a foot-operated lever used to control certain mechanisms, as automobiles, or to play or modify the sounds of certain musical instruments, as pianos, organs, or harps. 2. a leverlike part worked by the foot to supply power in various mechanisms, as the bicycle. 3. Music.
The Sled. The sled, the first memory Jonas receives from the Giver, symbolizes the journey Jonas takes during his training and the discoveries he makes. It is red, a color that symbolizes the new, vital world of feelings and ideas that Jonas discovers.
The Giver describes it as what you feel for someone else that the mind can't explain and can't make go away. The Giver also shows him scenes of the war and the massacre of elephants. This is what the community does not want to remember. But even after experiencing this pain, Jonas does not want to return to the Sameness of the life he's known.