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Welcome to my blog! I am Emily and I am making this blog for Miss Lesher's 7th grade Language Arts class at the Wissahickon Middle School. This site will be used to compare 2 books. The books being compared are: The Giver and Gathering Blue, both wonderful books by Lois Lowry that our class had to read. This site will help you to better understand the two books and to discuss Lois Lowry's writing style in the two books. Hopefully it will be helpful and get you through the books!

Friday, December 8, 2006

Chapters 3-5 of The Giver

Father brings home the newborn from the nurturing center and it now more relaxed because if the newborn starts to improve in his health, then he won't have to be released. The only people that are released are people that broke the rules three times, newborns that are sick or twins, and the elderly.
Asher and Jonas are throwing an apple around at school when Jonas noticed something odd. The apple seemed to change in the air. But then when it landed in his hand, nothing was different. Not the shape or texture. What did you think changed?
Jonas goes to do community work at the House of Old and he is washing an old female who is telling him about the release of a man named Roberto. The female is telling Jonas that before anyone is released, there is a telling of there whole life. She says she can't wait to be released. Jonas starts to wonder what released is like. Where did you go?

Every morning, you have to share any dreams you had the night before with your family. Jonas doesn't usually have dreams but this one particular night he did. And for some reason, he seemed to be embarrassed to share it. I never share my dreams with my family because sometimes they are pretty weird. If i had to share this dream that Jonas had, I would be embarrassed too! He dreamed that he was in the bathing room at the House of Old with his female friend Fiona. Jonas had taken off his tunic so he was bare and he wanted Fiona to take off her clothes and get in the tub so he could wash her.
This dream was obviously indicating that Jonas was getting older and he was starting to get feelings for girls. But this couldn't be good since only birthmothers were allowed to have children, right? So, Jonas has to start taking pills to stop him from feeling like this.

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