Make a text to self connection with the main character, Jonas.

[pedro]

Aaliyah wrote: "I don't have that much connection to Jonas except one time I was getting a award from a award cermony I didn't know about and i was confused and nervous,and my mom new about it and I didn't. I dont..."

all i have to say is lol oops... i mean laugh out loud

[Nikita]

I don't have much a connection with Jonas... at all. My family unit is broken and i dont' have a bike. I would feel a lot of akward about a person that i've NEVER seen before touching me. Even if it is just to transfer a memory of snow, sunlight, or sunbrun

[Jonathan]

Well , Yeah I feel like that we are connected because , he feels lost and lonely. I felt the same way as him when I was younger. He feels left out and almost friendless , but at least he HAVE some friends to hang out with and to get help from with homework , problems at school , and almost anything that he needed help on. I am deaf and he is the " Reciever " major differences!

I would've freaked out. I won't be able to think correctly , do things right the first time as given , and speachless! I would be confused on what to do as well.

[Da'vonta]

Have you made a personal connection in any form with the main character, Jonas? How are you like him? How are you different from him? How would you have reacted to receiving all these unknown memories?


No,not made any personal connections with Jonas. Me and Jonas both have many questions to ask if we don't know what is going on. For instance I think that if I as in his shoes I would be just as nervouse and scared as he is right now. Jonas has many questions about his job in the community.I'm different from Jonas mainly beacause i wouldn't react as he did in his situation. I would be thankful and scared if I was to learn of all the memories as he did.

[Basia]

I don't think i could have a personal connection with Jonas. He's like a robot. Doing everything he's told and not making any mistakes whatsoever. I could never be like him or experience his life , because I am my own person & i couldn't do the same things as everyone I've ever met. I would rather die, or be "released."

I am like Jonas because sometimes I am confused for no reason. Also, I am sometimes chosen for things that I don't want to be picked for. If Iwere given all those memories, I would be scared. Also I would be confused. How would I know that that wouldn't kill me? I wouldn't be myself anymore.

[Elvis]

There r some personal connection between me and Jonas. Like example,I am always curious like him and we want to ask plenty of questions. We r both brave and alot things in common but there r some different too as well. Like he has pale eyes and i dont. Also, he love to correct the language which i dont.

[Alejandra]

I don't really have a personal connection with Jonas. We are really opposite from each other. We are a kind of little bit like each other, because we are curious about the world and every thing around us. How are we different? Well, I'm loud and he is not, I think?

I would not really like to receive all those memories, because I wouldn't, well he wouldn't, no how it would feel like. For example, he would experience sunburn, but I never want to experience that, and probably never will. So, why would I want to experience something that will never happen to me!!!

[Kenia]

I can't really relate much to Jonas, but one thing can really relate to is his urge to make his own choices and become an independent person. Other than that Jonas amd I don't have any connectons...yet. I'm different from Jonas in many ways for starters I don't live in a society where everything is chosen for me, I get to make my own chocies . I get to make the choice if I want to became a doctor or lawyer or what I want to wear today or what I want to eat for lunch. Second off all I don't have pale eyes. And lastly if I had to be given a bunch of memeories from the whole worlds history I would be most diffentnaly nervous but at the same time my own curiosity to know more , to learn more would beat me and I would be a bit joyous to get learn all this.

[Stephanie]

I can say that I have a connection with jonas. I ask to many questions when it comes to something I don't get. My connection with joans is life and how weird it is. It's like when something in your life happens but you don't see it coming.Me and Joans are alike because we both are really couriouse, most of the time. We both are also sneeky and we get away with it. Well most of the time. Me and Jonas are also different because we don't live in the same enviorment.We don't live in the same community and our rules don't work the same. Such as jobs, shcedual birthdays and more.If the giver would of gave me memories I would feel so weird and couries of why he would of gave me these memories that I think I wouldn't need. I would probebly ask him alot of questions and feel confuesed.

[Aria]

Oh dear, Jonas...how to describe the relation between him and I. I truly believe we live in a controlled country in which the population has been taught to believe there is such thing as freedom and normality between us. I have no idea who my receiver was or is, but I feel like my eyes are opening more and more and I cant take it sometimes. I feel like I can connect to Jonas in this way. I might run away and that will be another thing we have in common, but not sure yet. ;)

[Keyonee]

The Giver is a person that gives away memories. The Receiver is the person that gains the memories. Jonas is now starting his training to become the new receiver.Jonas went through a lot of pain during his training. He had sled down the snowy mountain but he broke his leg through this memorie. Then now he knows how pain feels. Jonas started to see colors by seeing the apple an Fiona's hair. The Giver gave him a memorie of a rainbow. Jonas had gabe in his room but he gave him a memo rie on accedient.

[jaimeh]

i can make a personal connection with jonas becaue when somehting comes in my life and i know they are going to leave (to be continued)

[madison]

Jonas is very brave to be taking in all these memories, I would not, I would be ripping my hair out and would DEFINITELY tell my parents!