Passages
1. “It was almost December and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.” This passage is important because it tells you the plot of the story. The story takes place (begins) in December. It tells you that the year is about to end. This passage is also important because it tells you that he is frightened. This could mean that something might happen to Jonas.
-Page 1, Chapter 1
2. “Then, in the same way that his own dwelling slipped away behind him as he rounded a corner on his bicycle, the dream slipped away from his thoughts. Very briefly, a little guilty, he tried to grasp it back. But the feelings had disappeared. The stirrings were gone.” This passage is important because it explains the stirrings disappeared when he took the pill. The pill erased the feelings he had from his dream. It tells you that the communities way of dealing with their emotions is too just get rid of them all together.
-Page 39, Chapter 5, Paragraph 2.3. "But suddenly Jonas had noticed, following the path of the apple through the air with his eyes, that the piece of fruit had- well, this part was the part that Jonas didn't adequately understand - the apple had changed. Just for a second." This passage explains that Jonas's way of thinking is different from others. Asher didn't notice anything about the apple but Jonas did. Jonas's mind is more imaginative than others.
-Page 24, Chapter 3, Paragraph 3
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