The Giver

While reading The Giver by Lois Lowry, there has been several memories shared by the main character, Jonas. One such memory is the Airplane memory. In chapter 1, Jonas saw an air plane which is something that rarely happens, in the book Johas was,"..looking around anxiously, had seen others -adults as well as children- stop what they were doing and wait, confused, for an explanation of the frightening event...He had been frightened then. The sense of his own community silent, waiting, had made his stomach churn. He had trembled."(p.g2) This memory might be important because it shows that Jonas and other people in the community have never seen any thing that fly like air planes. The speaker, which is when someone does announcements throughout the speakers in the community, says that the person who was responsible will be released. Being realesed is bad because it means that you did something bad so you can't live in that community anymore. This connects to the conflict because this memory shows me that the people in that community might have never been exposed to the things we see in our daily lives.

While reading The Giver by Lois Lowry, there has Ben several again and again moments with the main character, Jonas.One such again and again moment is the colored eyes. In chapter 3, Jonas sees that Gabe and himself have the different colored eyes. He thinks to himself,"Almost every citizen in the community had dark eyes. His parents did, and Lily did, and so did all of his group members and friends. But there were a few exceptions: Jonas himself, and a female Five who had noticed had the different, lighter eyes. No one mentioned such things; it was not a rule, but was considered rude to call attention to things that were unsettling or different about individuals."(p.g20) This might keep showing up again and again because it shows that having different colored eyes is so unusual since everyone else has dark eyes. Although it is considered rude to point out the differences between other people. This might be connected to the conflict because this shows that having colored eyes shows how they are different than everyone else in the community.