Characters
He is the main character of the novel.
Who is Jonas?
This is the main form of transportation.
What is a bike?
Jonas does this to save Gabriel at the end of the book.
What is escape?
The Committee of Elders enforces these to "keep the community safe."
What are rules?
People lose this in the story when they can't make their own decisions.
What is freedom?
He is the person who transferred memories to Jonas.
Who is The Giver?
The group of people who make all the rules and decisions in the community.
Who is The Committee of Elders?
The Giver passes on these to Jonas.
What are memories/memories of the past?
The ceremony where Jonas is assigned his role as the Receiver of Memory.
What is the Ceremony of Twelve?
People in the community can no longer see these because they forgot the memory.
What are colours?
The person who annouces Jonas's role as the Receiver of Memory.
Who is the Chief Elder?
Children are assigned to these after they're born by birthmothers.
What are family units?
At the Ceremony of Twelve Jonas is assigned this role.
What is The Receiver of Memory?
The number of parents and children a family unit is allowed.
What is two parents and two children?
The role of the Committee of Elders is to have this over the community.
What is control?
The baby who Jonas escapes with.
Who is Gabriel?
His community got rid of colour, music, love, pain, and real choice to have this.
What is Sameness?
Jonas discovers that this word actually means killing people on purpose.
What is Release?
Before the Ceremony of Twelve children may receive various items depending on their age group, like a new hair cut, this, or a new bike.
What is new clothes?
The Committe of Elders takes away this in order to achieve Sameness.
What is individuality?