The Apple

         

    On the past weeks i have been reading the Giver, I have learned Jonas community and their form of living. Jonas community as i learned recently is a very strict community in which citizens have to follow a lot of rules and accomplish ceremony's to get their assignment. Jonas is very apprehensive about his twelve ceremony (when they receive their assignment), his parents to make him unworried try to explain what is going to happen when he receives his assignment. His parents explain that assignments are choose by what you are interested on and where you decide to spend your volunteer hours.The thing is that Jonas has spent his volunteer hours in every place on the community. After some time his "father" brings a child from the Nurturing Center home so that he can feed him better ;his father breaking a rule discovered the baby's name (Gabriel) so that the baby can feed better and wouldn't be released.A peculiar thing about the baby is that he has the same ayes as Jonas(blue)that is very strange because most of the community has them dark.While going to do his volunteer hours Jonas talks to an old woman (Larrisa) who explains what is having a meaningful life in the community.

   While reading the book i discovered a quote that states the following: "But suddenly Jonas had noticed, following the path of the apple through the air with his eyes, that the piece of fruit had-well,this was the part that he couldn't adequately understand-the apple had changed (Lowry 24)". After reading this quote i made me think about the form of life in which people change such as the apple or that being different from others is what makes you special. Also being different is what gives gives you identity. 

     The first chapters have been really interesting on the ways that you don't understand many thing and you what to continue reading so to know what they mean. As a prediction of what is going to happen on the next chapters i think that Jonas is going to find out what does it mean been released. Also i think a new character will be introduced (Fiona) a girl that maybe Jonas could have a crush on.What i am sure of is that the next chapters will not only impact Jonas life but also change the community. 

Introducing The Giver by Lois Lowry

   I am currently going to start reading the the Giver and before i start i want to "interview" the book. I after seeing the front cover i think the story is about an old man that wants to changes his form of living. But after "interviewing" the book i realized it is not about what it thought it would be actually it is about a young boy. Also i realized its as an adventure book with a lot of values and morals inside of it. On the dedication page Lois states the following "For all the children to whom we entrust the future." By saying this Lois says that he wrote this book for the young people that after he is gone will take the responsibility of the world.I think that by writing the book he is expecting young readers to create a better community and take care of the world such as he did.He also want kids to take care of him and other when they are old such as they did when we were young. After pre-reading the i predict that Jonas (the main character) is not happy with his life job that is why he starts revolting against the idea of the jobs being chosen by someone else; this brings problems that is why he has to hide and at the end he ends choosing what he wants to work at.