Jonas is receiving the memories from the giver, he doesn't realize how much pain he is going to be in. But I feel like Jonas is different than the Giver. He's not as loyal and doesn't realize how much trouble he will be in if he tells people but yet he still tries to hint people in on his training. For example he was walking home from training with Asher and he tried to explain to him the color red because everything is sameness after laws were changed on earth. The sun was removed and along with different races, now everything is the same but the Receiver has the power to see the differences, see the color and he has all of the memories from when the world did have color and the sun and different races. Receiving all of the painful and hurtful memories will be a challenge Jonas must overcome but also keeping his mouth shut about his training because if he doesn't he may be banished from the community for ever.

          I can kind of relate to Jonas because he is training and is being taught by his teacher which in my case would be like practicing basketball and my coach would be my teacher because he pushes me and makes me overcome challenging obstacles which makes me become a better basketball player and Jonas has to over come the painful memories to become the Receiver.