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 * ** a brief summary of what you liked about the book including **
 * ** what was the most exciting, interesting, funny or confusing part? **
 * ** how did you feel as you read the book? **
 * ** what connections can you make between the text and yourself and the text and the world? **


 * The confusing part is the ending and the ending is the most interesting part too because you get so confused when u read and while reading u want to go to the end so you can find out what is going to happen.
 * At the beginning I felt that the story is really boring and it's not going to be any better ,and I was so confused because the book's title is The Giver and Jonas was the receiver but when I read I understood.
 * Text and yourself : Jonas Tried to convince the whole community that there are Feelings and colors he wanted the hole community to have the memories but people didn't agree to have him. My connection is that once I know something that no one knew in my family, and everyone wanted to know it. There is just one Difference that my family wanted to know and Jonas Community didn't want to have the memories.
 * Text and the world : The Connection I've made is to some countries that have no right to choice their Jobs,and their Rights. I made this connection Because Jonas Community Had no Rights to Choose their Jobs and even their wifes/husbands. ( **Yara )**

The Giver is about a boy named Jonas and he lives in this community with his Dad, Mom, Little Sister, Lily and a little baby boy, Gabriel. On Jonas' 12th birthday he gets his job; the Receiver of Memory, and he receives memories from the old receiver and he perceives feelings and words from the memories, and he goes through a great deal of pain, happiness, sadness, and anger. Only Jonas and The Giver have feelings.

Feelings from events:
 * I was angry and surprised when the father had to kill the newborn. I thought they meant being released was leaving the community and going to the different place, not getting killed! Sure it ment being free but the lose their life. And they don't deserve it. Especially the little kid.
 * Also i was really happy for Jonas and Gabe when they made it to the Christmas side of the terrible hill from their long journey. I thought they were going to die from hunger. But i was also confused i wasn't sure if they died or made it because it seemed to good to be true.

How I felt while reading:
 * There are a lot of different emotions that you get from this book, sometimes it confusing, sometimes it makes me sad or angry, sometimes it gets really interesting and it gets me excited. So i felt i lot of different emotions.

Connections:
 * Text to Self: When Jonas has had bad memories of when he felt really in pain but it was in the memory and he wasn't actually injured but felt like it. I also have dreams when i trip and hurt myself and wake from the dream in pain but i actually wasn't injured it just felt like it.
 * Text to World: When Jonas was having the memory of the war happening and how the boy with blond hair was dying and asking for water from Jonas, thats how wars really go. They are that terrible, their are people who suffer like that in a war. It was as terrible as how the author described it.


 * (Dima)**
 * The Giver is a book about a confused 11 year old boy who is soon turning 12... He has been seeing things, slightly differently. The day he turned 12 was also the day all of his friends turned 12, It was also the day he was chosen to be the next reciever of memory. As he's in training he endures alot of pain, and suffering, and happieness. He realises that there is alot more to life then what his life is (black and white, planned out) He realises *Colours*.
 * The most depressing part in the book was thinking that Jonas and Gabe may die, and thinking about what "release" acctually is
 * As I was reading this book I felt, Happy, Surprised, Sad, Depressed and Mad. Because there were so many good parts of the book but then there were those really horrible parts (Taylor)

The Giver is about an 11 year old boy named Jonas that lives in a Community with his Dad, mom, sister (Lily), and brother (Gabriel). When Jonas turns 12 he gets the job as the Receiver of Memory. He does training with the old receiver which is now the Giver because he gives Jonas the memory's that he had, and goes through some difficult pain. what i found interesting was how the Giver gives Jonas the memory that he had and doesnt have that memory any more because its now Jonas's memory to keep. When i read the book i felt angry because at one part when i found out what released ment and how Jonas's dad killed one of the twins because they didnt want two of the same people in the community so they killed the lighter twin. As i read the book i felt interested because there was so many details that they put and i didnt want to stop reading because it was so good. The connections that i have to text to self is when they did the ceremony, it reminds me of my grade 5 graduation because it was a ceremony graduating to a different school at a higher level and in the book your graduating to a diffrent age and higher level because you get a job.

