This week Jonas and his family start by sharing their dreams, Jonas tells his parents about the stirrings and his dream about Fiona and he starts taking the pills. Then the Ceremonies begin, first the Ceremony of Naming and Placement, unfortunately little Gabe didn't got to the weight he needed and will stay another year at the nurturing center. Then the ceremonies of two, threes, fours, fives, sixes and sevens go through. Next the ceremony of eights begin and Lily happily receives her bicycle and new jacket. After that Jonas can't wait any longer to know what job will he get in the ceremony of twelve. Then the ceremony of twelve starts and they begin giving the kids their assignments, Jonas is the nineteeneth in the list, but when is time t go to the stage, they skip their number and Jonas gets worried, afraid, and starts to wonder what did he do wrong? No one knows what happened, the Chief Elder NEVER made mistakes. Then after a long wait until they give all the assignments to the 50 kids, the Chief Elder apologizes to Jonas form getting him worried and tells him this happened because he will be the next Receiver, which normally doesn't happen, a rare selection. The Chief Elder tells Jonas he has the capacity ´´ to see beyond´´ and his training will involve physical pain. Jonas is very worried he isn't sure he can be the next receiver.
Reflection:
While reading chapter 5 throughout 8 ''individuality'' popped up various times. It surprised me how this society viewed individuality. The quote ''But today we honor your differences. They have determined your futures. ''(52) Made me think, even though this society is very strict they still accept differences and take care of finding the perfect job for that person. Yet I don't think it is right only to honor differences one day, we should respect them everyday because differences is what makes people be who they are.
As I read further one this book, in shows me all of its flaws. This book is a great example of an dystopian society, a world with tons of problems. People are almost robots, except for the Receiver. i can not imagine myself living in a world like that. Freedom is happiness, your own choices: freedom.
Im agree with you Amalia in the part you said that a great example is dystopia of Jonas society in my point of view i think it also like that because Jonas society ids living with a lot of laws and under controlled and the government makes it like that because i think its hidden something.
ResponderBorrarAmalia, I strongly agree with you on the part that you say that on Jonas community they shouldn't honor differences just one day because difference is what makes people who they are. Isn't that why the committee of Elders chose Jonas to be the next receiver? Because he was different?
ResponderBorrarI also agree with you by saying that this book is a great example of an dystopian society because its a world that seems perfect everyone that sees it would like to live in it, even I wanted to live in t when I started reading the book. But behind all of this perfects world, this society has tons of problems and rules that its not letting their citizens have individuality.