First Experience

Well this last few chapters Jonas has experienced and expanded his knowledge on various things. He gained the experience of being cold and being warm he even felt a sun burn. Firstly the experience of snow was magnificent not only that but also he knew the existence of hill and even sleds. He treasures those memories and he even dreamed them. As for the experience of warmth he didn´t enjoyed as much as the snow but he still could feel the pleasure of being warm. The sunburn was different though till a certain degree, as for he didn´t enjoyed it but he felt that it was something necessary for him to know and it felt good how that felt. But Jonas thought that the sunburn was the pain the elder chief was talking about. Also in this few chapter Jonas understands what is the ability to "see beyond" which is a word they use for people who can identify colors. Jonas was only able to see the color red as for Fiona´s hair, the apple Asher and him were playing with, and the flesh of the people though it wasn´t color red but skin has a reddish tone in it. He was able to gain this ability by going back to the memory of the snow and look at the sled which was color red. By gaining this knowledge the Giver wants to give Jonas the memory of a rainbow so he can now identify all colors.

While I was going through chapter 11 in page number 83 I found out something really interesting that called my attention and explained something about the world of Jonas how they were able to control everything in their society.

"But what happen to those things? Snow, and the rest of it?" 

"Climate Control. Snow made growing food difficult, limited agricultural periods. And unpredictable weather made transportation almost impossible at times. It wasn´t a practical thing so it became obsolete when we went to Sameness."

I think this quote says a lot about how Jonas community has change many things so they can be benefited by them. Now this decision of taking out the snow I infer it had something to do with the elders who chose that but they are too scared to affront reality which is life itself. Life is difficult and thank god it is difficult you have any idea how strong we have became because life was not as pleasant as we want it to be. We are able to learn a lesson and we live by those lessons we cannot just "delete" those factors because we think it will take less effort. And maybe if life wasn´t as hard as it is we might not have been able to learn properly, we can´t always expect sunny days thats why we have umbrellas or trench coats and we carry those lessons throughout our harder, depressing, sad days because thats who we are.

This chapters showed me many things about how scared the community of Jonas is. And it is probably telling us to keep moving forward and its true you choose where you want to go but always looking up to how many problems we may have. Sometimes its hard to keep going but when you finally reach your goal you´ll notice that it wasn´t that hard and all the effort you did was all worth it. So keep heads high and confront every problem with strength and confidence.