Literature Circles 4 Blog

The author Lois Lowry did described the freedom and choice between these chapters a lot. In the part where he stopped pills, expressed his freedom and choice by thinking of a choice that people had never thought of. This shows that he had gained power of choosing a right thing for his own. By this, it provided a glimpse of Jonas's change by the memories and how powerful the memories are. As a result from his change, his opinions became more effective and reasonable.

Giving the memories to Gabe was also his own choice. He didn't have to send them to Gabe who didn't knew anything. Maybe, he wanted him to have different opinion of his own life starting from the young age. Or, he just wanted to share any memories he absorbed from the giver. No one forced him to give up having the nice memories, but he gave them to Gabe. Which he felt guilty about.

He refused riding bike along the river with Fiona who wanted to comfort him because he wasn't acting like the old Jonas. Now he knew that he couldn't share or explain any memories to them by Asher's rude reply. It was his choice riding with Fiona. He was keeping himself from blurting out the memories to her because she was on of his friends who talked a lot with. By being the receiver, he had lost his freedom communicating with people. Will his choice of freedom increase? or decrease?

Giver question 1

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

If was there was people who chose my future for me, in good way, I would prefer that than choosing by myself. This is because, it will change my life into easier way than now. Usually, people face variety of problems. Sometimes, they could be especially challenging, or uncomplicated. For example, it is hard to decide which way to go when you are travelling in a place you are not familiar with, but if you had a map or a guide, it will have lead you to an easier way. Additionally, there are gigantic decisions you have to challenge and unnecessary ones. For example, choosing a job is important because it can affect your future greatly but deciding to eat a pie doesn't affect much to my future accept for the fact that you get you stomach filled.

In the book, I like how the community decides for their citizens or members for their age. Everything is perfect under the control of the Elders. Most of the people find happiness with their assessments. Everything matches with everyone correctly. I think that is a place where I want myself to be. Less disagreements, more pleasure, more peaceful, and safer than the world I am living in. However, as I keep thinking about it, I belief it will make my opinions less powerful and finally, I will lose ability to create an opinion.

As a result of these, I think the community in Giver is always gleeful place, different from our place where we learn every knowledge that we have to know and be happy as well as miserable by the truth. In my opinion, knowing everything including gloomy ideas will effect us to know the pure happiness because, as we know the more, we will realize what is valuable and when is the most joyful time. On the other hand, by being aware of troubles that we predict will happen, only makes us fear, frightened and dissuades ourselves from being brave and courageous. However, to earn real happiness I think we have to choose our future by ourselves.