The Giver Dialectical Journal

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1. The mood, atmosphere and feeling of the first page is that Jonas was frightened more than scared. This was because a plane flew over his community, and it is illegal to fly over his community. Another reason Jonas was scared was because he was the only one home in his family when the announcement was made. This must have been scary because this has never happened before to him and he didn’t know what was going on besides the fact that he saw the plane fly over his community. He just had to enter a close building and find out what would happened next.

2. The incident that had frightened Jonas was the plane flying over his community the announcement was made around the community by a women warning everyone in the community about the plane I think by loud speaker.

3. The entire community uses bicycles because this community a utopian society meaning they need everything to be perfect in their community. So they ride bikes instead of cars because cars put off pollution while biking just uses human energy putting out no pollution.
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Community members are released for a few reasons, one of the reasons is having three or more children, in the text it states that Lily says “can we keep him? Then her mom reminded her that there could only be one male and one female child per family unit”(Page 10 - 11). Another reason why community members are released is if a member flys over the community for example the story talks about the driver of the plane living in the community and he got released for flying his plane over the community. He was a new pilot and followed the directions wrong (Page 1 - 3). The last reason members are released was if your are elderly, it says “release of the elderly which was a time of celebration for a life well and fully lived”(Page

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