This picture depicts a person going downhill using a sled. This is rather similar to the first memory that Jonas receives at the Annex room. The Giver decided to start on this memory because he was using it to describe how weighted he was with the memories but Jonas did not understand. This memory was an exhilarating and surprising memory for Jonas as it was the first time he had experienced the tiny, cold, feather-like thing called snow, the sleds, the runners and what the term going downhill meant. During a short conversation with the Giver, Jonas hoped that they had those things once in while. Even trained for many years as they all had been in precision of language, Jonas could not find a word to describe the memory. His second memory of a sled however was not as pleasant.
This photo reminds me of baby Gabriel. Like Jonas, Gabriel has pale eyes which are considered a rarity in the community.While Jonas was trying to coax Gabriel back to sleep, he had accidentally transmitted the memory of the white sail and turquoise lake to him. Gabriel slept soundly after that. However, when Jonas tried to transmit the colour red in the geraniums to Asher, his friend cringed away from his touch. Also, when Jonas tried to transmit an awareness of the existence of animals to his father and Lily, they both perceived nothing. It seems as if the ability to receive memories is connected to the pale eyes. However, there is no clear connection mentioned by the author in the book.
This picture shows an aeroplane flying in the sky. This is connected to the first chapter whereby Jonas describes his feeling of fear upon seeing the plane fly over the community. It is also the latest incident where the council of elders had approached the Giver for advice.
This comic strip is mostly black and white in quality except for the apple. This can be linked to the scene where Jonas was playing with Asher at the recreation area. Jonas could neither understand nor describe his strange encounter when the apple had changed for an instant in mid-air. Because of Jonas inability to comprehend, it was not very clear what was happening with the apple at that point of time. It is however later understood that Jonas had started seeing the colour red, also known as “seeing beyond”. He also saw it in Fiona’s hair, the people in the auditorium, the sled and the top row of books in the Annex room.
After receiving the memory of a rainbow, Jonas finally learnt of the existence of colours and could see all of them in his ordinary life. However, the colours didn’t last long and the things always returned to their flat and hueless shade. He saw green in the landscaped lawn around the central plaza, orange in the pumpkins and the colour red in the geraniums outside the Hall of Open Records. After learning of colours, Jonas felt very strongly and said that it was not fair that there were no colours. The flat colourless shade of things implied that people did not have a choice of what they wanted. It is the same for spouses and jobs.
This picture shows a person taking an unknown liquid from a bottle. It depicts the scene in which Jonas’s father heartlessly kills the twin. His father had inserted a needle into a bottle, filling the syringe with a clear liquid. Jonas watches as his father inject the liquid into the baby's scalp vein, killing the infant in an instant. This is a key event which sparks off Jonas' escape from the community.
This picture depicts the Givers favourite memory. Though it is not stated in the book that it is Christmas, the descriptions are however evident that it is Christmas. In this memory, there was immense warmth, love and happiness in the atmosphere. However, the most prominent feeling was love. Jonas liked the feeling of love and hoped that it would be present in his community too.
This memory also sparks off Jonas to ask his parents if they love him. Instead of giving him a definite answer, they however chastise him for precision of language. They explained to him that love was such a generalized word that that it had become meaningless and almost obsolete. They gave him alternatives such as “Do you enjoy me?” or “Do you take pride in my accomplishments?”. Jonas is very taken back and shocked at this incident. He realises the shallowness of his parents emotions, not being able to know the real meaning and depth of love. Jonas seems to be the only one in the community, apart from the Giver, that can feel the depth of real emotions.
Grandparents were part of the Christmas memory. The concept of grandparents were at first very strange to Jonas as the Old never left their special place at the House of the Old. He learnt later that grandparents were parents-of-the-parents making him think about who were his grandparents. Through discussion with the Giver, Jonas realizes the vicious cycle of what is happening in the community, that after he and his sister grows up, his parents would live with the Childless Adults, then to the House of Old and lastly be released. Jonas himself would be busy with his own life that he would totally forget about them, not even attending the celebration prior to their release. After he applies for children himself, the vicious cycle would then repeat itself. He feels that grandparents make the family more complete.
The pills are first introduced into the book when Jonas starts having the Stirrings. After speaking of his dreams of wanting to bathe Fiona, his mother has a long talk with him and tells him that it is compulsory to take a pill each day in order to control the Stirrings. The word “stirrings actually refer to sexual desires. The pill is taken by the people in Jonas’s community so that they can curb these feelings. This highlights the dilution of feelings in Jonas’s community as such a natural feeling is curbed by a specially made pill.
In Jonas world, everything is nondescript, flat and has a hueless shade. The photo on the left is a picture of colour pencils of different colours, the way they should be. However, from the perspectives of the people in Jonas’s community, things would probably look like how it is in the picture on the right hand side(black and white in quality).
