After finishing up the last few chapters of The Giver , there were a few questions asked by our discussion director this week:
- Who do you think is Rosemary and what relation she had to the Giver? After you realize that she’s the Giver’s daughter, how do you feel?
- Do you think Jonas still cares about Fiona now that he have learned she have no feelings when releasing the Old?
- What will Jonas’s friends and parents think when Jonas and Gabriel are gone?
- Do you think that Jonas will make through this journey? Will he and Gabriel live and fine Elsewhere?
- Do you think that the Giver should go with Jonas to Elsewhere? Why?
Most of the members have answered the Discussion Director’s question, the ones who’ve answered got almost the same thing. Throughout the discussions, it proves that we have the same point of view towards the book as we read. Next, our Connector has connect to the member’s first trip to the wilderness which is Madagui, he compared this to The Hunger Game and the book’s author Suzanne Collins. He stated that they have the same writing style and their favorable topic is utopia and dystopia. He says that these chapters is related to the others since before he saw of his father killing a baby and now he’s planning for an escape. Some of the words chosen by the Word Wizard are:
Rueful, Hunched, Solemnly, Startingly, Dwelling, Errand, Unison, Emphatically, Meticulously, and Taut. The words chosen are really great words since there are a quite confusing words, and through these definition it really helps understands the text better throughout the reading. Our Visualizer created a picture displaying when Jonas cried as he found out that his father is killing babies, also he’s screaming not wanting to go home. This is an important scence in the chapters because Jonas now knows what release is truly is and perfectly shows Jonas’s strongly unsupported towards this idea of releasing. Overall, I think eventhough it’s a simple pictue it really demonstrate the requirements of that scence and is showing the emotion. Afterwards, the Reflector has reflected on Jonas and Gabriel’s journey to Elsewhere and discovering the whole new world to them. The reflector also said that they would make it but it’s be challenging. Also, like what we’ve talked in class the memories would be released into the community. The tones that she talked about were sad and hesitant since he’s planning for an escape. The big idea is how Jonas and Gabriel is different form the others, that’s why they want to discover all sort of things. She said that Jonas would ocntinue to go on his journey of finding his real self and the world he’s suppose to live in. These are the things that our group discussed about this week.