Zalina Alli
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The giver by Louis Lowry  


 Everything  in Jonas's world is perfect and under control. There is no pain sorrow and abundance there are no choices society makes choices for you.When Jonas becomes twelve he is assigned one of the most important honors in society which is the job as the receiver of true pain and pleasures of life.The giver is assigned to give Jonas these memories in order for Jonas to turn them into knowledge.When Jonas receives these memories he is faced with the truth of of life and how it is sometimes never under control and life isn't as perfect as it seems.In the beginning of the book Jonas is emotionless and bland and doesn't conceive the reality of life.

  "why cant everyone see them"? "Why did they disappear"?,Jonas asked.The giver shrugged our people chose to go to sameness thats why no can see colors" Jonas is overwhelmed and doesn't know why society is the same."We gained control of many things but let go of others",said the giver."We shouldn't have!",Jonas said fiercely.This shows how Jonas is feeling infuriated about how people let go of differences like color. "You have come very quickly to that conclusion",said the giver. Jonas is having emotions about the memories. "It isn't fair what if  i wake up one day and don't have the choice of wearing a blue tunic or a red one",Jonas said. Jonas is beginning to have emotions about the memories of color he is receiving.

After the memory of pain Jonas is faced with the feeling of being damaged and helpless a feeling Jonas has never quite felt before."Jonas has never heard quite a sound before it was the sound of grief and rage. The day Jonas had been hurt while having the memory of the elephant dying was the day Jonas cried out of sorrow for the creature. He had never felt the feeling of sorrow before and in Jonas's world people weren't allowed to cry because of the perfect world Jonas was living in.He was confused and shocked by the feelings he received. 

 If people were all the same the world would have no differences no emotions no reality to it. And thats what Jonas learns.The world is filled with these things and sometimes we need to face them.