Characters
The main character who is chosen to be the new Receiver of Memory.
Who is Jonas?
What is the Ceremony of Twelve?
The first memory The Giver shares with Jonas.
What is sledding down a snowy hill?
This is what helps to eradicate discrimination in Jonas' community.
What is Sameness?
This color is the first Jonas sees.
What is red?
Lois Lowry was born in this U.S. state in 1937.
What is Hawaii?
Jonas’s cheerful friend who often mixes up his words.
Who is Asher?
Children receive their names at this ceremony.
What is the Ceremony of One?
This helps Jonas understand colors better.
What is a rainbow?
What is euthanasia or death?
This mode of transportation represents freedom or discovery.
What is the sled?
This book by Lois Lowry tells the story of two sisters separated at birth and reunited during a war.
What is Number the Stars?
The baby who lives with Jonas’s family for a while because he’s not developing fast enough.
Who is Gabriel?
Each family can not exceed this number of children.
What are two (one boy and one girl)?
His first experience of pain.
What is a sunburn?
This is what Asher accidentially asks for.
What is a smack?
This person represents hope.
Who is Gabriel?
Lois Lowry has won this award twice, one of the highest honors in children’s literature.
What is the Newbery Medal?
The woman who once trained to be the Receiver before Jonas.
Who is Rosemary?
People must share this at dinner every evening.
What are their feelings?
What animal does Jonas witness being killed by poachers?
What is an elephant?
This is where Jonas' mom works.
What is the Department of Justice?
This represents escape, change, and the boundary between conformity and freedom.
What is the river?
This is how many kids Lowry has.
What is four—two girls and two boys?
This is the six year old girl who also has pale eyes.
Who is Katherine?
The Receiver is allowed to do this, though no one else can.
What is ask any question they want? (I'd also accept lie.)
This is the Giver's favorite memory.
What is Christmas day?
This was Jonas' comfort object.
What is a bear?
This represents wisdom and perception.
What are the pale eyes?
This is the Ivy League college she dropped out of to get married.
What is Brown?