Tecnology influence

"The Velt" is about a futuristic world and how a regular family lives in it. One day the parents where asking why did the kids spent so much time in the nursery. In the nursery everything that the kids thought of will become true in the 3 dimensional walls. When Lydia and Gorge, the parents, entered the room the only thing they could see was an Africa savanna with lions far away. Lydia realized that the lions where eating something but they don't know what. Latter that day Gorge turned off the electronic things in the house, including the nursery. The kids got really angry. Gorge turned on the nursery for a little while and the kids went in it. After that the children started to call their parents to come to the nursery. When Gorge and Lydia entered the nursery the kids locked them inside. Finally there was yelling onside the nursery and you could infer that the parents where eaten by the lions.

A very interesting quote is when Gorge says "But nothing's too good for our children," This caught my attention because this shows us that children are too accustomed to get what they want that nothing is too good for them. Also now days kids don’t even say thank you to they parents because they think that it’s normal that they receive this many amount of presents.

Other quote I found was when Lydia said, "That's just it. I feel like I don't belong here. The house is wife and mother now, and nursemaid. Can I compete with an African veldt?” This shows us that technology has become such a big part of our life that we don’t ask our friend or family for advice, we ask the Internet. Because of this kids are learning that if you are in trouble ask your computer or the internet and that could create conflict at home.

The Talk About Release (chapters 17-20)

 After Jonas stopped taking his pills he started seing the world diferent, also because of his new and old memories. One day he saw Asher playing with other kids (they where playing war). Because of Jonas knowing what does war really means he got really sad and got into a fight with Asher. Days later Jonas enter the Annex and he asked him about what happened to the previous receiver, Rosemary. Just after they finished talking about her they started talking about release and the giver showed the video of Jonas' father releasing a baby just because he was too small. Finally Jonas created a plan so he can escape the community so all the memories will be released and everyone will have them. 

"One of the children raised an imaginary rifle and made an attempt to destroy him with a firing noise. "Pssheeeew!" Then they where all silent, standing awkwardly, and the only sound was the sound of Jonas's shuddering breaths. he was struggling not to cry."This quote made me think of multiple things, one of them was one of our themes that is the importance of memories. I thought of that because memories give us Knowledge and with the memory of war we can know how to prevent it or how to react about it. It also made me think about other theme that is Pain and Pleasure. This relates mostly to pain because, with this memory, Jonas experienced physical and emotional pain. physical pain because he felt the hard work of the soldiers and emotional because he felt the loss of his partners.
                                      

In summary, I think that this where the most important events on the book and for Jonas's life. he has been struggling with his painful memories and now the giver shows him a horrible video involving his father. But finally Jonas realizes that the community wont change by itself in any was. So he and the giver created this plan so Jonas can escape the community so the memories can be released and everyone can experience real pain and pleasure.