The Giver: Chapter 7

What has happened at the Ceremony of twelve is Jonas and all the other 12′s have received their assignments. Jonas’s assignment is to be The Receiver. The Receiver is the only person in the community who knows of all the memories from before everything changed.The journey to become the Receiver is painful but worth it. I think this has happened because even tho Jonas is taking his pills for stirrings he is getting glimpses of color and feeling differently towards other people even though those things are not supposed to happen in his bland community. The Committee of Elders believe Jonas is special and therefore gave him the most important job in the entire community.

The Giver : Chapter 5

I think it is important for people not to experience “stirrings” because if they fall in love then get heart broken it causes anger which could cause war and fights which has never happened in Jonas’s Community. I do think this means no girlfriends or boyfriends. Because without love you wouldn’t be able to feel for someone or have your heart broken. You would have no emotions attracting you to a certain someone. It makes life different in the community because if you have no feelings for someone you can’t hate them or love them. There would be no fights or relationships. You’d be set up with someone and if you didn’t like them you’d ask to be released. Without feelings life would be completely different to those who have felt it, but to those who haven’t and never will it’s something you must get used to and live with the fact that your spouse will always be chosen for you.