My text to world is how they don't get to choose who they get to marry, and in the old'n days and still some country's still don't get to choose who they marry. In the community in the book they don't get to choose either and they dont care because they dont have any feelings. (Fanoula)

The giver is about: A boy named Jonas who is 11. Turning 12. At his 12th ceremony he gets chosen as the "reciever" Little did he know he woul unravel all the secrets of the community, when Jonas finds out what a terrible community this is, to die is to live in his head.

I liked that the book was suprising and fun, I also liked that at the end up the book, there was a big bang that no one expected. It was a total adreniline rush. I have to say the most exciting part was when he ran away, I was so happy, and it was almost like I was running away with him. When I was reading the book, I felt like I knew Jonas, and this somehow connected to me in a strange way. I could feel his pain.

My text to self is one time I had tried to run away, because I thought my mom was dating someone behind my back (she wasn't) And I guess that's kind of what with Jonas how they killed people and he didn't know.

Text to world, there are alot of committees that are real and I bet there is one jsut like that out there, not to mention teenagers run away everyday in the world. (Bri)

The Giver is about a boy named Jonas who was chosen to be the Recever of memory. He was skipped at the cerimony to get the jobs and after words the person who announces the jobs told Jonas that he was the recever or memory. He got the most important job in the comunity. Jonas goes through almost a year of training and goes through alot of pain, joy, sorrow, lonleyness, and the true meening of love. Jonas was buizy training with the giver and he missed one of the new borns relises. Giver pushes a button and askes to see the twin relise that took place earlier that morning. Jonas and Giver watched the video and Jonas sees his father kill the new born. since Jonas and the giver are the only two in the comunity that can feel pain Jonas was really upset and desides to run away. Later that night Jonas's father announced that he was going to relice (kill) Gabrial (the other twin) the next day. Jonas took Gaberial in the middle of the night and they set out on to their journy. is rained and snowed and jonas was running out of memory to give him and Gabrial to keep them warm, just as they think they are going to die they hear an echo of music. I recomend this book to anyone that likes adventure and\or drama. **(Ericka)**

This book called the giver is about this boy named jona.When he gets chosen for this job at htis ceremony of the twelves he gets picked has the new receiver of memory in his training trhe past year his gets mostly memorys of pain an joy I would discribe as in everytime he gets a memory is like a movie that as that has its ups and downs where jona as to under go many weeks of pain then he startes giving memoryes to this newborn named gabrial and every night he gives memoreys to gabraial witch is not allowed you need to read the book to find out more i would recomend this book to everyone to this heart stoping book ERNESTO

﻿The book giver is about a boy named Jones he is a eleven that lives with his parents in a small comunity where there is no feeling's but only Jones and the giver have feeling's and he has been chosen to be the reciever of memories. The giver gives Jones painful, sad, happy, or anykind of a memory. And later he learns about the things about the community. And he and the giver make plan for Jones to escape the community.

Feeling's from events:
 * I agree with dima that was angry and surprised when the Jones's father had to kill the newborn. I thought they meant being released was leaving the community and going to the different place but a good place ,not getting killed and Jones's father does this most of the time just killing people, kids or babies.
 * When I first read the book it was kind of confusing when they said release because they didn't explain it properly but near the end of the book it said what it was. It is when you get a shot on your wrist or arm if you are a Adult or kid but if you are a baby then it is in the head and that shot makes you die.
 * I agree with bri because I was happy and exited when he ran away but I was also nervous because maybe he will get cold or run out of food with Gabriel and that is what happened in the book but at the end Jones and gabriel found there way to elsewhere.

How I felt when I was reading:
 * I agree with dima because when you read this book it has so many emotions you can be sad and happy at the same time you can also be happy, sad, angry, confused, or exited and that is what I felt so I felt many many emotions.

