Welcome to The Giver blog. This forum will give all students the opportunity express their thoughts and understandings of the book and respond to the thoughts of other students.
Welcome to The Giver blog. This forum will give all students the opportunity express their thoughts and understandings of the book and respond to the thoughts of other students.
Why did The Giver look happy when he said that Rosemary was his daughter? She was released, after all.
ReplyDeleteBecause he remembers stuff about Rosemary, and how she was his daughter and stuff.
DeleteEven though Rosemary was released, The Giver was remembering happy memories of her, not her release, so he smiled.
DeleteBecause he was happy while thinking about her and he was proud to talk about her
DeleteThink about your own life. If you have any relatives that died, every time you think of them, you don't burst into tears. You can remember happy times. Same with the giver and Rosemary.
DeleteIts good that Jonas learned the memory of sledding because he used it at the end of the book
ReplyDeleteYes, I agree. Without that memory, he would've perished with the lack of sledding knowledge.
DeleteThat shows how anything in your life that might not seem important now, could potentially even save your life.
DeleteEven though the giver gave most of his memories to Jonas, does he still have the same amount of feeling?
ReplyDeleteThe GIver said that most parts of the memories died away, but he can still partly remember them.
DeleteThe Giver said that he had thousands of memories. He also said that he has shades of the memories left.
DeleteHow can Rosemary be the Giver's daughter? Can the assignment of being the receiver pass from generation to generation in the same family? I know that anyone who receives the assignment of the receiver has pale mirrored eyes, so were they possibly all born from the same birthmother? When the Giver goes to live with his daughter Rosemary, as he said he would, how will he know where to find her?
ReplyDeleteIn this book pale eyes are just a symbol. If you look at it scientifically, it could be a genetic mutation or passing of genes naturally. Gray eyes are a recessive gene, which means that if your parents have brown eyes you might have pale eyes because some great grandmother did. As we learned by the end of the book, release is actually death. When he says he will join her, he means he die, because his job is completed.
ReplyDelete"I would like take a poll to see who likes and dislikes the ending of the book and why. I think that the book ended quite abruptly and mysteriously because Jonas and Gabriel just rode off on thier sled into some unkown place.Personally, I have mixed feeling about this since it ended so mysteriously. Tell me what you think about this,"
ReplyDelete-----Joshua B. Lewis
I like the open ending. It gives room for imagination and some of the projects relate to what happens afterward. Jonas hears music in the end which means that there must have been a split in the path of humankind. It actually explains more in the rest of the quartet: Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son.
DeleteWhy do you think the Giver doesn't have a name?
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