THE GIVER

I read a book called The Giver for english class it was an interesting book. I would like to share a brief summary about the book. This book is about a so called "perfect" community that can't see color, doesn't have music, books or anything artistic. There are many sinister things going on in the community that they don't know about. The elders and the giver are the only people that know what is going on. The boy named Jonas is the main character and is special be cause he is the only one how knows how to lie to others. Every year at the exact same time in December all kids age one year and when they turn 12 they get assigned a job and for the next few years they learn their job. Jonas gets given the job of the giver and the giver is the person who experiences all the pain memories good and bad. This is because no one else in the community knows what these are. This is done to control them and have. Jonas finds out about what releasing is and that his father kills babies that are not strong enough and his friend kills old people that are no longer of use to the community. He finds out that his father is going to kill a little boy that he likes and wants to save him so he takes the little boy and leaves the community. by leaving the community he releases all of his memories into the community so that every one has little bits and pieces of what it is like to feel pain love anger and so on and so forth.

This book end with jonas and the baby sliding on a sled down a hill to a place that jonas new as elsewhere. He thought that if he could get himself and the baby to "elsewhere" they would live and be forever happy. But all of this is to coincidental for him because there was a sled at the top of the hill and a house at the bottom of it. 

I think jonas and the baby have died and the last part in the book is the same as when he gets his first memory and i think that he is dead because when he reaches the bottom of the hill he sees a house with Xmas lights which he relates to love which is one of his memories. i think that he dies and lives in his mind , his memories which are better and more preferable than the world. 

engagement

effective communicator:1.6

community contributor:1.4

active learner:1.2

person of high character:1.8

critical thinker:1.4

i think i am a effective communicator because i always communicate my point clearly and try to listen to what others have to say. i think i am a  a community contributor because i always contribute to class and try to answer questions. im not a very active learner because i dont hand in work on time or i just forget to do work also if work does not interest me i tend not to do it to the best of my ability. i think i am a critical thinker because i try to work through problems like in the challange problem i tried to do every thing i could to figure it out but i still had to use my free question.