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This picture depicts a person going downhill using a sled. This is rather similar to the first memory that Jonas receives at the Annex room. The Giver decided to start on this memory because he was using it to describe how weighted he was with the memories but Jonas did not understand. This memory was an exhilarating and surprising memory for Jonas as it was the first time he had experienced the tiny, cold, feather-like thing called snow, the sleds, the runners and what the term going downhill meant. During a short conversation with the Giver, Jonas hoped that they had those things once in while. Even trained for many years as they all had been in precision of language, Jonas could not find a word to describe the memory. His second memory of a sled however was not as pleasant.
This photo reminds me of baby Gabriel. Like Jonas, Gabriel has pale eyes which are considered a rarity in the community.While Jonas was trying to coax Gabriel back to sleep, he had accidentally transmitted the memory of the white sail and turquoise lake to him. Gabriel slept soundly after that. However, when Jonas tried to transmit the colour red in the geraniums to Asher, his friend cringed away from his touch. Also, when Jonas tried to transmit an awareness of the existence of animals to his father and Lily, they both perceived nothing. It seems as if the ability to receive memories is connected to the pale eyes. However, there is no clear connection mentioned by the author in the book.
This picture shows an aeroplane flying in the sky. This is connected to the first chapter whereby Jonas describes his feeling of fear upon seeing the plane fly over the community. It is also the latest incident where the council of elders had approached the Giver for advice.
This comic strip is mostly black and white in quality except for the apple. This can be linked to the scene where Jonas was playing with Asher at the recreation area. Jonas could neither understand nor describe his strange encounter when the apple had changed for an instant in mid-air. Because of Jonas inability to comprehend, it was not very clear what was happening with the apple at that point of time. It is however later understood that Jonas had started seeing the colour red, also known as “seeing beyond”. He also saw it in Fiona’s hair, the people in the auditorium, the sled and the top row of books in the Annex room.
After receiving the memory of a rainbow, Jonas finally learnt of the existence of colours and could see all of them in his ordinary life. However, the colours didn’t last long and the things always returned to their flat and hueless shade. He saw green in the landscaped lawn around the central plaza, orange in the pumpkins and the colour red in the geraniums outside the Hall of Open Records. After learning of colours, Jonas felt very strongly and said that it was not fair that there were no colours. The flat colourless shade of things implied that people did not have a choice of what they wanted. It is the same for spouses and jobs.
This picture shows a person taking an unknown liquid from a bottle. It depicts the scene in which Jonas’s father heartlessly kills the twin. His father had inserted a needle into a bottle, filling the syringe with a clear liquid. Jonas watches as his father inject the liquid into the baby's scalp vein, killing the infant in an instant. This is a key event which sparks off Jonas' escape from the community.
This picture depicts the Givers favourite memory. Though it is not stated in the book that it is Christmas, the descriptions are however evident that it is Christmas. In this memory, there was immense warmth, love and happiness in the atmosphere. However, the most prominent feeling was love. Jonas liked the feeling of love and hoped that it would be present in his community too.
This memory also sparks off Jonas to ask his parents if they love him. Instead of giving him a definite answer, they however chastise him for precision of language. They explained to him that love was such a generalized word that that it had become meaningless and almost obsolete. They gave him alternatives such as “Do you enjoy me?” or “Do you take pride in my accomplishments?”. Jonas is very taken back and shocked at this incident. He realises the shallowness of his parents emotions, not being able to know the real meaning and depth of love. Jonas seems to be the only one in the community, apart from the Giver, that can feel the depth of real emotions.
Grandparents were part of the Christmas memory. The concept of grandparents were at first very strange to Jonas as the Old never left their special place at the House of the Old. He learnt later that grandparents were parents-of-the-parents making him think about who were his grandparents. Through discussion with the Giver, Jonas realizes the vicious cycle of what is happening in the community, that after he and his sister grows up, his parents would live with the Childless Adults, then to the House of Old and lastly be released. Jonas himself would be busy with his own life that he would totally forget about them, not even attending the celebration prior to their release. After he applies for children himself, the vicious cycle would then repeat itself. He feels that grandparents make the family more complete.
The pills are first introduced into the book when Jonas starts having the Stirrings. After speaking of his dreams of wanting to bathe Fiona, his mother has a long talk with him and tells him that it is compulsory to take a pill each day in order to control the Stirrings. The word “stirrings actually refer to sexual desires. The pill is taken by the people in Jonas’s community so that they can curb these feelings. This highlights the dilution of feelings in Jonas’s community as such a natural feeling is curbed by a specially made pill.
In Jonas world, everything is nondescript, flat and has a hueless shade. The photo on the left is a picture of colour pencils of different colours, the way they should be. However, from the perspectives of the people in Jonas’s community, things would probably look like how it is in the picture on the right hand side(black and white in quality).
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