Reading Response to "Coming of Age" book

For my coming of age book I read "The Giver" by Lois Lowry.  After reading this book a long time ago in 4th grade I figured that reading it would help me understand more about it.  When reading this book before I had always thought of it as a whack book.  Now reading it I have discovered many different meanings to it.  Like What does Jonas the main character discover about his community as he is growing up?

The Giver seems to do a lot whit age because of how when you turn twelve you must get a job assigned to you by the council.  To me Jonas can't really grow up in this world because he gets a job assigned to him at twelve.  Getting a job assigned to you at that age can't really let you grow up at all, thank god I don't live in a world like his.  To me when Jonas is getting his job assigned as the giver.  The person who gives back memories and dreams is the only way he really learns about his community.

In The Giver Jonas also learns about this release.  This release is when you are assigned a job at twelve and you get to old you are released.  It's like a weird way of saying here's a pill no go die we don't need you anymore.  Now one thing I observed about this is that The original giver was so old and Jonas was twelve so it seems certain assignments you are their longer than most.  Jonas learns that they are just pretty much using people over an over again, to me its like when you use a resource and you use too much of it you gotta let it go and get more.  In this book I also see that it's like forcing you to grow up; for guys it's like that huge step from a boy to a man.

Jonas learns that being the Giver isn't so easy cause he learns so much more about the outside world.  I think that while Jonas is the Giver he starts to learn about the outside world and other places.  He soon starts to realize that where he is living is just one place it isn't the world its just one spot.  For example, Jonas had a dream about how he saw an elephant mom and a young elephant getting shot by people.  He ended up be so terrified learning that.  I think that at that point it all started to click that Jonas was really learning about his society and other places too. 

One thing that was really strange to me was how everyone was the same people wore togas and rode bikes they all had bike ports everyone was assigned a job at twelve.  It just seems like this place was almost just created and made like this for everyone to be the same.  it's like a bad horror flick that you watch with your dog(completely joking).  Jonas seems to learn from the previous giver telling about all of what they do.

In Conclusion, i really can see how Jonas discovers the secrets that lie behind the closet in his world.  Jonas is just a boy trying to grow but can't because he has a job at twelve,he his seeing all of these mysteries and confidential DL (down low if u didn't know) stories.  All in all so far reading The Giver again and really understanding it is great.

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