Too Real

In Ray Bradbury’s story The Veldt a family lives happily in their modern and really expensive house that makes everything for them, the kids in that family have a technological nursery where everything they imagine appears in there in three dimensions and real looking. The kids passed too much time in the nursery playing in an African Veldtland that seemed real, the animals, the sun and the smells.  One day the nursery´s 3D holograms where too real, and the lions on it ended up having both parents for meal.

      

 

African Veldt 

In these story we can find a lot of characterization specially in the members of the family. The character of the mother, Lydia Hadley is hysterical and nervous almost in all the story for example "George, I wish you'd look at the nursery."
     "What's wrong with it?"
     "I don't know."
     "Well, then."
     "I  just want you  to look at it, is all, or call a  psychologist in to
look at it."
     "What would a psychologist want with a nursery?"
     "You know very well what he'd want." His  wife  paused (...)"  In these dialogue between both parents we can understand the personality of Lydia Hadley. Ray Barndbury uses dialogues to shape the characters personality. Other example of characterization is "I'm afraid." She  came to him  and put  her body against him and cried

steadily. "Did you see? Did you feel? It's too real."

     "Now, Lydia..."

     "You've got to tell Wendy and Peter not to read any more on Africa."

     "Of course - of course." He patted her.

     "Promise?"

     "Sure."

     "And lock the nursery for a few days until I get my nerves settled."

In these part Ray Brndbury uses the words “nerves” and “steadly” to dicrive how the character acts and feels.

For Imagery theres a lot of good and descriptive examples like "

The hot straw smell of lion grass, the cool green smell of the hidden  water  hole, the great rusty smell of animals, the  smell of dust like a red paprika in the  hot air. And now the sounds: the

thump of distant antelope feet on grassy sod, the papery rustling of vultures." 

Here we can almost feel and hear the African Veldt and it`s animals in front of us. In these part Ray Bradbury compares things we know and we surely had felt to seme that we have not.

Another good example is "  And here were the lions now, fifteen  feet away, so real, so feverishly and startlingly real that you could feel the prickling fur on your hand, and your  mouth was stuffed  with the dusty upholstery  smell  of  their  heated pelts, and  the  yellow  of  them  was in your  eyes like the yellow  of  an exquisite French  tapestry, the yellows of  lions and  summer grass, and the sound  of  the matted lion lungs  exhaling on  the silent noontide,  and the smell of meat from the panting, dripping mouths." In these part Ray Bradbury uses the sense of touch and smell really good making us be able to feel and hear.

these had been a great story full of interesting theme, the message: too much of anything is not good.

Chapter 17-20

In these chapters we start with an unscheduled holiday, it means that Jonas and the rest of the community is free to rest or do what they would like, but never broke a rule, in these holiday Jonas decides to go with he´s friends to play, Asher and other children where playing a war game, pretending to shoot with imaginary weapons. Then Jonas realize it was a war game, he had never notice until he got the warfare memory, in that moment Jonas was in shock. Some days later when Jonas was with the Giver they started talking about release, then the Giver told him about Rosemary the receiver before Jonas and who she fail. While they where talking about releasing Jonas remembered about the releasing of the twin that he´s father had told him, then the Giver turn the speaker on and order to see the release of the twin baby, that day Jonas realized that realizing was actually killing them.

kids playing 

releasing the baby 

These chapters are amazingly interesting and are difficult to stop reading. The word choices are really variated, mostly we all know those words and we must have not problem understanding.
"Once again, as he had on the playing field, he felt the choking sensation. Once again he saw the face light-haired soldier as life left his eyes." (Lowry 151)
This quote here shows the power of memories, the pain they can cause, I thing these quote made me feel empathy towards Jonas and understand the experience he is feeling, the choking feeling of deception, of sadness and pain.


As i said before the book is in its most interesting part, on the final part.

The Giver chapter 13-16

What I Read in the Week

In these part of the book Jonas was learning a ton of new things from the memories, but some of them were ´painful and some were beautiful and made Jonas joyful like the color memory. Some times Jonas enjoyed going to the Annex room where he received the memories, but some times when he enter The Giver send him away,  The Giver decides to give a painful memory to Jonas. The memory was like the snow one but these time he felt from the sleight then Jonas understood how painful could memories be, that same day Jonas decide that baby Gabe would sleep with him, but baby Gabe was not able to sleep so Jonas came beside him and put he´s hand in Gabriel´s bare back, Jonas started thinking a a beautiful memory that the Giver had gave to him, and the that memory was gone from Jonas head. One day that Jonas enter to the Annex room he could notice that the Giver was suffering with a memory, Jonas wanted to help The Giver so he decides to take that memory.

In these chapters of The Giver, the word choices are not as complicated as in other chapters.

As in other chapter I have empathy towards Jonas, I agree with him in the part he says That without colors theres no choices. 

How can baby Gabe be able to receive Jonas' memories? Is baby Gabe going to be a receiver of memory?

In these chapters of The Giver we are focus on the memories, specifically  in painful ones. The Giver had been an interesting book, because when you read further you see it in another perspective Jonas' world.

These part we can start seeing the difficulties of being the receiver of memory. and the pain it is. In these parts of the book you could see the importances of the memories, because some memories are beautiful and some are really pain full.  

In these chapters we can see the suffer of the Giver because of the memories, because memories are really strong, and some you would never forget.

Something I gad realize is that in Jonas society people didn´t had real memories, or they don´t had strong memories. 

Chapters 9- 12

What I read in the week

In these chapters Jonas life starts changing because he had been choose to be the Receiver of memory, and he needed to work alone.  Now Jonas was not allow to play with he´s friends or tell anybody about he´s assignment. Some things in he´s life where still the same like going to school, but now instead of having he´s volunteer hours now he needed to go with the Receiver. The first time Jonas went to he´s assign place of training, Jonas was scared because he was remembering what the chief elder had said about he´s work, that was going to be painful,. Jonas work consisted of receiving the memories that an old man that was called The Giver give to him.

Jonas and The Giver of memory

In this chapters we can find that people in Jonas community is restricted to do many things like for example seeing in color, here is a quote that shows that people don´t see in color "You`re beginning to see the color red" (Lowry 94). Talking about color I would like to state something out, that colors are impossible to explain because our language is not precise enough to describe them, so if you try to explain someone that is blind would not understand it if he had never seen color, thats what happened to Jonas thats why he is so confuse when the giver tells him about color.

In this chapters Lowry uses some complicated words but you surely had hear them like flesh, apartness and exhilarating.

Vocabulary:

Exhilarating: To make cheerful or merry

In this chapter I can relate to Jonas, because I´m always learning new things like he is only that he is alone, I would be really depress to not be able to talk with my friends about those amazing new things.

Something that I would really want  to find out is if the Giver is going to be realeased or something like that, because in The Receivers rules where one that said that they couldn't be realesed.

This picture shows how Jonas saw the world

because he sees in white and black and sometimes he is able to see the color red.

During these chapter I had been questioning about whats going to happened next in the book, the book is really interesting till these point because in these chapters it had been reveled that the community was controlled. Are those things like that they can´t see in colors are for elders to avoid the citizens to be able to see the real world?