lunes, 8 de diciembre de 2014

The Giver Summary Chapter 5-8
At the beginning of chapter 5, we can see something interesting about the community. Jonas was at the morning ritual where they share they dreams, in which he rarely participated. He share that he dream that Fiona and him were at the house of the old were they bath the old but they were alone,  Jonas was arguing with Fiona to get her cloths off and get in the tub. The ceremony day has arrived and they started with the new born, in here they named the baby and gave it to their family unit. Later on the book they get to the ceremony of 12 were they assigned each kid a job, they went in numbers and Jonas was 19. They started to give the assignments and when number 19 was supposed to be called they, Jonas number, they didn't said it causing shame, fear and stress to Jonas. At the end of the ceremony of 12 the elder apologised to Jonas and told him that he was selected to be the next receiver of memories, which was a honorable job in the community.

This book has lots of themes and one of them is individuality. An example of individuality could be on page 44 "This new Caleb was a replacement child. The couple had lost their first Caleb, a cheerful little Four. loss of a child was very very rare." This quote tells us that in this community you can easily be replaced so you are not really important to the Elders. This also shows that you do not have much individuality because if you die another person will come and replace your place in the community.

I found this book really interesting and appropriate to any age. This book like I told earlier has lots of themes that are easily distinguish. It also has lots of suspense and mystery during the whole book. I am looking forward to keep reading this book because I think its  really fun and entertaining and it also leaves you a good message and something to think about.



1 comentario:

  1. I agree with your statement about children being so easily replaced because I felt the same way. In the society we live in replacing someone specially a child is much harder and it didn't felt right to replace Caleb which such ease.

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