A Choice to be Made

 Recently in The Giver ,Jonas is growing up, and he is expirencing new stuff.Jonas is growing up, and he will very soon receive his assignment .Everything is starting to change in this community, because all the ceremonies are getting closer. Everything was going perfect with the ceremonies, starting with the birth and naming ceremony and so on until the ceremony of the twelves. So the Chief Elder started and she started giving the assignments to each one of the group members in order of the numbers they were given when they were born ( Jonas is 19).So they were on number 18 , and it was finally Jonas turn to go to the stage , and they skipped his number. Jonas was so confused and he just wanted to disappear. So at the end of the ceremony the chief elder said that she knew they thought they had made a mistake but she hadn’t. After that she called Jonas to the stage and said “Jonas was identified as a possible Receiver many years ago.” This means that he will be able to feel real pain and that he was someone with courage and bravery. So after this he realized that he was assigned to be Receiver the greatest and most important assignment of all.


 "We have not been hasty this time, we could not afford another failure" (61)

So this makes me think that the leaders of the community are scared of failure and that they only want perfection. So I wonder that how is it possible for them to control everything that is going on in the community. How are they able to see and organize every single thing so it turns out perfect? And that just keeps me thinking about what is going to happen, is Jonas or someone going to find out the truth that they are hiding.  So this quote is telling me that they don’t want failure so they keep everything perfect. So I’m just ding to know what’s going to happen furthermore in this book.

So in conclusion this book brings a lot of mixed questions and thoughts to my mind because everything is weird in this community, this community has a lack of individuality. No one can fail, nothing can go wrong, because they have everything under control. So we need to start thinking about this world and start appreciating it because everything can change. We will never know what is going to happen in this world , we can’t predict the future.