The Reprecautions of Love

Throughout life, we  focus on achieving the perfect life. We seek for money, power, a husband or wife, a big house, an important job and to solve all problems you may come to. Mary Maloney had all of this and more...


Mary had a baby coming and she couldn't be more in LOVE with her husband, the detective, Patrick who one night, like any other, Mary was waiting for him to come and punctual as always, she heard the car parking and then her husband came in. Mary greeted him, poured him a scotch, Patrick finished his drink and then he told her that he was leaving her for another woman. Mary, who was so in love, said that he was too tired and they will have dinner at home which was unusual because they normally ate Thursdays outside, the shock of the news got Mary to simply turn around and go to get a leg of lamb from the cold room but when she came back, Mary did not know what she was doing and all of a sudden she hit her husband on the head with the leg of lamb which killed him. Mary needed an alibi because of the situation she was in, Mary acted normal with the salesman when she went out for groceries and then she walked home. When she arrived, Mary had already been thinking about how she would act but then seeing her husband on the floor but when it did happen it made her, without need for an act, neel besides him and cry. After her allarming phonecall to the police, they arrived and because of Patrick's job, Mary Maloney knew many of the detectives that came in. Then, she told the police her alibi which was then verified by Sam, the grocery worker. Then, the police were talking and agreing that there was no way Mary had done it. Mary had a plan, after realizing the lamb was on the oven she asked one by one to the detectives and police to have a drink and even though it was against the rules they were so tired that everyone got a drink. Then the lamb was ready and she begged for them to eat it with the excuse that she was too in shock to eat and if they didn't then the lamb would go to waste. They all ate the lamb and as they were finishing someone said that the weapon had to be there, probably right under their noses so Mary giggled in the other room.

The detectives eating lamb, asking where the weapon is while it is on their plates.

In this story the author, Roald Dahl, makes an imagery example that enhanced the story. He gives the example when Mr. Maloney came in and how Mary felt of her husband being next to her.

 " She loved to luxuriate in the presence of this man, and to feel-almost as a sunbather feels the sun-that warm male glow that came out of him to her when 

they were alone together. " (Dahl 1)

In this quote Roald Dahl was trying to make his point clearer through examples. This part of the story was another way of saying that Mary felt safe around Patrick, warm. She felt protected by the "warm male glow". Mary was truly in love and after spending all day long alone, seeing her husband was a moment to relax and to enjoy. She could feel that Patrick had a way to make everyone around him stable, safe, in peace. I think it is because of his job as detective that he would eminate this warmth, but when he was around Mary it was different... or at least that is what Ms Maloney thought before he left her. The example described here talks about the powerful love that this woman had and even though her husband was never home, she still loved him so very much. Mr Maloney felt the love as a warm sun that touches the skin of the sunbather.

Mary Maloney really loved her husband. She loved him more than anything in the world and that is why she killed him, out of jealousy. In a way, Mary did feel mournings for Patrick and on the story when she went to get an alibi and returned home prepared to act as if she just found out the detective Patrick was dead she felt sorrow.

"She put the parcel down on the table and went through into the living room; and when she saw him lying there on the floor with his legs doubled up and one arm twisted back underneath his body, it really was rather a shock. All the old love and longing for him welled up inside her, and she ran over to him, knelt down beside him, and began to cry her heart out. It was easy. No acting was necessary."

From this quote I learned that Mary was probably mentally deranged. At first, she loved her husband and she needed him to survive. She needed him like a man needs water. Then, when she found out that her husband was cheating on her she acted in one of the few natural ways a woman would handle the situation. By ignoring it at first, she went to get dinner and all of a sudden her brain did something not only wrong and dumb but also something that in my opinion, only crazy people do. She killed her husband, she hit him really hard on the back of his head. But on this part of the story we do understand that love makes you do things you normally don't expect to do. It is good up to a certain point because killing someone out of love is madness but doing some thing cute that shows how you feel about someone else is very good. Like on the movie "easy A".

On this scene of the movie the characters gave a romantic gesture that was innocent and on the story "Lamb to the Slaughter" the wife commited a crime because she felt hurt. There are many ways to express our emotions but, in my opinion, on the story it was a way that only psicopaths try like Ms. Mary Maloney.

