Jonas lives in a world where DISTOPIA takes over his
society. A world where everyone is the same and you don’t have the choice of individuality. Every one is the same and at each ceremony, until kids are twelve, each year
they have new gifts like bikes at age of nine. Although we can’t see this, we
all know that there are certain classes were some jobs are better than others
like the committee of elders who have their principal leader, the Chief Elder. But in Jonas case, at his ceremony of twelve, he
was selected a very important and honorable job, THE RECIEVER OF MEMORIES. The first
memory that The Giver gave Jonas was snow, he made Jonas feel like he was
sliding a sled in a mountain full of snow and this memory made Jonas feel
pleasure. After giving him the memory of SNOW he gave him the one of SUNSHINE, but The Giver added some pain to it, he made Jonas feel the pain of SUNBURN. When Jonas felt the sunburn it hurt a lot and
this made him realize what the chief Elder had told him, you will also feel physical
pain. The Giver told him that this is just a little sunburn pain but in time he
will feel real pain and by this Jonas will understand the relationship between
pain and pleasure. What will happen to
Jonas? Will he have enough courage to feel that kind of pain?
While reading the giver, Jonas “ability to see beyond” start happening more frequently. When he got to the Annex, the first thing he did was
tell The Giver about his experience with Fiona’s hair and how it changed. The Giver
told him he was starting to see the color red and that eventually he will start
seeing all of the colors, just like he does now and he tells him……
“I’ll tell you
another day. Now we must work. And I’ve thought of a way to help you with the
concept of color. “Close your eyes be still, now. I’m going to give you a
memory of a rainbow.”
At first his quote made me wonder many things but the most
important and confusing part was, why he would give him the memory of a
rainbow? Does this dystopian society see all black and white? After analyzing
it I came up with the conclusion that Jonas ability of seeing beyond is to have
the ability to see colors rather than black and white. The Giver will help Jonas by giving him the
memories of all the colors and by doing this, Jonas will start seeing all of
this amazing colors that surround him and the world will change for him just as the apple, the crowd and Fiona’s hair did.
Every time I pick this book to read it, there is always new
things to discover, new things that keep me flipping pages faster and faster. But
after reading the part when Jonas will receive the memory of a rainbow, made me
predict something, when Jonas receives those memories the world will not be the
same as it used to be. Everything will be strange and new, he would see the world
from another perceptive, he will see the real color of all
things and for me colors are the ones who put happiness and life to the world.
Jonas will not only see the world from a different point of view, he will feel what is
like living in a world full of happiness and life!
LET'S SEE THE WORLD IN A DIFFERENT WAY!
Gaby, your blog has been one of the best I’ve had seen. Your ideas are very clear and I understand all your thoughts and ideas. The examples you provide really help me get your point and understand better your ideas. Now with the part that you infer what this society is, they really can’t see colors you’re correct and this is because they don’t accept differences. The seeing beyond ability I also think that it was the ability to see colors but not just that but to get all this memories and to record them and analyze them too. From now on I also think that Jonas world is going to be viewed different, and he is going to see more of how the real world is.
ReplyDeleteGabriela, I think you did a god job on your blog! Firs off all when you talk about the colors do you think that the elders chose him to be the receiver of memories just because he starts seeing beyond? Also I came with the same conclusion that everybody sees in black and white, that they dress the same with the groups you are like Jonas with the 12. I think that the elders are trying to make a community that want that all are the same and no one is better than the other but if you see it in a another way the elders have more power that the citizens and the giver is more respected than anyone in the community’s there you can see that they are not the same!
ReplyDeleteGaby, your blog was so interesting and engaging. When you mentioned about the memory of a rainbow, I also thought about many predictions and I agree with yours. A thought that came to my mind was that Jonas will try to change the community. As you mentioned, colors are what brings happiness and that is what led to my thoughts too.
ReplyDeleteGaby, I ejoyed reading you blog very much! good job!! I agree with what you say, we shoud consider that everything in Jonas' life will change now that he is getting this new knowledge. he will start seeing things differently.
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