Journal Mar 7th

Title: The Giver Author: Lois Lowry Page 1~30

The chapter was introduced a eleven years old boy, Jonas. He was frightened of the aircraft because last year , it was not this squat, it was bigger, so as the cargo. Jonas' family was having a dinner. While they are having some food, they always have telling of feelings, which Lily, seven years old, young sister of Jonas, and Jonas talk about their feelings of today, and what they have done. Lily talks first, she said, she had been very mad at the visitors, her childcare group was in play area, and the visitors were the groups of sevens. She said the groups of sevens did not obey the rules, that is why she was mad at them. In that world, we can know that the rules and everything else is very complicated, for example, in the beginning, when Jonas saw the pilot had a mistake, he was released, he did not have any chance, you have only one chance to succeed, if you make a mistake one, you will be released by the government. People don't think this in bad way at all because when Asher; the pilot was released, he just said, I am sorry fellows, he did not beg for any chance to keep working on the pilot stuffs. After Lily finished her talking, her mother told her to go change her clothes, and the parents need to have private talk with Jonas.The father started to talk to him, he said, every children get excited about the end of December because of the Ceremony of Ones, which is everyone celebrates of their ages. After a little while, the father's talk remains a bit of complicated life in the world, Jonas have to have an Assignment, which he is going to have to work on it forever by the government, no one can really help, no one can really have any argument about this, but mostly there is no disappointment about this Assignment. After the Ceremony of Twelves, people have to get Assignment, so in this talking as the Ceremony comes, his parents are telling him that he should be aware of changing of his life because as he get the Assignment, he has to keep working on it, and even though he goes to school, he will have less time to meet his friend, there will be no volunteering, or having some good time. (Jonas' father is working in the baby centre, he liked it, and the government gave him the Assignment of taking care of the babies, he told Jonas about his childhood to tell there are not that many disappointments about the Assignment that gets.)