In the lastly chapters we had read of The Giver, Jonas is explainin all the ceremony of each number because in that day all ceremony of each numbers where starting. Jonas at first had a dream and need to took pills so he can forget about it, mom say that its because you enter to puberty and everyone in the community pass through that. When the ceremony get starded the elevens where the most exited because they will turned into twelves and know their future assuagement job that the elder and government had given to them. Including this, when the ceremony of 12 was started Jonas was very nervous about it, in Jonas turn the elder skipped his number and nobody new why. finnally Jonas was selected not assign for a job because he can see beyond than others. I think that The Giver is still very interesting and every time we read it its getting deeper and we know more about this strange community.
In the chapters we had read i can feel that Jonas is different from others and what I understand is that in every point of view of him he seems different from other, like the elder says. In the last week that I had read chapters 5 through 8 is going me previous knowledge and more things about Jonas society and mostly the ceremony of this strange community Jonas had live in. Its getting me even more interesting this book about the ceremony of 12 and whats happening with Jonas like the elder said, "You members of the community will not understand it, either. Perhaps Jonas will, because the current Receiver has told us that Jonas already has this quality. He calls it the Capacity to see Beyond" (Lowry 63). In my opinion what i feel in this quote is that the elder and Jonas are very confused about that and also I think that the other people are too about it, and it might have that feeling Jonas of concerned about that selection of being a Receiver. In conclusion my way of thinking in this previous chapters I had read this last week it seems to me that the government in the book has a lot of secrets that are hiding to the community in which Jonas might with his way to see beyond have a solution to all of this problems the government is fighting for.
Lastly in the chapters I had read I'm still questioning about what is happening to this community and why does Jonas had been selected. I predict that in the book Jonas and this Receiver will find a clue about the community and maybe the answer about all because seems Jonas is smarter that usual it might be that he can solve it all. Also it might be that they have fear to Jonas about being smarter and see very differently than others. Still in my opinion this book is great because I feel that this book is very confused. Finally The Giver is a book in which shows us about future and make us imagine what will we do if we were there.
Ines i agree with you when you say that they might have a fear to Jonas because he is smarter. Because i think he is going to find out the truth about everything.
ReplyDeleteReplying your comment Andre, i really think the same as you maybe with all the memories transmitted Jonas will know the truth about the community, the real community in where he is living.
DeleteInes I agree with what you said about how the community has so many rules because they're hiding something. That also makes me think that in the past the community wasn't like that and changed and became so strict.
ReplyDeleteAma, thanks for your agreement and opinion, reading your second sentence it makes me wonder does they made the community like that for good or to be everyone the same?
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