Braking Rules

Jonas was experimenting new colors and new memories. He started asking more questions about his training. He didn't understand why people could not make their own decisions every morning. Why could they choose what color of tunic they could use? He though that it was unfair people could not see colors. The giver explained to Jonas that people could make bad choices. They continued the training. The giver showed him how elephants were killed and people were poaching his tusks. Jonas felt very sad and painful about the memories the giver had given to Jonas. After the training the giver explained to Jonas why he was important in the community. He helped the other elders took better decisions with all the memories he had learned. For example when the elders wanted to increase the population, he use his wisdom and memories to see that many years ago people were dying because over population. He helped the elders understand that that was not the best for the community. The days passed and he continued learning. He asked his parents if Gabriel could sleep on his room they said that he could. The giver continued giving Jonas memories about pain and pleasure. When the giver was doing a certain face Jonas know that that day he had to leave the Annex room. One day he went and the giver was doing the face or expression so Jonas said the giver can I help you and the giver said receive the memories. He was suffering about war. Many people were fighting because of hunger and problems. Jonas was impressed and understands the feeling of pain. When this happened the giver finalized the training with a memory of pleasure. He started giving memories of love and Jonas loved it. This was the favorite memories of the giver. Gabriel was sleeping in Jonas room and Jonas give nice memories to Gabriel so he can sleep better. One night he gave Gabriel a memory of love. The next day Jonas liked so much the feeling of love that that morning Jonas didn't took the pill of stirrings.

“I mean feeling, actually, that it was kind of nice, then.” (pg 126)

In this part of the book the giver is showing Jonas the feeling of love. He is saying that holidays and memories of family and happiness is love. The giver starts to show him many memories of love and happiness, after he has gave the memories of war and pain.  Maybe these memories are going to change Jonas way of seeing his community. This part of the book is important because Jonas starts to realize that he likes the feeling of love. He is confused on how he is feeling. Jonas starts realizing that love is nice and that it feels good. Also that family could love you more than anything. Jonas does not see that his family appreciates him so he asked his family if they loved him. They responded PRECISION OF LANGUAGE. Jonas liked so much this feeling that he shared them with baby Gabe so he could feel them too. The next morning he didn't took the pills of stirrings so he could feel the love all day long.

I predict that in the next chapters Jonas is going to transmit more and more memories about love to baby Gabe. Gabe is going to grow up and start transmitting memories about war and pain. I also think that when Gabriel is older he is going to be the new receiver of memories. Jonas is going to change the society and make everyone see colors and feel love.  I also predict that Jonas will stop taking his pills of stirring and make Fiona and Asher stop taking them too. This are make predictions and I want to know if this will happened or not in the next chapters.

Jonas in a New Stage of his Life

Jonas is now in a new stage of his life he is now the receiver of memories. A job in which he is going to have pain and be alone in his training. He cannot share his training with anybody and he is allowed to lie. The next day he had to go near the house of the old and start his new job. He went in and the room was filled with books lots and lots of them. Jonas was wondering if they were books filled with millions of rules. He saw a man, which was seated on a chair. He started introducing himself and the new job of Jonas. He began sharing some memories to Jonas. One of the fists memories was about snow. He was in a sled going through the snow and he felt very good.  The man gives the memories just with the touch of a hand. Jonas liked very much the memory of snow because it was something he never experience. He was wondering about why do the community didn't had snow. And the old man said it was because it ruined crops and they had climate control. The second memory was about sunshine. Jonas did very well on this memory because he understood the word the old man was trying to say. The sunshine burned Jonas skin; he thought that was the pain the chief elder was talking about. But the old man said it wasn't. When the training was over Jonas asked the old men what is your name and the man said you can call me the giver. Jonas arrived home and he went to sleep. When they had to share them feelings Jonas said he didn't had any but he was lying he had dreamed on the sled and the awesomeness about snow. He went to his job and the giver told Jonas about the colors. Jonas was starting to see the color red. He saw it on the ceremony of twelve, on the apple, and on Fiona’s hair. The giver explained Jonas why the community didn't have colors anymore, and he made Jonas see the memory of the sled again. He saw that the sled was also color red. What is going too happened to the rest of the colors?

This is a visualization of  how I think the room of the giver is. 

“All I gave you was one ride, on one sled in one snow, on one hill. I have a whole world of them in my memory.” (83) 

How could the giver had so many memories inside him? I am wondering how they transport the feelings. If the man gives the memory to Jonas why does that memory delete from the giver is Jonas able to be the giver someday so he can share the feeling of being on the snow. I am also wondering why do all the doors are always open, why do the giver door is locked. Isn't that a rule to have all doors open ? I want to know what is going too happened in the next chapters of the giver, so I can answer all of my questions.

Jonas is like this with all the questions that has per day. He is a very curious person that wants to know more about the world.

I predict that in the next chapters Jonas is going to feel the pain that the chief elder and that the giver said he was going to feel. I also think the giver is going to share more feeling about the world, colors, and how was everything before. Also I think the man is going to share what happened to the girl many years ago, and why was she a mistake.

Chapter 5-9

In chapter five Jonas begins to have different dreaming. These kind of dreams he has are called stirrings. In his society everyone passes through this kind of feelings. When it was time for Jonas to tell his dream he was a little confused about it. Her mom explained everything to Jonas and that it was something normal. In our society it is called puberty, and people passes through this at different ages. Jonas had to take some kind of pills everyday so he would not feel the stirrings. In this chapter Jonas described his feeling about his dreams, the wanting. After he toke his first pill he wanted to feel again the stirrings. His friend Asher already took the pills. In chapter six it talks about Jonas sister Lily she doesn't want to put her ribbons in her head but she was lucky because in one year she doesn't had to wear them any more. The ceremony time was about to start. All kind of ceremonies started like the one of the babies, or the nines or the twelves. It was time for Jonas to be selected to a new job. He was number nineteen. Asher was already assigned to his new job and Fiona too. When it was eighteen the chief of the elders skipped Jonas. She had made a mistake. After all the twelves were assigned to a new job the Chief Elder announced that Jonas job was the most important in his community, the receiver. He was selected because he had intelligence courage and many other qualities. In his job he is going to feel pain in a different way he does now. The chief elder said that 10 years ago they had made a mistake with the old receiver. After the chief elder finished her speech she said Jonas thank you for your childhood. All the audience called Jonas, Jonas, Jonas, Jonas. This meant that  the community accepted him.

"Asher was four, and sat now in the row ahead of Jonas. He would receive his assignment fourth"(51) This part of the book when they were all seated and had numbers that was the other in witch they had to go to the stage and see their assignment reminds me of the movie or book Divergent. It remind me in the ceremony they had to choose in witch faction they had to be. Its kind of the same thing because they are choosing or assigning what are they doing the rest of their lives. The only difference is that in The Giver the committee of Elders choose and in Divergent the citizens have the power to choose. The way the President of the community calls the people out remind me of the book. They are in an auditorium and the citizens applause and the young kids are very nervous about the selection.

Here is a video about divergent it talks about the factions.

conclusion I think that Jonas is going to apply for a release. In chapter nine it says that he cannot apply for a release. When he starts learning and discovering things I think he is going to break the rules and apply for a release because he is going to be confused about his work. I also think that all of the citizens in his community older than 12 lies. In chapter nine Jonas says "what is they had been instructed: yo may lie" This comment make me think if all the citizens in his society lies. Maybe they all lie and nobody knows.