The Giver | Topics for Discussion

1. Discuss whether the music Jonas hears and the lights he sees at the very end of the novel are real. How are we supposed to read the ending? Do you think Jonas finally reaches a safe place?

2. How do Jonas's attitudes about the community change during the course of the novel? Why do the Giver and Jonas decide that Jonas should leave the community?

3. What does the novel suggest about the importance of being able to make choices, regardless of the consequences?

4. Why does the Giver feel that Rosemary was brave?

5. How is it that Jonas's father, who seems...

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