Finish the quote
“If everything's the same, then there aren't any ________! I want to wake up in the morning and decide things!”
choices
“Lily, it’s bedtime.”
Father
😄🛷❄️💥😖
Jonas breaking his leg
Children get a job at this age
twelve
“My swimming instructor said that I don’t have the right boyishness or something.”
“____________,” Jonas corrected him.
“Whatever. I don’t have it. I sink.”
Buoyancy
“Why do you and I have to hold these memories?”
“It gives us __________.”
wisdom
“Our people made that choice, the choice to go to Sameness.”
The Giver
🍎🔴🤯
Jonas seeing beyond for the first time
Children are assigned a family unit at this age
one
But there was a little shudder of nervousness when he thought about it, about what might happen.
_____________, Jonas decided. That’s what I am.
Apprehensive
“Gabe?"
The newchild stirred slightly in his sleep. Jonas looked over at him.
"There could be _______", Jonas whispered.”
love
“We did not consider for an instant designating Asher an Instructor of Threes.”
Chief Elder
🌌👦👶🏃♂️✈️🔦
Jonas escaping with Gabriel
Children are assigned a bicycle at this age
nine
The little girl nodded and looked down at herself, at the jacket with its row of large buttons that designated her as a Seven. Fours, Fives, and Sixes all wore jackets that fastened down the back so that they would have to help each other dress and would learn _____________.
interdependence
“Behind him, across vast distances of space and time, from the place he had left, he thought he heard music too. But perhaps, it was only an _________.”
echo
“Snowflakes. They fall down from the sky, and they’re very beautiful.”
Jonas
👴🧠🎄🎁❤️
Jonas receiving memory of Christmas
Children start their volunteer hours at this age
eight
Jonas always chuckled when he heard a parent, __________, call sharply to a whining toddler, “That’s enough, Twenty-three!”
exasperated
“If you were to be lost in the river, Jonas, your memories would not be lost with you. Memories are ____________.”
forever
“I don’t know why they don’t let children come. Not enough room, I guess. They should enlarge the Releasing Room.”
Larissa
🛷👦👶❄️🏠🎶
Jonas and Gabriel sledding
Children get a haircut at this age
ten
The audience applause, which was enthusiastic at each Naming, rose in an __________ swell when one parental pair, glowing with pride, took a male newchild and heard him named Caleb.
exuberant