Chapter 3
What was so different about the newchild?
He had pale eyes like Jonas.
What had Jonas taken from the Recreation Area and was reminded by public announcement that he was not to do that?
What did Lily do for her volunteer hours?
(worked at the Childcare Center)
Where do they go when one has been released?
(no one knows)
What was the treatment?
(to take pills)
Most citizens had dark eyes.
What was it about the apple that concerned Jonas?
(The appearance of it changed for a brief second three or four times.)
Where did Asher and Fiona work?
(in the House of Old)
How did Roberto look when he walked through the door of the Releasing Room?
(He bowed to them and had a look of pure happiness on his face.)
Who has to take these pills?
(Anyone who has stirrings. Eventually, everyone has to take the pills.)
What was the newchild’s comfort object?
What were Jonas and Asher doing to the apple?
(tossing it back and forth)
What did Jonas help do at the House of Old?
(bathe old people)
What was the morning ritual for Jonas’s family?
(the telling of dreams)
How long does one have to take these pills?
(Until one enters the House of Old)
How many years or births could you serve as a birth mother?
(3 years or 3 births)
Why was the new child, Gabriel, staying with Jonas’s family unit?
(The father was concerned about him. He was fussy and didn’t seem to be developing as fast as the others. He was trying to avoid the possibility of releasing him.)
What celebrations did they have at the House of Old?
(the release of individual patients)
What dream did Jonas tell his family he had?
(He wanted Fiona to get in the tub so he could bathe her.)
How did Jonas feel about taking the pills?
(He was proud to have joined those who are taking the pills.)
What did you do after being a birth mother?
(became laborers)
What did Benjamin do for his volunteer hours?
(worked at the Rehabilitation Center)
What do they do at the celebrations?
(the telling of the life, toast, cheers, chanting of anthem, and lovely goodbye speeches)
The mother had an explanation for the dream. What was it?
(His first feelings of “stirrings.”)