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.