Jonas was an eleven year old boy who lived in the community. In the community age twelve was a very important age for people because there was a ceremony that told the kids of age twelve what they would work on for the rest of their life. Jonas is the main character he spends all his volunteer hours in very varied places and he does not know what he will be chosen to work on so he feels apprehensive about the ceremony. In this community everything is perfect there is no suffering or pain no robbing or killing all they know is peace and if they break that peace and disturb the community then they get released. These peace was achieved with a lot of rules every job is meticulously chosen by the elders so everyone is perfectly happy with their job, you don't have kids yourself but there is a job called birth mothers and people have to apply for the children of the birth mothers a male and a female.
I feel bad for a character in the first chapter when it says "Within minutes the speakers had crackled again, and the voice reasurring now and less urgent had explained that a pilot in training had misread his navigational instructions and made a wrong turn desperately the pilot had been triyng to make his way back before his error was noticed. Needless to say he will be released the voice had said". In this quote a poor pilot in training took a wrong turn and made a mistake but he still got released even though it was an accident. This shows that The Community is so peacefull that if you make a mistake and disrupt that peace you will be punished no matter why you made it. I feel bad for this pilot but i feel bad for the entire community too. In this commuity you have a good life with a lot of happy times but if one day by mistake you make a mistake that disrupts the peace in the community you will get released and there goes your happy life.
The giver by Lois Lowry is being a really interesting book. This society seems like a peacefull place to live in but i wouldnt like to live there because you dont have the freedom to choose what you want in life who YOU want to marry what your job is how many kids you want to have etc. I think this people who live in this society would feel this way too but because they have always lived in the society that way of living is all they know, they dont know freedom none has ever chosen their job or done what they want without saying the required apology. That is what i think about this society and these few chapters i have read in the book.
