Jonas is the new receiver! Everyday after school he visits The Giver for his training. He gets memories and learns new feelings and colors. But, that really affects him and makes him start to think. Now, he knows more about how someone feels and has more understanding of what's "elsewhere." For example, he stopped taking his pills and felt happier, but nervous. When his buddies were playing "war" Jonas knew what real war was.
The Giver is filled with knowledge and power. But he does have secret sides of him. He doesn't take stirring pills and that might've influenced Jonas. The last receiver was a female. After a while, The Giver started growing attached to her and couldn't stand to hurt her. He didn't want the receiver to feel pain. So, after a while, she applied to get released and left.
Asher is an all around funny person. He is hard at taking things serious but at least he's plenty of fun. But ever since the ceremony something seems different to Jonas. Asher is a Director of the Recreation Center, but acts strange towards Jonas. Jonas wants him to stop playing war, and Asher said he was ruining it. Then, after Jonas tried to explain without telling Asher what it was like, Asher said he apologized and said that he was not "worthy" of him. Asher seems jealous or annoyed ever since Jonas was assigned the new receiver.
Nice blog. I also noticed that Asher seemed jealous. I can tell you really understand the book.
ReplyDeleteGreat blog post! I never really thought of Asher being jealous or annoyed with Jonas. Which is interesting.
ReplyDeleteThat is a really good interpretation of Asher I think I might agree with you. I love how you summarized everything so perfectly. Not to much detail and it wasn't not enough detail, somewhere between both. Great post!
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