Well, the truth is, that for Lit. Circle 2, our reading instructions were pages 26-64, but the instructions for Jonas were on page 68 of the book. For some strange reason, I found the fact slightly amusing.... But that's beside the point. To me, lying is not a very great thing to do. What I mean, is lying will never get you out of anything. See, if you tell a lie, like for example a rumor about someone else, or something supposedly like that, that person may find out, and never speak to you ever again. Or, if you borrowed some money from someone, but you truly aren't supposed to borrow any money, the lies keep on building on, and on, and on, and on, and on, and on until, you tell the truth.
From my experiences, lying has gotten me in L-O-A-D-S of trouble. Once (and this was recently), I forgot my end-of-trimester report card on the bus, and only had realized when the bus was pulling away. My friend, well, she just called me an idiot. And I truly felt like I was. What I thought was that I would get in a lot of trouble for not being responsible-- but hey, I forget things. Everyone has to. So I just came up with the "I left it in my locker" excuse, and my mom and sister believed me. So, I had no school the day after, but my elder sister did, because she's in High School. So, knowing we were sisters, the bus monitor gave the report card to her. I guess I didn't think that through well. It's not like me, so I'm guessing I was just panicking.
I have been writing about examples about how lying had got me into trouble, but I haven't talked much on Jonas's situation. So in the book, lying was against the law. A rule never to be broken, or you simply had to be released. That rule, is basically the only rational rule to me, for I wouldn't want to get my bike at the age of nine, I just think that it would be really, really late. I mean, I learned how to ride when I was four. Four years old. All the other rules, like button-down jackets, or jackets with pockets, all symbolize growing up. Well, growing up in the community. It's just the rule I respect: No lying whatsoever.
Jonas, avoiding to lie all his life, just suddenly has been ordered to lie? I don't think that it's very natural for anyone, weather it's a community citizen, or someone here in the present; to change their ways. It's hard, and takes time. And now, Jonas had to hide things from everyone, his parents, his sister, his friends, and even the Elders he has laid his trust with. Sort of. Is it possible to do that? If I were Jonas, then I would be scared if I would make a mistake, or maybe slip something out. I just would try my best, and I'm hoping that's what Jonas wants to do too.
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Dear Radhi,
ReplyDeleteYour blog post, like always, explains your answer in a way that clearly shows what your thinking and why. In this blog post, you started off with what the blog post would be about, what the blog post might have been about. And so. But what I best about the first paragraph was the part when you told everyone that you couldn't choose between questions 1 and 2.
" Out of those, I would either choose question 1 OR question 2. It was a tough decision, but in the very end, with some help from friends and a 2 minute debate with myself, I finally chose question 2: Why does Jonas find the instruction about lying so disturbing?" (fist paragraph of Radhika's The Giver #2 - Utopia)
Your next two paragraphs give plenty examples on why YOU thought lying wasn't a good thing. The content was connection to our society to Jonas's society. The second paragraph was just a brief writing on why lying is bad, and the paragraph after that was about the time you lied. The paragraph was like a quote of your own. A piece of evidence that lying is bad. Evidence to the paragraph you wrote before.
This time, there was a bit of evidence on how the question/situation is related to the book. There was a brief paragraph on that. Like the post before, you could have added quotes. Quotes, like I mentioned before helps to enhance your writing by adding more evidence.
Just one thing you have to work on.... adding quotes and more evidence about the book. But overall, this blog post, like most others, was an excellent piece of work. I love the way you write in your own way, a non-formal way. Which keeps the reader engaged in what YOU have to say.
-Zara :)