Hi everyone! These are some “ah-ha” moments that I had reading when reading The Giver, Chapter 5. I found out that the stirrings can be good for Jonas, but bad for the community. Stirrings could be connected to their birthmother and maybe even their future or past! I learned that Jonas is from a strict community where they want to avoid the “disease” (stirrings), so they give everyone pills. Stirrings could get worse later in life if not taken the pills. I think that Jonas likes the stirrings, so he might not want to take the pills.

This book has intrigued me in so many ways.

-Maria