Plot & Events
What ritual takes place after dinner?
What is the telling of feelings?
Which point of view is used in The Giver?
What is third-person limited?
What does “periodically” mean?
What is occasionally?
“Jonas finally caught his father’s eye and waved.” What device is this?
What is idiom?
What is the author’s tone in most of The Giver?
What is serious or thoughtful?
What is the first memory transmitted to Jonas?
What is snow?
Which type of irony is it when Jonas's father releases an infant thinking it's kind?
What is dramatic irony?
What is the denotation of “release”?
What is to let go or set free?
What sense is most appealed to in the memory of snow?
What is touch?
What’s the author’s likely purpose for removing choices in the society?
What is to warn readers about the cost of giving up freedom?
Why did Jonas become upset when his friends played war?
What is he knows what war is really like?
What does Jonas's reaction to painful memories reveal?
What is he is empathetic and brave?
What is the connotation of "release" in the community?
What is gentle but secretly deadly?
What type of imagery is used in “The sharp smell of the apple…”?
What is olfactory?
What does Jonas’s ability to "see beyond" symbolize?
What is his deeper understanding beyond the community’s limits?
What is the conflict of the novel?
What is Jonas is unhappy with the community and wants to change it?
What does the quote “Asher’s cheerful voice made everyone laugh…” show about Asher?
What is he is friendly and funny (indirect characterization)?
What does the word “precision” mean in the community?
What is speaking with exact and accurate meaning?
What is an example of visual imagery Jonas experiences in a memory?
What is seeing a bright red cloth draped across a snowy field?
Why does the author slowly reveal what “release” means?
What is to build suspense and shock the reader?
What is Jonas most concerned with during the trip?
What is finding food for Gabe?
Why do you suppose the author made the father the one who releases the baby?
What is for a larger emotional impact?
What is the connotation of “family unit” in Jonas’s community?
What is sterile, structured, and lacking emotional warmth?
How did Jonas feel when he got the memory of breaking his leg?
What is it hurt really bad, like fire?
What big choice does Jonas make at the end of the book?
What is he leaves the community to find freedom?