Where is the Necklace?

Guy Maupassant’s short story, “The Necklace”, Is about a women that is ambitious for attention and being envied. His husband has been invited to a grand party of his work with his wife, Mathilde. She will do everything to look amazing for that part and her friend lend her a necklace, at the party she succeeded but the necklace was lost.

His imagery texts are very strong such as:

Instead of being delighted, as her husband hoped, she threw the invitation on the table with disdain, murmuring:

“What do you want me to do with that?”

“But, my dear, I thought you would be glad. You never go out, and this is such a fine opportunity.

This appeals to the senses of sight and sound because it describes it perfectly how it reacts with the letter.

“No; there’s nothing more humiliating than to look poor among other women who are rich.” pg.2

This reveals that Mathilde is whats people attention and to be the top star of everything. That’s why she just wants expensive things and stand out among others.

I enjoy reading this short story because karma happened to Mathilde for being so anvicious. 

Finally the Sun is Here

“All Summer in a Day”, a short story by Ray Bradbury; people are leaving in Venus, there, rain never stops, the last time they saw the sun it was seven years ago. At school kids are learning about the sun, making essays and poems. Margot, a girl who has lived on Earth two years ago, shared all her memories with his classmates but they don’t believe her.
Ray Bradbury has strong imagery in his short stories, for example 

 “It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon        thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain, with the drum and gush of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the islands. A thousand forests had been crushed under the rain and grown up a thousand times to be crushed again.” pg.1

The author, here appeals to the senses of sight and sound it explains how forests crush. Also using the phrase “with the drums and gush of water” you can imagine how the rain falls and the sound when it gets to the floor. 

“Then, for the first time, she turned and looked at him. And what she was waiting for was in her eyes.
"Well, don’t wait around here !" cried the boy savagely. "You won’t see nothing!" Her lips moved.
"Nothing !" he cried. "It was all a joke, wasn’t it?" He turned to the other children. "Nothing’s happening today. Is it ?" They all blinked at him and then, understanding, laughed and shook their heads.” pg.2

This reveals that Margot, the main character, is weak. With all those terrible things his classmates do to her, and she doesn’t tell a word. But when she tries to tell something Margot stays mute and William laughs at her.

I love Bradbury because his endings are unexpected and leave you with questions and want to know more about it. 

Can Jonas Free the Memories?

“I was only asking about release because my father is releasing a newchild today. A twin. He has to select one and release the other one. They do it by weight” Jonas glanced at the clock.

Jonas was wondering how release was made, so he asked the Giver, he wanted to know about this private ceremony, each private ceremony is recorded so they asked to the speaker to play it. When he started watching it he saw both babies, his dad was there, he weights them and one was heavier than the other one. The woman that was there took the baby with her and left the one that was being released. He saw his father taking to the baby then he injected something in the forehead! After the syringe was fully gone the expression the baby had was terrible! It remembered Jonas the guy that was killed in war. Now he knew his father killed an innocent baby!!!!! He was crying, he didn’t want to go home this was such a socking thing that the giver told Jonas to stay this night at his dwelling.  The speaker was told to notify his family but with a fake reason. Jonas can’t believe what he had seen, he knew Fiona had to do the same thing but with old people and she will never knew she was killing someone because they were toughed to do it like there was nothing wrong. After having dinner the giver told Jonas a plan. This consisted in free al the memories that he had he will be trained to do this the Giver will stay in the Gabe was going to be released! He wascommunity and the receiver will go to free them. It was a perfect plan until Jonas knew n’t going to let his father do that so he changed the plans and leave earlier from his dwelling to save him, he stole his father’s bike and started his expedition to elsewhere. In his road he experience many things, he saw planes that might be looking for them, but also beautiful things he saw birds, a deer and an animal that he didn’t know the name. He experienced hunger and real pain when he falled but the most amazing thing he saw was snow a hill and a sled he went on it holding Gabriel in the coldness and went down the hill when they get there he saw a house, trees with colored lights and heard music,...

“I won’t! I won’t go home! You can make me! Jonas sobbed and shouted and pounded the bed with his fists.”

“For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music. He heard people singing.Behind him, across the vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps it was only and echo.”

What I can see in the first quote is that when Jonas didn’t want to go home was for a giant reason. The pain he was holding, to know your father has killed someone and he didn’t knew what he was doing was devastating. Having to hold too much pain has to be like that, sometimes cry and, others, just be brave but in this case this was the time to cry. And in the other quote what was Lois trying to tell us in the end of the story? What happened did he finally get to elsewhere? Because it never said that, all the memories he had earned with the giver became true he saw amazing things but at the end what happened the echo….

Jonas did his mission! his plan succed!

At the end of this book I had to do the final choice on it. Did Jonas succeed? I’m optimist and I thought he did it; all this journey through elsewhere makes him stronger make him experience amazing things we don’t appreciate every day. But for me he did get it because at the end he heard and saw everything that he learned and received as a memory.

