How Jonas feels

authors note:this is a five paragraph essay about how Jonas feels about his family.

Jonas has felt a lot of feelings and he just remembers the name on the feelings like he has known all his life. When he feels something it’s like DE-ja-vu. he remembers everything about it.          

He has felt almost every emotion that I can think of including love, hate, pain, envy and sorrow.  He has coped well with the emotion I would have probably committed suicide by now.

The emotions affect him in a variety of ways when he sees his father poke a needle in to the Childs skull. He start saying “I know it hurts” he is shocked by what he sees. And he knows he is shocked because he remembers the emotion.

The emotions don’t affect the people around him as much as the way he views them. I think he views his father as a bully or mean but still seeing him as caring for his job. When he dreams about taking a bath with Fiona he sees her differently

Jonas has felt a lot of feelings and he just remembers the name on the feelings like he has known all his life. I think the memories are a curse and a blessing for him. It makes him run away and share memories with gabe.

Authors note: this is a letter from Jonas to the giver about his new life and how the giver affected him

Dear giver,

You have touched me in so many ways I am sorry I had to leave but I did not think it was right that they were going to release Gabe. You changed my life in a way that I could have never imagined and I am forever grateful. I have endured many hardships with the time I have been outside the community. I have experienced hunger, cold, pain and love. It is much different than what I thought it would be, but I don’t know whether to embrace the new feeling or shun it from my life. The memories are almost completely gone. It is making me sad to think I won’t have the memories in a little bit but it is for the best for Gabe I don’t want him to be released. I have shared some memories with Gabe. He is starting to cry more often he might be getting his stirrings. He is also talking a lot more. Is it true that the memories are breaking through, is everybody starting to feel things now and remember emotions? If so I think it is right everybody should be able to feel things.

Sincerely, Jonas

“He killed it, my father killed it”

                 

Authors note: this is a three paragraph response to a quote from the book the giver He “killed it, my father killed it”  

 “He killed it, my father killed it” that what Jonas says after he sees his father release a child in the story The Giver. This is an important point in the story because he sees that his world is not perfect that child could have gone on to do great things. He starts to have this feeling that everybody should see what he saw.

If everybody saw what he saw things would not be as happy when people get released. They might be afraid to be released because they want to spend more time with their family. They would be experiencing fear which is an emotion they are not allowed to experience emotion. They can’t even see colors how will they respond to emotions will there be a mass suicide or will they just live with it or with they just live with the pain and suffering of their lost loved ones.

In all I think this is a really good quote in the story because you can see how shocked he is to see his father kill a child. Jonas is really complex character to try and understand. Because we can feel emotion we don’t know how it is to see/feel these things for the first time ever. If I was to have to feel every emotion for the first time I would probably commit suicide it would be too much to handle for one person to take in at once.

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            In my book the giver I like this novel it is awesome. The conflict is Jonas has to become the receiver. He has to feel all of these emotions that he has never felt before because they are sheltered. But when he sees his father kill a child he says “He killed it, my father killed it” . He starts to get these feeling that he thinks everybody in the world should feel what he feels. He thinks everything should be equal in feelings. But the council doesn’t want anyone to feel pain and most emotions end in pain. There world isn’t perfect ether they lie to the people and say that getting released is a happy time. But they just go in the chamber to die by lethal injection. He starts to go crazy and talk to himself. The last receiver released herself by injecting herself with the poison that they use to kill the person. I have not finished the book yet so I do not know how it gets resolved.