The Giver 6-8

The New Assingments 

         December has come and everyone in the community assist to the December Ceremony the one in wich everychild passes to another age and becomes more independent throught the years. When everybody is there the kids from One to Eleven sit in their sits with their group unit. They are organize with their birth number. The ceremony that goes first is the Naming in wich the children are given to their respective family unit and given their new names. The Nurturer´s are incharge of this part. Also the children are replace if a kid was loss, the family that had experience this was given a new child with the same name as the last one. When all the ceremonies were completed was the turn of the ceremony of Twelve that was the most important because the children were given their assesment. The Chief Elder was incharge of developing this ceremony. The kids were sitting by their birth numbers, Jonas was the Nineteen but his complete number was eleven-nineteen. At first he was nervious but then he was exited to know his new assignment. His best friend Asher got the assignment of Asistant Director of Recreation Jonas feel very happy about what his friend got. When the Chief Elder got to eighteen she skip Jonas number to twenty in that moment Jonas felt embarrassed and the only thing he could think about was what did he make wrong he was worried that he could be released from the community. At the end when the Chief Elder finished with all the numbers she called Jonas. She told to the people that she didn´t make a mistake or forgot Jonas number instead she told the special Jonas was and that he was SELECTED to be the next Reciever of Memories.

          "Even the Matching of Spouses was given such weighty consideration that sometimes an adult who applied to recieve a spouse waited months or even years before a match was approved and announced. All of the factors disposition, energy level, intelligence, and interests had to correspond and interact perfectly. Jonas´s mother, for example, had higher intelligence than his father but his father had a calmer disposition. They balance each other"(48).  In this quote we can read a way in wich the people are controlled in the community. Also there is not respect and consideration to the persons because evryone is different and they can choose the person they want to marry because if you dont love the person that the Comitee choose for you it will be difficult to live a share your life with that person. So I am in total disagreement with this point of view. " The entire community had performed the Ceremony of Loss together, murmuring the name Caleb throughout the entire day, less and less frequently, softer in volume, as the long and somber day went on, so that the little Four seemed to fade away gradually from everyone´s consciousness. Now at the special Naming, the community performed the brief Murmur-of-Replacement Ceremony, repeating the name for the first time since the loss:softly and slowly at first, then faster and with greater volume, as the couple stood on the stage with the newchild sleeping in the mmother´s arms. It was as if the first Caleb was returning" (44). With this ceremony a kid that dies in the community is replace but I think that a human is not an object that can be replace as if nothing sad happens and that because is gone can revive in someone else that can be really different from the other person.

       After reading these chapters I was shocked specially because the replacement of children. Also because now I know that besides you dont choose your assignment or children, the spouses are also choose by the commitee people dont choose their wife or husband because love they are chosen because they make a balance with each other.  Moving on to another topic I predict that in chapter nine Jonas will figure it out what is to have the "Capacity to See Beyond" and why is that so especial. Finally I also predict that he will meet the Elder that will help him at his work and understand more about his selection.