We need freedom and choice.... We have freedom and choice

" 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"

Our blog post this week is to talk about FREEDOM and CHOICE. Us these days we all different races and genders we all have rights and and FREEDOM and CHOICE. Also still in the world there are people that don't agree with having different people in their lives. What we have to do is tell people that we are all the same we just look different or maybe talk different.

But this quote represents FREEDOM in a few ways.

Number one is that in the quote it talks about how he is guilty about giving the memories to Gabriel but he is not telling anyone. This tells that he is lying and also that he is making a CHOICE to lie. Now that he is the receiver of memory he has the FREEDOM to lie and make his CHOICES. Also he feel's guilty which we all know is a emotion of sadness or even happiness.

The second piece of evidence is that he also talks about not taking his pills any more. This shows that he is beginning to make his own CHOICES, he now has FREEDOM to do what he wants, but he still needs to have some sort of control over hm like the giver or his family unit.

This is the few reasons that show you that Jonas has gotten FREEDOM and CHOICE.

I can....... LIE?

Question: Why was Jonas so surprised about lying?

How do you know if someone is lying to you? Well usually there are some sign's, like maybe they chuckle or maybe the just smile, do they play with something. There are many ways to find out in our world but theirs it is much different.

When Jonas was told by the Giver that he was able to lie he kind of, freaked out. Jonas got quite scared with over a billion things going through his mind, with being the receiver of memory and everything. But there were two examples that came very clearly.

Number one is Jonas was wondering if he were to lie if it would affect his friendship with Asher or Fiona or anyone. Or even if it were to affect his family. Would he lie to his family unit, his parents or even lily. Has he done this but he does not know it. But what my realization was that you would not be able to lie because then that would break their system, their utopia system. If you were to lie and the person were to find out then you would have an enemy, but everyone has to be nice to each other. So what would that make the liar, a liar, a untrustworthy person, a enemy, a RULE-BREAKER. You can't break rules there it is even against the rules.

Number two is nearly the same but it is about if he can trust others. How does Jonas know that everyone is being completely honest with him. What if they got the direction to lie? What if they all ready lie? How does he know. Well he doesn't, and others don't necessarily know if he is lying either. But obviously some time in your life you have to lie, but do they? There are a lot of questions.

Should Your future be decided?

1. Would you want your future to be decided by others ? Why or Why not? We your future should not be decided because of many reasons. Number one is that when your future is decided you have no freedom. You are not allowed to go out and just try new things. Say you get the job to be a doctor, you don't have the freedom to expand your reputation by becoming a surgeon. When you have no freedom you cant try the best you can if all you can do is your worst. I believe that people all should have some control so that they don't vandalize or anything but people should also have some freedom. Number two is that you should have a choice. Usually most people including adults and children, when they don't like what they are doing they tend to do a worse job. So what if you got the job of working in the house of the old, and you hated that job, that was the last one you would want. You are stuck with that job for the rest of your life until you are old. And I know that the Elders pay very close attention to you so that they know what you should be, but what if you change as you get older. Of course everybody changes but what if you change attitude and your body shape, then you might not want that job. That is why we should have choice so that when they work they do good and they have fun.