The Giver Dialectical Journal

1) When you were younger, did you like school?
No, I would usually be required to stay late after class to get extra help. I told Matty that I didn’t like school. He said “I didn’t like school either. And I was willful and full of mischief, same as you. But Seer made me work at it because he cared about me so much.” I told him that nobody cared about me. He made me feel better by saying that the Leader, Jonas, does and he does. But either way, when I had to do work I would still try to change the subject.

2) Do you have a gift? If you do how does it work, and when did you discover it?
“My gift. I do have one. I call it veering. At first it just happened. It always surprised me. But then I found out I can choose the time. I can direct it.

Not really, but at first I was so nervous that I couldn’t even talk. While I was swimming to the other side of the river, I was planning on how I was going to attack the trademaster. I planed that he was hiding from me. As I was swimming, all I could think was I cannot kill. When I got her he was waiting for me. He offered me a boat and things inside the boat. I knew to never trade with him no matter how good his offer was.
After a while I had no other choice to do but to use my gift and to understand him. I knew what I had to do. I had to let him starve. Not with lack of food but by showing him how his tragedies that he panned to happen did not work. I kept on telling him things that turned out to be good things from his work and he began to shrink until “he became a formless, unidentifiable heap of something that smelled of

Kind, of yeah. Jonas told me that I never had parents but I didn’t believe that. Everyone had to have at least one parent. To help me understand he told me how the community worked and that people were assigned jobs such as birthmothers and that it was other people’s job to take care of two children in one household. So when he told me that was my mom, I was confused at first, I did not even know if my parent even wanted me anymore, then again, I always wondered who that old woman was that was watching