Minh's+The+Giver

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__Chapter 1__
Two children - one male, one female - to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules.

Why did this town only let a family consist of only two children! And can only have one boy and one girl? I wonder if it was because they didn't want to have too many people in their town and wanted to just keep their town small. But what if someone has two or more children like triplets on accident? Or if they had two girls or two boys? I wonder if that happen if they would take one of those babies and replace the baby with another one, but a boy or girl depending if it was two boys or two girls. I wonder if something would happen to the parents or would the town say it was just an accident?

__Chapter 2__
"But to be honest, Jonas," his father said, "for me there was not the element of suspense that there is with your Ceremony. Because I was already fairly certain of what my Assignment was to be."

Too bad for him he already knew what his Assignment, or job i think , was. So he didn't get a surprise of what he got for an Assignment, which was a Nurturer. I bet it would have been better if his parents didn't tell him what he was going to get for an Assignment, so that he could have been surprised at least a little. I wonder if it was against the rules to figure out what was your assignment was before you have received it. It looked pretty obvious though because he spent a lot of time at the Nurturing Center when he had free time, so he could have made that conclusion himself.

__Chapter 3__
The apple had changed. Just for an instant. It had changed in mid-air, he remembered. Then it was in his hand, and he looked at it carefully, but it was the same apple. Unchanged. The same size and shape: a perfect sphere. The same nondescript shade.

I bet while it was in the air it was turning so fast that it seemed that it had changed its form because the surface of an apple is not very, very straight or perfectly curved it is a little bumpy and so the apple might have been turning so fast that your eyes weren't able to see that fast, so it looked like it changed shape.

__Chapter 4__
What happens when they make the actual release? Where exactly did Roberto go?

I wonder if releasing people means like letting people go from life .... like dieing. Is it possible if where Roberto went was where you would die and how would they die would they be killed, would they drink something to kill them peacefully, would they live there until they died or they would maybe even kill themselves. Would they make the release themselves or would someone do it for them? This is mind bottling....

__Chapter 5__
You're ready for the pills, that's all. That's the treatment for stirrings.

Stirrings.. I guess those are the dreams that are awkward to talk about to anyone...But why would you have to talk medication for it? Is it against the rules to have the kinds of //dreams// !?!?!?! Or is it just inappropriate to have those dreams. I still wouldn't see why you would have to take pills for it though. I see that taking medication for this is just a waste of medication.

__Chapter 6__
It was as if the first Caleb were returning.

I can't believe that their first child was killed! And now the community Lets them have another chance?!?! What if their 2nd children dies too? Will the community let them have another? Their first kid was killed in a very uncommon way too! He drowned! I think that is because of his parents! So if that happened i wouldn't let them have another child. Those parents are very, very, very lucky to have a second chance.

__Chapter 7__
Then the Chief Elder moved ahead in **her** speech.

Well i guess everyone has a chance of being Chief Elder. Well i guess the ones that are smart.Because I think it wouldn't be good if a not very smart person ran the country. I guess she was a smart person. And that in this community it does not care if the Chief Elder would be a girl or boy and I find that good because maybe sometimes a girl could be a better leader than a boy...

__Chapter 8__
Jonas has been selected to be our next Receiver of Memory

That job has to be hard...The name doesn't exactly suite the job though.... Receiver of Memory sounds like someone who is like an historian, but in this story it's not it's more like being president.. You have to have intelligence, integrity, courage, and wisdom. Intelligence to make the right choices, courage to have to make hard choices, and wisdom to make smart choices. So i wonder why they call the job Receiver of Memory...But anyways I am really happy Jonas got it.

__Chapter 9__
"What happened to her?"he asked nervously. But his parents looked blank. "We don't know."

I wonder what SHE did wrong. And it bothers me to think what happened to her and why her parents don't know what happened because it happened in the auditorium in front of the whole community,s so should know what happened. And i don't see why they just say they name of the person because I don't see any harm in telling people because it's not like if your said it then your would die. This community, I personally think, is sometimes trying to keep things too good like in this case.

