Giver facts
Low Fantasy Rules
High Fantasy
Hero's Journey
Dystopia
100
The evening telling of feelings.
What is the family ritual at the conclusion of each meal?
100
The number of children assigned to each family
What is two children, one male and one female.
100
Jonas must learn to hold all the memories of pain in order for the community to survive successfully.
What are tests of identity, endurance and character?
100
Jonas meets the The Giver.
What is the meeting with the mentor?
100
The loudspeaker and the monitors in the buildings.
What are methods of constant surveillance of the community in which Jonas lives?
200
Stuffed elephant
What is Lily's comfort object?
200
Riding a bicycle before the age of nine.
What is one rule that was almost always broken?
200
A Secondary World
What is Elsewhere?
200
Jonas is given his assignment as the next Receiver of Memory.
What is Jonas's call to adventure?
200
Fritz's clumsiness reflects badly on his parents and disrupts the community's need for order.
What is strict conformity among citizens?
300
He is granted an additional year of nurturing.
Who is Gabriel?
300
These must be reported in order for treatment to take place.
What are stirrings?
300
An escape from death.
What is Jonas taking Gabriel so that Gabriel will not be released?
300
Jonas gathers his last strength and transfers memories or warmth to himself and Gabriel. He sleds down to the place of lights.
What is Jonas's resurrection?
300
The differences between birth mothers and The Elders.
What is a hierarchical society with divisions between the upper and lower classes?
400
Integrity, Intelligence, and Courage
What are the qualities that Jonas has that show he is the candidate for the next receiver of memories?
400
Being able to lie.
What is one of the rules that Jonas is allowed to break in his training as receiver of memories?
400
The Giver's quest at the end of the book.
What is having to stay to help the community change and become whole?
400
The Giver and Jonas plan to request a vehicle and hide Jonas in it so that he can leave the community.
What is Jonas's Approach?
400
There are no pets, no changes in weather, no birds, no fields.
What is the banishment of the real world from daily life?
500
Killing the smallest newborn twin.
What is the thing that Jonas's father did that shocked Jonas into leaving the community?
500
The punishment for breaking the rules three times.
What is being released?
500
For the first time, he heard something that he knew to be music.
What is Jonas's journey to another world?
500
Jonas is able to see colors and to experience the feeling of being different in the world of sameness.
What is The Ordinary World?
500
The back story of the disaster that resulted in this drastic change in society
What is excruciating hunger and overpopulation that led to warfare?
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