lives in a society where everyone is happy

who needs to recieve memories like war

and pain.

What I predict would happen if the book kept on going is that Jonas and Gabriel would keep on chasing the seen that he thought he saw and never find it. The food would run out and they both would die trying to find the place they dream of.  The community on the other hand would have figured out that they had left and be given the story of the two boys who left the community. They would never though realize the true reason why they left.

What I have connected from the book to my own life is how the releasing is pretty much the same as a death sentence. On this page a twin baby was released instead of an older person like we do today who are sentenced death. In the U.S. Usually in the U.S. we inject the needle into the persons vein, but to the younger people in the book they are injected through the forehead.

Questioning (page 154):

My question is why in the first place did they decide to make this plan when Jonas would run away. The Giver says that the memories need to be shared with the community, but won’t those only do badly for them. Especially, the painful memories. Those will cause chaos to the people. Why not just leave it the same as the Giver and Receiver only knowing of the memories.

Visualizing (page 148)

This is one of the parts in the book that created the best mental picture in my mind. It is the time when the twin baby is released. I imagine Jonas’s father, a tall and skinny man wearing a nurturing uniform entering a blank room cradling a newborn baby. A woman in the same apparel follows him with another baby. They laid the babies on the bed and they were weighed. His father turned and opened a cabinet filled with syringes and bottles filled with liquids. He inserted the needle into the bottle and filled it up with the liquid. Then, he went over to the newborn and injected the needle into the baby’s forehead, with a slight push the liquid flowed into his head. The needle was removed and after about five seconds the baby layd motionless on the bed.

Summarizing (whole book):

The main ideas of the book are Jonas is selected as the receiver of memory, he receives his first memory of snow, Fiona’s hair begins to change into red, Jonas begins to see color, he gets the broken leg memory, Jonas starts to give his memories to Gabe, he receives a memory of war, he experiences love at Christmas time, his father releases one of the twins, the Giver makes a plan with Jonas, and he runs away with Gabe.

Comment on Jonas (page 35):

I am pretty sure that Jonas has a big crush on Fiona. I know this because Jonas had a weird dream about her at the bathing house. This included her taking of her clothes and Jonas tried to get her to go into the tub. She did not go in, but Jonas kept on trying.

Plot development (whole book):

 I thought that the plot development was logical and was the way it should have gone. It was in a order that I understood and made sense. If I could have done it in any other way I might have added one or two more events to add description and length.

Theme (whole book):

Based on the reading that I did, I concluded that the theme or moral of the story was how for every action there is a good and bad reaction. I came up with this at the point in the book where Jonas and Gabe left the community. The good reaction was the Giver was looked to for advice and help to the community. The bad was all of those painful memories were spilled out into the community.

Theme 2 (whole book):

The other theme I came up with is that differences should be accepted instead of feared. I got this when the baby was released. It was released instead of the other one because it was a little lighter. I think that was wrong because so what if it was a little lighter, it still could have been a great person.

Author’s writing craft (whole book):

The author’s writing craft made the book more interesting. The author told the book in third person. This added more description because we saw it from a different point of view instead of the regular first person point of view.