Journal Mar 11th

Title: The Giver

After Jonas receives his first memory, he finds that it is not too hard to obey the rules that come with his position. His family is used to his not dreaming frequently, so they do not question him much at dream-telling time. His friends are so busy describing their own training experiences that he can just sit still and listen, knowing that he could not even begin to explain what happens in his training. He has a lot of hard time with the Giver. For example, because Jonas is young, the Giver shows very poor denounces to him, also whatever Jonas asks, he answers poorly. He has been very busy, but he go to the House of Old again with his friend. Jonas tries to figure out the mean by seeing beyond, which he never experienced, or saw it. He asks Jonas to remember the sled from yesterday, and Jonas notices that the sled has the same strange quality as Fiona's hair and the apple. It did not turn into red, it was red. The reason that the sled is just red, instead of turning red, is that it is a memory from a time when color existed. Jonas remarks that red is beautiful and wonders why his community got rid of it, and the Giver tells him that in order to gain control of certain things, the society had to let go of others. Jonas says that they should not have done so, and the Giver tells Jonas that he is quickly acquiring wisdom.
As Jonas has trained, he is understanding a lot of colors, and the differences. Jonas thought that the Giver's memory gives him pain, the Giver knew it too, he was telling his memory on purpose to make, and give the memory of pain to Jonas...
I feel Jonas is going to bring some unluck because, firstly, his name Jonas means that a person who brings no luck, and as he gets trained, he gets worse things even though he is learning the stuffs that he needs to cover to be successor. Secondly he has different life totally different, his friends are just working on their assignments, but Jonas is not, he has to spend the time with the Giver.