Maddy's+Giver+Journal+6

Maddy's Giver Journal 6 Chapters 18-20

A.2

Music is a big part of my day, I listen to it on the way to soccer, on the way to school, and on my free time. Music is always playing in my room, and I have lots of it on my iPod. I mostly hear pop music, because thats my favorite type of music, I hear it on the radio all day, mostly all the music on my iPod is pop music, and most of my CD's are pop, such as Lady GaGa, Katy Perry, and Rihanna. I also hear different music, although it might not be on the radio, or on my iPod, there is music all around me, whether its somebody drumming there fingers, or rain falling down.

When I heard about the Giver being able to hear music I was very surprised, I wondered why they didn't have music in their community, and I thought that they should give everybody the memory of music so they could all enjoy it. I think that they don't have music anymore, because it was too much of a distraction, kind of like the movie "Foot Loose". In the movie music and dancing is banned because there was a car accident, and where people were killed. Everybody thought that the reason the accident happened was because they were listening to music and they got distracted by it, so both music and dancing was banned. I think that is the reason they didn't have music, because they thought it was a big distraction. Another reason is that the music in our society is about things that Jonas' community doesn't have, so they wouldn't get the same message in music.

B. Prediction

I think that the Giver's and Jonas' plan is going to work, when Jonas escapes all the memories will be returned to the community, and if Jonas finds a new community all the memories of the new community will be passed on to Gabe. I also think Jonas won't come back, and the Giver will decide to be released so he can be with his daughter, since there won't be a new giver to pass on the new memories, Gabe will become the new giver.