Friday, March 6, 2009

Journal #2 Ch 11-15

The life of the Receiver is very lonely. Why does the community need a Receiver? How would you feel if you were chosen to be the Receiver?

21 comments:

Anonymous said...

maybe they need a reciever for telling old memories. i would be fretful, happy, and would be honored.

Rebecca Bell said...

i think maybe its like their own personnal textbook but easier because you dont have to look it up but harder because it weighs you down with each memory you receive.I would feel scared because of the pain and the fact of carrying around all those mermories, but of course like most things its probably isnt as bad as they make it out to be.

tiffany a said...

i think they need a reciever becouse they need someone to relieve all the pain of the old one.and so someone would get the job they are capable of. not one thats to easy for them. i would also be sad,curios,happy all at the same time if i was choosen to be the next reciever. sad becouse i wont get to see my family. and i couldnt tell them what a good job i did at work that day. curios becouse of what might be outside the walls that i work,live at. if you are the reciever i imagine you get to go OUTSIDE. so then i would be curious what it looks like. one last thing i would be happy becouse i just got choose to be the next reciever. no one else exept me so they must see something special in me or uniqe.

Jenna D. said...

The community needs a receiver because if they are faced with something they have never expierenced before, or they arent sure about, they need help deciding what to do. Since one day Jonas will have all of those memories, they will ask for his help since he knows what happend in the past. So he will probably know what to do.
They also need a Receiver so others dont have to feel the pain that everybody once did. He has to save everybody else from the burden of pain and suffering. Him and the Giver get to feel it all. But some memories from the past are good ones, not bad ones.

Leatha C. said...

The community needs the reciver because they will need advice about some things. But some ideas they think is right but is acualy wrong. I would not wont to be the reciver. I wouldnt want to be one because i would have pain and i would be alone. But i wouldnt have to but it would be hard. It would also put a lot of stress on me.

joshua reidy said...

the coummunity needs a reciver so they know whats goin on. And they can tell if something bad is going to happen. And everything depends on the reciver because they have to get everything right. i would not like being the reciver because you have no control over you life. and you dont get to hang out with friends. because you are always working and you dont get to chose what you want to eat for a snack.

Kaitlynn Grace said...

maybe they need a reciever for helping make decisions.they also may need them because the old reciever is dieing. maybe for remembering things.i would feel honored. i would also feel scared.but i would also feel humiliated if i were chosen

Drew O. said...

Why the coumunity might neeed a reciever is because some one could lead and teach them because they can do a lot thst they cant. Praobably why the reciever is so lonley is because they have secrets they cant tell their family so it would be a lonley life. Another reason why the coumunity needs a reciver is because the town dosent know about death . The reciever might be lonely because they cant talk about training they have to keep that all bottled in ee col.Some recievers are 12 and still cant tell parents . The reciver life can because they can see color .

Cody A. said...

I think that the community needs a reciever to tell them what to do if something happens that they have never expierienced before. I think being the reciever would have good and bad things about it. Some good things would be able to see colors, get good memories like sledding or sailing, and then having new words in your vocabulary like red, snow, hill,(etc.)
Some of the bad things about being the reciever would be the pain and torture. Some examples would be falling off the sled and breaking your leg, being in the middle of the Civil War, and seeing an animal killed like the Elephant.
Over all I think I would WANT to be the Reciever/Giver because I think I can endure the pain.

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Tasha B. said...

The community needs a receiver because the receiver gives the community wisdom and knows what they have to do in when something goes wrong. The the receiver would use his or her memorys that give them so much pain to give them wisdom. I would be scared, different but then happy at the same time if I was the receiver. I would feel scared because I wouldn't know what was going on and why I was picked to be the receiver. I would feel happy because I was choosen to be a part of something big. I wold feel like I will not be a part of the community or different because the receiver has to go home right after training and then I would be have to lie and I don't want to lie to my family and my friends. Also because I was the only one that has this job. What would my friends think of me if I was the receiver? Would I have any time with my family? Anyway I would not want to be the receiver because I would be different.

brooke c. said...

They need a reciver to bear all the pain and sufering. If I was the reciver I would not like it at all. I mean only one purson to be in pain and to be alone even when your with other poeple. I would try to change that so at least a few poeple to share the pain and so you won't be alone. No one wants to be alone and in pain thats too big of a burden to carry for one purson. I'd need someone to help carry it with me.

Hannah L said...

the community needs a reciver so they can make the right choicies.becuz they think that if u kno what would happen if they do one thing they can prevent somthing bad from happening, and choose the other.if i was choosen to b the the reciever i would so back down, cuz they dont let anyone choose. if i have to do what they say all day every day then im not gonna help them just boss people around. i would leave the town even if it was against the rules.

Hannah B. said...

Im thinking that the community would need a reciever.I think this because maybe, if the reciever breaks the rules or something like that, and gets released,then they could know what its like before they leave.Another reason could be that the cheif elders are are trying to see. what would happen if they could give memories to other people, and see if the reciever would blow it and tell people,maybe they are checking this because they ares eeing if they taught them enough to be a trustworthy community.
If i was chosen to be the reciever,then i would be scared and nervous.I wouldnt know what would be given to me,or if something bad would often happen,i would have a clue.

Tristan m said...

The community needs a reciever because hes a very powerful man.And can also give people memories.If i was chosen to be a reciever i would probaly be very nervous.It would be hard for me to get used to it.And also would get scared when the giver would transmit the memories of pain.And i would probaly be doing lots of work as the reciever.

Christian J. said...

The community needs a reciever because the community can use a back up person to possibly come up with some ideas or opinions of thier own. I would feel happy but nervous at the same time because you can lie but it is like you are loosing your friends and family too. You have to go and train and it is like you have no one to be around with. So to me, it would be really hard to be the reciever cause if you can give the memory of somnething or tell someone something they might not bieleve you and you can loose a relationship with them. Also you barely see anyone and you ARE going to feel very much lonley. So if that is how it is, then that is a big job to do.

clarissan said...

I would be amazed to be the receiver because I wouldn't know what to do. If I was the receiver I would change the rules to where they would be fair. When I say fair i mean to where I would change them to rules that I would like if I wasn't the receiver. I would still love to be the receiver because I like to listen to other people's opinions. If I was new to the community because I was released from a different one, to be the receiver would be a good option to meet new people and make new friends. It would be awesome to be the receiver.

Brenden C. said...

I think the community needs a receiver because if the people do decide to know what the past was like than they will have it. I would go into shock if they asked me to be the receiver. I would be happy at first but then I would sence a little bit of fear. I would find out the pain and suffering that went on. I would feel lonley. But I would be in the highest athority and everybody would respect me.

Paige R. said...

The comunity needs a reasever because they think that not every one should have to know more than they do to survive. They also think that everyone shouldedn't know what pian is.So they pick the percon with the most difference to be the reaseiver.Like Jonas they could be pick because his eyes are blue so he'll be able to see color.
They would also need a reaseiver because they would have the wisdom and knolege in case something went rong.But if I was going to be the new reasiever I'd be scared because once the giver is gone then I would have to be the one who nows the most and has all of the pian.I would also not be able to share what happend during the day.I would also might lose me friends because I wouldent be able to tell my freinds anything during the day ether.

Marisol Garcia said...

The community might need a receiver so the memories of their history and life they had in the past is kept alive and they might need this memories kept alive just in case they want to change their live back the way it was. i would feel terrible and really lonely because not being able to tell your family about your job, the things you do at you job and having to lie to them would not be right and would make me feel bad.

Marisol Garcia said...

The community might need a receiver so the memories of their history and life they had in the past is kept alive and they might need this memories kept alive just in case they want to change their live back the way it was. i would feel terrible and really lonely because not being able to tell your family about your job, the things you do at you job and having to lie to them would not be right and would make me feel bad.