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