COMPARE

OK, that was a full summary, but I tried to keep it shorter, but oh well.
Anyway, you can see how different the two worlds are. Jonas's world is more sheltered, a things are planned and done very exactly. Its against the rules to lie and be rude, and unlike our world, people actually follow the big rules. Matty's world, Village, on the other hand, was like a refuge for traveler and people who had left other towns and hoped to have a better life (Matty himself had come from living on the streets in a nearby town). there is a rule on lying, but it's not followed as strictly as in Jonas's town, as is evident by Matty lying to his friend as to his destination. In Jonas's town all needs are taken care of; food, homes, jobs, family, all you can thing of. Village is good in that sense, but you need to buy or trade for everything you need. they are very different.

messenger

this book starts with the impatient Matty wanting to get out before nightfall but having to wait to cook dinner. He wants to test something, but first he has to take a lesson from Seer, the old blind man who took Matty in when he first came to village, on cooking onions. He finally got out side and he went to his hideout in Forest. he met one of his friends on the way. he invited Matty to come to his house, but Matty said that he had work to do, a lie, as he delivers messages throughout Village, and gets to his hideout, makes a croaking sound he'd been practicing, and picked up the frog that responded. He felt a little jolt of energy pass his hand and saw what he had hoped, and feared. he headed home.

MEMO

the full summary takes to long to write, so I won't do that anymore. Besides, you aren't as likely to read the books if I tell you to much, and that's what I'm trying to do.

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.