https://padlet.com/briannav936/3nafd2rp9ddv en-us 2018-05-21 16:49:49 UTC 2018-05-23 16:52:48 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/File.png briannav936 https://padlet.com/briannav936/3nafd2rp9ddv/wish/262552723   My name is Jonas.I lived in a unit inside a small community with mother,father,and my sister Lily.
 Growing up, I was taught pretty basic things.i was taught to live a certain life,a certain way. I was a normal person just like everybody else in the community. We were taught little; only certain things. Nobody had choices. Every decision was already decided. Our futures were pre-planned; therefore, we were all assigned a certain role... But I was different.]]> 2018-05-22 02:54:43 UTC https://padlet.com/briannav936/3nafd2rp9ddv/wish/262552723 briannav936 https://padlet.com/briannav936/3nafd2rp9ddv/wish/262555044 Once I had reached the age of twelve, at the ceremony of twelve I had been SELECTED. That meant I was special. I was selected to be the new Receiver Of Memories. At the time, I had no clue what it was or what it meant. I was told that I had the quality traits for being the receiver, consisting of; Intelligence, integrity, courage, wisdom and.. THE CAPACITY TO SEE BEYOND. I was confused an scared. For I had not known what my future was going to bring. 
 I had begun training very short after. I had met The Giver: an elder whom gave me memories, which I received. He started off by giving me nice, happy memories that taught me great, new things that I had not known of before. I learned of SNOW and RAIN... I even saw COLORS! Red, the first color I experienced!]]> 2018-05-22 03:17:41 UTC https://padlet.com/briannav936/3nafd2rp9ddv/wish/262555044 briannav936 https://padlet.com/briannav936/3nafd2rp9ddv/wish/262556137 Then, later i had found out about pain. Physical and emotional pain. I learned what it was like to feel hungry. To actually starve. I learned what it was like to watch someone DIE. I was given the burden of carrying these horrible memories so the people of our community wouldn't have to. It was hard to hold all that in. It was hard to keep it all to myself and not share it. I couldn't even share the GOOD memories with anyone, for it was against my rules.
 The only person, besides The Giver, that was able to see the memories was Gabriel. Gabe for short. Gabe was the new child we had received. A new child that was also a little different.. he, unlike the other new children, couldn't sleep. He was always fussy and would cry at night. But I had suggested he sleep in my room, for I had given him happy memories that soothed him into a comforting sleep where he was able to dream of elephants and colors and nice rides!
 I wanted everyone to be able to experience this. It wasn't fair that this was all taken away from us. People need to understand GOOD and BAD. They had been doing something horrible. So cruel, so vile. The ceremony of release no, it wasn't someone going elsewhere, it was... DEATH. I know that NOW. For being curious, I found out first-hand. The giver had showed me two releases. The first was the baby twin they had killed. An innocent new baby unknowingly murdered! This is a type of thing that the people need to understand, they don't understand that they are actually taking lives! The other release was of the previous receiver. Her name was Rosemary. The daughter of The Giver. The reason for her release was because she couldn't handle all the horrible memories. She was given bad bad memories, so she applied for release and even insisted on doing it herself,which she did. I must take the pain of these corrupted memories. It was against my rules to apply for release.
 I had soon found out that Gabe's lack of sleep was becoming a big problem and he was going to be released on the day of the ceremony.]]> 2018-05-22 03:28:50 UTC https://padlet.com/briannav936/3nafd2rp9ddv/wish/262556137 briannav936 https://padlet.com/briannav936/3nafd2rp9ddv/wish/262563177 Me and The Giver had discussed the matter of how things could've been different. There seemed to be no way that things would change. But something sparked in The Giver's mind and gave him a grand idea.
 It had been nearly a year since I turned into a 12. A new ceremony was arriving and our plan was going to be put to work. 
 The night came and it was time for me to spring into action. I had received memories I needed to survive a long journey, like memories of snow so we couldn’t be detected by the search drones. I had brought food and clothes with me. Before I went anywhere I took father's bicycle. For, it had and extra seat...for Gabriel. I wasn't gonna let Gabe go. I couldn't.😢
 We managed to escape the community once we were out and away from the community, all the memories would return to the people and things would be like they were before.😊. We rode for miles and miles witnessing beautiful scenery of trees and all kinds of new things! We survived off of crops and animals we hunted. It became difficult for we had almost starved and the fact that we were being searched for wasn't any help. They had stopped searching eventually and gave up. We eventually came across a familiar area. The snow.. there was the sled I had seen in the memory! It took me and Gabe down the hill off snow coming to a stop where I heard...music! And i saw happy families and lights and joy! This was our new reality. The place we could stay and live real lives, our forever home.😁😊👏👏👏👏

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