Overall, I think that through this story we learn many things. Roald Dahl teaches us about reactions. This means that we should always think before we act. This was an entertaining and suspensive story for me that I really enjoyed.

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Garbage

There has been a lot going on from chapters 17-20 on The Giver. To begin with, Jonas and the community had a holiday and everyone was exited because it was so unusual to get one. While the members from the community were enjoying their vacation playing games, Jonas was having a hard time because when he saw the kids playing he realized that the game was actually an imitation of war and he remembered a memory (from the world before) of a kid dying and suffering. Because of this Asher and Jonas got in a fight.
Jonas' family was having dinner, dad said that he would have to release a twin baby because a birthmother had identical twins. He said that he would choose them by weight and then he would get the other baby comfortable and someone from elsewhere would take him away.
The next day Jonas asked The Giver about release and about the previous receiver of memories that failed. The Giver calmly talked to him about what happened. Her name was Rosemary and the Giver didn't want to give her pain memories but she insisted and after giving her a terrible memory she changed. Not long after that Rosemary asked for release. When Jonas heard the story, the Giver decided he should see the release of the twin baby his dad needed to make. Stunned, confused and panicked; that is how Jonas felt after seeing that his dad injected a needle on the baby's forehead and then died. Every release meant death, Fiona did so too. That means that first of all, Jonas' father lied and so did Fiona and secondly, Rosemary, Larissa, and everyone else who got released didn't go elsewhere; they died.  As you may assume, Jonas was extremely paranoid and freaked out so the Giver allowed him to stay that night on his dwelling. The Giver was very smart and he told Jonas that after eating they would make a plan to change the society forever. And so they did, the plan was perfect, on the ceremony day Jonas would escape at the right time so nobody noticed and drive off with the Giver to a far away village. Then Jonas would use his bicycle to find ELSEWHERE and leave his memories behind to the community so they realize that the world must change.
Finally, in the end of the chapter the Giver tells Jonas that his daughter's name was Rosemary.





"He picked up the carton and carried it to the other side of the room. He opened a small door on the wall; Jonas could see darkness behind the door. It seemed to be the same sort of chute into which trash was deposited at school."
(Lowry 150)

Jonas father had dumped the baby on the chute. I feel this is completely insane because it is like a message that says that 'if you are no use to the community or are different then you are the same as garbage to us'. Over the chapters that I have read, it has been very clear that they want everyone to be the same and if there are twins it is too crazy to think that there are 2 community members that you can't tell apart. 

Jonas' community is careful because there is no room for mistake; making a mistake could get you released or ruin your life in the community. To me, it is no excuse for the people not to know what has happened because taking a human life away because someone says so is like when people ask that <if someone told you to jump off a building would you do it?>. I think that life is a concept that isn't taken seriously on the society and consequently people are forced to live under oppressive rules and concepts. 

Overall, Jonas society should change because we see knew concepts that are psychotic. i think that the Giver will want to go with Jonas to 'elsewhere' and after looking for this mysterious place what they find will be much worse than the community's rules and lifestyle. then the Giver and Jonas will work hard to go back to the community feeling regret. This book keeps the reader very amused and interested. The ending of the book is hard to find because anything can happen at this point. 

I think that the society will look like this...

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Feelings.

The Giver is a very interesting book. On the last few chapters this has happened...

Jonas society is a very horrible place to live in. There isn´t love, pain or pleasure; the society that Jonas lives in took away all those things that make life wonderful and exiting. Life there is boring, so ordinary.

"But they don't want change. Life here is so orderly, so predictable-so painless. It's what they've chosen." Chapter 13, pg. 103

The society decided that for some reason life would be good, unlike the world before. But all that decision did was hide humans from the truth and force them in a way, to live as "they" wanted. 

As the quote explained, the society does not want any change and I believe that it´s wrong to make that decision for people. For example, on our society we depend on the government to take care of important decisions; and just like in Jonas ´society in which they took wrong decisions for the people that live there. I think that it is harsh and corruptive to take decisions for someone else and even more if the decisions have to do with sacrificing one´s abilities (like sight in the society).

Click here to watch an example. Only up till second 40

Overall, Jonas´ society needs to change; change is good no matter what the government says.

