Rules and transgressions
Citizens in the community must take a daily pill to stop these intense emotional or physical desires
What are the stirrings
Who is the main character
Jonas
Name a theme of the Giver
conformity vs individuality
What is true meaning of release?
Euthanasia
Jonas experiences a big shift in maturity when he refuses to join his friends to play this.
What is the game of good guys and bad guys?
What is an example of why someone would be released?
break the rules too many times, a twin, an elder,
Who was Jonas' best friend
Asher or Fiona
This object represents both thrilling, dangerous and unpredictable journey of gaining freedom and leaving sameness behind.
What is a sled?
The ceremony where children receive their permanent official life assignments.
What is the Ceremony of Twelve?
Jonas' internal change accelerates when he realizes his friends can't see this?
What is color?
The most troubling rule in Jonas' traing instructions gives him permission to this.
What is a lie?
What was Jonas' father's job?
Nurturer
The community saw no color, had no weather, and established the ultimate state of uniformity.
What is sameness?
This governing body observes young people and assigns their life's work.
What is the Committee of Elders?
How does Jonas change from the beginning to the end of the novel?
obedient rule follower to rebellious
When a child commits a minor transgression--such as using an incorrect word---they publicly must do this.
What is an apology?
Who holds all of the memories of the past?
The Giver
This describes a community that appears perfect on surface but is deeply flawed and oppressive underneath
What is dystopia?
This is where Jonas makes ultimate choice to escape to this mythical and unregulated place.
What is elsewhere?
This character changes from a weary isolated man burdened by the past into an active co-conspirator.
Who is the Giver?
After Lily injures her knee, Jonas's father shares that this is the punishment used to discipline small children at school.
What is a discipline wand?
This part of the community is released when they become too old to be productive workers.
Who are the elders?
To prevent citizens from making mistakes, the community completely eliminated this fundamental right?
What is the freedom of choice?
This powerful person remains rigid continuing to enforce sameness and control.
Who is the Chief Elder?
By the end of the book, Jonas stops thinking of his "family" as a real family because he realizes that they are incapable of feeling this deep emotion?
What is love?