Bye Bye Feelings

Jonas is learning more and more and more of the knowledge and memories. Talking about the important of choosing what you want. Trying and trying Jonas tried to make his family and friends about colors and things they don´t have. Animals existed on that society and saw the memory of an elephant being hunted terrible for him. Jonas went to tell Lilly that elephants existed once, just like  her comfort object, but she did not believe him. In the Annex the Giver gave Jonas a memory of a day in the snow but memory was of pain that he broke his leg. The next day Jonas went but the Giver did not seem well and Jonas help him taking some of the pain and it was a memory of War. The Giver apologize for giving Jonas that memories and we discovered what happened to the last reciever of memories. Jonas helped Gabe to sleep he gave him memories of good things that the Giver had gave him and Gabe sleep well. At last Jonas asked the Giver his favorite memory and he gave it was Christmas and he learn of love and many others things that the Community does not has.
Jonas asked his parents if they love him and her mother said precision of language. Jonas stop taking his pills for stirrings.





While I was reading I found a part that was very sad for me. While The Giver was giving Jonas the memory of Christmas they start to talk about love. "And that it's much better to be organized the way we are now. I can see that it was a dangerous way to live." (Lowry, 126). While I was reading this many thoughts came into my mind and then I started to analize something. Why they say love can be dangerous, I know that sometimes can make things wrong but it is right to have it. Another time we can see that the government choses for them, they don't have the right of choosing. But now I realized that they not only have no real love, they don't have any real feeling they don't know them. The only real feeling in that community is fear they are govern by fear. The author tries to tell us that a society without the personal choice is not happy and it is good for everyone even if that people in there think that.

To finish this week blog I have some predictions. We will dicovered what will realase mean the author can't hide us what it means the hole novel. Then Jonas will tried to tell his family and everyone about memories and colors. Gabe will be assign to a new family or been realese. Who knows check back a new blog after while.

Without Memories ????????

Jonas receives the new rules for his assignment. That were five but the most shocking one is “You may lie”.  The next day he went to the Annex to start his training with The Giver. Jonas gets there and saw many books and he said that he had never saw so many books; strange but is how the novel is. Jonas receive his first memory of the past was of snow and of a sled, and after a while was a sunshine. Jonas asked why there is not snow and sunshine and he explain because of sameness. On school everyone was commenting on his training and Jonas was happy to not doing that because he said how you described something if a person has never seen it or touch it. We discover at the end that to see beyond is to see in color we know this because Jonas sees Fiona’s hair changing to red. The society sees in black and white why we don’t know. What is the problem of seeing in color?

 An example of what they see.

My job is to transmit to you all the memories I have within in me. Memories of the past. … “It’s not my past, not my childhood that I must transmit you.”… “It’s the memories of the whole world,”. 77

Key … it means that I skipped parts.

This quote makes think to things the first a inference and the next one a connection to the theme that is the importance memories. First my inference the people of the past lose or get erase the memories. Then I had this question being asked that what is the problem if they remember snow, sunshine’s, but then I asked is okay to erase your memory and lose that moments of happiness? Now my connection with theme, memories are important because with that we can refer to the past and not make those errors again. Memories help us change our lives for example if you did something wrong you remember of what you did, and won’t do it again. But without memories we can repeat that error a million times and can’t stop it. Preventing a war is to think in the past and to stop that because on that million people die, families lost loved ones.  I made this connection to theme by my inference.

 

First of all in my other blog I put a prediction and I think it won’t happen with what I read and that made me very sad. Then one new prediction about the book, well two. The first one is that he will tell someone about the training or the memories to someone maybe Fiona, Asher or his family. Then as we saw Baby Gabe has the same color of eyes and he would transmit some memories to him. 

 

Something Lost...

I am still reading The Giver I have not finish the book, well after a great period of time I will finish.  As every morning all family units have to tell the dreams. Jonas never dream of anything but he dream of something it was about Fiona in the House of the Old and he wanted to bathe her but she did not want it. Then her mother tell him that those feelings are called stirrings and he should take some pills that make go away the feeling. The next was the ceremony and were two days of vacations. It started with the most little until the old. The Ceremony of Twelve was the next day. Gabriel the baby was kept in the Nuturing center and did not was given to a family unit. So sad. Then it was the ceremony of twelve and Jonas´ assignment was skip, after everyone was given an job they gave Jonas his job that was the Receiver of Memories, and the chief elder said that Jonas had the hability to see beyond.

There was a part that impact me was, there was the morning ritual and Jonas tell his dream and after her mother talk with him about stirrings:

"A REMINDER THAT STIRRINGS MUST BE REPORTED IN ORDER FOR TREATMENT TO TAKE PLACE"(...) "Do I have to report it?"(...) "You did, in the dream-telling. That's enough" "But what about the treatment?" (...) "No, no," she said. "It's just the pills. You're ready for the pills, that's all. That's the treatment for Stirrings." 



Key: (...) it means I skipped parts.

For me this part impact me because why they don't allow you to have those feelings. Then I haved a question how does a pill make that the feeling go away? Then I start to think about that they are taking away a part of you, you can't be yourself a change can change you. After I thought of this I became with a connection with the Truman Show when Truman realized he live in a world full of lies he start changing and never went to the old one. Why does the government needs to have a lot of control of the citizens. Then I make this question it is okay that someone take away a part of us or to tell us not to be that way". 

To finish my blog I have to say that this chapters were very great but to much intrigue about why things are happening like that. A prediction that I have is that on his new job Jonas will try to change the community and its rules. Also I have another question what does the receiver of memories does?
       

I hope this happens.