Archetypes & Symbols
A brave and resourceful leader that fights the rules of the establishment.
What is a hero?
This character exerts the most power in The Giver.
Who is the Chief Elder?
This was a custom in The Pedestrian.
What is staying inside at night/no going for walks/ watch TV at night/ be married? (any answer works)
This character in The Giver was complacent and a follower at the beginning of the story, and changed to a fearless, rule breaking leader by the end.
Who is Jonas?
This character in The Giver fits the mentor archetype.
Who is The Giver?
This character was the nurturing and selfless person in The Giver.
Who is Fiona?
This character in The Pedestrian resists power.
Who is Leonard Mead?
This was a rule that Jonas was allowed to (and did) break as the Receiver of Memory in The Giver.
What is no lying?
This character acted as an external obstacle for Jonas when he was attempting to run away with Gabriel in Elsewhere.
Who is Asher?
This was a symbol that represented conformity and complacency in The Pedestrian (hint - Leonard did not have one).
What is a TV (or watching TV)?
This is a symbol that represents the difficulties Jonas is able to overcome as the Receiver of Memory in The Giver.
What is the hill?
In this response to power a character is not resisting, instead they give into another character with more power.
What is submitting to power?
Breaking this rule allowed Jonas to feel emotions and see color in The Giver.
What is taking the daily injection?
These are the two types of influence on a character changing/shifting throughout a story.
What is internal motivation (goals) and external pressures?
This is a social issue that Lois Lowry said influenced her to write The Giver.
What is loss of memory/ manipulation of memory?
The name for an inexperienced character exposed to the evils of the world.
What is an innocent?
These are the four different ways a character responds to power.
What is resist, submit, seek, and exert?
Jonas' father broke this rule at the beginning of The Giver, when he was attempting to help Gabriel get stronger.
What is looking up a name for an undecided baby?
A character engaging in a physical altercation with another character would be an example of this type of obstacle.
This is a social issue brought up in The Pedestrian.
This is a symbol in The Pedestrian that represents the power that the government has to enforce conformity.
What is the police car?
This character in The Giver submits to power, but they also exert power, and at the very end of the movie they resist it.
Who is Asher?
This archetype is usually most likely to break the unfair rules of the establishment.
Who is the hero (or anti-hero)?
An example of this kind of obstacle is when the police car in The Pedestrian arrests Leonard for not being married or owning a TV.
What is a systemic obstacle?
True or false: below is a correct citation
"This is a quote from The Giver." (Lowry 31)
What is false?