Here is a question for today's blog post!
Q: " Gabriel's breathing was even and deep. Jonas liked having him there, though he felt guilty about the secret. Each night he gave memories to Gabriel: memories of boat rides and picnics in the sun; memories of soft rainfall against windowpanes; memories of dancing bare-footed on a damp lawn.
"Gabe?"
The new child stirred slightly in his sleep, Jonas looked over at him.
"There could be love" Jonas whispered.
The next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away"
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------I think that Jonas cares a lot about Gabriel and he wants him not to be like the others. I think that that is why Jonas is giving him so many happy, colorful memories, so that when he grows up he sees colors and he feels feelings. So that when he grows up he is free to feel what he wants and know whatever he wants about 'life'. I think that is a really good action form Jonas because what he is learned he wants to pass it on to Gabriel so that he knows and feels things that no one except for Jonas and The Giver know. :D
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
The Giver: Comments On Others Blog Post
Andrea:
Fist Paragraph:
In your first paragraph you are missing some commas and apostrophes. You have a lot of run-on sentences. You start an Idea and you don't develop on it, you just say it and you don't give examples or something. I think it's too simple.
Second Paragraph:
You could have given more examples, like something in the book or something about you. Other than that, I think it was really good.
:D
Third Paragraph:
In the third paragraph when you said that they may change the rules because people are getting tired, you could have added some examples of why they were getting tired or what was being the same over and over again.
^_^
Tem:
First Paragraph:
Well, you were suppose to write 3 paragraphs. Anyway, I think that you repeat the same words a lot like when you said "Even though the community the Jonas lives in a "perfect" community" you repeated community twice. I think that you organized your ideas really well and it was really good. But you could have wrote some more. :D
Good Job :[)
Fist Paragraph:
In your first paragraph you are missing some commas and apostrophes. You have a lot of run-on sentences. You start an Idea and you don't develop on it, you just say it and you don't give examples or something. I think it's too simple.
Second Paragraph:
You could have given more examples, like something in the book or something about you. Other than that, I think it was really good.
:D
Third Paragraph:
In the third paragraph when you said that they may change the rules because people are getting tired, you could have added some examples of why they were getting tired or what was being the same over and over again.
^_^
Tem:
First Paragraph:
Well, you were suppose to write 3 paragraphs. Anyway, I think that you repeat the same words a lot like when you said "Even though the community the Jonas lives in a "perfect" community" you repeated community twice. I think that you organized your ideas really well and it was really good. But you could have wrote some more. :D
Good Job :[)
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
*The Giver*
Today, I'm going to be writing a 'journal response' about "The Giver", the book we are reading in humanities class. Now, I'm going to answer a question about the book.
Would you want your future to be decided by others ? Why or Why not?
Definitely NO!, I like to make my own decisions, but I do have to accept that I like when people help me make a hard decision but not to make it for me :). I believe that everything happens for a reason, and I just want to let my future reflect to the decisions I make. I don' t really like how Jonas's community, they assign you a job and they have so many rules!, in less words, they have your life planned. I mean if you don't follow their rules, they will release you. If you are old they release you, if you do something that is against their rules, they will release YOU! I think that there is not excitement in their life's, they know that they will work until they get old and they go to the house of the old, and then they will be released. That's the life plan for everyone. But who knows, maybe Jonas will change that..
Would you want your future to be decided by others ? Why or Why not?
Definitely NO!, I like to make my own decisions, but I do have to accept that I like when people help me make a hard decision but not to make it for me :). I believe that everything happens for a reason, and I just want to let my future reflect to the decisions I make. I don' t really like how Jonas's community, they assign you a job and they have so many rules!, in less words, they have your life planned. I mean if you don't follow their rules, they will release you. If you are old they release you, if you do something that is against their rules, they will release YOU! I think that there is not excitement in their life's, they know that they will work until they get old and they go to the house of the old, and then they will be released. That's the life plan for everyone. But who knows, maybe Jonas will change that..
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