I am Jonas, from The Giver..<I am Jonas, from The Giver> <SCRIPT> var repeat=1 //enter 0 to not repeat scrolling after 1 run, othersise, enter 1 var title=document.Welcome To My World var leng=title.length var start=1 function titlemove(-------- My World, The "Utopia" ) { titl=title.substring(start, leng) + title.substring(0, start) document.title=titl start++ if (start==leng+1) { start=0 if (repeat==0) return } setTimeout("titlemove( My World, The "Utopia")",140) } if (document.title) titlemove( My World, The "Utopia") </SCRIPT> <style type="text/css"> body { scrollbar-arrow-color: #464545; scrollbar-base-color: #000000; scrollbar-face-color: #000000; scrollbar-highlight-color: #464545; scrollbar-shadow-color: #464545; scrollbar-3dlight-color: #000000; scrollbar-track-color: #000000; scrollbar-darkshadow-color: #000000; } A {color:#B3B2B2; cursor: sw-resize; text-decoration: none; filter: none} A:visited {color:#B3B2B2; cursor: sw-resize; text-decoration: none; filter: none} A:active {color:#B3B2B2; cursor: sw-resize; text-decoration: none; filter: none} A:hover {color:#B3B2B2; cursor: sw-resize; text-decoration: none;filter:blur alpha(opacity=70, finishopacity=70, style=2);height:2} body {background-attachment: scroll; background-color: #000000; background-image: url("http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/piggyangel/endlessroadbg.jpg"); font-family: Verdana; color: #000000; letter-spacing:0px; font-weight:normal; font-size: 11px; cursor: crosshair;} td { font-family: Verdana; color: #000000; letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 11px;} </style> <meta name='google-adsense-platform-account' content='ca-host-pub-1556223355139109'/> <meta name='google-adsense-platform-domain' content='blogspot.com'/> <style type="text/css">@import url(https://www.blogger.com/static/v1/v-css/navbar/3334278262-classic.css); div.b-mobile {display:none;} </style> </head> <div style="position:absolute;left:-10px;top:-5px; text-align: justify; height: 500px; overflow-y: auto; width: 580px; padding: 3px; border-left: 2px #F696E3 ; border-right: 2px #F696E3 ; border-top: 2px #F696E3 ; border-bottom: 2px #F696E3 ;"> <div align="left"> <center><img src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v299/piggyangel/caho/endlessroad.jpg" width="560" height="480"></center> </div> </div> <div align="justify" style="position: absolute; top: 500; left: 40; width: 480; padding: 5px; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: auto;"> <p> <div align="left"> <a name="803288441361809029"></a><b>Tuesday, July 6, 2010</b><br> </div> <br> <div align="center"><u></u></div> <p><div align="justify"> <div style="clear:both;"></div><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQxw9FdMIj3PoBrtv_ClcgvDZ3v_B9ugJ1XPpp8OOBAudg0FA8CUsNP2EbSn_DCHxYAWVehhb1vDNE9yWrW6iZh1U_fGrLKB49691-7KF_XN3-rv-pG8U33oyzX-FAObLhQKG8kR8ioFKi/s1600/pill.png"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 223px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQxw9FdMIj3PoBrtv_ClcgvDZ3v_B9ugJ1XPpp8OOBAudg0FA8CUsNP2EbSn_DCHxYAWVehhb1vDNE9yWrW6iZh1U_fGrLKB49691-7KF_XN3-rv-pG8U33oyzX-FAObLhQKG8kR8ioFKi/s320/pill.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490788455876781554" border="0" /></a> <br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmG9BZ-GOmiFa8iMifbhIh2u-W5SimqLZLez6kDNlDgLysRQ_frh7jfDqgUUYOtpmb2E9n3mOpwC2dYy6fE4LTyDbrXsFdoKeVPVBsIdqEtncoU5mI-ApAbf6fHVWIqYrgWW1I-SazxH07/s1600/Untitled.png"></a> <br /><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><p class="MsoNormal"> <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"> <br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;">This is a picture of a person holing a pill, bringing us back to the book The Giver, where Jonas and his entire community, those who have undergone puberty, had to take a pill everyday to control their Stirrings, which in other words are their sexual desires. A pill is taken to curb their natural sexual desires, which is very unnatural and artificial. In this community, there is a dilution of real feelings. They have to tell members of their family dreams, and reflections of the day, and the hiding of these emotions is against their set of rigid rules, therefore, there is no privacy allowed for each person. Even such private and sensitive issues have to be told to all members in the dwelling to identify the treatment needed. Compared to our world, their feelings are very shallow and straightforward. <br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFCC99;"> <br /></span></span></p>  <p></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmG9BZ-GOmiFa8iMifbhIh2u-W5SimqLZLez6kDNlDgLysRQ_frh7jfDqgUUYOtpmb2E9n3mOpwC2dYy6fE4LTyDbrXsFdoKeVPVBsIdqEtncoU5mI-ApAbf6fHVWIqYrgWW1I-SazxH07/s320/Untitled.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490787408665506866" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 320px;" border="0" /></span></p><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 238);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> <br /></span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFF99;">This picture depicts a scene of a big happy family celebrating Christmas. There is immense warmth, love and happiness in the atmosphere, connecting us to the Giver’s favorite memory. The strongest feeling in that memory was love. As soon as Jonas got the whole memory, he liked it and treasured it very much. That was the feeling he wanted very badly but was strictly banned by the community by making its citizens eat pills every morning, to control their feelings and sexual desires. After going back to his dwelling, Jonas even asked his parents whether they loved him, but instead of getting a desired answer, his parents lectured him on precision of language. The word love is so general that it is considered obsolete. In our world, this word “love” is used extremely frequently to express a liking for however minor a thin is. This memory also marked a turning point to his obedience to the rules and parents. He threw the pills away, for the Stirrings to come back, for the pleasurable feeling of love to be returned to him, once again.