My response to the Fishbowl

Well, today in humanities class we did a "Fishbowl" on chapters 3,4,5 of The Giver. Over the course of the discussion, someone brought up the question "Why does Jonas need to take the pill?" and i think he has to take the pill because if he doesn't take the pill, his stirrings would come back and the pill helps stop the stirrings; but my question about that is "Would stirrings get worse each time you forget to take the pill or would it stay the same?" After a few minutes into the discussion someone else brought up the question "Why do they share dreams and feelings?" Well i think they share their dreams and feelings with the family everyday because when each family member shares their dreams, everyone else listens especially the parents because by listening about what the children dreamt of, they would know weather or not their children have stirrings and weather or not they are ready to take the pill.
I think it was a very good discussion overall and everyone tried to contribute to the discussion but there are still some questions that i am not quite sure of, "Is Jonas’ dream similar to going through adolescence?" and also " Since there is a birth mother, isn't there a birth father?"