Section 3 Readers’ Response
Section 3 (Ch 11-15)
Choose only one
1. Write your reaction to the difference between “honor” and “power” in the community as given by the Giver. (Page 84)
2. The life of the Receiver is very lonely. Why does the commuity need a Receiver? How would you feel if you were chosen to be the receiver?
3. Chapter 15 is the shortest chapter in the book but may be the most powerful experience for both Jonas and you, the reader. Comment on what happens in this chapter and your reaction to it.
April 20th, 2006 at 4:23 pm
I think the community needs a receiver because they need to hold all the memories somewhere so that the people would not get hold of them since the people chose sameness over individuality. They also needed someone to trust so that people with bad memories would not be burdened by them.
If I was chosen to be a receiver, I would be really lonely and miserable because I will be the only one who would get to experience all the memories good or bad. It will also be lonely because if you needed to talk to someone about a horrible and disturbing memory, there will be no one to comfort me and ease the pain.
April 20th, 2006 at 5:14 pm
Well, when I read this page, I knew that is very short. But when I started to read, I started to feel very interested and astounished. This chapter was very exciting yet devistating for Jonas and me. My reaction was how Jonas was going to deal all those wounded people for help, and all the violence~~~ yuck!
Anyways I thought this chapter was emotional physically and mentally. I was really devistated when I saw how much pain the soldiers in the American Civil War. Even Jonas was in a lot of pain. I think that Jonas is a very loyal and trustworthy guy because if I was in his position with the cut flesh and bone, I would wake up immediately and say stop!!!
My reaction for the other wounded and almost dead was very sad. I wonder, how much pain, it would be for a man to say that they wanted water, Mother, and even death so desperately. I was surpised when the boy that Jonas helped, died. That was about the saddest part. If I were the soldiers, then I would definitely want my mother, because since they were almost about to die, they wanted to see that one person just one more time so they can atleast kiss them goodbye. I can’t bear just thinking about dying. I don’t know how much pain it is on that right second the death of a person. I don’ know if heaven or hell exists, but if I was a soldier, fighting for his country, he would go to heaven.
Anyways, my reactions to this chapter is being surprised, sad, and exited.
I love this chapter…
April 20th, 2006 at 5:18 pm
I want to answer num. 3!!!
Umm… Jonas finds the Giver in pain with a memory; Jonas suggested he take some of the pain. When Jonas is receiving the memory he finds that it’s about the Civil War: gray uniforms, horses, and death. Jonas has taken too much pain, emotional, physical, and mental. The Giver feels awfully guilty and asks for forgiveness from Jonas. I think he does this because he has given the world’s weight of death, and war. I think that Jonas has experienced the “real” pain,,, even though we learn it… we don’t feel it like he did.
April 20th, 2006 at 5:32 pm
eh…!!! +++ what the… STEVE~ yours is like mine!!!
but you have spelling errors ^^; tee hee~
umm… Clarissa’s is really GOOD~~~ Kukukukuku [korean expression ㅋㅋㅋ]
April 20th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
These are ALL pretty hard, but I guess I’m going to choose #3.
Sure, this chapter is one of the shortest in the whole book, and is one of my favorites for this very reason. But there is someting about it that is really strong…really moving. I think it’s because Jonas, a not-so-experienced Receiver, was willing enough to receive the pain the Giver was suffering, a pain that none of the other citizens have ever experienced or understood. It was warfare.
The Giver was in excruciating pain as Jonas walked through the Annex Door to his training room. At once, he knew that he would not receive training today, but he said,”Is there any thing that I can do for you?” The Giver replied,”Please take away some of this pain.” And then the Giver placed his hands on Jonas and transmitted the memory to him.
