The Giver-Chapter by Chapter

         As I progressed with the book the Giver I found out that the ceremony of twelves was about to happen and I felt really anxious to see what assignment will Jonas get and specially Asher because his personality makes him difficult to take serious, like the time he was saying smack instead of snack and he would constantly be beaten by the instructor. I am pretty sure Fiona will get a assignment which will involve her taking care of other people because that suits her personality the best. While I got to the part of the ceremony Asher got the assignment of Director of Recreation and Fiona got a nurture assignment but when it came to Jonas they skipped him for some reason but at the end of chapter 8 he is questioning himself what has he done wrong? At the beginning of chapter 9 the chief elder explains to Jonas that he hasn't been assign to anything but he has been selected for him to be the new receiver of memory. He was told that this was no easy task, he would experience an indescribable pain but those memories were for him to asses the community given the experience of this memories of the past. Jonas is hesitating a lot if he should or shouldn't accept this especial task.


During the speech of the chief elder towards Jonas as the new receiver Jonas had some thoughts that were kind of interested and that I questioned a lot those thoughts. The quote was:
"For a moment he froze, consumed  by despair.  He didn´t have it, the whatever-she-had-said. He didn´t know what it was. Now was the moment when he would have confess, to say, "No, I don´t. I can´t." and trow himself on their mercy."

Why does Jonas has such intense feelings towards being the new receiver that was such and special job why would he want to turn it down? Was it because of the pain? if so Jonas at this point must realize that if a receiver gets to have all the memories of the past he will have to endure whatever is coming at him he has to know why his society became how it became. The job of the receiver is a job  given to truly remarkable people he should feel proud not scared though the shock is very big.But he must understand that from now on some people might treat him different then before.

The chapters 6-9 were very interesting since they build up a lot of suspense form the beginning till the very end when Jonas is selected as the receiver. I did like the amount of detail Jonas used to describe most of the ceremonies like the details of the extra pockets or the buttons even how the girls could cut their hair short. That and also what meant all those actions and things like that because that way I was able to picture the scenario better or at least imagine how they would dress up like on some certain ages. I did enjoyed reading this chapters and I am looking forward for what will Jonas´s training will be like

Read Through "The Giver"

          Through chapter 1-4 I learned that Jonas is an 11 year old boy who lives in a very strict a someway perfect community but there seems to be a lot of rules they should follow. Jonas shows to to more friends one named Asher a very funny but at the same way clumsy and Fiona a friend who is very caring to other people. During those days a ceremony in which they celebrated the new year of every child approached. For the community of Jonas they always would have to say how each one of them feels and Jonas feels apprehensive which it's not really scared but nervous and cautions at the same time. As for his little sister Lily she is very exited because she will get her new bicycle. The community of Jonas is really rigid and full of rules which don´t allow all citizens express well.

         In chapter 1 page number 5 I found a conversation/reaction that made me realize that Jonas community is very proud of themselves . The quote was:
"Why do you think the visitors didn´t obey the rules?"
Mother asked
Lily considered, and shook her head. "I don´t know. They acted like... like..."
"Animals?" Jonas suggested. He laughed.
"That´s right," Lily said, laughing too. "Like animals."



I find it really interesting that they treat different people badly, they see them just like animals. While I read this I immediately though to myself if the kid is not following the rules why not teach him in a nice and polite way. But instead they see him with disgusting and anger eyes. This told me that this community is very closed minded to other people they think they are on top of the others instead of trying to help everyone be at the same level

 

       Jonas community is hiding something big maybe that the reason why they don´t let other people who may not obey the rules because if they don´t follow the rules they may find out the secrete and destroy everything. So they have to use fear and pride to keep everyone from knowing whatever the secrete is. But what if fear and pride is not enough what if someone awakes curiosity of what is happening in there why are they so exclusive and why the people of elsewhere isn´t there with them? That could be something that may break up all this system.

Pre Reading

Pre-Rreading
The cover page shows a old man which seems pretty wise and I supose he is the Giver beacuse he seems like someone who might fit the name "The Giver". It seem that he is the onlyone in the society who has the knowldge of pain, pleasure, war all that stuff that apparently all human dont know. And the main character which I supose it is Jonas is soon to take the title of "The Giver" but I think he does not agree that only one person gets to know all of that and the whole society is ignorant to that. So I think he is going to QUESTION his society like all distopia. And he will probably start a rebellion.



Maybe the quote "For all the children to whom we entrust the future." means that children are the future. And so she dediactes this book to those who will shape the future and by showing this book they want to make children realize that what makes us what we are is our human sense. Like by everyones individuality so to respect that and and see it as a good thing, by giving the example of the giver by showing that individuality is what makes us special.

Well I think this book will go along with Divergent beacuse maybe Jonas doesn´t agree the form his society is ruled by and when he gets selected to be the next Giver is like when Tris knows she is Divergent so I inferere that Jonas like Tris will take advantage of that and start maybe a rebellion and maybe win or not but still give the message that this society is wrong. And so his message will spread and new rebellion will start. That will only happen if he somehow fails like getting captured or even killed but if he wins he will give every person its individualty.