The Giver chapters 6-8

In the book the giver on chapters 6 through 8 Jonas is in the middle of December and about to turn from an eleven to a twelve. All of Jonas´ family, friends and other families attended to the ceremonies. First they start by giving people who wanted a child a new baby and a couple that had lost a child named Caleb in the river had received a new baby named Caleb to replace the old one.Which is odd to me because in real life no one can be replaced since everybody is different, unique and special in their own way. But going back to the story every single four turned into a five and every single five turned into a six and so on. Then it was lily's turn (Jonas little sister) along with all the other sevens and she turned from , big surprise, a seven to an eight. But she still didn't have a bike and had to wait one more year but she did get a new jacket which was cool. Finally the ceremony ended and everyone went home to get a good night rest for tomorrow the ceremony of twelve where the elder will pick the job that Jonas and his homies have for the rest of their life. The next day Jonas and Asher were talking about the jobs and how Asher was worried he had to escape if he got a bad choice but when it was time to become a twelve Asher got the job as assistant director of recreation and when it was Jonas turn they skipped him and he felt embarrassed, sad and strange, he felt like a dirt sandwich and after they told every kid their job the elders apologized to everyone for skipping Jonas, including Jonas, and said that Jonas was elected to be the new receiver of memory which was a job of great honor and skill and would require all of his bravery and courage to be able to learn all the new things because his training would involve pain, a lot of pain, pain that no one in the community knew about and no one could prepare him for that. Oh and his other friend Fiona was given the job for care of the old.

The governments control over its citizens

I think that the government can have control over its citizens but they should control them by only preventing crime and pain or helping people with tough times but by having to control all of their life and decisions is something else. The government shouldn't be making choices for us or even telling us where we should go or what we should do so that we don't make pretty poor life choices because its natural to make mistakes and we can learn from them but if we do everything perfectly and don't do anything wrong then we don't learn anything and someday we try to do stuff on our own we can mess up in a way that no one knows what to do so they panic and stuff. And if the government has total control over its citizens then they might do what they think is right or what they think is perfect for everybody and its never really true or good to do so, for example, the government could make every one eat regular sauce instead of letting them choose the sauce they want to eat like chunky sauce or diet sauce but some people that prefer chunky sauce wont be as happy or satisfied as the people that like regular because no matter what happens we all like different things and not all of us think the same. So to conclude all of this i think that the government should have only control of certain things that happen instead of all the life of its people.

The Giver chapters 1-5

In the chapters 1 through 5 Jonas is in the perfect world where there is no crime, war,pain and fear. He lives in a community where everything has order there are no choices and everything is strict. His family unit is formed from his father ,his mother and his sister, Lily. His best friends are a guy named Asher and  a girl named Fiona. And apart from that his ceremony of twelve is coming soon in December which means he is turning from an eleven to a twelve, and that means that many things will change for him, and he wont see his friends as often as before. So before he becomes a twelve he decides he should spend the rest of his time with his friends.