Jonas was in a really stinky place, and one of his arms was paralyzed with pain. All around him, people were groaning. One horse was whining, then suddenly it fell to the ground and never rose up again. He heard a voice next to him. “Water, need water.” It was a boy that was not much older than him covered with blood. Using his good arm, he slowly lifted a metal water container to the boy’s mouth. As he drank, blood trickled down his neck, and then he laid there…still. He had died. Jonas was on the ground, full of pain. In the background he could hear cannons firing and the horrible cries of hurt soldiers. He could hear them cry for water and mother and even death, for they couldn’t stand the pain any longer.
Finally he opened his eyes and was back in the room. The Giver looked away and said,”Forgive me.”
My feelings for this chapter are sadness, surprise, and confusion. I know it took Jonas a lot of courage to receive the pain that was hurting the Giver…it is understandable, but yet kind of comfusing. Jonas must have loved the Giver a lot, though he didn’t know what love was at that time, to sacrifice so much for him.
April 20th, 2006 at 7:02 pm
I will answer #3
I think that giving Jonas a terrible memory wasn’t right but it was his job. The memory was so disgusting, I don’t think Jonas was ready for the memory. I think he should have gotten a little pain then, more pain then, more pain then finally the war. But Jonas was too caring he had to take the pain off of the Givers mind. It had a lot of meaning just to give such a painful memory to Jonas. If I were Jonas I would run away and give the memory to some one else. I couldn’t take the pain of my left arm wounded, seeing others die, and still see fighting.
April 20th, 2006 at 7:56 pm
I will anwer #3:
I don’t think that Jonas was ready for that memory of the American Civil War. But, seeing that giving Jonas memories was that Giver’s job, I guess it was o.k. Jonas also wanted to take the memory.
I think this memory was painful, emotionally and physically, to Jonas. This chapter was disturbing and surprising. I din’t know SO much suffering had been caused from the war. But, I guess the chapter was important in the story to show just how much pain the Giver had to cary on his shoulders.
April 20th, 2006 at 7:59 pm
The community needs a Receiver too hold all the memories that are painful. The Receiver holds the memories because people in the community won’t be able to handle the memories of animals or color because they havn’t experiecned anything like this and so they won’t know what to do. The community of elders know that the people won’t be able to handle the memories and so they have decided to put a Receiver to hold the memories.
If I were chosen as the receiver…I would think that the life in the community was unfair. All these pleasures that are held in my mind are just in my mind and not in the community. I wouldn’t be able to experience the pleasurable life with animals and sailing and sledding and all the things that the Receiver gets when the Giver gives him/her the memories. It is really sad to be the Receiver yet the Receiver does have advantages such as lying and being exempted from the rudeness rules. The Giver has a lazy life and not very eventfull one. I wouldn’t want to be chosen as the Receiver even though it has high respect. This is the very truth, but I wouldn’t want to carry all that pain and have all the burden just so the people can live in a perfect world that they don’t even know that is wrong and that it is not perfect and that they don’t see the pleasures in life…Plus…they can’t even choose their own spouses. If I knew that I could choosee a spouse instead of being force to love this woman and I was the Receiver, I would complain to the elders that they could make rules about letting people choose their spouses even though it might lead to the corruption of the community because no one knew how to choose for themselves. It would be better because people like Jonas have stirrings for certain people and so he would want to marry her. It would be a lot better if he could choose her instead of the community of elders choosing for him. All this stuff will be stuck in my mind if I were the Receiver and it would be so stressful that maybe…one of the Receivers will suicide. It is really hard to keep all these really cool stuff like Christmas and color and stuff from the community. I bet that Jonas is craving to tell what he has learned. He even tried to transmit the memory from himself to Asher. It’s just so depressing that people don’t know about these things and that you couldn’t tell them all you learned… so sad
I am sorry if I wrote a lot…
Bottom line is, that I wouldn’t want to be the Receiver and that I would try real hard to get the community to be able to understand the ways that have been forgotten.
April 20th, 2006 at 7:59 pm
I chose number 2 by the way!