__Chapter 10__
He couldn't imagine what the thousands of pages contained.

He couldn't imagine? NO WAY. I can't believe that they didn't use any other books in school except for a dictionary, a community volume, and the Book of Rules. Why doesn't this community have maybe at least a math book or a little fiction story what's the harm in letting the people of the community have more than just three books? Is it because they don't want them to leave the community to see the things in the books? I don't like the idea of not having any books than just three books that don't seem interesting to read at all.

__Chapter 11__
"Why don't we have snow, and sleds, and hills?"

...No snow? No sleds? No hills?!?!?!? I can't believe this! They took everything Earthy away for their own needs! I think it is better if they were still there because then it wouldn't be so humanized. I would love to have snow because it's so cool! you can do so many things with snow! And what if your didn't have water? You could melt the snow! And sledding is so fun! I went once and I wish I could go sledding everyday!

__Chapter 12__
"We shouldn't have!" Jonas said fiercely.

I agree with Jonas that they should have kept color. It would've made life more enjoyable because then you would be able to paint and draw with something than black and white. You'd get you see so much more. You see the object, but you can also see the color of the object. I think it would be more interesting to see something with color than without because it adds for feeling to the object.

__Chapter 13__
"We really have to protect people from wrong choices."

Do you really? It would help people, but it is a natural thing to make wrong choices! And making mistakes helps you learn because you know what you did wrong and you wouldn't do it again. It makes people more controlled than helped I mean this community is not exactly free. It is a community that is like run by a control freak. There is not one piece of freedom in this community except having the chance to leave the community if you want.

__Chapter 14__
"They selected me and you to lift that burden from themselves."

Well...Being the Receiver of Memory is not all a good job after all... You have to go through pain and hunger when you really shouldn't have to. It's like taking one for the team except the team is the whole community and so that no one else has to experience it themselves. It's like making someone else keep the memories for them because they themselves don't want to experience the pain and sadness of bad times in life back then. But at least you have some good memories.

__Chapter 15__
The Giver looked away, as if he could not bear to see what he had done to Jonas. "Forgive me, " he said.

Was that too much for Jonas? A war? Wounded? Right now it's like.....so common. Every minute you can wonder if someone has died in Iraq and if anyone will even know. You can see a lot of documentaries on it too on TV.There are books about wars. But even so i guess you couldn't experience the pain unless you joined the army.

__Chapter 16__
"And they won't be part of my life anymore. . . And they'll be well cared for and respected."

They won't see each other anymore. That's not cool because why can't you see them, there's no point why you can't see them. But they get cared for very much. At least they are not left alone to do everything by themselves. They have people to help them do everything like taking baths.And they won't get mistreated like being stolen from.

__Chapter 17__
"Then I wave bye-bye," he said, in the special sweet voice he used when he spoke to the newchild.

I wonder where is Elsewhere or is it like Hell or Heaven. And it's a baby so how can it go Elsewhere and still stay alive alone. So I guess it's like hell then because a baby can't take care of him or her self. But what if it's an adult or maybe teenager does release mean they get kicked out of the community for them?

__Chapter 18 - 19__
...He killed the baby. And put the baby in a trash chute. How could release be murder or suicide. Why do they have to put them down a garbage chute instead of being put in a coffin, being buried, and having a ceremony for them. Why don't they even care. Someone died and they don't even care! I can't believe it!

__Chapter 20__
"She's very efficient at her work, your red-haired friend. Feelings are not part of the life she's learned."

Feelings aren't in this community either...WOW they pretty much took out everything that cause problems like if someone is feeling mad they might beat someone up. But its not that good not having feelings. I like to feel something when something happens.It's not so fun if your watching a movie or something and your just sitting there watching it and not feeling anything towards the film or show. It's sometimes not as fun when you don't //feel// anything.

__Chapter 21__
"First thing tomorrow morning."

There going to kill Gabriel! Jonas put some of the memories into him though...Then all the memories are gonna go to the community like what happened with Rosemary when she asked too be released and all the memories were released to the community, but it eventually went away. I bet Jonas is going to do something about it because he saw what releasing a person is, he gave Gabriel some memories, and he is already gonna break the rules by doing that thing with the Giver.

