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The Giver
In the community depicted in The Giver each child is assigned his or her own unique number at birth, a number that is based on the order in which they are born. Only fifty newchildren, as they are...
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Jonas's community is founded on the principles of Sameness, which champion uniformity, comfort, and obedience. In Jonas's community, sunshine, colors, music, and personal choice do not exist. In...
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Before Jonas is selected to be the community's next Receiver of Memory, he has a close relationship with his parents. Jonas respects and trusts his mother and father and feels comfortable telling...
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The Giver
When Jonas arrives at the Annex for his first training session with the Giver, he is astonished by the atmosphere inside the room, which is dramatically different from the other dwellings...
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The community of The Giver, like other communities that attempt utopia, has many rules in its efforts to attain peace and harmony. Indeed, there is much regimentation of behavior and subjugation of...
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When Jonas is selected as the community's next Receiver of Memory, he is given a list of ten rules/privileges that are specific to his Assignment. The list states that Jonas is exempt from lying,...
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The Giver
It can be argued that American schools today are similar in some ways to the schools in The Giver. For example, in American schools children are grouped by grade. In The Giver, they are grouped...
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After Jonas watches the video of his father lethally inject a newborn during a release ceremony, he is appalled and disgusted. He struggles to comprehend the fact that his life has been a complete...
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Simply put, Jonas is afraid of getting caught. He's run off with baby Gabe, thus sparing the child from being "released", to use this community's ghastly euphemism for murder. Though this is...
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Jonas's community is founded on the principles of Sameness, which has dramatically transformed the way citizens experience life in Jonas's society. Conformity, obedience, and safety are important...
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For textual evidence concerning this question, I recommend looking in chapter 6. Readers have been progressively getting to know Jonas's society and are coming to realize that a lot of things are...
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Apologies must be sincerely presented, noting the exact infraction one has caused. This is seen in the first chapter when Asher is described as always running late. When he enters the class, he...
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Jonas's community is founded on the principles of Sameness, which eliminate all differences and dramatically transform the natural environment and life as originally intended for humans to...
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The Giver
In the opening chapter of the novel, Jonas recalls a time when he felt frightened as he contemplates his emotions regarding the upcoming December Ceremony, where he will receive his Assignment....
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The events of chapter 1 of The Giver do not have any instance of Jonas being particularly bold. The overwhelming majority of the chapter concerns Jonas attempting to reconcile exactly how he feels...
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In The Giver, society has evolved into a seeming utopia wherein there is no pain or strife. This is achieved by every single member of a community committing to a philosophy and plan known as...
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In The Giver, "Release" is a word that carries a lot of weight with it depending on the context. Ordinarily, when it is said that someone is released, people in the community tend to think of it as...
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In his role as nurturer, it's the job of Jonas's father to take care of babies in their first year of life. He takes his job very seriously indeed and even shows himself prepared to break the rules...
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It is required that the individual chosen to fulfill the role of the Receiver of Memory must experience pain and is not allowed to take medication to ease the discomfort caused during their...
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The Giver
In chapter 14, The Giver begins transmitting painful memories to Jonas, and Jonas experiences what it is like to truly suffer, for the first time in his life. After Jonas receives the memory of...
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Jonas's community is founded on the principles of Sameness, where everyone must conform to society's regulated standards and their lives are completely controlled by the Committee of Elders. The...
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Jonas's highly-organized community is founded on the principles of Sameness, where conformity is encouraged and each citizen plays a specific role in society. Education is Jonas's community is...
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In chapter 5, Jonas participates in the routine ritual of telling dreams, where each member of his family shares their dreams and they openly discuss them. Jonas reluctantly tells his parents that...
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Harmony in The Giver is easily maintained for most people living in their society because there is very little freedom, although most of the society either don't mind or are unaware. They have...
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Jonas changes from an automatically obedient child to a wise, mature young man throughout the book. In the beginning of the book, Jonas is just a regular Eleven in his community. He does what he...
