Sonntag, 10. April 2011

The Communities Evening Show (chapter 13)

I will write a show procedure where Jonas and the Receiver act like they were telling the truth to the host and the audience it's also an idea from the Giver to train Jonas capacity of lying by acting like he's offering the whole truth.
Host:" Tonight Ladies and Gentelman we'll have the biggest contention in our show ever. We made it through many spectacular shows and you know what I mean we had them all. But tonights evening we'll have the break in our show-history. Ladies and Gentlemen : student vs. teacher, young vs. old, Ladies and Gentlemen the two most honored persons in the community : the Giver vs. Jonas our future Receiver of Memory. Let's welcome our tonights starguests." hurricane of applause.
The Giver and Jonas entered the studio. Audience begin to scream especially the female. Host try to keep the horde calm by his overdone extra bleached smile.
Jonas embarrased but still acting cool :" Hi everyone"
The Giver sniffing :"The same prosedure as always"
Host smiling :"So Ladies and Gentlemen this are my guests for tonight :the Giver and the new Receiver -Jonas. to the two guests It's a honor to finally meet you. How is it going? to the Giver Is Jonas doing well? to the audience and the cameras As some of you may noticed: Jonas isn't able to talk about his training but today they'll publish some things to us and you will have a view into their training hours. So Receiver tell us about your training. What are you actually doing? Do you fight? Do you learn more than we do? What are you actually doing?"
Jonas concentrating:"Training starts like all trainings after school but that's a fact that the most should know because I go to school like everyone else. And it ends at the same time. What we start with is a view back to the past -"
The Giver: "Trainings. The past trainings."
Jonas: "Right. The past trainings just what I was about to say."
The Giver: "Sure!"
Host: "Seems like you were not always in the best relation right."
Jonas: "Oh no it's almost calm between us two just in some situations my enunciation is not appropriated and I need to learn to word things right."
The Giver: "Enunciation is important for the selection of being the Receiver."
Jonas nodding: "As the Chief Elder said at the ceremony there were different qualities I have to have.This one was one of the ones which were not told at the ceremony and it's a very important one"
Host: "Okay but now back to your training. What else do you do except for this sharing your erstwhile trainings."
The Giver: "We do kind of very special relaxing called yoga."
Jonas: "It's to perceive the body better."
Host:"What is this yoga like."
Jonas:" It's like ...-sports.Yeep sports."
The Giver: "Yes but that's just a little part of it nothing special we're not gonna so this the whole time along."
Host:"Soooo ...-"
Jonas: "So as you already said we do a kind of fighting.the audience murmurs Don't be afraid it's not that we're fighting against each other. We're fighting with each other.To improve our achievement."
The Giver: "That's exactly what we are doing.And we do kind of instructions it's like Jonas get some privat lessons. Additional lessons."
Host: "Sounds nice!"
Jonas:"Not really."
Host:" No not really you're right but isn't it boring for you. Ohh Giver I apologize my rudeness it was a bit against your approach."
The Giver:" I accept your apologize. But I think Jonas can't handle the boredom. And even if it's boring he handles the stuff quite good. So I don't matter if he sometimes loses concentration."
Jonas:" And I don't have to apologize for it that's quite cool."
breathtaking in the entire audience
Host:"What have you just said Jonas I mean it sounds like you don't hanve to apologize."
The Giver: "Yes that's right we actually wasn't about to tell this fact but ...Yes he don't have to."
Host:"Okay everyone that was an exiting little tour through the training of our new Receiver we all get to know more about it in the next show this was The Communities Evening Show.Join us tomorrow evening same time same station."

Mittwoch, 6. April 2011

Overview of received memories

During his adult-in-training Jonas receives many memories. So I thought to record this facts for each chapter. up to now Jonas already received some memories ...



  • chapter 11 - snow, sled, hill, sunshine, sunburn
  • chapter 12 - "red" ( color, capacity to see beyond), rainbow
...as you can see I've chosen different colours to mark whether a memory is good resp. normal or bad resp. painful.

During chapter 12 the author explained how it must be to receive the memories: You're still in the room from where you started your "journey" - rather your body is still their, it stays in its basic position-, you can move or change your position while you "went" through the world which is shown in the memories, you can feel the settings of this imagined world. The timeframe of being in this memory-world depends, it could be two or three hours or minutes but at the end just a few minutes past in the real world. 
Jonas experiences all this properties during his first two receives.
When the Giver transmitted the memories to him the giver lost his memory of the given memory but in most cases the giver owns more than just one memory, sometimes thousands of. To see a memory again you just have to think of it, remember the experience.


