The Giver Lit Cirlce Reflection #4

By reading chapters 16-18 I have seen that Jonas is facing some times of choices and freedom. Here are few reasons.

He is not allowed to give any memory to someone, but every time Gabriel wakes up at night Jonas chooses to give memories expecting him to relax and go to sleep, but even though he does that, I do not think its the best way to calm the baby because he is breaking a very important rule from his job.

He received the giver's favourite memory which was the Christmass memory. This experience helped Jonas understand love, union, happiness and many more beautiful feelings when you are with your family. Jonas is learning more about the "Elsewhere" which I think is the normal world. So maybe having this memories will want him to escape and feel it by himself by being in the normal world. WE WILL SEE WHAT HAPPENS!

The Giver Reflection

Question: Would you want your future to be decided by others? Why or why not?


I would say no. I dont think that somebody would like to live like that because they cant choose what they want to do for their lives. An example is the community where Jonas lives in. There everything is planned for everyone, they would receive a name they would grow up with a family unit and then they would have a job at the same age. That is for every single person in there. But in my perspective, I think that its better if you choose your own job and you live your life the way you want it to be.

Its better if you dont have your life planned because then your life would be boring and simple. If you can just experience different things everyday you can learn more about life and you will have more experience that others. If you just follow the same schedule all the time I think you would get tired of being the same as eveyone.

As a result, I think that its preferable to have your own life with our own rules, where you can choose your own and you dont have so many rules as Jonas' community. Maybe later they might change some of the rules because many people are getting tired.

Hope you enjoy my blog!!