 

In the next few chapters I think that Jonas will fall in love with Fiona because what we saw last is that he did not take his stirrings pill. I can infer he wants to feel and experience, that is why he looked at the options he had. Now, Jonas will start lying more and more. This lying will change his attitude temporarily; soon he will realize why feelings were taken away. I really want to know what will happen next!

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Choices

After Jonas got his assignment and was leaving the auditorium he didn't feel quite the same, nothing was the same and people treated him differently. Like they didn't know if it was something that needed to congratulate him or feel bad for him. The chief elder, his mother and so far everyone think the assignment is great HONOR, but why if Jonas will suffer and become apart from society. For example, after he rode his bike towards the Annex center -where he would have to go everyday after school- he noticed that the receptionist stood up to welcome him (something he had never felt before that someone would receive him when he entered the room.) On the chapters we know that everyone got a file of simple rules and/or instructions to follow: the one Jonas had was special, not because it was a lot smaller than the other pages but because he would not receive recreation time, he couldnt apply for release, he couldnt receive medication unless he had illness or injury, he was not allowed in the dream-telling ceremony. The ones that most disturbed him were:
You may ask any question
You cant talk about your training with others
And most of all: You may lie.

Honor, not power.

Click here to watch the chapter 12 audiobook!

He talked about the rules further in the chapters with the giver, the giver is the man who transmits the memories of the WORLD BEFORE, he gives him knowledge that others cannot take in because of his special abilities. We also learn that before Jonas the elders chose another receiver but because of the giver the transmissions failed and because of this Jonas can ask any question without appologizing because "it wastes time" that got me thinking why isnt there any time. Then we learn that the community cannot see colors but Jonas is starting to do so and the giver can see all of them now, Jonas thought at first that it is unfair not to have the ability to see colors but then came to the conclusion that seing colors give you choices and people can make the wrong choices.

On the story fiona and jonas were walking to training and had a discution that I founded strange

"I really think I'll like it better than school," Fiona confessed.
"Me too," Jonas agreed, wheeling his bike into its place.
(Lawry)

On this quote my mind stopped for a while because I know that Jonas will suffer the memories of the world before. I can infer that the world before is us and how will Jonas feel when he finds out about war, murder or any other sad thing. Why would he say he will like pain more than school where all your friends are. But after analizing the text I think that Jonas likes in a way to experience something other than sameness. Jonas might feel that pain isnt the only thing that he will feel on that room full of surprises. Overall, I know that Jonas is very exited to keep learning about a world that failed for some reason.

On the next chapters I think that Jonas will love learning too much and he will encounter a new memory that has too much suffering and he wont be able to control this emotions. I can tell because The Giver failed and he might fail again. Also, Jonas is doesnt handle his emotions very good and I think this will affect him most of all.


These last chapters were very interesting and I look foward to see what will happen next. In brief, Jonas story can go in many ways and now the story is talking more deeply about topics such as choice and it is very interesting.

It is hard to understand chapter twelve so here is an audiobook that will read you the chapters with a clearer voice.
Click here!
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Pain and Real Joy

The Giver is one of the most interesting books I have read. On the last few chapters (6-8) many important things have happened. Now is the time of the ceremony of twelve, everyone is very excited and nervous too. Gabriel was almost released but father talked to the elders and they marked him uncertain, this means that Gabriel will have another year to grow and become a member of the society or be released. Meanwhile, Lily got her new coat that has buttons on the front and Asher, got his assignment as the Assistant Director of Recreation. Everyone got their assignments except for Jonas, the chief elder skipped him but after all the 12 got their assignment she spoke to the community and told them that Jonas was selected  to be the new receiver of memories.

Just like Jonas’ society the movie Divergent is also oppressive and doesn´t let people have their own feelings. Somehow the government manages to make them all act the same way like on the quote they all said at the same time "we accept your apology." On the trailer you can see that they categorize the society in different groups which are considered "assignments" on Jonas' society. For example, dauntless (Trish group) are the army, some people were in charge of giving food to the ones that didn't have anything left, others were in charge of producing food, others were in charge of the law, etc. On Jonas' society they also had groups were they helped the society grow. 

Divergent is also similar because Trish was different, she didn't know where to go, choose dauntless, or any other group because she didn't fit. Jonas didn't know where to go either because just like Trish he is different. For some reason Jonas doesn't belong to any group so they selected him to become the new receiver of memories. Divergent seemed as a nice and well organized society but when you look in closely it isn't nice at all. This happens on "The Giver" because at first everyone is happy but then you can see that people are like robots, without choice and all manipulated to act the same way. 

