Gabriel

" Gabriel's breathing was even and deep. Jonas liked having him there, though he felt guilty about the secret. Each night he gave memories to Gabriel: memories of boat rides and picnics in the sun; memories of soft rainfall against windowpanes; memories of dancing bare-footed on a damp lawn.
"Gabe?"
The new child stirred slightly in his sleep, Jonas looked over at him.
"There could be love" Jonas whispered.

The next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away"

These quotes show how Jonas is becoming more free the last quotes says that he stops taking his pills. He is starting to make his won choices and learning how to become free. I think this is important for Jonas as he needs to step out of his shell. He also helping Gabriel to grown up being free happy and being able to make his own choices. Everyone else in the community has not ever heard of choice or freedom yet. It is important that Jonas sends these messages to Gabriel as Gabriel will be able to teach others about hope and freedom. He also whispers to Gabe that their still could be love. I think Jonas wants to be able to experience love not just within families but outside families as well.

Jonas has started to become more free and is helping Gabriel to grow up free. This is going to help Gabriel understand freedom and choice when he grows up unlike the epode of his community. If everyone raises their kids like this they will be strong humans beings when they grow up and won't be afraid to make choices. It is important to grow up knowing you have your own freedom.

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The Giver: Why does The Giver say that making choices would be frightening for people?

In humanities we are reading the book the Giver and were told to choose to write about one of these three questions:
1. When Jonas learns all about col2. Why does Jonas find the instruction about lying so disturbing?
ors, he claims "it isn't fair that nothing has color". Why does he say this?
3. Why does The Giver say that making choices would be frightening for people?
I chose to answer the 3rd question why does the Giver say that making choices would be frightening fort he people. The reason that I chose to write about it is because you could answer this question so many different ways as everyone has a different prospectives.



The reason that I think it would be frightening for the people to make choices is because they would not know what to do. Imagine being locked up for the whole of your life and being told what to do and then being let out into the wild having to make decisions for yourself. It would be so hard and no one would be able to help you as no one else knew what to do either. This is how it would have felt for the people of Jonas's community. Everyone would be in a mess especially if they let you choose your own job. What if when you picked your own job you picked because you thought it would be fun but in the end you don't understand anything about the job. This is one of the benefits about being assigned a job as you know that you should do good at it. If I was like Jonas and was the receiver of memories then I would probably think the same and say it would be dangerous for the people. They would not know what to do during spare time or what to eat or even when to get up. I think it would take generations after generations for the people from Jonas's community to understand what choices are and how to make them.

"Or what if," he went on, almost laughing at the absurdity, "They chose their own jobs?"
"Frightening, isn't it?" The giver said.
Jonas chuckled. "Very frightening. I can't even imagine it. We really have to protect people for wrong choices."
"It's safer."
"Yes" Jonas agreed "Much safer."

I think the reason is because everyone even the giver is scared of making choices because they have not had the choice for generations. Even though he saw the memories of the world he is still scared to make choices and change in the community. I think that Jonas will be brave enough to help make change in the community. Jonas will fight for his people and make the community more free sot hat they can make more choices. It might take him a little bit of time to understand that not all choices are frightening like it say in the quote.

"Asher," JOnas said one morning. "Look at those flowers very carefully."
"What's the matter?" Asher asked uneasily. "Is something wrong?"
"No, nothing I thought for a minute that they were wilting, and we should let the gardening crew know they need more watering." Jonas sighed, and turned away.

In this passage Jonas is already trying to see if anyone else can see the colour in the flowers so I know that he will help the community make good, healthy choices. It will be hard but important for Jonas to help his people understand choices. He will make a great receiver of memory and will bring more hope to the people then any other. It may take a while for them to understand as they can't receive the memories at least not yet like Jonas. I think Jonas will do a great job at helping the people and will be a responsible leader.

The Giver

In class at the moment I am reading the Giver by Lois Lowry I am really enjoying it and would recommend it to others. In class we have been asked to answer the following question: Would you want your future to be decided by others ? Why or Why not?
Here is my answer:
I think you should have the freedom to decide your own future and others shouldn't decided for you. In the giver Jonas and the people of his community have to follow strict rules and rituals. The Chief Elder decides what job you should be assigned and you have no other choice. I don't think this is right and that you should be allowed to choose you own job or at least get a chance at trying out for it.

The reason I think you should get to decide your own future is because it is part of growing up, you learn from your mistakes. I also think other people should not be deciding your future other wise when you are young you can't have the fun of deciding what you want to be when your older. I have a plan already and so do my siblings. I think this is all a big part of growing up. I mean what would you choose, for other people to boss you about or for you to be free and be able to choose for yourself? I think it is quite obvious what we would all choose to be free and ourselves.

Another reason is that if someone turned round and said oh your going to be a vet I would not be happy. I hate anything gruesome inside an animal. I love animals but couldn't cope as a vet. As I keep saying no one is going to choose what I want to be when I am older.I want to make my own decisions in life and be who I wan't to be and not who anyone else wants me to be. I am happy with who I am and wouldn't change anything. I think everyone should learn to be who they wan to be in life and I think it is a valuable lesson.