andrew's+the+giver+journal

Chapter 1** Quote: For a contributing citizen to be released from the community was a final decision, a terrible punishment, an overwhelming statement of failure. (p. 4) Vocabulary: Spouse (pg.9) Wife/Husband //Reaction: Released what did this mean how was it was a punishment it puzzeled me was it a horribe wrong or an accidental thing?This was one of a few unanswered quiestions.//
 * Swich chapter 7 and 8 they are accidentally bacwards = )

Vocabulary:aptitude (pg.15) something you are good/excellent at. Quote: "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."
 * Chapter 2**

Reaction:exactly how would he know elders dont spill the beans like that... did they spill it for him maybey maybey not...

Vocabulary:**chastisement (pg.20) something wrong that you have done
 * Chapter 3


 * Quote:**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. (p. 2


 * Reaction: was he crazy was it a coincedence so many questions... was it because it had been dropped was it his eyes this was very unnaturall.

Chapter 4 Vocabulary:**bypass (pg.26) when you skip something


 * Quote:**What happens when they make the actual release? Where exactly did Roberto go? (p. 32)


 * Reaction:** Release my question in chapter 1 was it a ceremony to remove you from the village... maybey, maybey they harmed you it was a horrible punishment it could have been anything... this brought me slightly closer to my answer.

Vocabulary:**dwelling(pg.27) a home
 * Chapter 5


 * Quote:**You're ready for the pills, that's all. That's the treatment for stirrings.


 * Reaction:** Why give a child the pills with such a risk at hand did they not care was it not that big of a risk

Vocabulary:**relinquish (pg.41)- to rid of something or someone
 * Chapter 6


 * Quote:** Those who were released were sent Elsewhere and never returned to the community. (p. 41)


 * Reaction:** Released... this appeared everywhere, so people taken somewhere else never to return so was this the biggest punishment not being able to return to your own home family and friends a sever punishment indeed. So this was what happened to people who got released.

Vocabulary:**precision: something exact
 * Chapter 7


 * Quote:**Jonas has been selected to be our next Receiver of Memory (p. 57)


 * Reaction:**To think jonas would get the most important job in the community his parents are very proud to. i bet my parents would be proud to have me earn such an honor.

Vocabulary:**integrity (p. 59) honesty
 * Chapter 8


 * Quote:**He couldn't seem to stop, though for each lapse the discipline wand came again, escalating to a series of painful lashes that left marks on Asher's legs. Eventually, for a period of time, Asher stopped talking altogether, when he was a Three.


 * Reaction:** Thats harsh for a 3 year old child who makes a small mistake in his speech but why so harsh is this really the way to run a perfect society.

Vocabulary:**exemption- to pull away from something
 * Chapter 9

But his parents looked blank. "We don't know."
 * Quote:**"What happened to her?"he asked nervously.


 * Reaction:D**oes the community not like to fall back on this memory of a bad reciever or is it just a hurtfull memory who knows?

Vocabulary:**conspicuous-very obvious
 * Chapter 10


 * Quote:**I thought there was only us. I thought there was only now. (p. 74)


 * Reaction:this sucks only they can receive memories very selfish not to share. now the rest of the community can't realize the how the real world is like how the good memories are like but they are caged in their dull lives everyday.

Chapter 11 Vocabulary:**perceived- to become aware of things through senses


 * Quote:**"Why don't we have snow, and sleds, and hills?"


 * Reaction**:**A good question why not is it a part of a bad society and is a reason of why not to have it?**

Vocabulary:capacity- the ability to do something
 * Chapter 12**

Reaction: i agree color is emotion itself can you run a perfect society without much emotion? i dont think so i think its one flaw in the society. just think, a society with no emotion... i dont think i could live that way.
 * Quote:**"We shouldn't have!" Jonas said fiercely (p. 91)

Vocabulary:access- the right to enter or use something
 * Chapter 13**

Quote:"We really have to protect people from wrong choices."

Reaction:How can you tell if it's wrong people are wrong all the time just take bush people said he would be great think of how bad they must feel now = ).

Vocabulary:excruciating- extremeness
 * Chapter 14**

Quote:"They selected me and you to lift that burden from themselves." (p. 107)

Reaction:Does he even get a choice to have to go through this is it a perfect society if someone has to experience this pain? it isn't really that great if one person takes pain from everyone else? yes it's a good deed but some deeds have too great of a consiquence.

Vocabulary:anguish- emotional pain
 * Chapter 15**

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

Reaction: Wow the giver actualy makes an appology was it that bad to make him break a rule and to show his kind side... this shocked.

Vocabullary:obsolete-difficult
 * Chapter 16**

Quote:

Reaction:

Vocabulary:**overwhelmed-to take more than you can emotionally
 * Chapter 17


 * Quote:**Then I wave bye-bye," he said, in the special sweet voice he used when he spoke to the newchild.


 * Reaction:this is horrible the twin will be released never to return. who will care for it and how will it survive. will it get sent to another village or left on the street.

Chapter 18

Reaction:he must have felt much sorrow giving pain to te young child who he loved like a parent. it must be stressfull to sadden someone at your own will. he must have felt guilt and sorrow.

Chapter 19

Reaction:Wow this was release and to think they celebrated this kind of thing. this was shocking and definetly not the way to run the perfect community. this was their worst decision yet.

Chapter 20 Vocabulary:**emphatically- with emphasis


 * Quote:** "Her name was Rosemary." (p.152)


 * Reaction:wow this changed everything. i cant believe that he had something to do with the death of his own daughter. this changed the reason why he had a hard time giving her pain. and to think his own daughter is now a shame to the community.

Chapter 21 Vocabulary:**meticulously- exactly


 * Quote:**"First thing tomorrow morning." (p.155)


 * Reaction:this is terorism he's going to take the life an inoccent once again just because he can't sleep well at night. How could he do such a thing with no emotion. he can't be human.

Chapter 22 Vocabulary:**exquisite~excellent


 * Reaction:thank god jonas has taken gabriel. i thought he was a goner but jonas has taken him into his own carring hands to live on longer but the question is that does he have the skills to survive. will gabriel live or die the truth will be shocking.

Chapter 23 Vocabulary:**consciousness~awakeness not unconcious


 * Reaction:wow i think they died because he said he saw a light and the rest of the description says heaven to me. but at least jonas changed the lives of the people in his community. but poor gabriel. never had a chance to live that day. =(**