April 20th, 2006 at 8:45 pm
Question 3:
I think that it really made me feel horrible and disgusted, the way she desribed the way the soilders begged for their mothers and death, ewit mad me feel so sick. I alsothought the way she describe the boy dieing it really felt like I was there. It really just made me feel like I was really there expierencing that boys death and the war, I know that I would never ever go to war.
April 20th, 2006 at 9:04 pm
2. The life of the Receiver is very lonely. Why does the commuity need a Receiver? How would you feel if you were chosen to be the receiver?
I choose #2,
The community needs the reciever because the reciever holds all of the memories for the community and recieves all of the memories. If I were to be the choosen as the reciever I would like it because it’s a very honorable job but also at the same time not like it because I wouldn’t be able to discuss how my new job is, whats its like, and what we do. I would’nt want to straight to the annex and come straight back home. I would at least want to go and hang out with my friends and do other things.
April 21st, 2006 at 7:54 am
If I had to live in Jonas’s community, I think that we WOULD need a receiver because how would you live in a community without any color?! It would be so boring and boring and B-O-R-I-N-G!! You need the receiver because… a world without colors. oh boy would it be boring! The receiver can transver things to you. you RECEIVE them so you can get colors, what and how the REAL world looks like. Thats it for now. Bye!!!!
April 21st, 2006 at 7:55 am
If I was the Reciever,I would be really lonely and sad because I will be the only one who would get to experience all the memories good or bad or even get pain when I see bad memories. I choose #2,
! People are supposed to be treated equally not just one person. Others have feeling but they can’t show it because of the stirrings. If isn’t fair for a community because they fear of being released or killed for just a misunderstanding or accident . The punishments are to harsh and they can’t make a living because the elders are on thier back and the people start to have pain cause of them but the elders don’t do anything to help their community
The community needs the reciever because the reciever holds all of the memories for the community and recieves all of the memories. It may be an honorable job and sometimes be very important when trouble is in hand. I dson’t want to just stay in a empty room because I would be unfair because I can’t see anyone or speak to anyone and all I want to do is be with my friends and family. If I could change the community I would and my changes would be everything. I’m tired of Elders of choosing their community’s life , It’s not fair. The elders are unfair and dishonorable because they get treated the best even though others have lives to not just to take care of the elders and they can try to take care of themselves.If I had another job it would be the rule maker (if it was really a job which it isn’t)
April 24th, 2006 at 6:29 pm
3. Chapter 15 is the shortest chapter in the book but may be the most powerful experience for both Jonas and you, the reader. Comment on what happens in this chapter and your reaction to it.
I will answer the 3rd question.
Chapter 15 is so short but it was devastating cause I never understood the concept of war and Now I do. I understand that war won’t solve any problems but increase more to the citizens because they have to sacriface a lot if their son/husband/brother volunteers for war or the boy died in war. I read in Because of Winn Dixie, which recently appeared in the movies but I don’t think it was on GUam, a librarian who Opal (main character) made friends with, as she was telling a true story about her great-grandfather, she came to say that war was hell. I don’t doubt that because war meant sacrifacing a lot of things including -family
-body
– your life
-home
for something wrong.
April 24th, 2006 at 6:40 pm
Honor mean to have to do something that is very hard (usually requiring staying up late night) and that is hard to get picked for, like going into NASA. They only pick, I think 100, people a year to go into their space camp. THis would be considered an honorable job (to me at least).
Power would be like being in charge of a lot of epople, and being to do practically anything you want to do, not being bossed around by other person, and can order anyhing form his people. He/she with the power can decide to be communtist, democratic, or any other type of party their is in the world.
If I was chosen to be the Giver, then I would be honored, but I would be upset because I would have such a lonley life, in the shadows, even though I would be able to get answers to everything and be able to ask anything of people.
The reciever is improtant to the communoty because without him, all the memories, bad and good, would be let out to the people, and they would go crazy because of all the pain and suffering in the memories. The would go crazy because they have never experienced anything in the memories before.
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