Week 10 Sample Giver Responses

Sample Giver responses to the week 10 questions
-Here are two strong, relevant responses to questions 1 and 2. Please look at these responses and then compare them to your own response. Do you have the same idea? Do you agree with the responses below? What makes the responses below good responses?


The Questions

• Question 1: "Seeing Beyond"
• Describe what Jonas really sees when he "sees beyond."  Give examples from the story of what he sees.  
• Question 2: "Individualism in the Community"
• Let's revisit the topic of individualism (the differences among people).  Based on what you have read so far, Is your view of individualism in the community the same as your first response (Week 4 Giver Questions)? Do you think that there is individualism in the community? Why or why not? Please use examples from the reading to support your answer.

Question 1 Responses

Student A Response: 
First he could see the apple’s color a few weeks ago. Second he could see the faces in the audience. Now he could see fiona’s hair color. …. It’s color.

Student B Response:
To see beyond is a special quality that only has the Giver and Jonas.  It is the ability to see the colors.  Jonas experience this capacity when he was playing with an apple, and suddenly this changed.  In this moment, he was able to see the red color of the apple.  Then.........he was able to see that the faces of the people changed. It is because the faces have some red tones. Finally.....he was able to see that [Fiona's] hair changed because she is redhead.

Question 2 Responses


Student A Response: 
I think there isn't individualism.  Because people can make choice only to go to Sameness.  Then, the Giver protect them from danger, to make them a choice to go to sameness.

Student B Response:
I keep thinking that people in the community don't value the individualism; actually, they feel frightened about this......Jonas and the Giver sometimes talk about Sameness.....People who live in Sameness can't do choices because the past generations decided that they would be protected to the wrong choices, so they would have a lot of rules, and everything would be exactly the same for everyone. For example, they can't choose the color of their tunics.......