How Jonas feels about the world outside the community?

In Chapter Twelve, we learn that Jonas is curious about the outside community..... the place where in his dream, the snow caused the sled to suddenly stop. He sees it as a destination he needs to reach.

Again and again, as he slept, he had slid down that snow-covered hill. Always, in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something-- he could not grasp what--that lay beyond the place where the thickness of snow brought the sled to a stop.

He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant.