Technology, a way of living...

The Veldt

        The Veldt by Ray Bradbury is a story that takes place in the future, a time in which technology is more advance and has become a huge influence on human life. George and Lydia, husband and wife, live with their two children, Peter and Wendy, in a perfect house were they can rest, don't do any hard work, the house does everything fort them, its just the perfect house. Both, George and Lydia bought their children a nursery which is a room in which children spend time imagining stuff that reflects on three dimensional walls and makes it look real, but Peter and Wendy were spending to much time on this nursery, so that worry Lydia. Once George and Lydia enter to the nursery they could see the wild life of Africa, there were lions, zebras, giraffes and it was just to real, so they called their psychologist to take a look at it. Once the psychologist arrived he could see that the nursery from a room that studies the patterns became a room of destructive thoughts, this room became more important that their real lives, they loved this room more than their own parents. They decided it was time to shut off the whole house including the nursery and take a time to enjoy nature, family, love,etc, but that upset Peter and Wendy very much. One night they kept hearing Africa in nursery room but now they could hear their children screaming, both parents went quickly to the nursery and then they got trapped inside the room and suddenly lions attacked them.

Ray Bradbury wrote this story picturing how the world would look like in further future and described very well the place using imagery that will make the reader imagine how this house, this room, this world looks like with a detailed imagery.

     "George Hadley felt the perspiration start on his brow.

     "Let's get out of this sun," he said. "This is a little too real. But I

don't see anything wrong."

     "Wait a moment, you'll see," said his wife.

     Now  the  hidden odorophonics were beginning to blow a wind  of odor at

the two people in the  middle of the baked veldtland. The hot straw smell of

lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden  water  hole, the great rusty

smell of animals, the  smell of dust like a red paprika in the  hot air. And

now the sounds: the thump of distant antelope feet on grassy sod, the papery

rustling of vultures. A shadow  passed through the sky. The shadow flickered on George Hadley's upturned, sweating face."  

In this Ray Bradbury s text he describes very detailed on of the senses of imagery which is smell, by what you read here you can connect all this to real life, you can feel the smell, you can imagine it and you can picture yourself in the setting of the story.

"I wouldn't want the nursery locked up," said Peter coldly. "Ever."

     "Matter  of  fact, we're thinking of  turning  the whole house  off for

about a month. Live sort of a carefree one-for-all existence."

     "That  sounds  dreadful! Would I have  to tie my own shoes  instead  of

letting the shoe tier do it? And brush my own teeth and  comb  my  hair  and

give myself a bath?"

     "It would be fun for a change, don't you think?"

     "No, it would be horrid. I didn't like it when you took out the picture

painter last month."

    "That's because I wanted you to learn to paint all by yourself, son."

This quote describes very well Peter's way of thinking and how a room of pure imagination has consume him, how he cares so much for things that are not real, for things that are only based on three domensional walls, this describes how he would rather sit and do nothing other than go outside, enjoy the air, lay in the grass, his life now has become this house, this technology.

This Ray Bradbury's story has shock me a lot since this type of things can actually happen. He really tried to transmit a deep and meaningful message from this story. I believe that the message he tried to transmit was to don't let technology consume you, to enjoy the small and big things in life because one day you are going to realize that while not caring about what really matters you are starting to lose yourself and while in the process lose everyone around you, because living is taking chances to see the world, to change, to look around you, to realize how beautiful the world can be and finally to realize that everyhing that matters is just so close to you, not in a screen.

Release and its reality...

        Jonas father is about to perform a ceremony of release for the twins, he is doing this because the community can’t have two people that look exactly alike, so the lightest baby will be release.  Taking about Release, Jonas was starting to wonder about the rule of “not applying to Release”, why he couldn’t apply? The Giver gave him the answer for that question, he told him about the previous Receiver of 10 years ago, she was a girl call Rosemary, The Giver loved her. Rosemary could not handle so much pain of the memories she received and decided to apply for Release, after she did that all the memories return to the community, it was a CHAOS! After that no Receiver is allow to apply for Release ever again. Jonas was very curious about the ceremonies of Release so he ask for the video of the ceremony his dad perform, he saw everything, he knew the truth, and the truth was that Release means killing, his dad killed the lightest baby. Jonas was really upset and The Giver decided that is time for them to change the society they lived in, so they elaborate a plan, a plan for Jonas to run away so the memories could return to the community, but The Giver wasn’t involved in the part of running away. The Giver wants to be with his daughter again, his daughter Rosemary…

“I will take care of that, sir. I will take care of that, sir,” Jonas mimicked in a cruel sarcastic voice. “I will do whatever you like, sir. I will kill people, sir. Old people? Small newborn people? I’d  be happy to kill them, sir. Thank you for your instructions, sir. How may I help y…” He couldn’t seem to stop.”

Right now Jonas seems to be upset an angry for the reality of Release and he cant`t understand why they do it, but what he knows is that they don`t know what they are doing. I can make a prediction with this quote, since Jonas now agree with the plan to give the community the memories, I predict that once he runs away and the community has the memories he will return no the community and help everyone understand everything by himself, since I believe that The Giver will be with Rosemary, death.

Finally I believe The Giver so far has being a very interesting book which now is at one of the most important actions which is elaborate the plan so the community can get out of the lie they are all living in. Also it has come to a very sad point in which we know in order the commmunity can be so perfect as it is they have to kill people who don`t fit anymore. It`s time to show the truth and start to live in a real world, even though is not perfect and even painful, its real, and that`s all that matters.

The Painful Memories and the Love ones too

Jonas has receive more and more memories from The Giver like color and starts to question why the community will have the concept of "Sameness", and why would they don't know what color is. Since he really liked color he wanted to transfer the memory to his firmed Asher but he knew it wasn't possible, then he receive the memory of an animal being killed , an elephant. Time passes and Jonas starts to realize about the importance of memories and how important they have become for The Giver and will become to him, The memories are basically their lives, everything they know is the memories they have , everything they dedicate to  are the memories, without the memories The Giver saids everything would be meaningless.  Jonas then realises that The Giver is feeling pain, but why? Then he knew that it was because of the painful memories and Jonas wanted to help, so he took away some memories like hunger and war, it was very painful also to Jonas. Then in his home Jonas mother talks about the problem of having twins, there weren't allow to live in the community both of them so one of the twins was going to be release. One night at his home Jonas decide to take care of baby Gabe and while he was crying Jonas pass the memory of a lake to baby Gabe, but how? In one day of training he received the memory of Christmas, family, grandparents but most importantly love.


"Love", The Giver told him.
Jonas repeated it. "Love". It was a word and concept new to him.
They were both silent for a minute. Then Jonas said,
"Giver?"
"Yes"
"I feel very foolish saying this. Very, very foolish".
"No need. Nothing is foolish here. Trust the memories and how they make you feel."


I can make lots of predictions with this quote, but most of all with how Jonas will start to feel. Since he stopped taking the pills and he really is thinking about this world "Love", I believe he will feel this for Fionna,he will feel love and fall in love with her. I predict that Jonas will be different and I believe he IS different from the previous Receivers, he dosent only have the ability to see beyond but he also has the ability to change things and he is already doing it, now there is not only two persons that have this memories which would be The Giver and The Receiver but also baby Gabriel, with Jonas the community will start to know the truth what war is,what hunger feels like, what family means (grandparents) and they will know what love is and once they know it they would want to see it for themselves.


Finally I do think this memories and Jonas way of thinking will change the whole community. He is a a unic kid, that does have the ability to see beyond and wil keep seeing beyond but not only with the memories but with the real world.

The First Memory

Isabela Bermeo
8-E


Recently in the book The Giver, Jonas the protagonist just has been selected for being the Reciever of Memories, a ver honorable job, but at the same time quite scary. Every twelve has began his or her asssignment training very happy and tell lots of experiences about it, but Jonas is not allow to say anything about his training to anyone. The first day of his training Jonas met The Giver, which has been the previous Reciever and told Jonas about all the memories and just mentioned the memory of snow...
The Giver then pass the memory of snow to Jonas and he loved it! Then he pass the memory of sunshine he loved it too  but then he experience a sunburn, all this memories now belong to Jonas, but he is starting to wonder, why in his community their is none of this stuff? And again Jonas saw a "change" like with the apple and thee faces, but now he saw it in Fionnas hair. He asked The Giver about it and The Giver told him that he is starting to see COLOR, and now The Giver is gonna pass Jonas the memory of a rainbow...

Jonas just recieve the rules he must follow to become the Reciever of Memories and they seem to be very shocking specially rules number 4, 5 and 8. This rules talk about not telling about the training to anyone, do not do the ritual of dream-telling and he is now allow to lie. I predict that because he is a very special boy an d of course very smart he is going to make the difference, I believe all this rules have been wroten so he willl not rebell anything about his job, but what will he know and recieve that no one else may know? And that is how he will make the change, he will lies about following all this rules and he will want the community he lives in to experience all the pleasures of life like snow, sunshines, rainbows, colors! But most importanly know why they are trap in such perfect community. Jonas will stop this lie they are all living in and start introducing to them the real world.


I do believe that after Jonas knowing everything about the past and present and secrets of the world, he will not want to keep his mouth shut and he will want to do something with what he knows and theres is when I predict the previous Reciever who run away will show up. I predict they are both going to confront the Group of Elders and are going to let the people have some individuality for themselves, get to know the real world. I do believe that by Jonas recieving all the memories of the world he will recieve those painful memories like wars, strikes, rebellions, poor people and deaths.

