Lea Vilna Santos Mrs. English, 7th September 1st, 2015 The Giver, by: Lois Lowry Log Entry 4: Chapters 7-8: Question 2: In chapters 7 and 8, Jonas is assigned the job of Receiver of Memory and although the Chief Elder calls it the greatest honor,it might give him more hardship and pain than fortune. She explains that the selection is rare and his role is very important because there is only one Receiver and it takes integrity, intelligence, courage, wisdom, and the capacity to see beyond to be that person. At first he wants to tell he has no idea what she means and that he doesn’t have it until he notices a change in the crowd that was quick but he knows that he isn’t dreaming because it’s happened before but to his apple. Then he realizes
The Giver looked down at him, his face contorted with suffering. ‘Please’ he gasped, take some of the pain.” (Lowry 149). This excerpt shows that even an assured brave man like the Giver suffers greatly when forced to bear a weight this colossal alone. Jonas is the one person that the Givers trusts and confides in, the one person that he uses to lean on in these kinds of times.
The Giver - Think About What You've Read Write at least five sentences for each one! 1. Somehow, you come upon Jonas’s Community…a group of people living peacefully, with no poverty, no suffering, no pain, and no war. Should you tell them about pain and war and all those bad things, or not? List the arguments for telling them, and then list the arguments for not telling them.
Is it better to have liberty or being sheltered. It’s better to have liberty because, with having liberty you 're allowed to have your own ideas and thoughts. To where being sheltered you 're only allowed to think what they want you to think and live how they want you to live. I have three examples in: The Giver, Civil Rights Movement, and the American Revolution these components demonstrates why, it 's better to have liberty than to being sheltered. In the book, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, a boy named Jonas lives in a sheltered community.
1) When you were younger, did you like school? No, I would usually be required to stay late after class to get extra help. I told Matty that I didn’t like school. He said “I didn’t like school either.
Heath Grant; who is Vulcan, wears black clothes and a black mask. His black mask symbolizes the anti-hero aspect of his character, as someone who doesn’t want to stand out as a hero. However, the blonde hair he sports illustrates the overall goodness of his character, that at his core he is a genuine person. The buster sword he carries on his back represents the burden that he carries personally, and as one gifted with the power of the gods. His ability to shoot fire out of his right hand is associated with a Christian perspective of right and left; the right hand being the righteous hand, and in disparity the left hand is associated with the Devil’s hand.
The Giver then told Jonas he would be glad to share that memory with him. He transmits the memory of a christmas morning, grandparents and love. Jonas liked the memory and wanted to be able to feel it all the time. When Jonas got home he asked his parents if they loved him, They were a little fluster about the word love and told him to pay attention to his precision of language. His father told Jonas that the word love is absolutely meaningless.
Imagine living in a world with no freedom, choice, individuality, and color. Would you want to live in a world like this? Most of you would have said no, but a boy named Jonas has no choice, but to adhere to his community’s rules. In the book and the movie, “The Giver”, by Louis Lowery, Jonas finds it difficult to accept his community’s way of life. However, after he becomes the receiver of memory, he challenges the community after discovering what the world used to be like before sameness.
Whoosh! They were whizzing down the steep hill, accelerating faster and faster, until they could no longer clearly see what was around us. Suddenly, the sled screeches to a halt. It felt like the force of an elephant pushing down on their insides. The ability to see started coming back to Jonas, but only in small sections of his field of view.
Is Jonas’s society different than ours? Utopian (N) an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. The key word there is ‘imagined’ as we haved learned in The Giver that not everything can be perfect; it 's just limiting the being of a human. By having such limitations, the people can’t hold their memories, can’t see color, and the government chooses their family. Jonas’s society is vastly different than ours in various ways.
PL.1 Embedded Assessment 2.1 The Giver VS Modern Society How is the society of The Giver really that different from being a modern day society? When people try to create perfect societies, it creates mayhem! Our modern day society is far from a perfect society in the novel The Giver. While appearing perfect, Jonas’ society has many rules and laws under the surface that make it much more dangerous than modern day society.
The Giver: Chapters 1-5 A. Questions 1.The arrival of a jet might be a terrifying experience for the entire community because they do not see jets very often only when a cargo plane is dropping off supplies. It also might make it more terrifying for the community because nothing unordinary ever happens so they are taking the jet very seriously and making sure everyone goes indoors. 2. I think that when someone is released from the community they are sent out of the community to live somewhere else.
The Giver was a really great book to read in my opinion it was really great for it's unexpecting cliff hangers. There was confusion between an amount of unexpecting people about the ending in The Giver. As well as all the the people I to have some confusion over so I made ways to make The Giver not so confusing I’m going to retell all that happens. Why are some people people confused because at the end something may happen is it Jonas hallucinating or is he seeing the elsewhere he is looking for. I will stop stalling anyway let me get on with the retelling.
Context for Learning I teach 6th grade. The community surrounding the school is identified as suburban, totaling a population just under 27,000. The school is identified as a parochial school, with an overall goal to ensure that all facets of a student’s academic and faith have a chance to grow. The school population is composed of 133 students between grade levels 5th-8th.
One of the main themes in “The Giver” is the importance of individuality. The people in the community are not given any freedom to be individuals. They are not allowed to be different, and this creates less understanding of the world. This is why the community needs a receiver to understand these things for them.
