Saturday, December 13, 2014

The Giver Chapters 9-12



dif-fer-ent :
1.       Not the same as another or each other; unlike in nature, form, or quality.
2.       Distinct; separate.

Different. This is how Jonas feels. Jonas thinks he is not normal, or that doesn’t fit on this community.  He has a huge responsibility, being the new Receiver of Memories. This brand new Twelve has all the weight of the world on his shoulders and his first day of training is approaching. Every Twelve gets set of rules to their now job, Jonas is not the exception, but his sets of rules are… short and unclear. On his first day of training Jonas found something new for him, books. Books are not important at all on his community but they certainly are now. His instructor is old, very old, and goes by the name THE GIVER. The giver is transmitting all of his memories to Jonas, just by using his bare hand. So far, Jonas has experienced: snow, sunlight, sunburn and the color red. Colors are new for Jonas; he lives in a community black and white. 



A topic that I never found the importance of is Pain vs. Pleasure. On this book I am learning the true meaning and how grateful we are to have both on our lives. 

“Sir, he said, “The Chief Elder told me—she told everyone—and you told me, too, that it would be painful. (…) But it didn’t hurt at all. I really enjoyed it.” (…) The man sighed. “I started you with memories of pleasure. (…) It will be painful. But it need not to be painful yet.” Pg. (85)

This got me wondering... Do we take pleasure for granted? Or maybe we don’t take it for granted, but we don’t enjoy it well enough? It is obvious, to find pleasure, there needs to be pain. For example, a sunburn. We enjoy taking some sunlight, maybe getting a tan, but we don’t think of the next few days. PAIN. Sunburn. We are all red and it hurts really badly.  Again, to find pleasure there needs to be pain.


 
It is well expressed on this picture. There is a balance between these two. We cannot live without pain or pleasure. They need to be as close as possible to being equal.

6 comments:

  1. Dani, I really liked the way you started your blog with the definition of differente. I found that very unique. While I was reading your text response, I remembered about one of the themes in the book: pain vs. pleasure. I agree with you that there needs to be a balance between them and that sometimes people don´t think about the consequences or the pain they might get by experiencing pleasure. The video about black and white vs color was very interesting. Overall your blog post was very interesting and made me want to lean and read more.
    Ale

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    1. Ale, I am glad you made connections while reading my text response. I totaly agreen with the blance thing between pain and pleasure. I am very happy you enjoyed my post and it made you want to read and leran more just by reading my blog.

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  2. Dani your blog have a very good bigining because you can expolain the defintions. Next I also enjoy very much your video because in this video you are explaining the ways that you compare colors. I realy enjoy your description of each picture.

    Anahi

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    1. Anahi, Thanks for reading my blog. I am glad that you enjoyed my multimedia.

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  3. Dani, I totally agree with you when you said that we need a balance between pain and pleasure. I saw the video in the link that you posted and it was very entertaining. I think that the structure of your blog was very good an I liked the way you explained the picture of the balance. I love your blog.

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    1. Clau, thanks for reading my blog. I am glad you enjoyed it. I guess we have lots in common when it comes to one of the main themes in the story, pain vs pleasure.

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