Extreme Experience

The salon was luxurious, with many objects that obtained unnumbered details. Jonas found a man seating on a chair, The Giver. They started working, laying down on a bed; the Giver gave Jonas memories that weren’t real in the time he lived. Jonas felt it was wonderful seeing a substance called snow, a sled, mountains, and cold, it was something he had never seen and felt in his life. Afterwards, he saw sunshine and felt heat; he was shocked that such wonderful things were taken away with a giant damage that the human had caused. Instantly, Jonas had so many questions, he was angry that the humans had taken away this extraordinary nature’s miracle. For the first time, Jonas felt physical pain he felt sunburn, even though it hurt he was glad that he was selected for being transmitted this remarkable experiences. Soon, Jonas started seen the color red, he was developing the ability to see the beyond, the Giver was glad this happened to Jonas because he was learning fast, so he decided to give Jonas the memory of the Rainbow.

Sometimes we make decisions that at the end might not be the correct ones. After the Giver showed Jonas the feeling of cold, snow, hot, sunshine and sunburn he commented to the Receiver…

The Giver shrugged. “Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness. Before my time, before the previous time, back and back and back. We relinquished color when we relinquished sunshine and did away with differences.” He thought for a moment. “We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others.” “We shouldn’t have!” Jonas said fiercely. (Lowry 95)

I think, at that time when people decided to relinquished the sunshine and the color they did not measure the impact that it will represent, and nowadays that is only a memory that could not be manage by everyone but only by one person, the receiver. In the other hand, sometimes when we make decisions, we don’t have the time to make enough reasoning, but I do believe that at that time, to decide about the sunshine and color might be a really important decision. Also we have to remind that whenever we make a decision, right or wrong, we have to deal with the consequences. Once I made a wrong decision and it was really hard to deal with the consequences; but at the end I learned about it, and I got the chance to fixed it and not doing it again. It must be really hard that when you made a bad decision and there is no way back, how you can fix it, you have to live with that your whole live. Maybe this is happening in the book, there is no going back. 

Mr. Heath show us in the video  "Making Choices"  that we should try to make the correct decision, since every decision has its consequence.  

As simple as in the video, to choose between one pair of shoes or another, or choose a huge decision, life is like that full of choices; the thing is to pick the good one, thinking about the consequences, about others, about you. Jonas community decided long time ago about these necessary and basic things; do you think they made the correct decision? Are you willing to sacrifice such wonder because of a little discomfort? I don’t think so.