Painful Memories, Make situations of Joy Change

"The Giver looked up at him, his face contorted with suffering "please," he gasped, "take some pain."

That day Jonas knew he will be sent home the Giver was rigid in his chair, Jonas was about to leave, but before he asked the Giver if he might need some help and he told him that please take the pain that was struggling him. Jonas went to the bed take his tunic off and the Giver placed his hands in his back, when the memory started he was confused, he saw a kid asking him if wanted water, after that he saw the boy in his uniform with fresh blood coming out of him! then again, the boy's chest, also Jonas arm felt some pain. This memory was called the memory of war, people died in there, had panic and feel this painful feeling he felt in his arm. The next day Jonas didn't wanted to go back to the Annex but he knew he had to go, so he went. The giver felt sorry for transmitting that memory, that day he just give him happy memories such as a birthday party and the Giver´s favorite, a holiday called Christmas. In that memory Jonas learned what were grand parents and a feeling called love. When he came home he ask his parents if they loved him, and her mother corrected him and told him to use precise language because loving was just a word to them, not a feeling. A random holiday came, people in the community stop working that day, there was no school or volunteer hours. In the holiday Lilly came ant told she was angry because other kid broke the rules while playing in the playing center, but Jonas knew she wasn't angry she had other feeling because he now has experienced the real one. Jonas saw his friend Asher, and then he saw other children's playing a warfare game shooting each other this lead Jonas to depression, after they notice something was wrong with him they fought, also he felt loss the thugs with his childhood friends were different now he was also feeling loss. One year after his selection has passed it was December again! Wow!! One year that he was experiencing this memories! A day Jonas ask for about release, and the Giver told him that he can apply for release after training him and then.... He was told that before the last receiver the in e that failed and people never talk about the new receiver could apply for release. They started talking about the last receiver, she was a girl an intelligent and eager to knowing about memories. Her name was Rosemary. The Giver loved her she was always enthusiastic when he transmit memories, when the time to transmit the painful memories come it broke his heart. The giver did it because of his work, he gaved him the feeling of loneliness, and loss since then she changed.

" I felt angry because someone broke the play area rules,"  Lily had said once, making the first with her small him to indicate her fury" 

"you can't understand, then that is what I felt for Rosemary," The Giver explained. " I loved her."

 What I can know about the community life is that they have a perfect life! Getting mad when someone breaks rules? Is something that doesn't cause anger to someone. As Jonas said she wasn't feeling that because she hasn't experience it correctly she was feeling shallow impatience and exasperation. Also the Giver's love for Rosemary was very strong, she told so many wonderful things about her what she did, her failure when she applied to release and injected her self the Guver thought it was his fault. He had made her a girl with many happy memories but the painful ones make her change make her view the world prom another perspective.

Maybe in next chapters... Fiona, Jonas and Asher will be friends againg, people will know about release what is it and what was the name of the last reciever. People in the community will know the truth, why do they hide rhings for them in the next posts you will know if my prediction was correct or no!

New Rules, New Life

´´Jonas simply smiled and nodded, not ready to lie, not willing to tell the truth.´´  

It was difficult to Jonas to follow this new rule, to lie, this was a common morning ritual usually all the family participate, and Jonas now is prohibited to share his dreams. He tried to imagine the exact description of how hills, snow and sunshine was, but is difficult to describe things and make people imagine what they never experience before. Fiona came to talk with Jonas and told him that she was waiting for him last day, Jonas was taking too long and it was getting late and she couldn´t take too long. While talking to Fiona something in her hair changed, and it wasn't just her hair few days ago in the ceremony the faces in the auditorium the apple and now her hair. This could be seeing beyond. He explained this to the Giver the changes he have seen and he said to Jonas he is starting to see a color, the color red.

Days passed and Jonas experienced memories of many colors, and the rainbow. Jonas gets frustrated because all the community doesn't experience colors because of sameness. He will like to choose things but the Giver remainds him that this has some negative effects. He was so angry about people sont se colors he triend to transmit the memory of it to others with out the permission of anyone. He tried with Asher but nothing changed. After that he had a new memory that the Giver has gived to him, a terrible one. They were elephants the ones he though they weren't real, they were killing them!! Also Jonas saw different tones of flesh and skin color. That evening Jonas told Lilly elephants were real, again he tried to transmit a nice memory of them but it didn't work. He asks the Giver about his personal life, he once got a spouse and a family but it was difficult for him because he had some rules to follow; not share anything about his dreams, work, and books. He told Jonas the comitee call someriems when they need their help to do decisions, to help them not to the same mistakes that happened in the past. Then Jonas talks to him about his teacher and the Giver tells him he doesn't know truly what he is teaching because he doesn't has the memories of it.

