What is significant about the following dialogue from The Giver? Why? Jonas thought about it, what it would be like for him. “Along with walking, and eating, and ­­” He looked around the walls of books. “Reading? That’s it?” The Giver shook his head. “Those are simply the things I do. My life is here.” “In this room?” The Giver shook his head. He put his hands to his own face, to his chest. “No. Here, in my being. Where the memories are.”