viernes, 19 de diciembre de 2014

Brief summary of the following chapters...

Since the last time I wrote, things in the book have gone fast, also some problems start to develop and take form, but im not ready yet to introduce those things, thyere still "undeveloped". What I can say really briefly is that Jonas, since he is the new Reciever of Memory of the community, he started to off for his training. On there it was the first time he saw so many books, since The Giver was the only one with acces to them. Also the first memory The Giver gave to Jonas was snow, he made him know what hills, sleds and cold were. And with so much reason Jonas kept making so much questions, for example "Why dont we have snow, and sleds, and hills?" or "But what happened to those things?". Those were answered by THe Giver, JOnas also started to see the color red, since everyone else sees almost in Black&White except from THe GIver and in a close future him. Skipin over some things that aren`t relevant we can say that in a not-to-distant future dear Joans will be going to see all colors, and as an inference I want to make, he will try to make Fiona see them too.

This is how Jonas starts to look at Fiona.












martes, 16 de diciembre de 2014

New Summary on Chapters 5 to 8


Within this three chapters, many things have been happening, starting with Jonas´ "stirrings" that are dreams that show the start of puberty on their society and have happened to everyone at some point, the "cure" or the way to stop them from happening is to take some pills to forget about the feelings they felt on the dream. Also baby Gabe is living with Jonas´family unit until he grows up into the practical conditions to join a family unit, this was a blessing for Gabe because if not he was going to get release which meant they will never see him again, but Jonas´ father (who works in the nurturing center) gave him a chance to stay an additional year to join a family unit.. in addition, Jonas´ceremony comes up and every eleven is nervous, because they will be assigned to their life-time jobs.
At the ceremony, Jonas´best friend; Asher is assigned to be assistant director of recreation and while he is at the stage everyone laughs about how he used to talk when he was little. When nineteen´s turn came (Jonas) he got skipped, the chief elder assigned to 18 and skipped to 20, so Jonas got ashamed and wanted to die. When the end of the ceremony came, he chief elder announced that Jonas was selected to be the next Receiver of the community.
After all this(Jonas´selection as Receiver) Jonas´will be a very important person through the community due to his role

martes, 2 de diciembre de 2014

How can We Understand Books Better...

As my future reading book "The Giver" by Louis Lowry it seems fairly interesting and fun. Because it is based on a society that has no fear, no pain. It´s interesting part which seems to be turned over the whole story is that on the whole society there is a man that is some sort of historian. That guy is called The giver, he will be Jonas´ mentor and will give him special training but The Giver is the only one on that society who knows the true feeling of pain and fear.
On the dedication part of "The Giver", the author means that all the kids  will be the ones that fund and make up our future and what we will become. That means that kids nowadays have the responsibility to (in the future) study and become great persons that will turn our world into a more sustainable world on which we will be able to live in peace.
As part of my assignment I want to say that this book may be about Jonas and how he questions everything his society does, so his parents think this is dangerous and send him to The Giver to receive "special training". Then, The Giver teaches him what does fear and pain mean and he becomes his mentor, with that Jonas learns many other things and revolutionizes the society on which he lives in. Adding to that he may be making a rebellion to face the government.

Unfair Rules and Laws on "The Giver´s" Society


On this month that I have been reading "The Giver" by Lois Lowry, it seems that the society is no longer free. I mean the elder people are the ones who decide each person´s future life; for example whoa are they marriying with, who their children are, what will be their job, etc. That doesn´t seem fair, each person should have  the freedom to chose whatever they like or want. Also there are a lot of really absurd rules, for example: kids can´t ride bicicles until age 7 or 8, each year when they get older they have to make a ritual and they are assigned to do volunteer hours. Also kids cant dream freely and have to take pills for pleasurable dreams to go off. There are many other UNFAIR laws that are followed are punished strictly if not acomplished. The point is, people are not "free", everything that will surround them (family, job) is decided by elders who think that what they do will be better for you.