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.