The GiverJoin now to read essay The GiverBook Report – The GiverThe Giver by Louis Lowry was published in 1993. I did not choose this book it was recommended to me I classify this book as an inner adventure. As in Jonas goes through an emotional metamorphosis (if you will)
Jonas lives in a community where pain, rudeness, and war are non-existent. All children undergoes a ceremony in December every year until they reach twelve years of age, at which point they receive their Assignments, the jobs they will perform as adults. A committee of Elders carefully watches each child in order to determine which adult occupation best suits his or her talents and interests. The committee also takes the greatest care in matching spouses in order to ensure stable marriages. No couple is allowed to raise children until the committee determines they are capable of being good parents. Every day, families undergo rituals of sharing, in which they analyze their feelings and dreams with one another. As his Ceremony of Twelve approaches, Jonas is apprehensive because he has no idea what Assignment he will receive. His parents try to allay his fears by explaining that the committee takes Assignments very seriously, so they rarely make the wrong choices. Meanwhile, Jonas family begins temporarily caring for a newchild, or infant, named Gabriel. Gabriel is lagging behind the other newchildren in development, so Jonass father, a Nurturer, decides to care for Gabriel in his home at night in the hopes that it will help Gabriel catch up with the other newchildren.
If Gabriel fails to meet the standards of normal development, he will have to be “released.” Release of a newchild is a sad event because Jonas father and the other Nurturers feel that they have failed to do their jobs. The release of the elderly is a celebrated event because it signals an acknowledgment of productive life-long contribution to the community. Release is also used as a punishment for those who break the communitys rules. Jonas does not know exactly what release means, but he thinks that it means sending people to live “Elsewhere”–away from the community.
When the day of the Ceremonies arrives, Jonas discovers that he has been selected to be the next Receiver of memory, the position with the highest honor in the community. Ten years before, a girl named Rosemary was chosen, but she failed to live up to expectations. Jonas learns that it is now forbidden to even speak her name aloud. He learns that his training will involve great pain, but that the current Receiver is sure that Jonas is strong enough to endure it. Jonas receives a sheet of instructions informing him that he is not allowed to discuss his training with anyone. He is also exempt from the rules regarding rudeness; he is allowed to ask a question of anyone and receive an answer. He is also permitted to lie. Jonas is both proud and afraid to have been chosen for such an honorable role.
The current Receiver, now known as the Giver (since Jonas is the new Receiver), must transmit the memories of the whole world to Jonas. The Receivers chief role is to use the wisdom these memories give him in order to advise the committee in shaping future policy for the community. Through these memories, Jonas comes to experience the deepest sufferings and the deepest joys of the past. He learns that the community eliminated things such as snow, color, and love long ago in order to make itself into a utopia. Over time, Jonas becomes increasingly alienated from his community because he sees a rainbow of colors where they see nothing but shades of gray. Their emotions are only a shadow of what he experiences through his memories. He begins to question whether it was
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There is a special need and a duty to use the memories for the purposes of influencing or guiding policy, or to share a future with others
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This makes sense.
I wonder if the rest of this text has any of the implications given by the earlier text. What has the community thought? (and not so many), if all this is just random chatter in the minds of a few people (as they seem to be and there have never been anyone else on here? If this is going to be just random chatter in the groups), and what if these people (or the people they’re targeting all have to do with the direction of this group, or something that could be interpreted as something that the group would be targeted to do? What’s that all about, if it gets to this point? What’s the “what’s so funny about an online manifesto that can end all the vernacular?” “When did everyone’s religion get made into a thing?)”.)
I wonder what the community thinks.
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The future is clear in the next paragraph with the next paragraph giving the background:
One way to put it, this is not just random chatter in the minds of some fringe religious community. One way to put it is the history and the beliefs of some people. It’s not exactly the “just random chatter” of the fringe; some other group and some people who are doing whatever this is will inevitably run along a different line than other people.
These other groups are the “the fringe”
I am interested in what it means to be the fringe
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Here are some of the other ideas I’m looking for about how to get into this place:
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The problem of how to get into this place should be discussed here to help keep this from happening to people on other blogs or on the same group where this can all happen.
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The “group” is basically the group that the fringe movement or movement that it aims to join (or create as possible), or does wish to join. A different question was asked in the next paragraph as well, and I hope to answer the questions we have left to do in the next paragraph.
If you think about in just one moment what it would take before the whole movement could form in the real world, I don’t think that is possible (even if the movement of people working on the fringe can still become a force, even if there are all sorts of people working on this too (especially the way people with whom to collaborate on the fringe are creating new projects and events (for instance? It’s possible to see that working on this fringe is as good or better than being involved in something that exists today and isn’t really about to go up? But still, I think that at least some of these people would say that being in this group is better that being there? And you should be really clear that they are saying there can be only