The Giver Chapters 10-13

The Giver Chapters 10-13

Since Jonas got his assignment everyone is recognizing him as the receiver of memories, and that is making him uncomfortable. Now the giver is explaining the importance of wisdom in the community. The giver also explained that sameness is why they don’t have snow, is the control of how the community looks and works. While Jonas and Fiona where talking about their new jobs Jonas saw that Fiona’s hair changed the same way the apple did, it had color. The giver tells Jonas that the things he sees that change are color and that is taken away from the community so there will be no conflict between one person and another. Finally, one day, Jonas asks the giver what causes him so much pain and the giver decides to share it with Jonas.

While reading chapter 13 this quote surprised me: Jonas said one morning, “Asher, look at those flowers very carefully.”… He put his hands on Asher’s shoulders, and concentrated on the red of the petals, trying to hold it as long as he could, and trying at the same time to transmit the awareness of red to his friend. This made me think that Jonas is trying to make other people have these nice memories so they will see how good the world was before sameness. My prediction is that, if Jonas succeeds at transmitting the memories to other people they could talk to the council and tell them that the world wasn’t so bad after all. Lastly, I had a connection with the hunger games because Katniss tried to change the world by making the capital realize that the games were a mad thing for all districts.

Within these chapters the most important thing to remember is that Jonas is trying to transmit memories to others. This is important because the giver is now not the only one that thinks that the world they live in needs to go back to how it used to be. Jonas is explaining, to his family and friends that the world didn’t used to be all bad things. This previous world had good things like colors, snow, and love. We have to think about it and, when something bad happens we have to look it in a positive way and that will change out point of seeing those kinds of things.

The Giver chapters 6-8

The Giver Chapters 6-8

On The Giver book, chapters 6-8, Jonas is attending the ceremony of becoming of the different ages. On the firs day of the ceremony the Nines where given their bikes and the Newborns where given out to their designated families. On the second day of the ceremony, the Elevens, becoming Twelves, are finally given there assignments. The Chief Elder gives a little speech of how they are becoming a bigger part of the community and starts giving the assignments.  Right when it was Jonas’ turn to get his assignment, the Chief Elder skips his number and continues all the way to the end. At the end she apologizes for skipping Jonas turn, she continues and says that Jonas has not been assigned a job but he has been selected. Jonas had been selected to be the receiver of memories.

While I was reading chapter 6 this quote stood up to me. “This new Caleb was a replacement child. The couple had lost their first Caleb…”.  This made me think that both of our communities are different in many ways. First, in our community we don't name a new child after the one we lost ( just if you want to make it as a symbol of tribute). Second, on Jonas' community they are just replacing one kid with another, without having any sentimental value or fillings for the lost child. Lastly, in our community we take a loss of a child as a tragedy and on Jonas' community it is an error that should be corrected/replaced. 

This chapter is all about the ceremonies of becoming of age and introducing Jonas' assignment as a receiver of memories. After reading this short chapters I think that Jonas will have struggles adjusting his normal life to his new job. I also think that he will share his job with someone else that is probably going to get him in trouble. Finally, Jonas is experiencing a new fear. He is afraid of his new assignment and he is making questions about why was he selected, and how come is he so special.

The Giver chapters 1-4

The Giver chapters 1-4 

I began to read The giver and it starts explaining the world Jonas, his family and friends live in. After all this the narrator starts to explain all the rules and the different consequences abut breaking the rule. The minor consequence is that someone corrects you when you do something wrong, but the most scary and shocking, to the citizens, is getting "released". Until chapter 4 we don't know what does getting "released" mean. Next it started to say that Jonas was scared because December was coming and on December it was the ceremony of the eleven becoming twelves and they get their jobs assigned by the council of elders. At the start of chapter 4 we are introduced to a new character called Fiona who is one of Jonas' and Asher's friend. finally at the end of chapter 4 we end up in an elder home with Jonas and Fiona taking care of the elders.

While I was reading this quote came up to me and I was surprised about it. "The pale eyes. Almost every citizen in the community had dark eyes... But there where some exceptions: Jonas himself, and a female of five."
When I read this part of the book it came to my mind the problem the community has on accepting individuality. On this part Jonas is explaining that every one ( depending on their age) has to look the same. This has similar things to do with our world. For example slavery. On the period of time in which slavery was a common thing on all communities, black people where only accepted on some places and there where some exception of black people that could even seen with white people. This is not the only quote that tells us that this community is trying to become "perfect", on the announcement they are always remembering the citizens to do what they are suppose to do and they also say what they should wear. And finally the council of elders decide if you get to form a family unit, if you get a match to be your husband/wife, and even what your job will be.

This first chapters are about introducing the story and the author is starting to tell us about the firs theme of the book which is individualty. What I think about this first parts is that this is a over-controlled community that has too many rules. On this par they are mainly talking about the ceremony of twelves and go Jonas is afraid to be part of it becaus he doesn't know what his job/assignment will be. I think Jonas has all the rights to be afraid because all of the other elevens knew what they liked to do or what they where interested in so the elders know what to assign the children. In conclusion this are all about Jonas' first internal conflict with the arregle of not knowing what will his assigment be and that will influence the rest of the book