The Giver Dialectical Journal

(MIP-1) Jonas starts learning that he is different from the rest, and he starts to ask a lot of questions. (SIP-A) Jonas starts seeing differently before he is even picked to be the Receiver, and so he starts having all of these questions that nobody an answer. (STEWE-1) At the beginning, Jonas talks to his family as if there wasn’t a such thing as animals, or other things because he doesn’t know anything about what life was like before the community, “‘Why do you think the visitors didn’t obey rules?’ Mother asked. Lily considered, and shook her head. ‘I don’t know. They acted like...like…’ ‘Animals?’ Jonas suggested. He laughed. ‘Thats right,’ Lily said, laughing too. ‘Like animals.’ Neither child knew what the word meant, exactly, but it

Did my parents have sleds when they were young? Did you?’ The old man shrugged and gave a short laugh. ‘No,’ he told Jonas. ‘It’s a very distant memory. That’s why it was so exhausting- I had to tug it forward from many generations back’” (83). Jonas asks the Giver why they don’t have snow, and if the Giver had it or his parents, but the Giver told him it was a distant memory. Jonas is very curious about what it was like and he also gets really curious about other things to. (STEWE-2) Jonas starts being curious again, but this time it is about if the Giver has a spouse, “‘Giver,’ Jonas asked once, as they prepared for the day’s work, ‘don’t you have a spouse? Aren’t you allowed to apply for one?’ Although he was exempted from the rules against rudeness, he was aware that this was a rude question. But the Giver had encouraged all of his questions, not seeming to be embarrassed or offended by even the most personal. The Giver chuckled. ‘No, there’s no rule against it. And I did have a spouse. Your forgetting how old I am, Jonas”(102). Jonas learns a lot about what it was like before the community even existed, and he starts to get a lot of unnecessary. (CS) This is how Jonas is different from the rest and learns many new