chapter 5,6,7,8 questions

Chapter 5

• Why was Jonas embarrassed about telling his dream? I don’t know maybe because he went to the bath house and also because the dream portrayed him breaking rules.

• How important is sameness in Jonas’s community? How important is it in your community? Because in Jonas's community all being the same is an important rule were as in my community being the same is not important some people in my community show that they are rich and such as.

Chapter 6

• All the members of Jonas’s family had to sign a pledge that they would not become attached to the new child, Gabe. Do you think it’s possible to keep such a promise? No its not possible not to even get attached to a baby because if you spend certain time to something that's when you get attached.

• What do you think of how families in Jonas’s community are formed? By the elder committee they keep an eye on the units because everything in the community has to be formal.

Chapter 7

• Do you think Asher should have been given the discipline wand when he was three, for saying “smack” instead of “snack”? No because no one deserves to be beaten for a grammatical error.

• How would you feel if you were in Jonas’s shoes and the Chief Elder skipped right over you when she was making Assignments? I would feel very embarrassed and i would just like to not be in that place at that time.

Chapter 8

• What do you think Jonas’s Capacity to See Beyond is? I think that it means to see people's potential and or means he can predict something about someone's future.

• Would you rather be selected, as Jonas was, or assigned, as his groupmates were? I would prefer to be Jonas because i’m really interested about his job the reciver of memory it sounds amazing.