Memories

Jonas is very anxious about his first day of training, he has received the instructions he has to follow as the receiver of memory. When he arrives to the place he was told to he felt very nervous, he gets to know the giver in person which gives him his first memories. Jonas is given the memories about SNOW, HILLS, SLED, SKY AND SUNSHINE. Jonas feels happy with his memories of pleasure and after that he gets his first memory of pain and is about SUNBURN. This memories changed Jonas thinking about life, and now he is getting the ability to see color red as Fiona's hair that made feel Jonas it was another thing of see beyond. But after he tells the giver about what happened with Fiona he is given the memory of rainbow were he is bale to see colors in things while the rest sees black and white. Jonas tells his first LIE to his parents about his dreaming, which he was now able to do thanks to his instruction that said that he could lie.

 

The giver shrugged. "Our people made that choice, the choice to go to sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with differences." He thought for a moment. "We gained control of many things. But we have to let go others." (Lowry 95)

This quote made me wonder about why did they quit sunshine?. I thought about this quote very deeply and I don't get why are differences so bad. Differences is what make people and I think that is wrong that they took that away from them. I think is very unfair that they took this away from them and that the only ones that can see it is Jonas and the giver. So as conclusion I have a question, Is it good that sunshine has been taken away?

 

As a closing now that Jonas have gain memories I have a prediction. What I predict is that Jonas will receive more memories and this memories will influence a lot. I think that because I `predict that Jonas will find something out that will be very shocking. Jonas will find out something because his memories are helping him to gain wisdom about things. In conclusion I think Jonas is going to realize or find something out thanks to his memories.

 

The Capacity to See Beyond

As you can see, recently I have been reading The Giver and currently I'm on chapter eight in which lot of unexpected things occur. One of the things that occur are the stirrings which are feelings that start with a dream which are forbidden in Jonas community, so to make this stirrings disappears Jonas have to drink some pills every day. Later the book goes deeper into each ceremony in Jonas community, it goes from the ceremony of ones to the ceremony of twelve explaining each one of them. Also we get to know a bit more about Gabe that he has been given an extra year to be ready for a family. But the most shocking thing starts on the ceremony of twelve when each twelve is receiving their own assignment, and when the turn of Jonas arrived the Chief Elder skips Jonas turn. When the ceremony of twelve was expected to end the Chief Elder gives an apology to Jonas and tells him that he has been selected to be the next Receiver of memory. The Chief Elder describes Jonas capacity's to be the next receiver of memory and tells Jonas about his ability to see beyond.

"Finally, The Receiver must have one more quality, and it is one which I can only name, but not describe. I do not understand it. You members of the community will not understand it, either. Perhaps Jonas will, because the current Receiver has told us that Jonas already ahs the quality. He calls it the Capacity to See Beyond."(Lowry 63)

While I was reading The Giver I noticed that there were many significant quotes but the quote before is the most. What I noticed on this quote that made me wonder about it, is that Jonas has something that others don't. I think about this quote as something really important because in opinion the capacity to see beyond that Jonas has will make things change on his community. Also to my mind Jonas is able to have this ability because he is very curious and thinks on a different way that the rest of the  community. So as my final thought Jonas ability is very special, he is different from the rest.

Now that Jonas has been given his assignment of the receiver of memory I predict that many things are going to change. I think that because I also predict that Jonas is going to be someone really important to his community and he will gain power and make good changes to the community, in which the government will not be agree with. On my opinion I think Jonas will do good on his assignment but his life will change a lot, his friendships will not be that close as they use to be, also I predict he wont spend that much time with his family anymore due to his assignment. In conclusion I predict that Jonas assignment will make a big change.

Into the Adventure

The Giver is a very interesting book that had made me think different about life. The main character is Jonas and he lives on a society were life is very different from ours. The society in which he lives is very harsh and it has many different rules that each citizen has as an obligation to follow. An example of a rule they have to follow is the twelve ceremony were each citizen is given an assignment according to what he is interested of spending in volunteer hours. Rules are the most important thing and no one should ever break them, but Jonas father did. What Jonas father does to brake a rule is that  after a while he brings a kid from the Nurturing Center so he can help him by feeding him, and what Jonas father does break is that he finds out the kid name that is Gabriel. Gabriel has something really bizarre for Jonas family that is that he is really similar to Jonas due to his blue eyes and almost all of the community has dark eyes. Jonas during his volunteer hours he meets a women called Larissa that gives Jonas a talk. In conclusion the Giver so far is an excellent book to enjoy reading about.

"But to be honest, Jonas," his father said, "for me there was not the element of suspense that there is with your Ceremony. Because when I was your age I was already fairly certain of what my assignment was to be (Lowry 14)" .

This book has many striking quotes but this quote made me think a lot on why Jonas father say this to Jonas. I have many wonders about this quote because I ask myself if Jonas father say this to Jonas to influence him on his choice on the twelve ceremony. I wonder that because I think Jonas father said this to him because he wants Jonas to be interest on a certain assignment in particular. So my question is if Jonas father say this to Jonas to make him think on an assignment in particular? .

 

This book chapters I have last read are really absorbing because they change your way of thinking to a different perspective. I predict that what is going to happen is that someway the community is going to change I don't know if Jonas will be the responsible about it but something will change. I think that because the society that Jonas live in has many rules and as Jonas father broke a rule I think that  many more rules in the future will be break and that will change the society. The Giver book is full of many shocking thinks that can change your thinking and as final thought I think that the giver is a great book to read.