Characters
This is Jonas' assignment.
Who is The Receiver?
This ceremony marks Jonas’s transition from childhood to adolescence.
What is The Ceremony of Twelve?
This is a major theme of the book.
What is the danger of sacrificing freedom for security?
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What is the importance of individuality?
The story takes place in this kind of (bad) futuristic society.
What is a controlled or dystopian setting?
The Giver belongs to this speculative fiction genre.
What is dystopian fiction?
This term refers to the community’s effort to eliminate differences.
What is Sameness?
She is Jonas’s little sister.
Who is Lilly?
Jonas begins to see this color first, marking his difference from others.
What is the color red?
Memories in the novel symbolize this concept.
What is the importance of understanding history or having emotional knowledge?
This is the color of everything in the Community.
What is the color grey?
This use of technology enables The Committee to suppress individuals.
What is genetic modification?
This term is used when someone is euthanized in the community.
What is Release?
He is Jonas's best friend, who eventually receives a job in recreation.
Who is Asher?
This is the first memory the Giver transmits to Jonas.
What is the memory of sledding down a snowy hill?
This motif is used to represent Jonas's emotional awakening.
What is the use of color?
This building is where Jonas receives his memories.
What is the Annex Room at the House of the Old?
The novel explores a future controlled by this type of government.
What is a totalitarian or authoritarian regime?
This place represent the unknown, freedom, and emotion.
What is Elsewhere?
This character received the status Uncertain
Who is Gabriel?
Jonas is horrified when he witnesses this act.
What is the lethal injection (or the release) of the smaller twin?
This reason and motif helps Jonas understand humanity.
What is learning to appreciate things through pain or suffering (freedom to choose, warmth, etc).
The community’s climate is controlled to remove this weather condition.
What is snow?
A key feature of dystopian literature seen in the novel is the absence of this human right.
What is the absence of freedom of choice?
This word describes the forbidden feelings Jonas and like him experience.
What are The Stirrings?
This quote explains Jonas' struggle with The Community: “Somehow they were not at all the same as the feelings that every evening, in every dwelling, every citizen analyzed with endless talk. [...] These were deeper feelings and they did not need to be told. They were felt.”
What is having no depth or range to emotions to understand the world?
Jonas's escape disrupts the community's functioning in this major way.
What is the return of memories to the community, causing emotional chaos?
This quote reveals the main conflict: “We really have to protect people from wrong choices.”
What is the individual versus the society?
This quote refers to an unpleasant memory Jonas is sent to: “The colors of the carnage were grotesquely bright: the crimson wetness on the rough and dusty fabric, the ripped shreds of grass, startlingly green, in the boy’s yellow hair.”
What is a warzone?
This quote reveals the following dystopian aspect: "We gained control of many things. But we had to let go of others."
What is society that appears perfect but is deeply flawed?
This quote reveals a unique ability in some individuals of the community: “The evening proceeded as all evenings did in the family unit, in the dwelling, in the community: quiet, reflective, a time for renewal and preparation for the day to come. It was different only in the addition to it of the newchild with his pale, solemn, knowing eyes.”
What is the Capacity to See Beyond?