Christmas in October

On October 23, 2016 in Berwyn,Illinois a christmas tree was placed on a house before Halloween even started. Some people are questioning why the family is placing a tree before Halloween and thanksgiving even started. The family is unknown but the guess is that the family most likely did this because they want prepare Christmas earlier or want to show that they don't celebrate Halloween.  People may be wondering what this has or do with anything but some people think it's weird that people are putting up Christmas decoration and advertising Christmas themed products when the other 2 holidays didn’t start.

1st quarter reflection

In the first quarter it was a bit hard for me to focus and to get work done. I sometimes get distracted and sometimes forget to turn in my work. But I don't think I did pretty well in class. I think that my writing didn’t change that much but I could try to improve it by finding new ways to write something that is important to me or things I need to write for my work. Cornell notes are also handy when it comes to taking a lot of notes.

I think my blog from August to now was okay. I improved a little from the first blog to now and I am proud of that. I also know how some things works when writing a blog like supporting details and topic sentences and other things like that. I usually take some notes when i'm working on a blog at home. Reading the notes I took could actually help me in a future blog or other work that needs to be written.

My goals for next quarter ELA is to not be distracted so much. So far I have been struggling to learn in ELA because I get easily distracted. My other goal for next quarter is to try and get work done quick and turned it without a lot of mistakes that I made. I sometimes forget to turn in something whether it’s a blog or just homework. I don’t only have to turn in my work for ELA quick but also in other classes that I forget to turn in. I usually struggle on finding something that I need so my other goal is to try and be more organized. Being organized means that I could find my work, items, paper, and other things easier than having to look for it and maybe forgetting it.

The Giver Movie vs Book

In The Giver it tells you that Jonas goes down the hill and started to hear music and then the book ends off with “Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only an echo.”(180). This explains that Jonas heard music but doesn’t know if it was an echo or not. It also explains that Jonas might of went past the boundary of memories only to realize that he found the cabin he saw in the memories. In The Giver movie on the same part as the book. It shows that Jonas crossed the boundary of memory and shows the community receiving the memories. He stops the sled only to realize that the cabin he saw in the memory was real. He started to walk towards and then says “I started to Hear music from the cabin. Perhaps it was just an echo.” This quote explains that Jonas realized that after he went past the boundary of memories he started to think that fiona and the community was finally safe. These parts of The Giver are different from each other because in the book it doesn’t tell you if he crossed the boundary it only explains that he went down the hill and heard music. While in the movie it shows that Jonas went past the boundary and shows the community receiving the memories and then finds out the cabin is real and hears music coming from it. This is different because the movie showed more details than the book while the movie showed what happened when he went down the hill and in the book it talks about Jonas sliding down the hill and hearing music.

The community in The Giver movie was different than the book because it didn’t talk about the technology the community in the book had. In the book it also never mentioned what the community he lived in looks like while in the movie it reveals it’s taken place in a floating platform. The community is also syfy based in the movie and I think this changed the story because since they have this technology they could easily find out what Jonas is up to and this could’ve lead to Jonas getting caught earlier making him fail his plan to change the community. This also affects the story because the memories and emotions are basically being erased by the injections shown in the movie and the drone that Asher used to help Jonas escape could also affect the story because if he didn’t help Jonas he would’ve been killed or probably brought back to the community to be released as well as Gabe.

I think that the book made me have an impact on what's going on more than the movie because the book explains more about The story than the movie like characters, plot, location and even the emotions that the characters were feeling. It also shows more about the community and more about who Jonas is and why he’s doing all these things in the book while in the movie it just fast forwards into the part where things get complicated making it very confusing to understand because there is no origin on why or how this happened. The book also shows extra details and more interactions that the character faces.

The Giver Theme Blog

Jonas is a dynamic character and the reason why he’s dynamic is because in the beginning of the story the only thing he cared about was the job he’s gonna get. Later on During the ceremony he was skipped and was embarrassed about it. When Chief Elder Stood up and hold Jonas’s arm he then announces “You will be trained to be our next Receiver of Memory. We thank you for your childhood”(64). Jonas was surprised and confused when he heard this. He didn't know why he was chosen as the receiver of memories. Soon time went by and Jonas proceeds to visit and meet The Giver for the first time. Soon he began his training. During the his training The Giver decided to share his memories with Jonas. He experienced lots of things such as snow, Holidays and even sled riding. The moment he changed was when Jonas experienced the Memory of war… He was traumatized to see what was happening. When Jonas and his friends were playing a game of war it says “In his mind, Jonas found the face of the boy who had lain dying on a. Field and had begged him for water”(134). During the game of war it also talks about Jonas “Struggling not to cry”(134). This shows that Jonas changed from the story. In the beginning he did not feel emotions but now that he thought about the boy dying in the memory of war he started to feel more emotional about the stuff that's happening around him.

The theme for the book The Giver is “looking through the past can create wisdom (memories)” I think that this is the theme because when Jonas first got the memories he realised that his community is a dead and crucial place. When Jonas found out about the memory of war it talks about how traumatized Jonas was after he first seen the experience of war. Soon when Jonas and his friends were playing a game of war it says “In his mind, Jonas had saw the face of the boy who had laid dying on a field and had begged him for water”(134).  This shows that Jonas finds out that war is wrong and that he and his friends shouldn’t be playing around about it.Jonas experienced a lot during his memories. Another reason memory creates wisdom is when Jonas realised that release meant to kill. When his father killed the newborn with the syringe filled with liquid Jonas started to scream that his father just killed a baby for an unfair reason. When Jonas then found out that Gabriel is getting released the next day. Jonas then realised that the memories were the cause of this and decided to take Gabriel with him to change his community. When Jonas fell of the bike it then sees a waterfall for the first time and wildlife. When he arrived it then says “Plane!, Plane! Gabriel called, and Jonas turned swiftly into the trees.”(172) This shows that Jonas experienced this before and since The Giver gave Jonas the memories including some of his he remembers about the plane he saw in the beginning of the book. That's why I think this is the theme for The Giver