Hanna's+Giver+Journal+Four

__**Hanna's Giver Journal Four **__
===The Giver is about a book about a boy named Jonas who is selected to be the Reciever of memories but has been told a lot of pain will come with it. On his first day of training he sets out to go recieve special training from the Giver. ===

**THE MEMORY I WILL TRANSMIT TO YOU INVOLVES PAIN.... **
===The memory I want to give you is of the time I was on the kindergarton playground. I was playing some kind of game like Grounders or Tag. For some reason I jumped off the edge, off a fairly high part, on the playground but it didn`t end well. As I jumped I was a like ``Oh my god this is sooo easy I`ve done this before`` but when I hit the ground I was full of mixed emotions. I came down and bent my knees as I had done before but my chin hit my knees as I hit the ground and I bit down so hard on my tounge I thought it would fall off. The pain ached through my entire body. It tasted horrible. The taste of blood was gross. It might have made me barf if i hadn't stopped swallowing.I felt fear, because someone might see me or that I would be more severe than I thought, and I was scared of what would happen. Mostly I was in pain. My grandma came to see what was the matter. I was crying out loud and I couldn`t stop until I got home. I had some ice cream. Unfortunatly it was chocolate which I don`t like but I didn`t care at the time because I would do anything to get rid of the pain. I was very soothing. It was nice to eat something because I couldn't really eat anything for awhile. That night I just nibbled on my chicken burger. I remember that I walked into the bathroom in between the pain I was in and saw I had a big cut in my tounge. It didn't go away until like about a week later. When my mom came home she felt sorry for me but gave me this lecture about you should never do that again kind of speech. By night I was very exhausted. I fell asleep almost **instantly**. ===

__Questions﻿ __
===__I can't help wondering why people in Jonas' community aren't aloud to have books. Aren't books good for your imagination and educational purposes like the book The Giver which we're reading in class? __=== ===I think they don't have books because it would give them memories. It seems like that, the memories, are what people in Jonas' community avoid. The people in Jonas' community don't realize it's not a bad thing to feel pain. It give you an educational experience. What I mean by that is when you make a mistake like jump off something and don't realize it's not safe and you terribly injure your tounge you would learn not to do that again. ===