Characters
This person is a Nurturer and has been all their life.
Who is Jonas' father?
This is the feeling Jonas had about his Ceremony of Twelve.
What is apprehensive?
After the baby Gabe comes to stay with the family, Lily said this is the job she wanted. (Ch.3)
What is a:
a. Nurturer?
b. Healer?
c. Nurse?
d. Birth Mother?
People in the community take pills to repress or stop these feelings.
What are the stirrings?
Children were admonished or corrected if they joked about this event.
What is being released?
This person talks a lot, is well-informed for her aged, and is Jonas' sister.
Who is Lily?
In the ceremony of the Telling of Feelings, this is the emotion that Lily discusses.
What is anger?
What food item did Jonas take home from school?
What is an apple?
Before receiving the baby Gabe into their family, each member must sign a waiver where they agree to NOT do this.
What is become attached to the baby?
True or False: Jonas is secretly a little pleased that his father broke a rule.
True.
This person works in the Department of Justice and helps to correct people who break rules. She worries about Jonas.
Who is Jonas' mother?
Older siblings often do this for younger siblings under 9, even though it is against the rules.
What is teach them how to ride a bike?
This is the name of the older lady that Jonas helped to bath.
Who is Larissa?
Children receive this when they turn seven?
What is tunic (or simple coat with buttons) ?
"No one mentioned such things; it was not a rule, but was considered rude to call attention to things that were unsettling or different about individuals."
True or false. The community was comfortable with differences between people.
False
This person has red hair, whose colour only Jonas can see. She is Jonas' friend.
Who is Fiona?
This is how news is delivered in the community.
What are loudspeakers?
This happened to Roberto in the House of the Old?
What is released?
One family looses a child in the river. The family is given this afterward.
What is a replacement child?
"[T]he apple had changed. Just for an instant. It had changed in mid-air, he remembered. Then it was in his hand, and he looked at it carefully, but it was the same apple. Unchanged. The same size and shape: a perfect sphere. The same nondescript shade, about the same shade as his own tunic."
What does this quote suggest might have changed about the apple?
What is the colour?
"The same nondescript shade, about the same shade as his own tunic."
This person is the protagonist in the story and has the position of the Receiver.
Who is Jonas?
This is how many children are delivered every year in the community.
What is 50 ?
Jonas volunteered at the House of the Old and saw this person's bike there.
Who is Fiona?
What is a haircut?
"[T]he apple had changed. Just for an instant. It had changed in mid-air, he remembered. Then it was in his hand, and he looked at it carefully, but it was the same apple. Unchanged. The same size and shape: a perfect sphere. The same nondescript shade, about the same shade as his own tunic."
From this quote, what does the term "nondescript" mean?