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resp. = respectively - bzw. = beziehungsweise

Chapter 12: COLORS

redredredredredredredred          redredredredredredredredred redredredredredredredredred
redredredredredredredredred     redredredredredredredredred redredredredredredredredred
redred                         redred     redred                                    redred                              redred
redred                          redred    redred                                    redred                                redred
redred                          redred    redred                                    redred                                  redred
redred                         redred     redred                                    redred                                    redred
redred                        redred      redred                                    redred                                      redred
redred                     redred         redred                                    redred                                       redred
redredredredredredred              redredredredredredred          redred     color the world        redred
redredredredredredred              redredredredredredred          redred         see beyond!          redred
redred               redred               redred                                    redred                                      redred
redred                 redred             redred                                    redred                                     redred
redred                   redred           redred                                    redred                                    redred
redred                     redred         redred                                    redred                                   redred
redred                       redred       redred                                    redred                                  redred
redred                         redred     redredredredredredredredred redredredredredredredredredred
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FIRST MEMORY RESPONSE

In the ending of chapter 10 the Receiver of Memory started to transmit the memory of snow to Jonas.
Chapter 11 starts with Jonas' feelings while the Receiver transmits the memory.
Jonas can feel the snow ,the coldness and the snowflakes brushing his tongue. A part of him was still aware that his body was lying on the bed in the Annex room. After Jonas made a physical ride on a sled he "came back" to the Annex room.
Now I'll try to translate the average part of the chapter into a roleplaying script


Jonas wake up from his memory response
Receiver: "How do you feel?"
Jonas honestly : "Surprised,"
Receiver: "Whew" pause "It was exhausting. But you know, even transmitting this tiny memory to you- I think it lightened me just a little."
Jonas: "Do you mean- you did say I could ask questions?"-Receiver nodded- "Do you mean that now you don't have the memory of it- of that ride on the sled- anymore?"
Reciever: " That's right. A little weight of this old body."
Jonas: "But it was such fun! And ow you don't have it anymore! I took it from you!"
Receiver laughing : "All I gave you was one ride, on one sled, in one snow, one hill. I have a whole world of them to you one by one, a thousand times, and there would still be more."
Jonas: "Are you saying that I -I mean we- could do it again? I'd really like to.I think I could steer, by pulling the rope. I didn't try this time, because it was so new."
Receiver shaking his head laughing: "Maybe another day, for a treat. But there's no time, really, just to play. I only wanted to begin by showing you how it works.Now lie back down. I want to - "
Jonas lie back down eager: "Why don't we have snow, and sleds, and hills? And whendid we, in the past? Did my parents have sleds when they were young? Did you?"
Receiver shrugging and laughing: "No. It's a very distant memory. That's why it was so exhausting- I had to tug it forward from many generations back. It was given to me when I was the new Receiver, and the previous Receiver had to pill it through a long time period, too."
Jonas: "But what happend to this things? Snow, and the rest of it?"
Receiver: "Climate Control. Snow made growing food difficult, limited the agriculture periods. An unpredictable weather made transportation almost impossible at times. It wasn't a practical thing, so it became obsolete when we went to Sameness. And hills, too, they made conveyance of goods unwieldy. Trucks, buses. Slowed them down. So-" waving his hand. as if a gesture had caused hills to disappear "Sameness,"
Jonas: "I wish we had those things, still. Just now and then."
Receiver smiling: " So do I, but that choise is not ours."


After this first response and this discussion the Receiver give Jonas a second memory without telling him the name of the thing he want to show him. The Receiver wanted to see how Jonas' receiving works. Jonas felt warmth on his back now he didn't move in his position he was still lying and after a short time he receives the name of the "thing" :sunshine. He realizes that it came from the sky. Jonas told the Receiver that he gave them the memory of sunshine and the Receiver said that the fact of Jonas getting the word really quick made his work much easier because he doesn't have to explain  so much. The Receiver realizes that Jonas receives good and learns very quickly. After the Receiver told Jonas that their finished for today Jonas asked the Receiver if it really would be painful- how everybody said- and the Receiver affirmed it. The Receiver shows Jonas by experience the "power of the sun" what it means that it could be painful. Jonas got a sunburn. In receiving-time he passed about a few hours even if his real-me just passed one or two minutes. At the end of the chapter Jonas asked the man how he could call him. The man told him to call him The Giver

