Time for an exam

     One day Dickie wake up, and it was his birthday. Dickie was going to be twelve years old. His parents didn't talk about the exam until he was twelve years old, all kids should take that exam when they were twelve years old. Dickie was at breakfast with his mother and father and Dickie ask about the exams, and his mother reply that it was like an exam of the government to know your intelligence. Then the father of Dicie take him to the government were took the exam. They were waiting till they called Dickie to pass to the room 404. When Dickie enter to the room a man told him  to drink something strange that makes you tell the truth. Dickie sit down on a chair and drink that strange liquid. The man said that he would be asked some questions and he had to answer in the microphone. When Dickie already finish the exam, the mom recieve a call from the government. The call was saying that Dickie overpass the regulated intelligence according to rule 84 section 5. So Dickie was going to be killed.

The imagery used in the story makes you visualize well what is happening in the story and also to understand the story. An example of imagery from the book is:
The room was a cold and official as a courtroom, with long benches flanking metal tables. There were severals fathers and sons already there, and a thin-lipped woman with cropped black hair was passing out sheets of paper.

Dickie is the protagonist from the story "Examination Day", he is an obedient person and also he is an intelligent person. For example:
Your classification number is 600-115. Drink this, Richard.
This quote shows that Dickie is an obedient person, because he drink this strange liquid when they told him to drink it.

This short story from the author Henry Sleaser is an awesome and an interesting story because it has suspense for what was the results from Dickie of the exam. The theme if the story is totally true because some people are very jealous of other people that are more intelligent than them, like in this case Dickie is more intelligent than the expected.

a new feeling, love and happiness

One day when Jonas go to the Annex for training, he saw The Giver a little sad so Jonas ask to him why was he sad and it was because of a memory that The Giver had.So Jonas want to help The Giver to don not feel pain anymore and take him away the me
mory.  When Jonas saw what was the memory about it was so sad and painful. The memory was about that Jonas was in a war and all was
destroyed and he saw a boy laying on the floor and he was like almost dying so Jonas gave water to him. After that the boy stay still and he died. Then it appear a man with a horse, then the man fall from the horse like he was dying, then the memory end. Jonas wake up from the memory and stay like shocked because he had never seen so much pain.

Now that Jonas only think on the memory of war, the Giver now give to Jonas joyful, happiness, and fun memories. So Jonas ask to the Giver fro his best memory, his happiest memory. So Jonas lay on the bed and the Giver put his hands on his back and starts the memory: he was in a roo
m with a family and in the corner there was a tree full of light and decorations, and old people were living with childrens and adults and that is rare for Jonas because that doesn't happens any more. Jonas had a great feeling that he couldn't describe it, it was love. When the memory ended Jonas thanked the Giver for that happy memory. He was fascinated for the feeling of love, that he got home and asked his parents if they love him. Their parents got furious because they said that, that word was meaningless.

The next day when he go with his friend Asher and Fiona they were playing a game with guns like if they were an imaginary war, and Jonas start thinking of the memory of warfare, and he said to stop playing that, that they didn't know what they are playing. When it was night dad told that tomorrow he would released the twins so he have to sleep well. Then Jonas go to the Giver to ask him a question about the last receiver, what happened to her? They tell them the "big failure", his name was Rosemary, she failed because e she started the training with painful memories, not with joyful memories so she stay shocked of receiving too much painful memories and she applied for released. So all the memories came back to people and the Giver had to take them away.

new colors for Jonas

No that Jonas may lie, in the Morning Rituals he did not tell his dreams to his mom, he lie. Also something was happening something very strange to Jonas, he starts seeing the things differently,   HE STARTS SEEING COLORS FOR THE FIRST TIME, Jonas was very surprised he had never see colors before. He stayed surprised also because he was told that any people in the community had never see colors in all their lifes and they would never see. The first color he sees was the color in red. He saw it in the hair of Fiona for the first time.

Jonas ask to the Giver "why not all the people see colors like me?" and it was because if they all see colors they would like to take decisions and all would be a disaster, and the government could not control all the citizens with the decisions. Jonas had a memory that some men with the skinned black were hunting real elephants, so one day in the past they exist real elephants. The Giver would past the first pain memory to Jonas, and it was in a sleding, in a snow mountain he was sledding down and he fall of the sled and break a bone and when he wake up he still feels the pain.

Jonas was told that he would have to choose from a twins that would be born in some weeks, that he would have to choose between one twin and another twin, one would be released and the other twin would stay in the Community. When all that past Jonas help Gabriel to sleep and when he touches the back of Gabriel it past him the memory of the sail boat in the lake. But why? Maybe is because the light colors eyes? Now Gabriel have a memory!!!

