Moment Of Release

  Whenever twins are born, the Nururer will weigh them and release the lighter one from the community. And now, new twins were born in the communinty. Before they were even born, the community already decided that my father was going to be the one to release one of the babies. Today, I went to the Giver's house and the memory was about my dad killing the baby. I was watching my dad injecting a liquid into the baby's head. I was curious why the communtity had to kill one of the twin babies. What were their points? When I saw my dad throwing away the baby's body in the huge kind of bin, I was so mad, I wanted to kick him in his face. But I knew it was not going to make anything better.  I wanted to make an objection to the Chief, why the community had to kill one of the twin babies.

Receiving the Memories

  I went to the house of the Receiver. He told me to call him,"The Giver". Then he told me to lie down on the bed, which was placed at the corner of the room. Then the Giver put his put his hands on my back. His hands were very cold. I saw myself in a place where everything was white. There was nothing other than white. Then the Giver told me it was "snow". He told me that now, the community controlled the climate, so it won't snow anymore. The next thing I saw was a thing made of wood and a place where it wasn't flat. He told me the wooden thing was a "sled" and the place was called "hill". I got onto the sled and went to the hill. Then the sled started to move by itself. It was very fun going down the hill with the sled. It was the first memory I got from the Giver. It was very fun, too. However, he told me,"I will lose all the memories after giving them to you and some memories are not fun but painful."

Ceremony of 12

  Now it  was December. It was the day that the ceremony had taken place. The ceremony started with the Ones, graduating from the Nurturer's Centre. I had to wait until afternoon. After the Elevens were done, I got very nervous, since the Chief would tell my assignment to everyone in the community. The Twelves were called up. I sat on the seat that said, "No.19." When Fiona was called up, who was sitting write next to me, I got so nervous that I could even hear my heart beating. After she announced her assignment, she said, "No.20." First, I thought she made a mistake. But she didn't. She skipped me. I thought that I was getting released,  the only thing that came up to my mind. After everybody was told their assignments, she called my "name", not my "number". She said,"Jonas was not assigned." I really thought I was going to be sent elsewhere. However, instead, she declared,"He was selected." After that she added,"To be the Receiver of The Memory, the most honored person in the community." First, I thought I was dreaming, so I slapped my face, which hurt. Everyone was shouting,"JONAS!!!JONAS!!!JONAS!!!"

The Pills

  Today, I had a very strange dream, not like the ones that I usually have. The dream was set in the bathing room at the House of The Old. Fiona and I were there. She just kept on laughing, I don't know why, but I was a bit mad at her. Maybe I wanted to give her bath. However she still kept on laughing. When I told about the dream to my family, my mum said it was "Stirring." I was a bit happy, because I thought it was a sign of growing as an adult. When my mum said,"The treatment was the pills," I was even more excited. It is because some of my group-mates took them and I was able to take the same thing that they did. However, after I was assigned to my job, I was told to stop taking the pills. This was according to the rule-book of the receiver of the memory. Therefore the stirring came back after a few weeks.