Reading log #5

The Community in "The Giver" likewise erased the memory of the people before the Sameness was imposed. The memories was assigned and entrusted to the Receiver of Memories by the Elders. The Receiver of Memories is occasionally consulted by the Elders whenever an important decision has to be made.By the age of 12, everyone in the society is given his assignment in the community a rite called the Ceremony of Twelve and as luck would have it, Jonas was assigned as the new Receiver of Memory. The main conflict of the novel "The Giver" occurs when Jonas' new assignment in the Community as the Receiver of Memories causes him to question the restrictions imposed on the society by the Elders who controls everything. This problem affect the elders because they don't want anyone else to have knowledge of the world that used to be. Jonas and the receiver are the only ones that know and he wants to show this to fonia because he thinks he has feelings for her. But he can’t show this to her it's against the rules. This started to affect him by not following the rules,  “The next morning, for the first time, Jonas did not take his pill. Something within him, something that had grown there through the memories, told him to throw the pill away.” (16.77) This is external conflict because it's the elders that put the rules in place.  

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