Having new memories

Now that Jonas has his new job, he is very honored in the community because his is going to be the "new receiver of memory". To be the new receiver of memory  is the most honor job in this community, is the most important. Now, Jonas has to go into a training to become the "new receiver of memory", the one who trains him is the old Giver. When he entered into a lock doors (Jonas was surprised to see lock doors), there was all of books in there, also he saw a man, an old man, maybe he was The Giver.....

 Yes, that old man was the Giver, he said that he was going to pass memories to Jonas. But like what memories? There were memories from a lot of generations, like from millions years ago. The Giver had to pass his memories to Jonas. To pass the memories they both had to grab their hands and the Giver would pass his memories. One memory was that Jonas was falling from a snowy mountain in a sled, when he finish he ask to the Giver why are no more mountains and snow, and the Giver said because hills was a waste of time traveling (all is flat) them and snow was difficult to build crops.

Jonas was surprised about the new memory he had about snow, hills and sleds. But he want more memories but for the Giver is exhausting to pass memories to another person, so Jonas insist and the Giver give him a memory about sunshine (it was a little painful to Jonas because the sun was burning his skin), when the memory finish, Jonas aced about sunshine. Why there is no more sunshine? Because it start burning, and "climate control" put a "fake" sunshine.

The Giver (Chapter 6-8)

           The chapter of the Giver from 6-8 were awesome because they give the jobs to the 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 and more. Also the 8 now have bicycles so they can ride and now they don't have to put ribbons. To give the jobs to them, they have a number from where they born like Jonas is 19. The Elders choose the jobs depending on what the kid is best on, and when they were telling the jobs ( in order of each number of the kid) the number of Jonas, 19, they skipped and he stay surprised because they don't say to him his job. When all have now there jobs told they tell Jonas his job. They tell to him that he would be a the new receiver.

           They explain to Jonas that he would be train to be the new receiver. The old receiver would train him and they warn Jonas that it would be very painful his training, and Jonas was scared and surprised about it. Also there are strings rules. There is a story that one kid named Caleb was near a river and he fell into the river and died and then a new baby was named Caleb, is kind of weird to name someone that died into a new baby.

           This community in my opinion is kind of weird because of this strange rules that they have. Also this community is too perfect, is like too well organized. They don't exist imperfections in this community all have to be perfect.

The Giver-Chapter 1-5

           Jonas and all its citizens, including his family live under a government that control people.  The government organize almost all the parts of the citizens life, like what is going to be their profession. Also the government is very extrict because citizens  have 3 strikes, if they do something wrong they have one strike and when they get to 3 strikes and they are released. Release means when you go to somewhere else, like you are not anymore part of the community you are with. When you do something wrong they say it in a monitor and all people can hear it but they doesn't say your name because they don't want you to be humiliated.

           In that community is not to tolerated the differences that is why there are no  mirrors  so people can't look at each other. If you point out a difference is a strike and also they say it in the monitor. The government has all organized, each age have a group, like there is a group of 12 years    ( were Jonas is). Parents doesn't have their own babys, there is a ceremony were they give to parents a baby (is not there own baby, is of someone else). Is obligated for kids to work extra hours in places that they can help like  in a hospital, so they can choose the profession they want to.

           I think that this book that we are reading (The Giver) is very interesting because is showing how can government have so much control over its citizens. Also the book is interesting to me because it when you start reading you want to keep reading it forever because it always leaves you with one thing more important than the other so you want to know what would happened next, it creates fun and suspense at the same time.

How much control should the government have over citizens?

Even thoughthat the government have much control of the life of the citizens, the people should have more freedom.  The government should just control the services of people but not their sociable and intimate life. It should control like social services, what we do on the streets (on the city), or at work. But, in our houses we are free to do anything because is your intimate life. Government should only control our outside life, our inside life we control it.

In the Truman Show, Christof control every part of Truman's life. It is like if it is all planned to happen the way it is. Christof don't let Truman live his own life, the way he want. At all time they are spying and watching Truman to know what he is doing. In conclusion, all is planned, his life what he do, and what would happends next.

It would be sad and bad that someone control your life like in the Truman show. It doesn't let you live your life the way you want and what you want to do when you grow up, you can't. Like in Truman show at the end he discovers that his life was all planned and controlled, if  I discovered that, I would feel very fake, sad and I wouldn't know in who I trust. Also I would like to meet real people that I like and that they like me.