The Giver Reader Response Chapters 5-8
At chapter five Jonas lives in the community and he is extremely close to the ceremony of twelve. But before he has the ceremony of twelve, he has a dream that his mother called stirrings, in that dream Jonas had felt something very pleasurable, but his mother gave him a pill that took that dream and that feeling  away. Then after Jonas goes to school the ceremony starts, the ceremony of twelve is last, so Jonas has to wait a lot because he goes through all the ceremonies one through eleven until finally its the ceremony of twelve. Every kid in this community is given a number at birth so Jonas is gonna be nineteenth to get the assignment he will get the rest of his life, Fiona number eighteen goes and gets her assignment but when Jonas is ready to walk up and get his assignment the chief elder calls out "number 20!" and Jonas realizes that she had skipped him. The chief elder, after giving out the last assignment, tells everyone the reason why Jonas wasn't given his assignment he had been selected to be the community's next receiver of memory, he had been watched for years and he had all the qualities needed for the job.

I have seen that at this part of the book when they choose the assignments for everyone in the community,  it seems a lot like divergent. because they are all given really vital jobs for the community jobs that are either chosen, or widely influenced, by the leaders of their community. The elders all choose the job for the people on the community, but in Divergent they let you choose any  faction you like, but your descision is widely influenced in the test you took the day before, that shows what you are good at. So the aptitude test that shows what you are good at and influence your descision, is simular to the volunteer hours in the giver that influence the elders desiscions. Also i think that being divergent is like being selected as a reciever of memory because you are good at almost everything but in Divergent being divergent is bad and puniished but in the giver the reciever of memory is seen as the most respected man in the community.

I think that Jonas will really be happy with the assignment he got but maybe he will be really pained with the challenges that come with being the reciever of memory. In the ceremony of twelve when they said that Jonas had been selected they told him the job was very challenging becuase  they told him the pain that comes with the job is huge. So i predict that Jonas will be really challenged by the assignment but at the end he will abe able to acomplish the assignment that was given to him. Then i predict he will grow old and the previous reciever will die so he will have to train a new reciever of memory and the new reciever of memory will have to be Jonas assigned daughter but Jonas wont want to pass pain to her so he will make her escape or hide her from the community so they dont force her to do the task.