You Decide- Die or Survive

Good and bad memories

In these chapters of the giver happens some interesting things. Jonas goes to the Annex and the Giver tells him that he needs to be taken some pain so he gives Jonas a painful memory of a body during war he was very thirsty and he had to watch how he died slowly. The Giver apologize for giving him that awful memory. The Giver gave Jonas some good memories trying to make up the terrible one. He gives him the memory of a birthday party, one that he was riding a horse, there he understood the bond between and animal and a human, and he gave Jonas his favorite a Christmas morning.

Jonas tells the Giver that he saw a family and also he learned of "grandparents" Jonas understands that his parents had parents and so on, and he also saw another thing but he couldnt find the word until the Giver told him "LOVE". When Jonas got home he asked his parents that if they loved him they didnt answer and they told him to par attention to precision of language. The next day Jonas went to tell Asher the news about the free day, Jonas finds Asher playing with other kids as if thy were in war, Jonas took it very seriously because he had the memory of war and he knows how terrible it is. Jonas wants them to stop playing but Asher was mad at him, he didnt uderstood why it affected so much Jonas. At night Father tell all the family about his work tomorrow, he had a twins release. The next day Jonas ask the Giver about relesases, he sometimes wantes to get released but he couldnt until Jonas gets trained, and Jonas coulnt ask for release eather that was one of his rules. Jonas asked about the failure of the other reciever before 10 years ago. Her name was Rosemary, the Giver felt love for her so he didnt want to trnsmit bad memories to her so for 5 weeks he gave her only good memories. But it was her job and the Giver needed to give her also the other memories so he started with kids taken away freom parents, with bad memories she was no longer happy.

He said that Rosemary one day at the end of a session she kissed him on the cheek and left. Rosemary asked fpr release and she was never seen again. The community was a caos because the memories that she had came to the community when she left.




Text Responses.

"And somebody else comes to get him? Somebody from Elsewhere?"

"That's right, Jonas-bonus." (137)

Who will come? is that actually true or they are just saying that so they dont have to reveal the ugly truth about releasing, also with Elsewhere what do people in the community think about Elsewhere, they think that is exist and everyone lives with the perspective that it actually exists, but what if not? They will be very disappointed because no one wants to live deceived. 

If Jonas father is lying and telling him that someone will pick up Gabe and take him to Elsewhere he is doing it without regret like nothing is happening  "thats right Jonas- bonus" he seems like he is telling the truth. But is he??

  

"Do you love me?"
There was an awkward silence for a moment. Then Father gave a little chuckle. "Jonas. You, of all people. Precision of language, please!" (127)

OMG! I never thought that his PARENTS would say that to his son! In a normal world parents love their kids and make them feel that they are loved and protected.   I felt very bad for Jonas in that moment, he must had felt a vacuum in his heart. What kind of comunity is this, it is suposed to be without pain but when you know the truth everything is upside down. 

Final Thoughts

In these chapter Jonas knows more about feelings (war, love) Now when he hears people saying i am sad or angry he knows what that really means and that those people dont because they dont have the memories.   

  

seeing colors

Jonas is still recieving memories. Now he is having some of colors, one of them was a rainbow. Jonas tells Te Giver that he think that not having colors in his community is unfair, he wanted to pick the color of his tunic each morning, but he couldnt. He also recieved the momery of the oain of a broken leg. That day Jonas learned that people had different skin color and that animals once existed. The Giver shares with Jonas something of his personal life, he told him that once he had a wife but that it was very difficult to be with her and have to hide everything, and that it will be also difficult for him if he woud  want a wife. As we can see Jonas learns many things in this chapter, and also how importat is to have a Reciever of Memory. When Jonas was at home he made something that he didnt told The Giver. Jonas accidentaly transmitted the memory of a beautiful landscape to Gabe because he was trying to make him fall asleep panting his back. OMG!

Text Responces

"But now that I can see colors, at least sometimes, I was just thinking: what if we could hold up things that were bright red, or bright yellow, and he could choose?Instead of the Sameness."

"He might make wrong choices." 

when i read this part of the book i think that making wrong decisions is part of life because they make you learn so you dont chose wrong again. As Jonas i also thibk that is unfair not having the freedom to chise whatever they whant. Choosing what you want to wear is not that important but for eample your assignment if you get something that you dont whant then that will be important because you will be doing that the rest of your life. 

"This time he quite deliberately placed his hand firmly on Gabriel's back, and released the rest of the calming day on the lake. Again, Gabriel slept.

He wondered, though, if he should confess to The Giver that he had given a memory away. He was not yet qualified to be a Giver (116-117) 

When I read this I thought that maybe he was able to transmit the memory to Gabe because he has pale eyes like Jonas and also The Giver has pale eyes so I questioned myself that if their is a connection between them because of their pale eyes that allow them to transmit or receive memories. In the final sentence of the passage it made me wonder what would The Giver say if Jonas told him that he transmitted a memory to Gabe.

Final Thoughts 

I liked reading these chapters they were very interesting, Jonas keeps learning more and more. He finds out some things and make his own conclusion like that having no colors is unfair. What i think is that this community actualy have fear of making mistakes so the result is sameness everything the same no one choose anything they get what they get. I dont think that is correct or good for the people in the community because they should have the freedom to choose what they whnat and wthing that the mistakes come, and that is not bad because they learn making mistakes and help them be better.