 Jonas has earned another memory and this one was very painful. To break a leg at first he get scared and then he get a terrible pain he triend to move and he coudn't. He femembered he coudn't dring any pain pills or medication. Gabriel was growing successfully they hope he would not get released of the community. Jonas finally to help him sleep he transmit him new memories and he receives them! Why he can receive them? What so they have in common 😨

Having New Memories of the World

Jonas has now been selected, everyone including him doesnt know how to react. He feels different and apart of his commuity and friends. Ashes comes and congratulates him of his selection, he does the same. People come and congratulates Ashers the also congratulate him but like they actually don't know what to do at that moment. Lilly was know thinking about her volunteer hours and  thought about the Nurturing Center becuse know she was pro because of Gabriel. The family is discussing about the last reciever, the one that failed, since she failed and disappointed the community her name will ever be mention and/or used in a new born baby ( woah what she might done. Is the name thing simillar to Harry Potter Voldemort name?). No one knows what happen to her. Jonas now had a folder, he open it and found one and only paper, his laws in which included  "to lie" this impressed him because in the community this was unacceptable.

It was his first day he coudnt be late. He went with Fiona and talk for a while 

"Well everything is different now," Jonas remaind her.
"Even the nameplate on our bikes," Fiona laughed

Why their new assigme
nts have made a grat change in their life? to change just a simple thing as their nameplates in their bike, after discussing it both tell their selves they dont want to be late. Fiona whent to her assigment job and Jonas whent to the Annex.When he get there a voice talk through the speakes, suddenly after saying it was him, Jonas, it let him in. Athing impressed him the door had a lock, normally ordinary houses in the community dot have one ( maybee... they dont have privacy but they have security). Jonas get to the house it looked like an ordinary one but then he realized that the walls were fully covered with books they were thousands of them maybe millions!!!!  and a normal community house have only books of laws and what they deserved to know. Then the Giver talked about snow, But Jonas didnt knew what was it so the reciever transmit one of his memories, the sled and snow one, but before transmiting the memory he TURNED OFF the speaker. Jonas never had seen an off button in a speaker before! He relaxed lay down in the bed without the tunic and the Giver touch his back then Jonas felt cold, this memory was pleasent! He asks if the giver has also the memory but he has others of them.

The snow mwmory was entertainig for him, Jonas questions why they dont have it anymore and its because this complicates the growing of crops and the hills made things difficult to transport.The other memory he had was one he didnt feel cold, he identify it was something warm, and hot, it was the sunshine it. The sunshine came from the sky Jonas told to the Giver. Jonas get one more memory, he felt warmness again but this time it hurt! they were sunburns this was a memory to make Jonas understand the pain thing.

The Giver

Chapter 6-8

It's the time all Twelves were waiting for, their ceremony. Jonas remembers Lilly about how he get her jacket to show their independence by buttoning the jacket. When they get to the ceremony Jonas mother takes a sit, while the father has to go to name the Ones because he is a Nurturer. Little Gabe is not with the Ones bacause he is short and isnt healthy enough. But Jonas father has convinced them that he could stay one year more in the comunity and  his family will take care of him but they have to promiss that they can get emotionally attached with him because is determinated that Gabe cannot be in Jonas family for stability. Each family have to sons, a girl and a boy. They are talking about Caleb a four year old kid who diead not to long ago. He died drowned in the river bacause he went there without anyone and didnt knew how to survive. The next part in the ceremony that takes place is the bycicles that are given to the Nines and the Tens hair cut. Also is reported that if you dont like or you aren't good for your assigment you can be transfered to the Elsewhere, But the elders never make a wrong desision.

Is time fot he ceremony of the Twelves. What do they will be assigned? They order their selves in the numbers they were born. The numbers were before they get their name in their ceremony where becoming Ones. But they were used also in ceremonies. The Chief Elder says a speach in ehich she mentions that their differences have been a privilage to them, deciding whivh job they will be assigned. Asher, number four was called, things of his childhood were mentiones such as the smack error. His assigment was Director of Recreation. Others were named, then they get to Fiona, number eighteen, Jonas was next. He was number nineteen, but he wasnt named, Jonas was skipped. The audience noticed, everyone did. He wwonders what he might done wrong.

All Twelves were mentioned except Jonas. The Chief Elder apoligizes.  She explains Jonas have been selected. He has been selected to be The Reciever of Memory. Jonas notices that the current reciever has the same pale eyes. He has to be traied apart everyone else. Jonas has qualities not everyone has such as intelligence, integrity, courage and wisdom. He is telled his training requires phisical pain and thats when the wisdom will appear. Also he has the capacity of seying beyond, he has actually experience that with that apple in his childhood when he saw something, he dont know what, changed. Now Jonas has been assingned the  most elder important job, might he be able of handle this phisical pain/