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).
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!
Works Cited
"The Giver Movie Review." Fat Movie Guy. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Dec. 2014. <http://www.fatmovieguy.com/review/the-giver-movie-review/>.
"Twisted - Season 1: Episode 2 | Clip: Busted!" YouTube. YouTube, n.d. Web. 21 Dec. 2014. <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bb1HPGM2ByM>.
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Dani, I think that your point about emotions making life interesting where taken away is bad but i also think that the community did that so to keep people safe and for stopping them to get hurt because of their feelings which doesn't result as a really bad idea because it was the solution to many other problems.
ReplyDeleteDani, I really enjoyed reading your blog and I really liked that you draw the events of the chapter you are talking about. While reading your blog it really cap my attention when you mentioned about all the decisions they made were to hid humans from the truth. This cap my attention a lot because even in the world that we live in even the most small lie will revel itself at some point and I really think the communities real truth its reveling itself by the memories Jonas gets each time.
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