The Giver Storyline
Low fantasy (Rules)
High Fantasy
Hero's Journey
Dystopia Characteristics
100
The evening telling of feelings.
What is the family ritual at the conclusion of each evening meal?
100
Two children, one male and one female.
What is the number of children assigned to each family?
100
Jonas is told that he will have to endure great pain.
What is Jonas's test of identity, endurance and character?
100
Jonas meets the current Receiver of memories.
What is the meeting with the mentor?
100
The loudspeaker and the observations of the The Committee of the Elders.
What are the methods of constant surveillance in the community in which Gabriel lives?
200
Lily's comfort object.
What is a stuffed elephant?
200
One rule that is almost always broken.
What is riding a bicycle before the age of nine?
200
Jonas is told that his community would be in complete chaos if he leaves, a grave responsibility for a boy of twelve.
What is a seriousness of tone and importance of theme?
200
Jonas's Call to adventure.
What is Jonas receiving his assignment to be the next Receiver of Memories?
200
Fritz's clumsiness reflects badly on his parents and disrupts the community's need for order.
What is strict conformity among the citizens.
300
What Gabriel and Jonas have in common.
What are light colored eyes?
300
These must be reported in order to receive treatment.
What are stirrings?
300
Jonas takes Gabriel so that Gabriel will not be released.
What is an escape from death?
300
The Giver and Jonas create an elaborate plan for Jonas to leave the community.
What is the Approach?
300
The difference between laborers, birth mothers and cleanup crews and doctors, lawyers, and directors?
What is a hierarchical society with divisions between the upper and lower classes?
400
Intelligence, integrity and courage?
What are the qualities Jonas has that show he is the best candidate for the next Receiver of Memory?
400
Jonas is able to lie.
What is one of the rules that Jonas is allowed to break during his training of Receiver of memories?
400
Jonas's tale of maturation.
What is Jonas's understanding that his parents are fallible and that his community is based on lies?
400
The Ordinary World in the Giver.
What are Jonas's feelings of unease and excitement about his approaching assignment even though as he tells the story of his comfortable and ordered world?
400
There are no pets, no wild animals no changes in weather.
What is the banishment of the real world from daily life?
500
Jonas is so shocked by this that he decides he must leave the community.
What is watching his father kill a newborn twin?
500
Asher's major problem with following the rules, the one that stopped him from talking for a while.
What is inaccuracy of language?
500
Jonas's quest.
What is Jonas's escape with Gabe to keep him safe?
500
The backstory of the disaster that resulted in the drastic changes that led to the creation of the current society.
What is excruciating hunger and overpopulation that led to warfare?
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