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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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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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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...
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In The Giver, release means death. When someone is released, they are injected with a lethal poison which kills them. Most of the society is unaware of the true meaning of release, and it doesn’t...
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The setting of Jonas's community drives the conflict of the novel. It has been created and modified over time to eliminate much of what constitutes the human experience. The residents don't know...
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A reader should check in chapter 4 for solid textual evidence regarding this question. During this chapter, Jonas gives a bath to a woman named Larissa. He talks with her during the bath, and she...
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In Jonas's austere, highly-organized society, the vast majority of citizens have dark eyes. However, Jonas, Gabriel, the Giver, and an unnamed woman, Five, have pale eyes. After Jonas becomes the...
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In the utopian society created in The Giver, memory, or lack thereof, is an important part of the people's quest to eliminate conflict and pain from their lives. The idea is that without memory,...
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In chapter 1, Jonas returns home with lots on his mind about the upcoming ceremony, and he struggles to find just the right word to describe his feelings. This is important because of the ritual...
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The most notable feature of nature to be eliminated is bad weather. Although Jonas greatly enjoys his memory of a sleigh-ride in the snow, he can't experience such joy in real life. Because, as he...
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There are so many rules and regulation in the society of The Giver that the citizens of the town don't question the rules. For example, Jonas' father is a Nurturer who works with newborn babies. In...
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As part of his required volunteer hours, Jonas helps take care of the elderly citizens at the House of the Old with some of his peers. When Jonas arrives at the House of the Old, he greets the...
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Jonas gets a memory of snow, sunshine, a sunburn, a red sled, a rainbow, hunting elephants, a sled crash, being burned, hunger, ocean, a battlefield, riding a horse, a birthday party, Christmas...
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Lowry explores the theme of public safety versus personal freedom throughout his celebrated novel The Giver. Jonas's community is founded on the concept of Sameness, which champions uniformity,...
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Although the social divisions in the society depicted in The Giver are not called “classes” by its members, they are essentially fixed levels that correspond to class. The children are selected...
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When Jonas is selected as Receiver of Memory by the Committee of Elders during the Ceremony of Twelve, he is told that he was chosen for his special qualities. These are: intelligence, integrity,...
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After Jonas discovers the true meaning behind the term release, he completely rebels against his society and realizes that he must protect Gabriel after his father mentions that he will be...
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Although Jonas's community claims to give the old the highest levels of respect, releasing the old (which is actually killing them) is proof that they don't really value them at all. Likewise, if...
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The page number aspect of this question could be a bit inaccurate because different editions of the book will vary in exactly which page contains which part of the book. Conflicts abound in this...
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Jonas is introspective. He wonders which word best describes his feelings, and he questions himself and his reaction as he learns about his community. Apprehensive, Jonas decided. That's what I...
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In The Giver, newborns are raised through their infancy by a group of people known as the nurturers before they are assigned to a family or, if deemed unfit for society, euthanized, or "released."...
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In the opening scene of the story, Jonas recalls feeling frightened when he witnessed a jet flying over the community for the first time and was immediately instructed by the Speaker to remain...
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Jonas first experiences the emotion of love during a training session with The Giver when he receives the memory of a family celebrating Christmas together. Jonas thoroughly enjoys the feeling of...
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A reader should look to chapter 12 for this answer. Near the beginning of the chapter, Jonas sees Fiona's hair change, the same way that the apple changed a bit earlier in the book. Jonas doesn't...
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Foreshadowing is a hint the author drops about what is going to happen later. It creates suspense, which is a feeling of excitement that makes the reader want to keep reading. So foreshadowing...
