The giver - resumo

The Giver

When Jonas is given the positions of the Reciever, people in the community star to treat him differently because now he has a very important role in the community. Before the ceremony, he was just a boy thet lived there just like the other members of the community, and now he has a really exclusive job. When he was leaving the auditorium he already felt apart from the community. While he was walking, people moved aside for him, and also his friend Asher acted differently with him. He was talking with him, but Jonas felt that things were not quite the same. He felt that Asher was not totally confortable. His little sister Lily was also different with him; she kept staring at him as he was something different now. However, what made him nervous was that he hadn’t started his training yet, but everyone was different with him.

Jonas felt unconfortable with the last rule not just because he was told since he was born not to lie, but because he would never know anymore if people were lying to him or not. As he recieved this rule, he thought that everyone in the community could recieve it too. With this rule, he could ask everyone whatever he wanted to, but he would have no way of knowing if the answer he recieved was true.

I agree that the community should not have gone to sameness

for several reasons. The first reason is because in the community the

committee choses who you are going to marry, and you cannot have

your own child. There are birthmothers that have the baby, and then

they are given to some family. This happens with everyone in the

community, and in my point of view is not right. You have to be the

one that choses who you are going to be with, and have your baby.

Another reason is that they don not have feelings. For example, they

take pills that stops all kinds of feelings, like the strings. They are not

able to love, and there is no point in life if you don not love anyone.

The final reason is that