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Although we learn most about Jonas through indirect characterization, there are some examples of direct characterization given to us by the narrator. Jonas is an eleven-year-old boy who is looking...
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In The Giver, people are said to be “released” when the time has come for them to leave the community. They believe that this means they will be sent to some other place. However, as the story...
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In the dystopian community depicted in The Giver, the act of releasing involves those members of the community deemed surplus to requirements being killed by a lethal injection before having their...
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Jonas lives in a dystopian society that is founded on the principles of Sameness. In Jonas's society, the Committee of Elders is the ruling government body and has complete control over the...
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The answer to this question can be found in the closing parts of chapter ten and into the beginning parts of chapter eleven. Jonas still is not quite certain what his exact duties are as the new...
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In The Giver, their community is almost entirely engineered—the ceremonies the attend, the jobs people are given, the relationships they have with one another, etc. Families are not formed...
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Gabriel is the name of the infant who Jonas's father brings home to nurture. Unlike the other newchildren, Gabriel is not meeting his developmental goals and needs additional time to grow and...
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The society in The Giver has laws to regulate the community. The laws range from regulating daily life, such as the ritual of families sharing feelings at the end of the day and reducing any strong...
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Asher is Jonas's close friend, who is a fun-loving, unique character with an energetic, memorable personality. Unlike his peers, Asher confuses words as a child and struggles with hand-eye...
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What gifts do the children receive at ages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12?
It is first important to note that although the children all receive their "gifts" at the same ceremony each year, they are all born throughout the year and thus have different birthdays. However,...
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The setting of the book is a managed community in a futuristic society. Jonas lives in a place where everything is regulated so that the unexpected never happens. In Jonas' society...
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This section suggests something about the core of human nature. Even in the absence of having a memory of war, children engage in play that "hurts" others. Maybe they have never seen an actual gun...
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In chapter 13, Jonas begins to see in color and tells the Giver that it is unfair that other people cannot experience colors, which begins a conversation regarding choice and independence. Jonas...
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As with all memories in Jonas's society, the purpose of the starvation memory is to provide the wisdom which The Giver needs to advise the Elders. Initially, Jonas doesn't understand this. He can't...
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In chapter 14, Jonas's father begins to complain about how Gabriel doesn't rest well at night, and the idea of Releasing him comes up in family conversation. Jonas doesn't yet know what Release...
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I would begin with a thesis that ties the jobs in the community to a larger idea, like how the roles function to extend the dystopian community's inherently unjust sense of order. Here's a thesis...
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Jonas's community is founded on the principles of Sameness, which ensure complete uniformity, stability, and comfort by restricting citizens' individual rights and oppressing the population's...
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The community in The Giver is dedicated to Sameness, a lifestyle that does not include individuality, creativity, or deep feelings. This way of life is strictly adhered to by all citizens. Though...
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In the dystopian world of The Giver, citizens of the Community are assigned their spouses by the ruling body called the Committee of Elders. The committee chooses spouses through the Matching of...
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The quick, but confusing, answer to your question is: both. Becoming the Giver seems like both a punishment and a gift. On the one hand, Jonas becomes more isolated from his friends, and they...
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When the Giver sends him away without training, Jonas goes for long lonely walks along the river, trying to test his faculty of memory. If the sky is cloudy, he tries to remember the blue and the...
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The Ceremony of Ten is an important rite of passage for young people as they begin the transition from childhood to adulthood. Children are required to have their hair cut to symbolize their...
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Jonas experiences different feelings throughout the book. In the beginning, he is apprehensive about the upcoming Ceremony of Twelve. When the actual ceremony happens and Jonas finds out that he...
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In The Giver, the leaders of Jonas's community (referred to as the Elders) go to extreme lengths to censor information and maintain stability within the community. Individuals who defy community...
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As the Receiver of Memory, Jonas is instructed to stop taking the pills that suppress emotion, which are otherwise required to be taken by all teens and adults in the community. This is part of the...
