" Gabriel's breathing was even and deep. Jonas liked having him there, though he felt guilty about the secret. Each night he gave memories to Gabriel: memories of boat rides and picnics in the sun; memories of soft rainfall against windowpanes; memories of dancing bare-footed on a damp lawn.

"Gabe?"

The new child stirred slightly in his sleep, Jonas looked over at him.

"There could be love" Jonas whispered.

The next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away"

This passage shows that Joans truly believes in freedom and love. He wants everything to go back to the way it was. The way it was before sameness. He wants to share color, emotion and texture with the community so they can feel the joy and pain of what the world used to be like. But is that for the best?

We all know that Joans wants things to go back before sameness, but would it really be a good choice? He may want to return things back to the real world but would others? And maybe freedom isn't such a good thing after all, Jonas' community is completely stable and perfect. It would turn the community's world upside down if they what had existed many centuries before them. Freedom and emotion are exactly he things that the elders centuries before had wanted to get rid of. If the world went back to normal, yes, it would be full of color and emotion, but people would realize the real truth behind everything. Release ment death, and dying would once again beco e a normal part of life for people, and so wold pain and sadness. So I think that Joans should look at this from a different angle.