Chapters 3-6

Matty, in chapter three, keeps nagging the Seer about getting a game machine at the Trade Mart. The Seer is utterly against the Trade Mart, and doesn’t want Matty to go. I wonder what goes on there. In the book, it describes that the people look fearful, and usually, don't have anything to trade with. In this case, what do they trade with? The Seer and the Mayor say people trade their deepest parts of themselves. In the chapter, it says that Mentor traded his kindness, because before the trade, he was kind and gentle, and now, because he traded the deepest part of himself to become attractive, he is cruel and ugly on the inside. How do they do that? If something is a part of you, you cannot take it away, or, can they? Also, what is the deepest part of you? They are very vague on the description.  Well, in the same chapter, Matty goes over to the Mentors daughter’s house to get his puppy, which was extremely ill. Matty was petting him, when he felt a painful energy surge through him. Suddenly, the puppy recovered from his illness. This and the case in the forest when Matty held a frog  with a crippled leg, and suddenly, after feeling that surge of energy, the frog's leg was healed, proves to me that Matt is some sort of healer. Lois Lowery, so far, in the books he has written, gives the main characters special abilities, that differentiate the character from society, like Matty with the Healing, Jonas with the "ability to see beyond" and the girl in Gathering Blue, who can expertly weave, despite her bad leg. In the next chapter, it mentions they mayor, when Matty asked him for a name for his new puppy. The mayor really reminds me of Jonas, and I think he actually is  Jonas because he says he arrived here on a red sled, he mentions a 8 year old boy named Gabe, who I think is Gabriel, and he mentions how in his old home, they was no pets, and the only meat they ate was fish, exactly like Jonas. The book Messenger looks like a sequel to The Giver.