Change plays a big part in your life especially if your personality is changed or your physical appearance. People might not know you or recognize you if you change a lot. Change can change other people's feelings for you and change what they have to say about you. Change can be good and bad. It can be good because people might not like you at first and when you change, they will change their feelings for you. Change is bad because if people liked you the way you are and you changed, they might not like you anymore. Changing a routine can ruin how your day goes. If you eat such and such breakfast and you always have a great day and one day you change it, you can ruin your day from the start. Jonas realizes that hie community can't change and is always the same. On Jonas' part, change would be a good thing for him and his community.
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Different point of view can change the book's feelings and change the reader's state of mind. If Jonas was telling the story, he would say it from his view of what is going on with the community and the life around him. Different people have different feelings about what the book is written for. If Jonas was expressing his feelings in the book, he would give complete description on what it was like just like the memories he gets unlike 3rd person point of view where there see the feelings from their body language and how they act. With a different point of view in the book, The Giver, different feelings and descriptions would be put and the reader's attitude would change.
In The Giver, Jonas who was about to be assigned a job in the Ceremony of Twelves, has to wait longer than expected and is assigned a job at a later time. He later is assigned as the receiver, one of the most important jobs of all. The receiver is the person who receives all the information and has different rules than everyone else. I think that he will meet the giver and will receive many things from the giver. I also think there will be a controversy between Jonas and the people around him because he has different and much better rules than everyone else. Jonas will try and not say it like that and I think he will state that he will be so used to the old rules that he won't even follow the new rules.
Important events have happened in my lifetime. I think the most important one was when I got a phone which was at the end of 5th grade. This was important to me because I am now able to contact my parents and family members whenever I want and whenever I need them. Here are some other important things that happened throughout my life:
2008 2012 2014 2015 2016 I became an older brother, I got my pen license, I got a phone, I got into Xavier House, I will be in the 8th grade In The Giver, By Lois Lowry, Jonas has the elders pick his assignment, or job, for him. He is pondering and pondering to what he thinks they might pick for him. Questions come in my head everyday. "What will I be when I grow up?" These questions are important for the future and your goals to succeed. When I become and adult, I would like to try and be a professional baseball or basketball player. I know it will be very hard. I chose those because I have a deep passion for those two sports and I started at a very young age. For my second option, I would like to be an engineer. Since I am good with numbers and I have a little experience because of my dad, I think this would be the right choice for me. I my parents were to decide the future and my job for me, I would think they would go with my picks because they know me as well as I know myself. They know I would fit in with baseball or basketball and they know I will be successful as an engineer. While drawing these conclusions, I would agree with their pick because I know they will pick what is best for me and what I will do the best in, whether it is a professional athlete or an engineer.
In the book, The Giver, by Lois Lowry, Jonas, an 11 year old boy lives in what is called a community in which everyone must follow the rules. This "community" is like a world controlled by someone because people are all acting around each other the same way all the time. This kind of reminds me of Holes by Louis Sachar because everyone is forced to do the same thing in concentration camp and are told by the person in charge of them. She controls them just like it looks like the life around Jonas is being controlled as well.
Lois Lowry was born on March 20, 1937 in Honolulu, Hawaii and is still alive today at the age of 79. She is one of the America's most famous children's book authors by creating Number the Stars, A Summer to Die, Son, Messenger, and The Giver. When she was 8 or 9, she decided she wanted to become a writer. Her father was a dentist and Army officer, which led her to live in several different places growing up. Lowry ended up spending her school years in Japan, but then further graduating from a New York City high school. At age 19, she married naval officer, Donald Lowry. She clearly, learned how to write a book at a young age which is beneficial to writing a book now.
How would you feel if your life was planned out for you?
If my life was planned out for me, I would not want to know what would happen the next day. I want my life, day to day, to be an adventure for me. I also would not want to know when I would be dying because then I would want to do a lot more than I thought I can. If people's lives were planned out for them, they would be in a panic mode and want to get everything done before they die. I believe that if my life was planned out for me, I would not enjoy it because I want want to find out the day of on what I would be doing that day. |