The Giver chapter 6-8

Isabela Bermeo
8-E
6-12-14

Summary:
In these last chapters they talk about the ceremonys and the objects that they have gave to each child to represent they are growing. Also they talk about what happened to baby Gabe, who was sent to a place call "Elsewhere" so he will never return to the community. They did a ceremony to replace a child go died because he felt to a river, Jonas is finally going to assign to a job. In the ceremony while giving the assignments they skipped Jonas number for a very important reason, he felt very confuse, ashamed and afraid for what will happen and if he will be assign to a job. Finally at the end of the ceremony they called Jonas and told him he was "selected" to be the Receiver of Memories.

Text Response:
When the Chief Elder called Jonas after the ceremony ended and said, "Jonas has not being assigned, she informed the crowd and his heart sank.
Then she went on. Jonas has been selected." I was really confuse with what that meant. I was starting to question what exactly was going on and what did the word "selected" meant? I predict that this assignment he has been selected for will give him that knowledge to discover those mysteries and secrets the community carries, he will answer questions, no one know the answer to and as the Chief Elder said, the Receivers have the ability to see beyond, and thats what he will do.

Final Thoughts:  
Finally I do believe that this is the beginning of the stage or part of his life that he will become smarter. Since he is going to receive training to become strong and brave, he will have the courage to face any danger that threats him and he will be able to answer  all the questions he has. He will introduce the truth to the community, I believe that they are living in a lie, because nothing is so perfect as it seems and he will be the first one to recognize that. As the Receiver of Memories I predict he will receive those moments and thoughts, ideas, events and all kinds of clues and hints so he can see beyond the society and start to see the real world.

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Start of The Giver

Start of The Giver...
Isabela Bermeo
27-11-14

I think the book The Giver is gonna be about a perfect community, but not as perfect as it seems. Jonas, the protagonist is a very smart kid that I believe is going to become even smarter. Since the beginning of the book something has being weird like the airplane problem and realizing thing. Jonas is going to receive clues about what exactly what is going on in his community and see who and what is behind all this mystery about this "perfect" society.

I think this statement means that we all teenagers and kids are the future of the world. What Lowry meant when he wrote that, I believe that it was a message for all of us that are gonna be the adults in a possible future. Probably what he wants to tell us is that he are responsible for the Worlds future and we should learn how to take care of it and make our society a good society.Many authors and histories are about the future and sometimes they are bad and sometimes they are good, but there is always this problem about technology and the perfect society, what he wants to tell us is that we as humans in a future when we grow older should be able to be smart and intelligent about what happens around us and be able to do smart decisions so we can our community and free and nice community.

What I predict that will happen in the book is that Jonas is going to very frequently ask himself about this realizing they do in his community. With the pass of time and as he grows older he will receive some hints and clues to realize that something about the way and where he lives in is wrong. He will search for answers with his friends and even go to the outside world and then come back to realize that the society they lived in wasn't so perfect as they thought and will un cover all secrets.

First chapters, first actions and questions...

The Giver
First chapters, actions and questions....
By: Isabela Bermeo

Summary
What is going on right now in the book The Giver is that fisrt they seem to live in a perfect world in which everything is perfectly controled for everything and everyone. I can realize that the society they live in, is not a normal society with difficulties but instead is just a society with no kinds of trouble were everyone is perfectly placed were they should be, with the family they should be, with the job they belong and everything is just the way it should be, but there is also this thing they have about releasing people. I can guess from what I have read that if someone doesnt follow everything in the community like they are suppose to then they will be release which means that they may be kick out or even get killed in order they never get back to the community so everything is still perfect as it should be. I can predict that Jonas is a unic boy because of his eyes and also his personality and way of thinking, he will be able to get to the bottom of this perfect society he lives in.

My reading strategy here would be Questioning.
Quote; "Two children, one male, one female to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules."
My question is, Why families can only have one female and one male as their children, are they even from birth? This quote inspire me to do this question because i dont understand why the rules are being so strict and why do childrens don't know who their birth mothers are if they are not the ones they were raised with and possibly because of what I have continued reading there are this bithmothers which give their children to the community, many children can have lots of lots of brothers and sisters they don't even know and why would this birthmothers would give their children so easily? This book has made me feel very curious about what could happen  and made do lots of connections with other books and movies with Dystopia. One of the connnections I have made is with the book and movie of Divergent, I can connect with this book because they also have a perfect community controlled and safe, they are all given his jobs because of what they like and what they should be in the future.

Conclusion Paragraph
The Giver so far has been a great, interesting and very exciting book that has bring lots of questions, predictions and connections to my mind. I do believe that after Jonas gets his assignment something will change maybe with his family, friends or even his own life. I do believe that Jonas will not think as the other kids and adults that the community they lived in is just perfect as it seem and  I can tell that because Jonas has already began to question things about his community like the apple and I am sure that's not gonna be the only time he notices something. Finally I really like this book and I am exciting to keep reading and see what happens.