Discussions with Connections!

27/11/14

When reading the first four chapters of the book by Lois Lowry  The Giver I realized his society stops being flawless. Part by part of the book you get to know how is the life of the characters such as Jonas and Lily. For the first chapter Jonas starts making himself all of this questions like when he is talking to his parents after dinner about the ceremony of 12 and Jonas asked "Where any of the Elevens disappointed, your year?". His parents have answered his questions throughout the book. By chapter 3 we start involving more in Jonas´ father´s work; he is a nurterer. when going deeper into the story, we met Gabe ( Gabriel). He is a baby which jonas´father takes care of. For Gabe jonas´father breaks a rule and he saw the baby´s name. He also saw if he had a family. Probably if all of jonas family fond more with the baby and decide to hide him and take care of him in a hidden way they will get seviredly punished and get released.

Starting with chapter 4  Jonas goes to the house of the old.  In here we start understanding what kids do when they volunteer in different places. In each place they've got different places to work like in the house of the old they can shower them or make other activities. This time Jonas goes to meet his friends Asher and Fiona, they were bathing the eldest In this chapter we find about another rule "And nakedness too. it was against the rules for children and adults to look at anothers nakedness; but the rule did not apply to newchildren or the Old."(30). In the house of the old he met Larisa who told him about the release of Roberto. Roberto was an old man who got to their life limit and had to be released. In the book we find two types of releases which are good. One is the release of newchild, this were child who were´nt good enough. And the second release was the release of the Old, this was a thing to be proud of, as in the ceremony they retold all of their life of the released. As Larisa told Jonas, there were some of the Olds which had a meaningful life as Roberto, but also there were Olds who had a less meaningfull life as Edna who was a birthmother, yet according to Larisa she was good for nothing. To end this four chapters Jonas neither us now what happens with the released. Do they get killed? Or just expelled out of town?