Authors Note: In the book The Giver by Lois Lower a quote really stood out to me. And that Quote is “Do not discuss your training to any other members of the community, including your parents and your Elders". That plays a huge role in the book for Jonas and his family.
How that quote ends up taking one of the biggest roles in the book is it’s a rule for Jonas’s new job. This is no normal job, Jonas the main character gets picked to be the Receiver of memory, which really explains what it is by its title. The Giver which is an older gentleman gives the young boy his memories. Why this is such a big deal is that Jonas gets to learn and experience what pain is and see colors. You must think this is normal day stuff, well in this town it is not even heard of. Just for an example of how Jonas must feel is you just won power ball but you can’t tell anyone. That’s must how Jonas feels right now.
The new job that Jonas has really seems to just be hurting him. Why I say that is because each day he goes to his job which would be just The Giver and Jonas. Since Jonas does that each day he must be losing contact with his friends and maybe even with his family. Jonas has a big secret and it must be hard not to ask his family any questions or tell them anything of what he has learned. Jonas can only ask question to The Giver. And I think Jonas is learning too much things at once.
What Jonas is just learning in the book right now is the last Receiver of memory ended up killing himself because they think that he took in too much information at once. And right now in the book Jonas is taking in too much information and he is starting to go crazy. It is possible that maybe he will also end up killing himself too. But overall I think that he won’t do that because he loves his family and he would not want to do that to them.
In the end this quote as you can see plays a big role in the book. Many things could happen, but what will happen is suppose to happen. That’s why the quote is such an important role in the book The Giver.
No comments:
Post a Comment