Characters
Who is the main character?
Who is Jonas?
What ceremony gives each Twelve a lifelong job?
What is the Ceremony of Twelve?
What happens when Jonas and his classmates are receiving their Assignments?
What is his number is skipped?
What does "Assignment" mean in the novel?
What is the job chosen for a person?
Why does Lois Lowry introduce many community rules early in the story?
To help readers understand what life is like in Jonas's community.
What special job is Jonas selected to receive?
What is Receiver of Memory?
What do family members share each evening?
What are their feelings?
What is the first memory the Giver gives Jonas?
What is sledding through snow?
What does "Receiver" mean?
What is someone who receives memories?
Why is skipping Jonas's number during the Ceremony suspenseful?
Because readers wonder what went wrong and what will happen to Jonas.
Who trains Jonas to become the Receiver?
Who is The Giver?
What happens to people who break major rules in the community?
What is they may be released?
What new experience surprises Jonas after receiving memories?
What is seeing colors?
What does "Apprehensive" mean?
What is worried or nervous?
Why is the memory of snow important?
Because it introduces Jonas to experiences that no one else remembers.
What is unusual about Gabriel?
What is he does not sleep well at night?
or
He has pale eyes like Jonas?
What must everyone in the community follow every day?
What are rules?
Why is Jonas no longer allowed to take the pills?
Because he must experience real feelings and emotions.
What does "Sameness" mean?
What is everyone living the same way with very few differences?
Why does the author reveal the truth about Release gradually instead of at the beginning?
Because it builds suspense and surprises both Jonas and the reader.
What quality does the Chief Elder say Jonas has that allows him to become the Receiver?
What is the Capacity to See Beyond?
Why doesn't the community allow people to make many choices?
Because Sameness keeps everyone the same and is meant to prevent conflict and mistakes.
What shocking truth does Jonas learn about release?
What is Release is actually death (people are killed rather than sent somewhere else).
What does "Capacity to See Beyond" mean?
What is the ability to notice or understand things other people cannot?
What theme is beginning to develop by Chapter 14?