Hanna's+March+Questions

1. What is the second, much worst experience with pain The Giver gives him?
The memory the Giver gives him is of the sled ride he had the very first time. He goes downhill but hit a bump. Jonas gets thrown into the air and he felt his leg twist under him and he heard the crack of bone. His face got scraped on ice and he lay on ice and snow without anyone to help him. He felt fire climb throughout his leg. He woke up in the Annex room with a face full of tears. √//well described.//

2. How does Jonas put Gabriel to sleep?
Jonas gives Gabriel memories of a sail boat along the shore of a beach. √ **3. What is the extremely painful memory that Jonas takes from the Giver?** The memory Jonas takes from the Giver is of warfare. He has to be one of the people who lay on the ground dying in the memory so he can experience it better. He lays on the ground dying as other people ask for water. Horses and people all lay there dying. √

4. What is the Givers favourite memory which he shares with Jonas? What does the family in the memory have that Jonas' society doesn't?
The Giver gives Jonas the memory of Christmas. The old are there with the rest of the family which seems strange to Jonas because the old need to be in a place where they can be cared for properly. The family in the memory is around a fire and the words Jonas perceives are; love, family. √

5. What would happen to the memories if Jonas fell into a river and drowned?
The memories would be released into the community and the other people would have to experience pain, snow, and all that stuff. √

6. What is Release really?
Release is really when you get injected with a needle that pretty much kills you. √

7. What was the Givers' gift?
The Giver didn't see beyond he heard beyond. He could hear music. √

8. What is Jonas and The Givers' plan to release the memories back into the community.
They decide to have Jonas run away to Elsewhere which would then release the memories back into the community. The Giver will stay behind to help them with the memories and he'll also save scraps for when Jonas leaves. √

9. What goes wrong with the plan?
As Jonas is trying to escape he keeps running into these search planes. He has to grasp the little bit of his memory of cold to keep the planes from finding him and Gabriel. //The real thing that goes wrong is that Gabriel is going to be released.//

10. What happened in the last two chapters? How does the novel end?
In the last two chapters, Jonas has run away from his community with Gabriel. Jonas has injured himself but has to continue on his journey. They began to run out of food. Jonas tried to catch a fish with his hand. He did get the fish but also tried to catch a bird. They have to travel through rain and snow with no food and no warmth. The memories that Jonas has left of warmth he tries to grasp ahold of but can only keep them for a little while. They reach the top of a hill and slide down the sled just like the sled ride in Jonas' memories. The novel has a optimistic ending or it has a sad ending. He ends up in his memory of Christmas. √ //good discussion//

//Excellent depth to answers for section one - 4//

Answers...
===1. I think it's a good thing to have no war but I don't agree with the whole no pain part. Pain can be use full.. kinda. It helps you learn your lesson or sometimes even teach you a lesson. On the other hand it's a good thing to have no pain because then you don't have to worry about dying from an injury. War for sure is a bad thing. With war, innocent citizens get killed just because they're in the way. Sometimes they're not even in the way. War is bad. Pain is sometimes good. I would tell them about pain and war but I wouldn't let them experience war. Maybe pain.=== //So.. will you tell them or not?// ===2. I think that the fact that they hit toddlers just because they said, accidentally, improper grammar. Why would you hit a child? That is just unreasonable. You also have to wear the same clothes as everyone else. I would hate to be the same. I wouldn't want to wait until I'm nine just to get hair ribbons taken out. I also don't want to wait that long for a bike. I //also// want my own birthday. You also have to get a job at age 12! You also don't get to live with your real family. You don't get to meet your birth mom. It's like everyone is a adopted orphan. That's horrible.=== √ ===3. I can barely think of good things but the thing I do notice are these. At least they have a family ( not a real family ) that admires them and cares for each other. The Giver seem to really care for Jonas and Jonas really appreciates love and what he has. He can also recognize that war is bad and that you should just love what you do have for the time being. I honestly cannot think of anything else.=== //Fair enough!//

Personaly I think that they went to heaven. It seems like a sad ending but I can't shake the feeling that they've died.
===My proof is this, in the book it says this, " Jonas felt himself losing consiousness" Well to me that seems like he's dying(?) Also, as Jonas as Jonas approaches ''Christmas" I think he's approaching angels celebrating his arrival or.. something like that. The book says, " They were waiting for him" Well //that// seems like they knew he'd arrive in what I think to be heaven. Jonas isn't hallucinating, he didn't reach Elsewhere or another community, and he didn't die in the snow.=== //Well explained.//

- Always be grateful of the thing you do have but continue to search for new ways of living
===- You always make mistakes ( in this case the mistake is what release is ) but the best way to avoid punishment ( punishment is release in this case ) is to run away.. but if you do that you have a hard time to just stay alive ( I'd just take the punishment ).===

- Almost always your elders know best ( in this case the Giver )
//Interesting thoughts, Hanna! Thanks for your detailed discussion... Section Two - 4//