Love: experienced by everyone, felt at least once and the
strongest power on earth.
Pain and love and pleasure and feelings all wrap up in
following chapters of The Giver. Jonas has a feeling that his life is no longer
ordinary and will never be again. With the beautiful experience of being able
to see a glimpse of color, Jonas tries to share all of the marvelous
memories he has experienced, but by attempting to do this, he fails. Following
his daily routine Jonas went to the Annex and this time the memory he received was
of animal killing. With this memory and many others The Giver explains to Jonas
that the wisdom memories contain is necessary to make the CORRECT decisions...
PAIN… the real kind
is being transmitted to Jonas when he went back to the hill the snow and the
sled. The difference this time was that the fun and excitement was gone and the
only thing he felt was an enormous amount of suffering, real suffering. Jonas
was startled at the fact that the rest of his community has never experienced
pain...
While reading this compelling book, my attention got caught by the following text:
"Or what if," he went on, almost
laughing at the absurdity, “they chose their own jobs?”
“Frightening, isn’t it?” The Giver said.
Jonas chuckled. “Very frightening. I can’t
even imagine it. We really have to protect people from wrong choices.”
“It’s safer.”
“Yes,” Jonas agreed. “Much safer.”
This
part of the book grabbed my attention because I got amused by the way Jonas and
the rest of his community think about choices. By them thinking that allowing
people to make their own choices is dangerous I got surprised. This is because I
think that making wrong choices is a part of life and every human makes them. Nevertheless
wrong choices and decisions give us wisdom and experience in order to learn
what not to do in the future. We LEARN from our INCCORECT CHOICES as well as
from our CORRECT ones. I think that the fear being caused in this community is
that, by a person making an inaccurate decision, then all of the organization
and Sameness in the community will be lost.
| This is what is happening in Jonas' community |
In a world with no choices, with no love and with no pain, Jonas starts realizing that what once he thought was good and correct is now wrong and needs to be changed. I am excited to find out if Jonas would be able to change his society and make it better. I am hoping to get the answer to that quickly, but I can only keep reading to find out...
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Alegria, I agree with you that by making wrong choices we learn to make better choices, Also I think that the Giver, Jonas and the community are not aware of the good things of doing wrong choices, but I think that this is as they are afraid to loose eveything they have made. However, don`t you think that the Elders can make bad decisions too and the community is not in ruins. Also Some choices should be made for people, especially children. Don`t you think the same?
ResponderEliminarJoaquin, I think that the Elders do make wrong decisions becuase they are humans. However, in the book it states that the Giver advises people in order for them to make the correct decision, so tha average of incorrect desicions made decreases. I agree with you when you say that some choices should be made for people specially children, nevertheless I think that in this community people don't have the right of freedom to chose almost anything in their lifes.
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Ale, I agree that in Jonas society the incorrect choices is what they have fear of. Its important to make bad choices in life because we learn from them! And also correct ones as you said. Reading this book makes me think what if we live there we will not have options in life. I also want to keep reading so I can found out what is going to happen. How do you think Jonas is going to change his society?
ResponderEliminarMaria Luz, I also think frequently while reading this book about what would happen if we had no freedom of choice. I think that it would be a terrible world to live in because decisions are an extreamely important part of life. I think that further in the book Jonas will do everything he can in order to change his community and the way people in it think and act. Do you?
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Ale, to start I want to tell you I really like how you decorated your post, it looks really nice and brings attention. Also when you wrote the quote about how Jonas is frightened about people choosing their own jobs makes me believe even though Jonas is starting to believe in individuality he still believes not everything that come with it is good
ResponderEliminarAmalia, I am really glad you liked the structure of my blog. I agree with your point about how Jonas is a little uncertain about how good individuality is. However, as the book states Jonas is more certain that individuality is good than bad and has more benefits for the society. I am thrilled to find out if Jonas will do something to change the way his society functions.
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Ale I loved your blog. Now we see in the community of Jonas the importance of decisions because if someone chooses for you it is not nice without our opinion there is no choice and differences and most important our hapiness. As I read on the blog you talked about the elders that they do the choices but they think that they are the right ones and you said that they make wrong decisions. But I think the Elders won't reconize that they make something wrong because they can be like that kind of people that see that they make something wrong but won't accept it. They think they are right that the society is perfect, and they are not open to new ideas or change. What do you think.
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