escaped the community. When he escaped, he started to drift off. Then he possibly died but the book doesn’t say if he actually did.