PAIN.....

I really enjoy reading chapters 9-12. A lot of things happened during these chapters. Jonas felt apart for the first time, he felt different. That same day he got the instructions for his new assignment as the receiver of memory. There weren’t as much rules and instructions as in the other assignments. Some of the rules here that he couldn’t apply for any medicine if it had some thing to do with his training, he could skip dream telling, he couldn’t be released and he could LIE. The next day Jonas and the rest of his friend had their first day of training for their new assignments. Jonas got to the Annex where it was his training. When he entered to the room, here were a lot of books on the walls and a man sitting on a chair, that man was the Giver (the old Receiver of Memory). The Giver told Jonas to lie down in the bed so he can give him the memory of snow. Jonas enjoyed the snow.Then the Giver have him the memory of sunshine and sunburn. In the memory of the sunburn he felt pain. The next day Jonas lied for the first time, he told his mother that he didn’t dreamed any thing but he dreamed with snow.
Then Jonas and Fiona where going to their training together. When Fiona was entering to the House of the Old, he notices that something had changed in Fiona’s hair. Jonas told his to the Giver and he told Jonas that he is starting to see the colour red. Then the Giver was going to give him the memory of the RAINBOW.

“It hurt a lot,” Jonas said, “but I’m glad you gave to me. It was interesting. And now I understand better, what it meant, that there will be pain.” (86)

This quote left me with some questions and predictions. Some of the questions I have are, if this was on the first day, how will it be further on? Will he be fine at the end? Does Jonas will suffer too much with his training? A prediction I made is that each time the memories will become more painful and less pleasurable. 

I’m enjoying reading this book. I want to finish it soon. I feel a little sorry for Jonas because he needs to suffer in order to accomplish his new assignment. But, even though Jonas was feeling pain, he was glad that the Giver gave him those memories and he was very thankful.