Ela's connections week 2

Connections

"‘Ouch," he said loudly, and shifted on the bed. "Owwww," he said,

wincing at the shift, and even moving his mouth to speak made his face hurt.” This reminds me when I got a sunburn for the first time. In The Giver, the feeling of a sunburn was shared with Jonas. He never had this feeling before. I never had the feeling before either when it happened to me for the first time. This connection helps me understand the pain and stinging feeling Jonas felt when the memory of a sunburn was transferred to him.

"’Jonas." It was a whisper at first: hushed, barely audible. "Jonas. Jonas.’" This reminds me of a book I read called “Darren Shan”. These too books relate because in  The Giver Jonas is assigned to be the receiver of memory. Jonas isn’t sure what this means or why he was chosen. In the book Darren Shan, a vampire prince makes a decision that darren can either take an important role for the vampires or be killed. Darren wasn’t sure what this meant until he accepted the role and all the vampires started chanting “Darren Shan the vampire prince!” This helps me understand because I know that Jonas would feel the same way as Darren about the choice for their future. I know Darren was really confused and a little scared too. I think Jonas feels the same way.

“‘ You don't know what snow is, do you?" Jonas shook his head.” This reminds me of places like Africa that don’t have snow. People In africa don’t have a memories of the joy in building snowman or making a snow angel. Jonas doesn’t have this memory either. His community doesn’t have snow. This helps me understand that Jonas might feel confused or surprised from hearing about something he doesn’t know about, just like the people in africa.

"I am going to transmit the memory of snow," This reminds me of a story I heard on the news about a canadian woman who adopted a child from a 14 year old mother in africa who could not handle raising a child. The canadian woman brought the boy to her home in canada where he experienced snow for the first time. In The Giver, Jonas doesn’t know what snow is until the old receiver of memory (the giver) transfers the memory of snow into him. This connection helps me understand how Jonas feels because I saw how happy and exited the little boy was when he saw the snow. I think Jonas feels the same way that the little boy did.