Previous Review

I really enjoy reading this book because it makes me predict, inference, and connect a lot like none other book I have ever read. Going deeper into the book, in chapters 5-8 amazing and shocking things start to appear in Jonas’s life. 

Summary: 

Jonas starts to get this strange dreams that all human people get at some point in their lives and her mom tells him that the best thing he can do is take some pills so he stops dreaming those types of things. Later on, Jonas and his family start to realize that something was going on with the new children "Gabriel" because usually babies stay in the Nurture for one year and then release, but he had to stay two years and no one knew why that happened, they steel think that maybe he is kind of special in the community. Asher comes then with his old stories about the secret dangerous river he used to hear a lot from people, he said that once people entered the river never appeared back again, and the worst thing was that no one could find a single sign that said where, when or why he/her disappeared. Obviously Jonas never believed in those things, he said "Somebody made that story up", but Asher was denying his point, he wanted Jonas to believe in these mysterious river. After days passed, Jonas started talking about the birth numbers and the ceremony of twelve, many people may not know but people not just pick or choose your number, it is according to the years you have lived in the community until you turn twelve, in that case Jonas was number Eleven-nineteen. Since there was two of them, Jonas had already turned into a twelve, and people would treat him then as an adult. Until finally the day came, THE "Ceremony of Twelve"everyone was anxious and nervous at the same time, but guess what Jonas wasn't called when his turn came, all of his friends and family started to wonder, from that point he was named as the "Receiver of Memory", and besides that he could use wisdom and other power from now and then. 

Text Response:

I think that maybe the author was trying to explain us that this society has like its own circle where everyone has to stay on it and make it grow, so that way the values in people turn into a cycle that not only you receive but you also as well give, and it comes frequently so it repeats and that is basically why there is punishments because if you fall of this circle you fail and there is consequences so there is kind of like a good and bad side in these world and you have to stay focused to live with honor. Besides this, if we see it in the bright side everything is safe and organized, because of so much laws, but they also have the bad side, because the place in general is boring, you can't do much because there is very little of freedom and no fun places were you can go.

 Going to my personal feelings about this book, I think that maybe in chapter 6 pages. (47-48) Jonas could of had taken the issue of the river a little more serious so he could warn other people and kind of like spread the word not just ignore it and continue with his normal life like he had heard nothing from nobody about a small problem that people used to suffer and could turn soon into a major issue, and ruin the society. Next up, "The Ceremony of Twelve" seemed like a big thing for the people in that type of world because it is basically one of the biggest times you have to talk about your life and things you now that may seem interesting or impacting to other citizens. When Jonas found out or never heard his number he started to freak out and he got so nervous he started to ask everyone why didn't they call him up! In my opinion Jonas needed to be nervous but a little less stressed because before maybe he was frustrated do to the speech he was going to give. At the end they tell Jonas he is the new "Receiver of Memories" and he got scared because maybe he thought it was all going to be about fights, in my place I would of been happy because it is like a special gift and they have chosen only one lucky person to contribute, the one who has all the bravery and the values to bring hope, I would also be a bit unworthy of my self because they tell him " We are convinced that Jonas has the ability to acquire wisdom" and the first thought that would probably come to my mind is war with power. 

One quote that I wasn't really sure about was when Jonas said, "Release is not the same as loss", when he starts talking about baby Gabriel. At the end of chapter 8 in page. 64 one connection that came to my mind was that it reminded me of "The Hunger Games “when the main character volunteers as part of the main point of the story, which was the killing or death games and I connect it to when Jonas turns into a magic and new world, in the part when he hears that he has been elected as the new "Receiver of Money". 

Final Thoughts and Comments: 

To conclude this paragraphs, as I said this book brings me a lot of memories and I really like and appreciate reading it, because besides all of this it is really understandable.