Setting & Society
This practice ensures that every household has exactly a mother, father, and two children.
What is the family unit assignment?
She assigns roles during the Ceremony of Twelve.
Who is the Chief Elder?
he community’s strict rules aim to eliminate this, believing it causes conflict.
What is choice?
This object shows color for Jonas before anything else.
What is the apple?
At this ceremony, children receive their job assignments.
What is the Ceremony of Twelve?
What is Mr. McNitt's name?
Caleb.
This environmental modification was created to avoid unpredictability and maintain sameness.
What is climate control?
This character’s Assignment as Caretaker of the Old reveals her appreciation for compassion and respect.
Who is Fiona?
Jonas’s experiences show that this quality is essential for deep relationships but missing from the community.
What is love?
This mode of transportation symbolizes children's growing independence.
What is the bicycle?
Jonas is shocked when he learns the truth about this routine community procedure.
What is release?
How many rides are there at Disneyland?
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Citizens take these daily to suppress strong emotions.
What are the pills?
Known for his precise speech and wisdom, this community leader struggles with the burden of holding painful memories.
Who is The Giver?
The novel shows that without this, people cannot truly appreciate joy or beauty.
What is memory?
This item symbolizes control and surveillance, found in every household.
What is the speaker?
Jonas experiences this emotion for the first time during the memory of Christmas.
What is love?
What type of word is "cold"?
an Adjective, to describe the absent of heat.
This term refers to the community’s rule that limits citizens’ interactions with newborns.
What is not forming attachments?
His curiosity and sensitivity set him apart long before he becomes the Receiver.
Who is Jonas?
This theme explores how the community’s safety comes at the cost of individuality.
What is conformity vs. freedom?
This symbol represents freedom and possibility as Jonas escapes.
What is the sled?
Jonas and The Giver form this kind of bond as they share the burden of memory.
What is trust?
How many tattoos does Mr. McNitt have currently?
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The community restricts this natural phenomenon because it interferes with uniformity and safety.
What is sunshine/sunlight?
This character’s physical ability to “see beyond” appears earlier than Jonas’s, though he cannot articulate it.
Who is Gabriel?
The Committee of Elders tries to eliminate this to avoid unpredictable outcomes.
What is risk?
This symbolizes emotional depth and connection, which only the Giver and Jonas understand.
What is music?
Jonas leaves the community earlier than planned because of this urgent situation.
What is Gabriel’s scheduled release?
How many countries has Mr. McNitt been to?
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This major geographic feature is important to Jonas’s escape plan, providing both danger and protection.
What is the river?
The Giver’s daughter, who applied for release, demonstrates the dangers of memory and emotion in a society unprepared for them.
Who is Rosemary?
Jonas’s transformation illustrates this theme, where true understanding requires breaking away from societal expectations.
What is the journey to self-discovery / awakening?
Jonas is fascinated by these objects because they suggest a world full of choice—something the community lacks.
What are colors?
This event at the very end of the novel leaves the reader questioning Jonas’s fate.
What is Jonas hearing music at the top of the hill / arriving at Elsewhere?
Where is Mr. McNitt moving too?
Nowhere!