The Giver Essay Questions

1) Compare the relationship Jonas has with the Giver to the relationship he has with his mother, father, and sister.

Jonas has a very different relationship with his family than the one he has with the Giver. Jonas can tell the Giver anything like all the feelings he has. But, Jonas doesn't tell his parents anything because they don't know what he knows. He has a normal relationship with his sister, but he doesn't fight with her. He also never tells her anything either. I find it kind of weird that Jonas won't tell his parents anything because it's just not normal. What I find good, is that Jonas can ask the Giver questions and that the Giver can go through pain and love with Jonas. Jonas can also show emotion to the Giver, unlike when he goes home and hides everything. 

2) Explain why feelings and stirrings have been eliminated from Jonas' community. 

Feelings and memories have been eliminated from Jonas' community for a few reasons.

Feelings, or stirrings, have been eliminated because people in the community aren't allowed to chose who they fall in love with, or get married to, or have a baby with. The community organizes this for them. Also, people in the community can't have babies, because that's what birth mothers are for. So, if people have feelings, they might fall in love and make a baby. Memories are eliminated because the community is supposed to be perfect. This means that no one is supposed to know anything about the past, so they can't have books about the past or information about the past. If anyone ever knew about the past or the real world, then the community would be complete chaos.

3) Discuss similarities between our society and the society in your novel.

There are many similarities from our community and from Jonas' community. For example, our community and Jonas' community both have families, although ours are real because our parents chose to make a family, and who they want to have one with. In Jonas' community, the committee chooses it for them, so technically, they aren't real. They also have a government run by elders, like us. In our society, we have plenty of Home For the Old, and, so do they. We have many, many, many memories in our society, but even though they don't, they have a Receiver of Memory, which is someone who receives all the memories of the past. Many children in Jonas' community do volunteer hours, and just like them, we do charity work for a good cause. The most important similarity is that both societies have schools, which is very important for everyone. Like every kid, we have bikes, just like them.  And, last but not least, both societies have rules and laws, which is very normal. 

Scary Setting...OoOoOo

My setting would be:

A dark alley

A dark beach that is abandoned

A basement in the night

A tiny cabin in the middle of nowhere

An abandoned house

My sound/visual effects would be:

Drops of water

Squeaks coming from rats or mice

Fog

Footsteps that you would hear approaching

Cracking noises

Freaky looking shadows

Scary "KEEP OUT" signs

Homework

If I were to write a scary story or to direct a horror movie, i would chose to direct a horror movie. My setting would be creepy. Maybe an alley, a dark one, with spooky noises and freaky shadows. There would be one tiny light that would show you shadows of mice, or people. The perfect effect would be fog, so you cam barely see far from you. Sound effects would include squeaks coming from he mice, and maybe drops of water falling in puddles. I can probably think of way more, but i need to be in the mood to think of scary things. 

Respond to Prediction

In 2155, we'll have no more printed books.

I agree with this prediction because in the future, all books will be replaced with electronic things. For example, instead of carrying a book around, people will be carrying a little device that might open up into a thing that looks like a book, but its all electronic. Sure, people will still keep books that they had from their past, but they'll still use technology. I think that technology will take over our world. Life would be cool in this kind of situation. People would no longer need to carry around heavy books on planes or in bags, they will just need to carry around small devices. I totally agree with this prediction.

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My Favorite Character

The character I am going to focus on is the main character in my book. Her name is Jessie Lou. She is the kind of girl who sits alone during lunch and hangs out with the un-popular boys. She is what you would call a Southern tomboy. Jessie Lou has an enormous crush on Conrad Parker-Smith, the soccer star of the class. Jessie Lou is shy, helpful, and courageous at the same time. For example, when she is around people, she never talks and she never really socializes, but she would help anyone who needs help, even if he/she is the meanest person in her class, and another example of her being courageous is when she is the one who volunteers to investigate an abandoned house in the woods, when 2 of her guy friends are really scared. She doesn’t have many friends, but by the middle of the book, she grew closer and closer with Conrad and one of his geeky friends Quentin. Jessie Lou doesn’t fit in because she isn’t a rich, posh girl, who thinks that breaking a nail would be the end of the world. She is someone who doesn’t care what other people think about her, and she has no interest in girly stuff at all, for example, she goes to school wearing dirty clothes that don't match, and doesn't care if she is made fun of.

Homework 1

Blogging will change my writing in many ways. Blogging saves paper, so we will save trees by writing our homework on our blog. It will also be easier for Mrs. Lapalme to grade our papers because all she has to do is go on our blogs and check it. It will also change the way I write because when you write on your blog, you can spell check, but when writing on paper, you can’t. Apart from all these good things, there can also be bad. We can have no Internet, and then we will have to write on paper, but blogging is still good.