The Ceremony
At this age, children receive their bicycle, which symbolizes their first step toward independence.
What is nine?
This daily evening ritual requires family members to share their emotional experiences at the dinner table.
What is the telling of feelings?
This pale-eyed newchild is brought home by Jonas's father for extra care and nurturing.
Who is Gabriel or Gabe?
This is the very first memory of a physical sensation that The Giver transmits to Jonas to test his capacity.
What is a sled ride through snow?
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Though intended to eliminate conflict, pain, and discrimination, this core societal structure in Jonas's community ultimately forces citizens to sacrifice their individuality, color, deep emotions, and personal choice.
What is "Likeness"?
This position is undesirable because women give birth three times in three years, then spend the rest of their lives as laborers.
What is a Birthmother?
The elderly, a new-child, or applying for it are the only three exceptions allowed for this process without it being a punishment.
What is release?
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This talkative, energetic character is Jonas’s younger sister.
Who is Lily?
Because the community implemented this technological system to optimize agriculture and transit, weather like snow no longer exists.
What is Climate Control?
To protect Gabriel from heat-seeking search planes, Jonas keeps him alive by transferring memories of this cold phenomenon to lower their body temperature.
What is snow?
This specific, unusual capacity allows Jonas to perceive things like color before anyone else in the community.
What is the ability to see beyond?
Jonas commits his first verbal deception after his parents ask if he understands that this specific word is inappropriate and obsolete.
What is love?
Asher receives this official assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve.
What is Assistant Director Of Recreation?
The Giver experiences deep regret and pain after transferring this agonizing memory of a wounded boy on a chaotic battlefield to Jonas.
What is war?
Stealing food, taking his bicycle, and kidnapping a newchild are all examples of guidelines Jonas breaks during this event.
What is his escape?
At the Ceremony of Ten, children get these to lose long hair.
What is a haircut?
Jonas commits his first verbal deception after his parents ask if he understands that this specific word is inappropriate and obsolete.
What is precision of language?
This former Receiver-in-training requested her own release ten years ago and was also The Giver's daughter.
Who is Rosemary?
Over the course of his sessions with Jonas, The Giver shifts his mindset and decides that memories must ultimately be given back to this group.
What is the Community or public?
As Jonas approaches the cabin in the snow at the end of the book, he experiences this artistic sensory detail for the very first time.
What is singing?
Found in his instruction folder, this specific rule shocks Jonas more than any other permission granted to the Receiver of Memory.
What is permission to lie?
Meaningless in the community, this is the specific word citizens use to describe someone who is clumsy, uncoordinated, or doesn't fit in.
What is animal?
Jonas bathes and chats with this elderly woman at the House of the Old before she is celebrated and released.
Who is Larissa?
Jonas realizes he can generate his own memories when he experiences the genuine joy of this specific childhood activity alongside Gabriel.
What is sledding downhill?
As they travel deeper into the uncharted lands of Elsewhere, Jonas and Gabriel face these two immediate environmental and physical threats.
What is starvation and freezing?