The Giver.

RJ #3                                                                                                                               9/14/11

Dear Ms. Zrihen, I am currently reading the book The Giver by Lois Lowry.



            I picked the book The Giver because my sister recommended it to me. Also because this book won a award. My favorite passage in the book was:
     "With the chant, Jonas knew, the community was accepting him and his new role, giving him life, the way they had given it to the new child Caleb. His heart swelled with gratitude and pride.
     But at the same time he was filled with fear. he did not know what his selection meant. He did not know what he was to become.
  Or what was to become of him." (page 64)
I picked this passage because I feel that Jonas, someone who lives in a perfect world, can fear something like a college graduate can feel, in an imperfect world, and they both don't know they fear it.
The significance of this passage to the book is because this is the moment in the book where Jonas' life was changed completely, and where I think that the whole book will really begin.

The two reading strategies I used before reading the book was that I Skim and Scanned through the pictures, and I read the synopsis. The two reading strategies I used while I was reading the book was that I asked myself questions about the book so far , for example  My next reading strategy was that went reread the pages/chapters that I marked that I did not understand so well. I did not finish reading the book but my after reading strategies are going to be summarizing the book to someone else and discussing the book with someone who already read it.           

Genre: Realistic Fiction/Science Fiction
Characters: Jonas- Protagonist. He is the main character in the book, the one that will be the next giver.
The Giver-  The most important and respected man in the community. He is the one that teaches Jonas about love, hate, pain, colors, and everything else that no one experiences in their perfect community.
Asher- Jonas' best friend. He will be the assistaint director of creation.
Fiona- Jonas' other best friend. She is given the job of Caretaker of the Old.
Jonas' Parents, Jonas sister Lily.
There is no antagonist in the story.
Everyone else surrounding Jonas is the foil. The setting is in a perfect world in the month of December. Everyone was the exactly the same, everyone was perfect. The plot structure of the story is when Jonas begins to get knowledge that other people in the community don't have and he begins to see life differently. The conflicts in the story is character vs. society, and a little bit of character vs. self. The tone of the story is imaginative, curious, and hopeful. The mood of the story was sometimes happy, but sometimes sad. The book is told from a 3rd person point of view. The authors purpose was to entertain you and inform you about how like could be in a perfect world. The authors perspective was objective. Some different types of figurative language is "flat bellied cargo", "I likes the feeling of love", and "I feel his fright". I rate this book a eight so far because this book is very interesting.

 From: your student/ classmate
                                     Maor Shaaltiel.