Dienstag, 5. April 2011

Chapter 10: Vocab list

For chapter 11 I've chosen to make a vocab list ... english to english. I looked up some "more difficult" vocabs and try to figure some similars out. But as far as I guess some are still "difficult".So I considered to translate them in to German as well



  • designated - nominated     (ernannt)
  • confessed - admitted     (eingestehen/gestehen)
  • Maintenance - care     (Pflege/Wartung)
  • indicated - notified/advertised/appropriated     (angezeigt/angebracht)
  • hastily - rash/abrupt     (hastig/voreilig)
  • Annex - addition/attachment     (Anbau)
  • toward - towards/to     (zu)
  • certainly - sure/of course     (gewiss)
  • either - also/too     (auch)
  • ordinary - normal     (normal)
  • unremarkable - unnoticed     (unbeachtlich)
  • buzzer - alarm     (Wecker/Buzzer)
  • instead - in place of     (anstelle)
  • unlatched - opened     (aufgeklinkt/aufgemacht)
  • contained - include     (enthalten)
  • acknowledge - convenant/honor/confess/admit     (anerkennen/vereinbaren/eingestehen) 
  • replied - responsed     (erwidern)
  • discomfort - bother/anxiety    (Unbehaben/Unannehmlichkeit)
  • origin - root     (Ursprung)
  • insure - save/backup/secure     (sichern/sicherstellen)
  • throughout - consistently     (immer/durchgehend)
  • relocated - moved     (umgezogen)
  • glancing - looking     (blickend)
  • furnished - eqquiped     (ausgestattet)
  • dwelling - flat/lodging/domicile     (Wohnung)
  • practicaly - solid/strong     (fest/stabil/stark)
  • spacious - roomy     (geräumig)
  • slightly - a little     (etwas)
  • carved - graven    (geschnitzt)
  • alcone - niche/recess     (Nische)
  • conspicuous - noticeable     (auffällig)
  • ceiling - platfond     (Zimerdecke)
  • necessary - needful/required     (nötig)
  • shiny - brilliant/sparkling     (funkelnd)
  • perhaps - maybe/possible     (vielleicht)
  • governed - controled/commanded     (beherrschen)
  • bowed - bent     (gebückt)
  • recognized(recognised) - realised     (erkannt)
  • separate - split/detached/severed     (getrennt)
  • consciously - aware     (bewusst)
  • pale - colourless     (bleich)
  • mirrored - reflected     (spiegeln)
  • lack - fail     (fehlen/mangeln)
  • response - echo/feedback     (Rückmeldung)
  • curiosity - nosiness     (Neugier)
  • concern - related to     (betreffen)
  • sympathy - empathy/condolence     (Mitgefühl)
  • wrinkled - lined     (faltig)
  • piercing - cutting     (durchdringend)
  • diminish - reduce/minimize     (reduziert/verringert)
  • neglect - ignore     (vernachlässigen)
  • successor - follower     (Nachfolger)
  • stated - called     (genannt)
  • transmit - send     (senden)
  • frowned - deprecated     (missbilligt)
  • grasp - understand     (verstehen)
  • wisdom - sapiential     (weisheitlich)
  • shape - configure/form     (formen)
  • exhilarating - inspiring/animating     (anregend)
  • apprehensively - serious/dubious/doubtful/alarming     (bedenklich)
  • beneath - under/below     (darunter)
  • aloud - noisy/loud     (laut)
  • astonishing - amazing     (erstaunlich)

Freitag, 1. April 2011

Picture-post

As I actually haven't worked on chapter 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 because I was ill but I'll try to post -as fast as I can- some posts on these chapters.

Now I'll post a picture on memories which will appear in the next chapter.

In my opinion it's an amazing picture. The colours point out the straightness of the communities belief in education, morality,conservatism and the "sternness" moreover it's the first coloured picture because only jonas is able to see the colours.
The motive shows the "dreamful behavior" of the community. In opposite to our community structure it is fogged for the members to see beyond (only the receiver can see beyond-> fourth quality <-colour) the "camouflage-tactic" of the authority-system.