Sameness
They chose Sameness over individuality
Who are the community members
To keep the population controlled, this number of children are assigned each December during the Ceremony.
What are fifth?
The Committee of Elders seldoms asks him for advise.
Who is the Giver?
In the Community of Sameness, this expression is not valued.
What is individual expression?
The leader of the community
Who is Chief Elder?
Sameness means that people cannot talk about people like this
What is badly or rudely?
Every child in a peer group looks the same; haircuts, clothes, behavior, until this age when no one keeps track anymore.
What is Twelve?
Because they chose Sameness, The Committee of Elders often listens or watches them for compliance.
Who is everyone in the community?
The idea of "love" throughout, "The Giver," is a real feeling to Jonas, but within the community it means this.
What is a generalized, obsolete, or imprecise language?
The current Receiver of Memory
What is the Giver?
What is the right to freedom?
Every year, the December Ceremony last for this amount of time.
What is two days?
Children begin to volunteer when they are Eights so that they can be assigned for life-long career Assignments by the Committee of Elder when they at this junction.
What is, when they are Twelves?
When it comes to following rules blindly, it is okay to do this to babies and the elderly.
What is kill them if they are different or unproductive members of society?
He died when he was four by falling into a river. A replacement child was named during the December Ceremony.
Who is Caleb?
These were restricted because they exposed community members to different ideas and places.
What are books?
Each child is given a lifelong profession during this part of the December Ceremony.
What is the Ceremony of Twleve?
If someone dislikes their Assignment, which rarely happens, they can apply to the Committee of Elders for this.
What is Release?
In the Community of Sameness, where everyone thrives on thinking alike, they are not treasured or considered valuable learning experiences.
What are memories?
He was assigned to be the Assistant Director of Recreation and is Jonas's best friend.
Who is Asher?
"We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others." Jonas is angry that the people chose to give up this in order to attain Sameness.
What is color?
In line with Sameness, the December Ceremony emphasis these two ideas.
By restricted books, the Community of Elders felt that they could restrict the access information and the freedom to make life choices, as books represented this.
What is knowledge?
The people chose to give up their freedom to feel and think as individuals, choosing instead to be controlled by others.
What is Sameness?
At the December Ceremony, he was selected to be the new Receiver of Memory.
Who is Jonas?