The Giver, TRJ #5

PREDICTION

At the beginning of this book, when Jonas took his apple to his house, he saw something unusual from the apple. First when I read this part, I didn’t understand what the author was talking about so I read it again and again. Later, at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas sees the same thing with the apple for the faces of the people sitting in front of him. I thought at this point that Jonas had a special ability which an ordinary person can’t have; I thought that Jonas was seeing the future. I had a strange idea that Jonas was seeing what would happen next within a second or two, or maybe he was seeing a deja vu. It happened again to Jonas with his friend Fiona’s hair. I thought I had made a pretty good guess on this but later, The Giver tells Jonas that he was seeing the colors. I could have never thought of the fact that people in Jonas’s society couldn’t see colors. I think it was brilliant for the author to think that way. Even though my prediction wasn’t right, my predictions were sensible. I think no one could have guessed that it was the colors which Jonas was seeing.