Lit circle 'the Giver' Reflection 2 (#3)

This blog post is going to be another one about the past literature circles we have done and also about the book ‘the Giver’. Today I am going to write my thoughts about this passage in the book:

" 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"

I think this is a passage where Jonas is thinking about freedom and what there COULD be in his ‘utopia’ (perfect) community. He has experienced memories that have made him feel warm and good inside, but also bad ones that he hated. One memory was of a family that was sitting together at Christmas. He felt the loving and caring feelings for each other between the family members and that made him feel like he has missed something all along. His family unit parents told him afterwards that ‘love’ was a useless word and told him to correct his language use. I think he also discovered that he felt love for Fiona in his ‘stirring dreams’, which made him stop the pill. He wanted the feeling of love because it made him feel warm and cared for, and in his family unit he couldn’t find or get it.

This passage is important because I think this made him feel that he wasn’t loved in his family unit or community, even though his family unit parents told him they enjoyed him company and they were proud of his goals and achievements. My reason for this is because from the book I recognized the nice memories in my own family and I can not imagine not having that. The stirring dreams also supported the feeling of love, and I think that's why the community even ban those dreams because they want sameness. However, I think the 'sameness' is horrible. There are no feelings or disagreements. They think it's unsafe for people to chose something themselves. They can't even see colours! I really don't think this is Utopia! Utopia is supposed to be a perfect place, but for me, this world is better than that world.

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The Giver blog post 1 Reflection.

Hi everyone! This blog post I am going to reflect on two other blog posts. As you know, these past days I have done many literature circles on the book ‘the Giver’. My past blog post was reflecting on my lit. Circles. I am reflecting on Samuel and Owen’s blog post.

Samuel:

First paragraph- some sentences has lots of commas, and some are structured wrongly but for the rest your grammar is good. Your paragraph explains a lot but at the end you talk about pie. It is a good example but it doesn’t have much to do with the story or with you. For the rest it’s a good introduction.

Second paragraph – This paragraph is really good. You give details about the story that you think is a connection to your thoughts. My opinion to this is completely different, but I think you made a good argument.

Third paragraph – You explain well what your thoughts are about this. I understand the way you are thinking and you changing your mind about it. The contribution between you and the story is well explained. There are no grammar mistakes. I think this paragraph is the best because it has a good ending of your thoughts and wishes. Good job on your blog post!

Owen:

First paragraph – Good introduction and summary of the story. I think it’s detailed enough for me to understand but maybe you can make your thoughts a little more detailed.

Second paragraph – This paragraph is very short. Maybe you can add some more thoughts and details since there are not very much. I also think you can revise your paragraph because there are some grammar or punctuation mistakes but for the rest it’s fine.

Third paragraph – There are some grammar and punctuation mistakes in this paragraph but not to many. You have lots of thoughts but again: add some more details. For the rest this paragraph is good but maybe you can add some more sentences to finish the paragraph nicer. Reading this blog I could recognize that Owen wrote it, just because of his way of thinking and writing. Good job!

I hope when Owen or Samuel or both of them read this blog it will help them next time! I think they both did a good job. There were only a few mistakes but for the rest the blog posts were fine. Thank you for reading my blog, I hope you enjoyed it and this will even help you to write better and revise your writing.

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The Giver ~ Journal Responce

For today's blog post I have to write a journal response on the book: 'The Giver' which I am reading now. The question I am answering is ..:

Would you want your future to be decided by others ? Why or Why not?

My answer is no. I choose no because I want my future to be the way it will happen, I don't want it all planned out for me. I, for example, want to choose my own job. I want to study what I think is fun, and I don't want to randomly be assigned to a job. I also want to be who I am and not have a planned life ahead of me. I want my life to be fun and unexpected things to happen so it will be more interesting. I personally think that if I would live in Jonas' community, I would be bored. Because if your life is 'perfect' , nothing unexpected happens and it's just, well, boring. That's my opinion though.. ;]

So since this blog is supposed to be 3 paragraphs long, I have to write some more. Contributing to the story, I think I wouldn't want to live in Jonas' community. Lets face it: nothing is perfect. Not you, me, life and not even Jonas' community. Because I think Jonas' community is quite unfair. It would take a long time for my to get used to his community. But if I lived in that community all my life and suddenly changed to this world, I would think this place is horrible. It's just a case of what you think is a nice place to live and what not. I do think that Jonas' community is organized and has a good system, but not for me. I'll stay here, where I am right now! (:

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