The novel opens with the protagonist, Jonas, seeing a plane in the sky. For us, this is a normal occurrance, but Jonas had been frightened by it. The reader soon learns that planes are not allowed to fly over the community Jonas lives in. In fact, it would seem that the community is strangely sheltered from seeing planes. Why do you think that the community is kept from contact with planes? What kinds of impressions does this tell you about the community that Jonas lives in?
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ReplyDeleteI think the community is kept from contact with planes because I think it is a secret society because the cargo planes that go there have to land on the other side of the river so the pilot can't access the community and they have community rules like there can only be one male and female children in the home and they can't keep anything secret from each other like their feelings and they have special ceremonies for a person when they turn twelve.
ReplyDeleteGood observations. Now the question becomes...are they isolated, or does the whole world follow these rules???
ReplyDeleteI think they are isolated because if the whole world had the same rules then why would they need to hide when something from another part of the world is near there community like a jet???
ReplyDeleteIt would stink to live in a world that has rules you can't break no matter what and having it so you need to hide indoors everytime a plane passed overhead. In Jonas's community they have things that we don't do like have celebrations when you get your name or be given a new bike when we turn nine or have to do volunteer work from the age of eight to the age of twelve when you get assigned your job. I would actually like having a job from the age of twelve because then I would have more money then I would if I got a job between the agees fourteen and fifteen.
ReplyDeleteWell what can i say... i think they are isolated, and isolated for a reason and i think that reason might be as an experiment to see how innocent humans react to there environment, or to see how the humans that are innocent follow orders and to what extent their curiousity gets. Like i said before the community is very innocent and obedient and is focus on doing what they are told.
ReplyDeleteI think that they are isolated from the rest of the world, because they want everything to be perfect, a Utopian society. In a perfect world there would be no war at all, so the things that even slightly remind the people of war, or really anything that doesn't fit into their perfect world they remove from their community, or remove their community from it. The community is very focused on perfection, so even small children talk like adults. The people are very obedient and innocent because they just do what they are told without question. This could be very harmful to a people. An example would be that Utopian society that all killed themselves, just because their leader told them to.
ReplyDeleteI believe since they are a perfect utopia society that they want to be isolated from everybody around them so when a plane goes by that is unidentified it might cause a sense of distress in the peoples lives! This gives me the impression that Jonas's community does not want to be a part of the rest of the world especially considering that almost none of them don't even know that there is a whole other world out there!
ReplyDeleteYou're right. They are pretty unaware. And seem not to care that they are so limited in knowledge!
ReplyDeleteI think that the community wants to keep its citizens to itself. A little bit selfish maybe but they have their reasons. They are afraid that planes may cause curiosity and danger for their citizens. The leaders of the community like to have complete control over what is happening. If people found out what was happening in the real world the control over the community could be lost.
ReplyDeleteLoss of control could lead to chaos and a "less than perfect" Utopia too...
ReplyDeleteI think that the community doesnt want the community to be like the other people. The planes must be a very scary thing for their citizens. The leaders must have alot of control ovre their citizens. if the citizens found out what the other world is doing outside of their community they might get angry and not want to be in the Utopia City.
ReplyDeleteThe community may be kept from contact with planes because it could be an outside influence, anything out of the ordianry is stricktly forbidden in the community. It may have just been a rookie mistake, but in the community it was a large one. It tells us that the community has one way, only a single path to choose, obey or "leave"
ReplyDeleteNice observation of the opening, Squig. And you are right, as we now know about the community. There is no tolerance for "otherness" to what the community has set out for itself as its rules.
ReplyDeleteI think since they are a perfect utopia society that they want to be isolated from everything around them so when a plane goes by that is unidentified it might cause a sense of fear in the people. This gives me the impression that Jonas's community doesn't want to be a part of the rest of the world.
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