Giver Blog Post #2

For this blog post I chose the following question: " Why does Jonas find the instruction about lying so disturbing?"

I think he finds it disturbing because, one of Jonas main rule of his childhood was not to lie because he knows this job is important, but if it's important why does he lie about it? This rule is a very important rule because if he were to tell the truth he would be in trouble for telling the truth. Another thing that probably bothers him is that he has to live his own life otherwise his life is just a made up lie.

Another thing that would bother Jonas would be that nobody else would know what colors are, the Giver and himself would be the only people with a clue to know what " colors" are. During his life of lies people will start realizing that he is lying and then maybe the truth would be blown, then he would live in a life of shame. Another thing that might bother him is that maybe when he will lie for the first time, he might not be the best lier. He is thinking ahead of what will happen when he lies how might people react to his response? He is uncertain of what might happen.

Living a life of lies is no ordinary life, he would have to hide where he works and what he does, he would lie of most of his life. He has to keep his mouth closed and not talk about how he felt at the dinner table. He would have to make it up and then confess with something that he made up. Something else that might make him annoy is that with those new memories he would feel strange something might hurt him, he might be scared and when he remembers he might not seem as if he were happy when he really is scared, he might feel shame because of lying although it is part of his job.