__Chapter 22 - 23__
I think that the ending was alright because I would've liked it better if I really knew what the ending was, but I don't want to read the sequel...I think he died because maybe he got hypothermia or something because he was walking in the snow for about half a day or so without very warm clothes, he didn't eat for a pretty long time, and he didn't drink for a while either.He was pretty much escaping but not knowing what he is going to face which is not good, so now he faces not a very big chance of finding another civilization.

=__Vocabulary__=

__Chapter 1__
Spouse - a husband or wife

Page 9

Most of the people on the night crew had not even been given spouses because they lacked, somehow, the essential capacity to connect to others, which was required for the creation of a family unit.

__Chapter 2__
Aptitude - Inclination, Tendency

Page 16

"Well, it was clear to me - and my parents later confessed that it had been obvious to them, too - what my aptitude was."

__Chapter 3__
chastisement - a talk that is not so good

Page 20

Lily, he decided, would have to learn that soon, or she would be called in for chastisement because of her insensitive chatter.

__Chapter 4__
Bypass- to pass

Page 26

There was no doubt that Benjamin would receive his Assignment to that field and would probably be permitted to bypass most of the training.

__Chapter 5__
Dwelling- a house

Page 35

He waved to Father and Lily as they left the dwelling, carrying Gabe in his basket.

__Chapter 6__
Relinquish - to give up

Page 41

Each family member, including Lily, had been required to sign a pledge that they would not become attached to this little temporary guest, and that they would relinquish him without protest or appeal when he were assigned to his own family unit at next year's Ceremony.

__Chapter 7__
Precision - the accuracy

Page 53

And precision of language was one of the most important task of small children.

__Chapter 8__
Integrity- honesty

Page 59

" Integrity," she said next.

__Chapter 9__
Exempted - to set apart

Page 65

3. From this moment you are exempted from rules governing rudeness.

__Chapter 10__
Conspicuous - something obvious to the eye or mind

Page 71

But the most conspicuous difference was the books.

__Chapter 11__
Perceived - to become aware through the senses

Page 78

Beyond, through the swirl of what he now, somehow, perceived was the thing the old man had spoken of - //snow// - he could look out and down a great distance.

__Chapter 12__
Capacity - an individual's mental or physical ability

Page 88

" When I was observing you, before the selection, I perceived that you probably had the capacity, and what you describe confirms that."

__Chapter 13__
Access - permission, liberty, or ability to enter, approach, or pass to and from a place or to approach or communicate with a person or thing

Page 97

"You and I are the only ones with access to the books."

__Chapter 14__
Excruciating - very intense

Page 105

"Why?" Jonas asked him after he had received a torturous memory in which he had been neglected and unfed; the hunger had cause excruciating spasms in his empty, distended stomach.

__Chapter 15__
Anguish - extreme pain, distress, or anxiety

Page 112

"Put your hands on me," he directed, aware that in suck anguish The Giver might need reminding.

__Chapter 16__
Obsolete - no longer in use or no longer useful

Page 120

" Your father means that you used a very generalized word, so meaningless that it's become almost obsolete," his mother explained carefully.

__Chapter 17__
Overwhelmed - to overpower in thought or feeling

Page 128

Jonas trudged to the bench beside the Storehouse and sat down, overwhelmed with feelings of loss.

__Chapter 18 - 19__
NONE!!!

__Chapter 20__
emphatically - tending to express oneself in forceful speech or to take decisive action

Page 148

Jonas shook his head emphatically.

__Chapter 21__
meticulously - marked by extreme or excessive care in the consideration or treatment of details

Page 153

All of it - all the things they had thought through so meticulously - fell apart.

__Chapter 22__
Exquisite - <span class="sense_break"><span class="sense_content">pleasing through beauty, fitness, or perfection

Page 161

During his twelve years in the community, he had never felt such simple moments of exquisite happiness.

__Chapter 23__
Consciousness - <span class="sense_break"><span class="sense_content">the quality or state of being aware especially of something within oneself <span class="sense_label">

Page 166

His consciousness grasped at a wisp of another warm memory, and tried desperately to hold it there, to enlarge it, and pass it into Gabriel.