Connections: =(shabnam) = = = =
 * My connection to text to self is when Jones was receiving his job as the Receiver of memeries and the chief general gave the job to him and all the attention was on him reminded me of when it was my grade 5 graduration and when I went up to get my paper from my teacher all the attention was on me and they clapped hard and I had a really good time
 * My connection to text to world is similar to fanoula's because there are countries in the worls that people don't have the right to do thing's or make decisions for themselves just like in the giver that people make decisions for people who they marry and what job they are going to pick

= The book The Giver is about about a boy named Jonas. When he turns twelve he is given the job to become the Reciever of Memory, and no one has gotten this job for ten years.This job is when your receive memories and you just sit in a room pretty much forever. Jonas had to go through about a year of training, while The Giver gave Jonas memories of snow, sunlight, sunburn, warmth, love, colors, and worst of all, a broken leg. Jonas and The Giver are the only ones who have feelings. At the end of the book Jonas takes Gabe to run away from the community, and The Giver said when you run away you can never come back. Jonas took Gabe because his parents were going to realase Gabe which meant to kill. The most weird/disgusting part of the story was when Jonas has the memory of breaking his leg and they describe every single thing that happens in detail. The most interesting part was at the end of the story because he ran away from the community with Gabe, and he expierenced christmas, because he saw red, blue, and white lights dangling from trees, and he said he had heard something that was to be heard as music, which was most likely christmas carols. The part i was most confused about was when Jonas and Asher were playing catch with an apple and he said it had changed, and they didn't tell us how it changed until the middle of the story, it changed because Jonas was starting to see color and because he didn't know what color was he didnt know how to describe it. As i read the book i was very bored at the beginning of the story, but as the story went on around the middle of the book it was always so intense and interesting because of how Jonas got the memories from The Giver which was very fun to read because they described it in so much detail. I made a connection to how when Jonas saw his first rainbow so he could see all the colors, when i saw my first rainbow I didn't think it was real because of all the colors they had in it. ( Shyeem )

This book (the giver) is about a boy named Jonas who is living in a town somewhere in the world where everything is the same. Everyone is the same. The houses are the same, the people are the same, all life is the same. Because of this thing called "sameness" everything is the same (hence the name). So, everything is the same for jonas until the day he turns twelve. Jonas is the first person in ten years to be selected as the honorable receiver of memory. This is a job where you basically have to be alone for your entire life and sit in pain in a room for life. Jonas is trained for a long time until one day he decides he wants to make change. So he does. Then comes the cliffhanger ending. Read it and find out. Overall this was an okay book with a very boring beginning. As I read this book I was bored, happy, sad, mad and disgusted. I can connect to this book because I have experienced a lot of the emotions that jonas felt in this book. Many people in the world have too, examples being love, hurt, pain, death and many others. [Philip]
 * //"The Giver which was very fun to read because they described it in so much detail."//**- I agree with Shyeem on this

The Giver was about a boy named Jonas lived in a community where it was same forever and he became a receiver who gets the memory from the past. There was no new receiver until Jonas for 10 years. Jonas begins to have feelings and see colors, but he has to take painful memories from the past. Jonas and the newborn child ran away from the community. The most exciting part was when the ceremony begin and Jonas got singled out and became the receiver =(Sean)= Jonas is going to be come a 12 soon. So hes excited about getting his job but when hes getting it they leave him till the end wich really freaks him out because he thought he didnt qualify for a job but he did and that job was giver. Then he recieved the rules and read over them. When he went to his first day it was pleasnt memories the next few not so much. Eventualy he runs away wich I thought was sort of out of the blue. He takes his dad bike and gabbriel who the were going to release (kill). And when he gets to his destination he sees lights and its snowing and he hears singing then at the end it says or was it just an echo from the place he left. Wich I agree with Yara was kind of confusing.
 * (chris)**

This book is about a boy named Jonas who gets picked to be the Reciever of Memory. Then the old Reciever now the Giver and Jonas train and Jonas recieves memories. But everything in their community is the same so Jonas and the Giver decide to change that by releasing memories to the community to change their minds about sameness.
 * The most confusing part was like Shabnam's how at first I didn't know what release was but what happened with the the twin baby revealed what it was
 * Feelings:**
 * When I read the book I felt sad because when they released the baby I thought that was horrible because the baby didn't even get a chance to live but I also felt confused, surprised, mad, but also happy
 * Connections:**
 * A connection I made to myself how in the beginning Jonas worried about his job I sometimes think and worried about my job in the future
 * A connection to the world is how different communities are different like how when Lily was upset at another kid for not following the rules