The Giver ( Chapter 6-8

The Giver (Chapter 5-8)

Through the book The Giver, in chapter 5-8 the day of the ceremony of twelve finally arrived, Jonas was a little bit impatient because he had been waiting for this moment a long period of time, at first it took long and boring cause the ceremony of twelve was celebrated with other ceremonies, 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11 and after all of them the ceremony of twelve.  All of the Elevens were numbered (in other categories too) he was number nineteen (19), Fiona eighteen (18) and Pierre was twenty (20). After Fiona was his turn but the instead of saying nineteen (19) Chief Elder said twenty (20) leaving the number nineteen as a forgotten number. After she end saying everybody’s assignments she announce the community why   Jonas wasn't given his assignment, he had been selected to be the community's next receiver of memory, they knew about this because they had been watching him for year and he has the qualities is require to get this special and un-usual job.

´´Jonas prepared himself to walk to the stage when the applause ended and the Chief Elder picked up the next folder and looked down to the group to call forward the next new Twelve. He was clam now that his turn had come. He took a deep breath and smoothed his hair with his hand. Twenty, he heard his voice say clearly. ´´Pierre.´´ she skipped me, Jonas thought, stunned. Had he heard wrong? No. There was a sudden hush in the crowd, and he knew that the entire community realized that the Chief Elder moved from eighteen to twenty, leaving a gap. On his right, Pierre, with a startled look, rose from his seat and moved to the prestige.  A mistake. She made a mistake. Not at the ceremony of Twelve. ´´ (Lowry 57)

When I read this quote I automatically remember of an event that happened to me in 5^th grade at my English class, we were making a debate. I don’t remember exactly what we were talking about but she start making questions to each one of us, and accidentally she named a person that was after me, she skipped from me,  after she end asking everybody she looked at me and told me ´´Ale which question I gave you?´´ Then she realize that she skipped accidently from me….. At my case it wasn’t  because I was selected or something like that, my teacher make a mistake making some questions, but after that I took my question and I had the change to answer it. At this part of chapter 7 I felt so identify, that felling of insecure and confuse.