Chapters 5-8

In  this past week I have read chapters 5-8 of the book The Giver by Lois Lowry. Reading this chapters have helped me understand more about the book, the characters and the plot. In this chapters, we learned more about Jonas and his crush Fiona. Jonas is aging, meaning that he is changing and this is causing some confusion. To prevent Jonas from having any kind of pleasure, the community requests them to take a pill to prevent feeling that his mom describes as stirrings. Later on the chapter, we finally encounter the ceremony of twelve. In this ceremony, we learned Ashers new assignment as assistant director of the recreation center and Jonas new assingnment as the next receiver in the community which is the most honored job. We also learned about some of Jonas´s qualities, like the ability to see beyond and we learned that because of fathers' request, Gabriel is given an additional year of nurturing.

"But when he looked across the crowd, the sea of faces, the thing happened again. The thing that had happened with the apple."

This quote causes me confusion because I am not sure of what exactly is Jonas seeing. I am not sure if it is just a change of color or if it is a light. And furthermore, I am not sure if him seeing this "thing" is a quality for being the receiver in the community.  If this is it,  I am not sure what is that quality. The ability to see beyond should be in your mind and your thoughts, not depending if you see a strange thing or not. If this is a quality that a receiver must have I would be surprised and I would be in need of further explanations. In conclusion, to know what is this strange thing that Jonas encounters, we will need to continue reading the book the giver, but for the time being we will need to draw our own predictions.

Jonas's new assignment will prove to be a little difficult and a little exhausting. I wonder how will Jonas and the older receiver of memories will get along and how will Jonas like his assignment. I predict that Jonas will not like his assignment and all the hard work that it involves, but later when he truly understands it, he won't have much of a choice. To be the receiver of memories will be a very hard job, they'll need someone with a strong will, and that is something that I think that Jonas has. In the end, because of all of his visions and memories he will leave the community. Right now, we don't totally understand the role that baby Gabriel is playing but soon we will. Gabriel has
to be connected to the story in some way. This is all
speculation but at the end, time will tell.