On page 38 in paragraph 1&2 it states that, “ You forgot your pill, Asher” Asher had groaned good-naturedly, turned his bike, and ridden back while Jonas waited. ...Asher took a pill each morning; Jonas did not. ...Now he swallowed the small pill that his mother handed him. ….But you mustn’t forget. I’ll remind you for the first weeks, but then you must do it on your own. If you forget, the Stirrings will come back. The dreams of Stirrings will come back. In our society we get in trouble whether it’s getting hit with a belt or just getting something taken away. This proves that they hit their children and elderly people for a good …show more content…
On page 24 in paragraph 2 it states, “But suddenly Jonas had noticed, following the path of the apple through the air with his eyes, that the piece of fruit had-well, this was the part that he couldn’t adequately understand-the apple had changed. Just for an instant. It had changed in mid-air, he remembered. ….He had tossed it back and forth between his hands a few times, then thrown it again to Asher. And again-in the air, for an instant only-it had changed.” And on page 90 paragraph 9 it states, “Jonas stood for a moment beside his bike, startled. It had happened again: the thing that he thought of now as “seeing beyond.” This time it had been Fiona who had undergone that fleeting indescribable change. As he looked up and toward her going through the door, it happened; she changed. Actually, Jonas thought, trying to recreate it in his mind, it wasn’t FIona in her entirety. It seemed to be just her hair. And just for that flickering instant. We can see in color because nobody genetically altered the way we see like in the Giver. This backs me up saying that they can only see in black and white because he has never seen color before along with the