Chapters 6, 7 & 8

The December ceremony is is the most important event in Jonas´ community. Eevery single year before you become a twelve you will either recieve something or have something changed , but the ceremony of twelve gives something really important which is your assingment and changes something which is your life forever. December has finally arrived and Jonas is even more apprehensive. The cermony starts, and it lasts two days, on the first day Lilly turns into and Eight and families are assigned their new babies and they announce that Gabe is not going to be released and he will stay for one more year. In the second day twelves get assinged. Everuthing is going perfectly, the Chief Elder (the coordinator of the community and ceremony) is saying each number and telling what their assingments will be. Jonas is number ninteen , the chief elder tells eighteen his/her assignment and its time for her to call Jonas to the stage but she skips his number and goes directly to twenty. Jonas is really worried. Then the Chief Elder explains why she skipped his number and tells Jonas that he is the new receiver of memory. Jonas was worried and the Chief Elder explained that his training will be painful physically. Jonas felt he was different and that he wasn't being accepted.


" But you will be faced, now," she explained gently, "with a magnitude that none of us here can comprehend because it is beyond our experience." (63)

This quote makes me think why does it involve pain. What is going to happen to Jonas with all of this pain that they say he will have. Why does it involve physical pain. This makes me think a lot and makes me draw conclusions. This makes me think that Jonas'  assignment is the worst but what do you do there.


I think that Jonas' will have a difficult life from now on because of the pain. I am not sure what his assignment is about but I infer that it will not be good. That if it involves physical pain it involves much more worst things.