the giver, chapter 1-3

The book starts near the end of November with Jonas,the main character, feeling frightened about the month to come. But that wasn't it. He knew "frightened" as the deep, sickening feeling that something terrible was about to happened , and recalled a time when a plane flew above, a rare occurrence, and every one had been asked to go inside. an announcement had declared it had been a false alarm with a trainee pilot. "needless to say he will be released*" the announcer had said. Jonas decided he was not frightened, but apprehensive.
That night he and his family had the normal sharing of feelings ritual*, and when his turn came, he explained how he was feeling, about the Ceremony of Twelve* that would come in December. they had a discussion of the ceremony and Jonas thought of the different jobs, then of the announcers, and of a time when an announcement (directed toward him, though his name hadn't been used) had reminded them that items shouldn't be taken from the recreation hall, and most importantly he remembered what had happened to that apple during recreation time. He was playing catch with it and it simply changed. He didn't know how, but it just changed . back to the conversation; His parents said that the assignments were chosen so carefully that people were rarely upset about their new jobs. He was glad about that.