In conclusion, this very interesting book isn´t even halfway to the story and it manages to give suspense while answering many questions the reader has. I admire the author for that and because he presented that a perfect society can only be achieved by taking people´s freedom away. This government is always watching the people to determine where they should live and who they should marry. This organized and oppressive government forces the community to think they are happy since the community doesn´t know what pain and real joy is.

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Nonsense

Nonsense.

Now I began reading "The Giver" by Lois Lowry from chapter 1-4.Just like Jonas on page 3 when the narrator says " He searched for the right word to describe his own feeling. Jonas was careful about language." I too, looked for the right word of what I felt reading the book and I came up with nonsense. This is what happened: Jonas is part of the family unit that Lily his sister, mother and father are part of. Father works as a nurturer and mother on law. Lily just turned an eight and lost her comfort object but was given her bicycle and her volunteering hours. While Lily got her volunteering hours Jonas will loose his and he was given a newchild. Jonas is a very interesting character because many odd things have happened to him like the time he was playing catch with his friend Asher and tossing a ball he noticed it changed. All in all, I think that this society has rules that seem to have changed the world completely and not at all common in this society we have. That is why I can call the society nonsensical. 

Another thing that impressed me was that on this society everyone follows the rules and most of the little ones. All except for Lily. 

"Oh, look!" Lily squealed in delight.
 "Isn´t he cute? Look how tiny he is! And he has funny eyes like yours, Jonas!" Jonas glared at her. He didn´t like it that she had mentioned his eyes. He waited for his father to chastise Lily.

Page 20. On the top.

This was not an important rule to follow. In fact, it wasn´t even a rule but it was rude to point out differences of a member of the community. Lily also didn´t have her ribbons tied the way they should be. On page 22-23, the narrator explains that there was an announcement that said that girls under 9 should have their ribbons tied up nicely. Even though the speaker did not mention a name the community knew it was intended for Lily who had her ribbon loose and wrongly tied. I think that Lily should try to be different because the story, just like on the Truman Show, seem like robots and you can see how people truly are, that hidden human side, shows throughout the book. I find those characters brave and true to themselves because being equal does not take you anywhere, is the uniqueness of each person that pushes you to where you should go, your own path.

I am eager to read more about Jonas' society and if there will be outstanding character such as Lily. I think that the eyes Jonas and his "son" are relevant because in page 24 Jonas says that when he was playing catch with Asher he saw the apple changed it´s shade. Based on what I could read I think that the society only sees shades of one color, for instance black. But people with light colored eyes sometimes can see other colors. That is what changed. The Giver is becoming a very interesting book that can give you insight to what a society with people with values (at least the most values generally than the general values and morals people around our world have) and tries to communicate that it might not be as good, something is different about people, maybe they forgot what people really are and turned into robots. 

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Daniela Viteri

8B

18/11/2014

Kodi Kelly

From the book "The Giver"

I haven´t really read The Giver. All  I have done is look at the outside of the book and a very interesting quote that said “For all the children to whom we entrust the future.” There is only one perspective I see on the quote, no room for interpretation. What Lois Lowry meant by this, in my opinion, is that the book is dedicated to all the children, the children who will be in charge of the future after that generation is gone. The children who will have life as we know it on their hands, what the world may become depends on the decisions we, the children take when we are older.

After reading the summary found on the back of the book many questions come to mind. What I can infer about the little information I know about the book is that on the future, the world will have no flaws. Everything controlled in a way that the world doesn’t feel what humans usually do, pain and joy. But there is always this character who is different, who is able to notice something is wrong. In this case Jonas is the character who notices that life isn’t really perfect at all. He will find that there is only one man who really knows what living a life full of purposes, sadness, love and happiness really is. This man is known as The Giver and he lives hidden of the new government that changed life as it was. I think Jonas will find this man and the giver will tell him everything he could probably say except for the answer Jonas went looking for because the new government will interfere. Making The Giver disappear forever.

The book seems interesting at first. However, I don’t think it would be worth reading because the plot is very good but the development of how the story will really be does not look very clear or interesting. Nevertheless, I will still read it with an open mind because books can always have an element of surprise.

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