</span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTXKZYhup7WEf0SokUzdlCakftbNVIubtw2f1XqtLGYgaB1HAKUicR0_fqD-sg915aNrHLnxsijD49F-nbyQU5bWYAYRqmLEhTr5knR4z7vw5ykFSApPw0zdvQcwiVmsW4xV1b1GB4ND3c/s320/2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490785261807301746" style="float: left; margin: 0px 10px 10px 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 196px; height: 258px;" border="0" /></p><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> <br /></span></p></span></div></div></div></div></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#99FF99;">This picture depicts an important authority holding a syringe, ready to inject a person. This picture connects us to a scene in The Giver when Jonas’s father was preparing to inject the lighter of the twins with a deadly solution. He was so willing to, indirectly, kill this newborn that is innocent, and has not even experienced life. He felt no guilt, sorrow for the baby, but ironically happy for it while committing the act. This act provided Jonas a sense of utter frustration, that everybody in the community was so unfeeling, cruel and emotionless, and made it a turning point for him. He decided that he could no longer return to his actual community and face those people for another minute, thus the start of the plan to escape.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2iM8pzFkyaEkUolYFXz8c7dAzSS65TI65lF2FxA03Ca28YrI13Z0_ytTxEp69Dw3M9t-XWnh2Fcl93sHw7jclwRCPBj3D2GxJBUMRqny1uoBpeatj9wvh7WkIzB36WSjP5witHCnmA7ZQ/s1600/sled+2.gif"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 150px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2iM8pzFkyaEkUolYFXz8c7dAzSS65TI65lF2FxA03Ca28YrI13Z0_ytTxEp69Dw3M9t-XWnh2Fcl93sHw7jclwRCPBj3D2GxJBUMRqny1uoBpeatj9wvh7WkIzB36WSjP5witHCnmA7ZQ/s320/sled+2.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5490792779710851010" border="0" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> <br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><link rel="File-List" href="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/user/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_filelist.xml"><link rel="Edit-Time-Data" href="file:///C:/DOCUME%7E1/user/LOCALS%7E1/Temp/msoclip1/01/clip_editdata.mso"><style>  </style> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCFFFF;">This is a picture of Jonas’s first memory; of him sliding down a hill covered with snow. This sledding journey symbolizes Jonas’s experiences he will undergo during his training sessions with the Giver. The sled is also red in a colour, symbolizing the new world filled with colours, feelings and thoughts. The snow accumulating on the runners of the sled symbolizes the difficulty the Giver has when carrying all these memories. The delight of sliding down the hill symbolizes how Jonas was excited to receive new memories form the Giver. However the sled can also be treacherous, thus symbolizing how Jonas felt when he first received a memory of pain. The pleasures and pain received from the memories are related to the experience of sledding down the hill. At the end of the novel, Jonas finds a real sled waiting for him at the top of the hill, therefore symbolizing his entry into a world where colours, sensations, and emotions exist in reality, not just in memory.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#CCFFFF;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <br /></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> <o:p></o:p></p> <p class="MsoNormal"> </p> <p></p>  </span><p></p><p></p>  </div></div></div></div><p></p>  </div><div style="clear:both; padding-bottom:0.25em"></div> </div> <p> <div align="right">Walking down an endless road,<br> <b>Jonas, from The Giver.</b><br><a href="http://thegiver2m.blogspot.com/2010/07/this-is-picture-of-person-holing-pill.html">6:00 AM</b> <a class="comment-link" href="https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/5451399553141967018/803288441361809029" onclick="window.open('https://www.blogger.com/comment/fullpage/post/5451399553141967018/803288441361809029', 'bloggerPopup', 'toolbar=0,scrollbars=1,location=0,statusbar=1,menubar=0,resizable=1,width=400,height=450');return false;">0 comments</a> </a> </div> </div> </div> <div align="justify" style="position: absolute; top: 20; left: 480; width: 470; padding: 5px;"> <center><b>Me.</b> <br> all about you. <p></center> <center><b>Friends.</b></center><br> <center> <a href="http://the-receiver-of-memory.blogspot.com/">Judith</a><br> <a href="http://www.the-giver-lois-lowry.blogspot.com/">Divya</a><br> <a href="http://giverofmemories.blogspot.com/">Nicolette</a><br> <a href="http://maysingiver.blogspot.com/">May Sin</a><br> <a href="http://rachelsiew.blogspot.com/">Rachel</a><br> <a href="http://www.aworldofsameness.blogspot.com/">Andrea</a><br> <a href="http://www.blahblah.com">friend</a><br> <a href="http://www.blahblah.com">friend</a><br> <a href="http://www.blahblah.com">friend</a><br> <a href="http://www.blahblah.com">friend</a><p> </center> <center><b>Memories.</b></center><br> <center> <a href='http://thegiver2m.blogspot.com/2010/06/'>June 2010<br></a> <a href='http://thegiver2m.blogspot.com/2010/07/'>July 2010<br></a> <br><br></center><p> <center><b>Credits.</b><br> <b>Picture</b>:<a href="http://gettyimages.com">GettyImages</a><br> <b>Design</b>:<a href="http://www.ohwhatbaloney.blogspot.com">Caho</a><p> <center><b>Yadda.</b></center><br> <center> <-----tagboardcodehere---------> </center> </div> </div> </html> <noembed> <body><script type="text/javascript"> function setAttributeOnload(object, attribute, val) { if(window.addEventListener) { window.addEventListener('load', function(){ object[attribute] = val; 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